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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368669Author Bob ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 441gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

'Two Leggings ...was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian ...This is the poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life...

Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439258767Author Sidney D KirkpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars...

What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists,...

What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists,...

Should you read your teenager's diary?Would you return the extra change?What are the ethics of social media?Is buying organic food and products a more ethical choice?Tired of small talk? Often a single question can spark a meaningful, fun exchange -...

Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images- a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell...

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793791343Author Lene Rachel AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Nordic BildungPublisher Nordic BildungWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"The definitive book on the social, political, and economic dimensions of data." - Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World "An essential handbook for those invested in reclaiming our digital space." - Payal Arora, author of The...

"REIN MASTERFULLY CAPTURES WHERE [CONSUMERS] HAVE BEEN AND WHERE THEY DREAM OF GOING." -FORTUNE PRAISE FOR THE END OF CHEAP CHINA "Brilliantly written." -Financial Times "Rein combines elegant writing and methodical research. Years of working in China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490017Author Friedrich EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782382748367Author Paramhansa YoganandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams)...

Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore...

"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578828824Author Cyndi DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Crld2venturesPublisher Crld2venturesWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod reveals the links between Jews and superheroes in a penetrating investigation of iconic comic book figures. He describes how the role of each hero reflects the evolution of the Jewish place in American culture-an alien...

This illuminating study critiques the concept of leadership as understood in the last 75 years and looks to the twenty-first century for a reconstructed understanding of leadership in the postindustrial era. More similarities in past decades were found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029392Author Victor CoronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm * 22mm

There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River-lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa...

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially...

Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences."-Alastair MacIntyre,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783732317707Author Alessandro BausiFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Tredition GmbhPublisher Tredition GmbhWeight(grams) 1647gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one...

How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the...

Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic...

This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312084554Author Dr Elizabeth LoftusFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.Debate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527244757Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press

To remain unconsumed by consumer society-this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the...

Foot and Mouth and Mad Cow Disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, caged pigs...

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's...

This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship between staff and patients as surveillance subjects.A key aspect of the book is that existing surveillance literature and mental health...

Acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609422394Author Three InitiatesFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint FabPublisher FabWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its...