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Essays on Cultural Transmission Maurice Bloch 9781845202873
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and... -
Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader Elizabeth Edwards 9781845207410
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Vision is more than looking or seeing. It is integral to all human action. Visual Sense presents a series of readings which offer a range of alternatives to conventional psychological and social... -
Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacies John Knight 9781859737330
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory; we hunt, kill and eat them, yet we also love, respect and protect them. This ambivalent relationship is further complicated by the fact... -
Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum Sharon Macdonald 9781859735718
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28What goes on behind closed doors at museums? How are decisions about exhibitions made and who, or what, really makes them? Why are certain objects and styles of display chosen whilst others are... -
New Media: The Key Concepts by Nicholas Gane 9781845201333
Booksplease Price: £31.31Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and experiences. To understand... -
Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth by Peter Z. Loizos 9781847881922
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.Book InformationISBN... -
Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State Hastings Donnan 9781859732465
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities... -
The Vanishing Map: A Journey from LA to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe by Stephen Barber 9781845205102
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £52.44Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map that plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a... -
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of A Century by Jean-Luc Godard 9781845201968
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.17Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in... -
Body Dressing by Joanne Entwistle 9781859734445
Booksplease Price: £36.82For some time now the body has been a central topic across a range of social science disciplines. Similarly, there has been a growing interest in the cultural meaning of clothing. But curiously, even... -
Hollywood's American Tragedies by Mandy Merck 9781845206659
Booksplease Price: £30.87Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood... -
Fashioning the Body Politic by Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
Booksplease Price: £38.10With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Tessa Brodetsky 9780907582830
Booksplease Price: £30.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Also available in hardback, 9780907582892 GBP50.00 (January, 1992)About the AuthorTessa BrodetskyBook InformationISBN... -
The German Greens by Thomas Scharf 9780854968848
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book examines the Greens' contribution to the changing nature of contemporary German local politics and the effect of local political involvement upon the Greens themselves. The author shows... -
The Jewish Press in the Third Reich by Herbert Freeden 9780854966868
Booksplease Price: £103.11This study throws light on a neglected but very important aspect of Jewish life in the Third Reich - the Jewish press - the sixty-five newspapers and magazines published by the fifty-three publishing... -
Partial Justice: Federal Indian Law in a Liberal Constitutional System by Petra T. Shattuck 9780854963423
Booksplease Price: £37.81Should the law be praised or cursed for what it has done to the American Indian?Using American legal history, politics and jurisprudence, this study considers the degree to which American courts have... -
Women in Contemporary Germany: Life, Work and Politics by Eva Kolinsky 9780854968183
Booksplease Price: £43.76Second revised edition- Thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on the implications of the events in 1989 for women in both East and West Germany.Having emerged in 1945 from the shackles of... -
From Bela Kun to Janos Kadar: Seventy Years of Hungarian Communism by Miklos Molnar 9780854965991
Booksplease Price: £103.11An in-depth analysis of the changes in the Hungarian Communist Party, the difficulties it experienced during the early stages, its development and internal structure, as well as its relationship with... -
Bourgeois Society in 19th Century Europe by Jurgen Kocka 9780854964147
Booksplease Price: £44.06Ever since the late 18th century, European society has been undergoing a transformation in which the most dynamic element has been the middle class. This provocative book contains the first... -
Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society by S.J. Kleinberg 9780854966820
Booksplease Price: £41.78Edited by S. Jay Kleinberg, this volume investigates the role played by women in ancient, more recent and contemporary history and demonstrates that taking into account the activities of women... -
The Inca Empire: The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-capitalist State by Thomas C. Patterson 9780854963485
Booksplease Price: £37.81The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and... -
Elizabeth I by Susan Bassnett 9780907582984
Booksplease Price: £33.84Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled... -
Army, Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914-1918 by Gerald D. Feldman 9780854967643
Booksplease Price: £44.06This innovative study by one of the leading specialists in the field examines the social and economic role of the German army in the nation's internal affairs during World War I.This innovative study... -
Population, Labour and Migration in 19th and 20th Century Germany by Klaus J. Bade 9780854965038
Booksplease Price: £113.11Edited by Klaus J. BadeThis volume summarises the debate about the causes of population changes, labour and migration in Germany. The authors show that the large influx of foreign workers during the... -
Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place by Martin Stokes 9780854968770
Booksplease Price: £96.35- Directly relevant to the needs of teachers and researchers in music, musicology, ethnomusicology and social anthropology.This book examines the significance of music in the construction of... -
Food Media by Signe Rousseau 9780857850522
Booksplease Price: £113.11There have been famous chefs for centuries. But it was not until the second half of the twentieth century that the modern celebrity chef business really began to flourish, thanks largely to advances... -
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli by Ilya Parkins 9780857853271
Booksplease Price: £35.83Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early... -
Second-Hand Cultures by Louise Crewe 9781859736777
Booksplease Price: £36.82'Antique', 'vintage', 'previously owned', 'gently used', 'cast-off -- the world of second hand encompasses as many attitudes as there are names for it. The popular perception is that second- hand... -
Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists by Roberta Bernabei 9781845207694
Booksplease Price: £113.41This book offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the... -
Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia by Clare Anderson 9781859738603
Booksplease Price: £36.82From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements... -
Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema by Latika Padgaonkar 9781847882301
Booksplease Price: £38.40Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters - together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa - of Japanese cinema. Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema is the definitive guide to... -
Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-1960 by Clemens Wurm 9781859731826
Booksplease Price: £36.82This book aims to broaden readers' understanding of the issues now facing the European Union by explaining the motivation underpinning the process of integration in Western Europe after 1945. The... -
The Textile Book by Colin Gale 9781859735121
Booksplease Price: £35.01Textiles are central to our lives and are at the heart of the world's largest industries. In recent years there has been a dynamic shift in attitudes toward textiles, fuelled in part by explosive... -
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age by Gert Hekma 9781847888051
Booksplease Price: £113.41Sexual cultures have changed enormously in the 20th century. We have greater sexual equality than ever before and homosexuality has shifted from being a crime, a sin, and a disease to an acknowledged... -
Britain, France and Appeasement by Martin Thomas 9781859731925
Booksplease Price: £41.78This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts... -
Sport, Media and Society by Laura Hills 9781845206871
Booksplease Price: £40.79Sport is an integral component of today's media, from prime-time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated... -
Clothing as Material Culture by Daniel Miller 9781845200671
Booksplease Price: £34.84This book puts the material back into clothing. In recent years social scientists have become increasingly interested in theories of fashion, but have rarely directly addressed the material qualities... -
Germans Divided: The 1994 Bundestagswahl and the Evolution of the German Party System by Russell Dalton 9781859731659
Booksplease Price: £36.82This expert analysis -- the sequel to Dalton's The New Germany Votes -- looks at how unification is affecting German electoral politics, and focuses on the 1994 Bundestag elections. The unsettling... -
The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality by Hans Mommsen 9781859732540
Booksplease Price: £113.11Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of historians who are engaged in pioneering research into national... -
Visual Culture and Tourism by David Crouch 9781859735886
Booksplease Price: £36.82From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and...