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The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters by Susan Pinker
RRP: $25.71$16.81Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain... -
The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain by Stephen Oppenheimer
RRP: $25.71$16.81'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of CambridgeStephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we... -
Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos by Lynn Morgan 9780520260443
RRP: $51.46$39.14"Icons of Life" tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing,... -
A Degree in a Book: Anthropology: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject - in One Book! by Dr Julia Morris 9781788887540
RRP: $30.86$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788887540Author Dr Julia MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
RRP: $22.28$15.59Are you looking for the right path in 2021? This book tackles the question that most of us face at some point in our lives: 'what should I do with my life?', and provides illuminating answers. ... -
The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations by Eva Illouz 9781509550258
RRP: $25.71$23.29Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our... -
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $61.75$61.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262531078Author Jonathan CraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 175mm * 8mm -
Ritual and the Sacred: A Neo-Durkheimian Analysis of Politics, Religion and the Self by Massimo Rosati 9780367603038
RRP: $68.59$60.14Ritual and the Sacred discusses some of the most important issues of modern socio-political life through the lens of a neo-Durkheimian perspective. Building on the main lesson of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this book articulates values... -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: $29.14$19.01A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
Sociology by Giddens 9781509539222
RRP: $51.44$49.81Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to... -
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: $29.14$26.11Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean? In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a... -
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1: Introduction by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671915
RRP: $34.29$28.99Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the... -
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge
RRP: $18.85$12.01As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from... -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: $18.85$13.22'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
"prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law
RRP: $29.14$21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029527Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
RRP: $22.28$15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865687Author Gretchen BakkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 398g -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
$29.19The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized... -
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull 9780691160887
RRP: $42.88$33.59Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have... -
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk 9781526630155
RRP: $22.28$15.59* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * 'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM ---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices by Sean Nixon
RRP: $77.17$63.71Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This long-awaited second edition: * updates and refreshes the approaches to representation,... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we are?What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to... -
On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West by Alison Hulme
RRP: $51.44$45.70Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society's simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: $37.74$28.53"One of history's greatest anthropologists-and a rip-roaring storyteller-recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited" (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).Napoleon... -
Protestant Ethic and Other Writings by Max Weber
RRP: $25.71$18.78In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.About the... -
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780393307528
RRP: $38.59$34.08At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes... -
The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom by James Laidlaw
RRP: $46.30$37.55The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account... -
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology by Maan Barua 9781517912567
RRP: $44.58$37.81A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the... -
The Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory by Meghji
RRP: $27.43$24.72Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly... -
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: $15.42$11.06Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances... -
Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education by Nel Noddings 9780520275706
RRP: $42.88$32.90With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring - now updated with a new preface and... -
Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy by Max van Manen
RRP: $65.16$57.26Bestselling author Max van Manen's Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in... -
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483629Author Meredith SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)... -
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck
RRP: $84.03$68.46This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current... -
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
RRP: $22.28$15.59'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: $17.14$11.49Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth by J. P. Mallory 9780500276167
RRP: $59.95$44.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500276167Author J. P. MalloryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd -
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey by Isabel Fonseca
RRP: $22.28$15.59Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years, they have also... -
Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved and Those Wanting to Support Them by Katrina Taee
RRP: $30.86$22.21Are you grieving? Would you like to have a better understanding of grief? Are you wanting to support someone who is grieving but don't know how? This beautifully illustrated book written by two experienced Bereavement Practitioners is unlike any other... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: $44.58$38.49A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have...