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Leather Braiding by Bruce Grant 9780870330391
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.79For over four decades, Leather Braiding has reigned as the authoritative book in its realm. Grant's meticulously crafted manual unveils the intricate world of leather braiding with unparalleled... -
The Last Kiss by Bruce Grant 9780992551421
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992551421Author Bruce GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Crossing the Arafura Sea by Bruce Grant 9780992551445
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992551445Author Bruce GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint -
Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding by Bruce Grant
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.60The Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding is the definitive work on the subject and results from the late Bruce Grant's many years of interest and experience as a braider and writer on the... -
A Young Woman from China by Bruce Grant 9780992551407
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992551407Author Bruce GrantFormat PaperbackImprint -
How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear by Bruce Grant 9780870330346
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.06Written by a man who made a lifelong study of leather craft and rawhide work, How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear is the answer to many requests for how-to-do-it information from cowboys, horsemen in... -
Six Gun: A Story of the Texas Rangers by Bruce Grant 9781494050306
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494050306Author Bruce GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint -
Motor Racing at Thruxton in the 1980s by Bruce Grant-Braham 9781845843694
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06Thruxton has been described as "the UK's Speedbowl." The circuit is home to the prestigious British Automobile Racing Club, and during the period covered by this book the author was editor of the... -
The Essential Driver's Handbook: What to Do in the Event of an Accident, Roadside First-aid, Safety Tips for Lone Drivers & Much More by Bruce Grant-Braham 9781845845322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Emergency situations can occur without warning and in any condition - day or night, in fine or inclement weather. This book shows you what to do in the event of an accident, whatever the severity... -
Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization: Explorations in Siberia and Beyond by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 9781137005564
Booksplease Price: £46.28Many voices clamor to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the twenty-first century. This book provides newinsights... -
The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Adele Marie Barker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and... -
Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics and Nation by George E. Marcus
Booksplease Price: £30.73Encompassing a range of disciplines - notably anthropology, politics, history, comparative literature, and philosophy - the annual publication "Late Editions" exposes unsettling dilemmas and... -
The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur: Volume 26 by Kira Van Deusen 9780773521551 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £17.04Storytelling bridges culture, history, and spirituality. In The Flying Tiger Kira Van Deusen takes us into the world of the female shamans of the Amur, presenting over fifty traditional stories she... -
Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova 9781845456719
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46"These lively essays make for the rare collection that is greater than the sum of its parts. Bookended by a substantive Foreword and Afterword, they upend the standard 'diagnosis of nostalgia' found... -
Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia by Fran Markowitz 9780252068645
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Anthropologist Fran Markowitz interviewed more than one hundred Russian teenagers to discover how adolescents have been coping with their country's seismic transitions. Her findings present a... -
Indigenous Heritage in Siberia: The Power of Objects Dr Nadezhda Mamontova 9781350507166
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book explores the culturally significant objects of various Indigenous peoples in Siberia by considering the power, agency, use and evolving meanings of these objects over time. It acknowledges... -
Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan by Iwona Kaliszewska
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.23Offering the reader an unflinching portrait of Daghestan and Chechnya-primarily its girls and women-this book presents the Caucasus through the eyes of a Polish woman who travelled there with her... -
Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest by Bruce O'Neill 9781512825831
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban... -
Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory by David Leupold
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Winner of the 2021 annual book award of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)."David Leupold's exceptional book explores the complex and contested Turkish, Kurdish, and Armenian visions of... -
Fashioning the Dandy: Style and Manners by Olga Vainshtein 9781839984440
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition,... -
Fashioning the Dandy: Style and Manners Olga Vainshtein 9781839996849
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition,... -
Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova 9780857456434
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16This book serves an invaluable function by capturing the rich complexity of nostalgia and marking a moment when questions of postmodern historiography can be applied to a past, the recent Communist... -
State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics by Stéphane Voell
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action... -
The Semiotics of Drink and Drinking by Paul Manning 9781441137746
Booksplease Price: £45.30This is a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life... -
Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging by Ralph A. Litzinger 9780822325499
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Other Chinas Ralph A. Litzinger investigates the politics of ethnic identity in postsocialist China. By combining innovative research with extensive fieldwork conducted during the late 1980s and... -
Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging by Ralph A. Litzinger 9780822325253 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £37.97In Other Chinas Ralph A. Litzinger investigates the politics of ethnic identity in postsocialist China. By combining innovative research with extensive fieldwork conducted during the late 1980s and... -
The Social Process of Globalization: Return Migration and Cultural Change in Kazakhstan by Douglas W. Blum 9781107129689
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14It is often argued that globalization fosters 'hybridity', as some cultural imports are accepted, while others are 'localized', and others still are rejected outright. Yet we know relatively little... -
The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism by Caroline Humphrey
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of... -
The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and their Afterlives David Leupold 9781032982847
Booksplease Price: £45.30What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question - what is left of the socialist city? - this... -
Religious Identity and Political Destiny: 'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism by Deepa S. Reddy 9780759106864
Booksplease Price: £43.33Religious Identity and Political Destiny: "Hindutva" in the Culture of Ethnicism is an ethnography of a contentious, ongoing debate about the place of religion in Indian civic life. Exploring Hindu... -
Religious Identity and Political Destiny: 'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism by Deepa S. Reddy 9780759106857
Booksplease Price: £103.41Religious Identity and Political Destiny: 'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism is an ethnography of a contentious, ongoing debate about the place of religion in Indian civic life. Exploring Hindu... -
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire by Erik R. Scott 9780199396375
Booksplease Price: £115.68Familiar Strangers tells the story of a remarkably successful group of ethnic outsiders at the heart of Soviet empire and, in so doing, reinterprets the course of modern Russian and Soviet history... -
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire by Erik R. Scott 9780190695774
Booksplease Price: £48.61A small, non-Slavic country located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia has been more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one...