Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan Michael Berman 9781846942259
RRP: £14.99£13.03Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult,... -
Autoethnography as Method Heewon Chang 9781598741230
RRP: £37.99£33.38This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data... -
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9780745639055
RRP: £14.99£13.58It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each... -
Lines: A Brief History Tim Ingold 9781138640399
RRP: £16.99£15.22What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of... -
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays by Tracey L. Walters
RRP: £31.65£28.10Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith's novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by... -
The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent by James Davies 9780415667807
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: £22.00£14.05A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across... -
Insects and Human Life Brian Morris 9781845200756
RRP: £37.99£33.38This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: £14.99£11.01James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of... -
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: £9.99£8.17An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of... -
The Monologic Imagination by Matt Tomlinson 9780190652814
RRP: £38.49£35.64The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our... -
Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience by Maurice Bloch 9780521423120
RRP: £19.99£17.13Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues... -
Questions of Anthropology Rita Astuti 9781845207489
RRP: £29.99£26.64Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth,... -
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating... -
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99£12.38Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced... -
The Handbook of Food and Anthropology by Jakob A. Klein 9781350083332
RRP: £33.99£30.49Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2017 This Handbook features 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline, which examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts -... -
Protestant Ethic and Other Writings by Max Weber
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: £7.99£6.94Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated translation of the original filmscript by Su Xiaokang... -
Understanding Bourdieu by Jenn Webb
RRP: £44.99£39.48"Bourdieu's work is formidable - the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion - take an apple, take a hanky - but take this book". - Peter Beilharz , La Trobe University "A good range of recent examples from popular culture are... -
Theorizing Childhood Allison James 9780745615653
RRP: £17.99£16.04In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research... -
An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space Andreas Mebert 9781912128426
RRP: £6.50£6.11In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition.In the normal... -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: £20.00£14.69In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place... -
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
RRP: £17.99£14.04Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub 9780717181001
RRP: £10.99£8.43Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first... -
The Little Ice Age (Revised): How Climate Made History 1300-1850 Brian Fagan 9781541618596
RRP: £14.99£8.54The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to... -
Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologise for Your Size by Marilyn Wann 9780898159950
RRP: £14.99£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898159950Author Marilyn WannFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 178g -
Women, Consumption and Paradox by Timothy de Waal Malefyt
RRP: £41.99£36.75Women are the world's most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distort the reality of women's lives, bodies, and work. This book examines the contradictions and mismatches... -
Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines: More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Garrett Ryan 9781633888937
RRP: £16.99£12.28Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? How did they prove their identity? And how much of the modern gold supply comes from the Romans?In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines... -
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology by Arnold Pacey 9780262660754
£32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262660754Author Arnold PaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige
RRP: £24.99£21.81'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class... -
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt
RRP: £31.49£27.58Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,... -
Failure Arjun Appadurai 9781509504725
RRP: £12.99£11.94Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by... -
The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak 9780241617663
RRP: £20.00£14.29A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEARIn this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums Elizabeth Edwards 9781859734971
RRP: £35.99£31.69Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into... -
An Analysis of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912128792
RRP: £6.50£6.11Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society really works... -
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin
RRP: £22.99£20.01Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like...