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Numbers by the Book: A Financial Guide for the Cultural Commerce & Specialty Retail Manager by Museum Store Association
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Numbers by the Book is a step by step guide to the financial side of planning, opening and operating a successful museum retail operation. This 96 page gem is lavishly illustrated with tables and... -
Professionalizing Practice. A Critical Look at Recent Practice in Museum Education: Journal of Museum Education 37:2 Thematic Issue by Briley Rasmussen
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableAbout the AuthorBriley Rasmussen (Edited by) , Scott Winterrowd (Edited byBook InformationISBN 9781611328202Author Briley RasmussenFormat -
Prescribing HIV Prevention: Bringing Culture into Global Health Communication by Nicola Bulled 9781611323627
Booksplease Price: £110.69Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled's in-depth... -
The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America by George R Schwarz 9781629582474
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America offers an in-depth exploration of the archaeological and cultural aspects of early American steamboat development... -
Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces by Andrew Bevan 9781611323474
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.97This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being... -
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity Stefani A. Crabtree 9781629585550
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and... -
Museum Educators and Technology Expanding Our Reach and Practice: Journal of Museum Education 36:3 Thematic Issue by Susan B. Spero
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableAbout the AuthorSusan B Spero (Edited by) Professor, Museum Studies, John F. Kennedy UniversityBook InformationISBN 9781598748741Author Susan B Spero -
Protecting the Objects and Serving the Public: Journal of Museum Education 36:2 Thematic Issue by Cynthia Robinson
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Sponsored by the Museum Education RountableAbout the AuthorCynthia Robinson (Director of Museum Studies, Tufts University) , Tina R Nolan (Associate Director of Partnerships, National College of... -
Becoming Roman?: Diverging Identities and Experiences in Ancient Northwest Italy by Ralph Haeussler 9781611321876
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.67Few empires had such an impact on the conquered peoples as did the Roman empire, creating social, economic, and cultural changes that erased long-standing differences in material culture, languages,... -
Early Learning: Journal of Museum Education 37:1 Thematic Issue by Sharon E. Shaffer
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableAbout the AuthorSharon Shaffer, PhD, is the Founding Director for the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center {SEEC), the Smithsonian Institution's model... -
Science & Civic Life: Museums & Social Issues 4:1 Thematic Issue by Kris Morrissey
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This book promotes the idea and the practice of a scientific culture in science museums, art museums, gardens, libraries, coffee houses, school meetings and social gatherings. It encourages common... -
Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement: Museums & Social Issues 7:2 Thematic Issue by Elizabeth A. Bollwerk
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83First Published in 2016. Part of the journal on reflective discourse, museums and social issues, Volume 7, number 2 is concerned with opening authority through community engagement and includes... -
Eating Together in Our Changing World: Museums & Social Issues 7:1 Thematic Issue by Kris Morrissey
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This book provides glimpses into the vast food movement in America and around the world, and explores the intersection of the food movement and museum practice. It describes the myriad ways that... -
Social Relevance Circa 2012: Museums & Social Issues 6:2 Thematic Issue by Kris Morrissey
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This book explores the place of museums in addressing a goal the University of Washington staunchly supports-to make the world a better place through education and research. It describes the... -
Erotic Mentoring: Women's Transformations in the University Janice Hocker Rushing 9781598740271
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200... -
Naptime at the O.K. Corral: Shane's Beginner's Guide to Childhood Ethnography Sally Campbell Galman (University of Massachusetts, USA) 9781611328455
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Shane is back! The beloved heroine of students and faculty alike returns in this third volume of the acclaimed series, focusing on the basic how-to's and foundations of ethnographic studies of... -
The Good, the Bad, and the Data: Shane the Lone Ethnographer's Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis Sally Campbell Pirie 9781598746327
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographer-a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West-and her... -
Performance: An Alphabet of Performative Writing Ronald J Pelias 9781611322873
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies. Pelias's... -
Educational Leadership: Journal of Museum Education 34:2 Thematic Issue by Tina R. Nolan
Booksplease Price: £20.14Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableAbout the AuthorDr. Tina Nolan, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the JME, is the principal of Tina Nolan Consulting, an education consulting group. She has over 18... -
The Art and Craft of College Teaching: A Guide for New Professors and Graduate Students by Robert Rotenberg
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44The second edition of Rotenberg's popular guide to college teaching includes additional material on teaching in a digital environment, universal design, and teaching diverse students. As in the first... -
Never Had the Like Occurred: Egypt's View of its Past by John Tait 9781598742060
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99"Never Had the Like Occurred" examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement,... -
Dictionary of Advertising and Marketing Concepts Arthur Asa Berger 9781611329865
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69From AdBusters to viral marketing, this brief dictionary of ideas and concepts contains over 100 extended, illuminating entries to bring the novice up to speed on the advertising/marketing world and... -
Ebla and its Landscape: Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East by Paolo Matthiae 9781611322293
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The discovery of 17,000 tablets at the mid-third millennium BC site of Ebla in Syria has revolutionized the study of the ancient Near East. This is the first major English-language volume describing... -
Searching for an Autoethnographic Ethic Stephen Andrew 9781629584980
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume is a call for integrity in autoethnographic research. Stephen Andrew weaves together philosophy, critical theory, and extended self-reflections to demonstrate how and why qualitative... -
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers Mark W Allen 9781611329407
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original... -
Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations Ronald J Pelias 9781598746419
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction. Bodies leaning toward one another are engaged, developing the potential for long-lasting, meaningful... -
Mediterranean Voyages: The Archaeology of Island Colonisation and Abandonment by Helen Dawson 9781611329957
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display... -
Staring at the Park: A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry Jane Speedy 9781629581231
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Winner of the 2016 ICQI Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardAcclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy's world was upended completely after suffering a severe stroke when only in her late 50s. After... -
Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective Lisa Gezon 9781598744910
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Khat, marijuana, peyote-are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria... -
Transcribing Silence: Culture, Relationships, and Communication by Kristine L. Munoz
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Kristine Munoz's volume of short narrative works-- autoethnographies and fictional stories-explore many dimensions of silence, a crucial but often overlooked communication phenomenon, one that drives... -
Trickster in Tweed: The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life Thomas S Frentz 9781598743180
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter... -
Living in a Landscape of Scarcity: Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa by Laurence Douny 9781611328929
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the... -
Archaeology of African Plant Use by Chris J Stevens 9781611329759
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agriculture and social complexity. It explores the effects... -
Consuming Ancient Egypt by Sally McDonald 9781598742039
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of contemporary people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt tourist sees, Egypt in film and... -
Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Updated Edition by Kent V. Flannery
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £115.47This volume reports on the excavation of Guila Naquitz cave in Oaxaca, a site that provides important evidence for the earliest plant domestication in the New World. Stratigraphic studies,... -
When a Baby Dies of SIDS: The Parents' Grief and Search for Reason by Karen Martin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The cause of the number-one killer of apparently healthy infants between the ages of one week and one year-Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-continues to defy science. This cruel mystery... -
Pedagogical Tact: Knowing What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do by Max van Manen
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators, parents, and childcare specialists are pedagogically... -
Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context by J. D. Lewis-Williams 9781629581552
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a larger theory of how... -
Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences Arthur P Bochner 9781598740387
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal,... -
Humanitarians in Hostile Territory: Expeditionary Diplomacy and Aid Outside the Green Zone by Peter W. van Arsdale
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in...