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The Gift - Expanded Edition Marcel Mauss 9780990505006
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $16.55Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial... -
Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving 9780997367515
Booksplease Price: $43.28The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to... -
Leon and Louise by Alex Capus
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are... -
Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy by James Elles
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.54Since its' inception, the European Union has developed to become an open and transparent system which is democratically accountable to more than five hundred million European citizens. James Elles... -
Turkey Rediscovered: A Land Between Tradition and Modernity by Klaus Reichert
Booksplease Price: $20.18This book, available for the first time in English, is an exhilarating journey through Turkey s history and a perceptive look at the interactions between secularism, religion, and multiethnicity. ... -
Balfour by Ewen Green 9781904950554
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour led an eventual premiership, but will always be remembered for the 'Balfour Declaration', in which he told Lord Rothschild that Britain 'favoured the... -
Goethe by Peter Boerner 9781908323514
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.52Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo... -
The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 9781906598891
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the... -
In Byron's Footsteps by Tessa de Loo 9781906598778
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the... -
Leonard Cohen by Jeffrey Lewis 9781913368920
Booksplease Price: $21.44The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He... -
Unwritten Rule: How to Fix the British Constitution by Stephen Green 9781913368302
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Not since Ireland broke away from the United Kingdom a century ago has the British state been so fragile. Northern Ireland now operates under trading rules that are legally separate from the rest of... -
Socrates by Sean Sheehan 9781905791101
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The ancient world of fifth century Greece, an astonishing period of cultural development that helps situate the originality of Socrates, and to the city-state of Athens in particular. The social,... -
Unexpected Subjects - Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law by Alessandra Gribaldo
Booksplease Price: $22.45Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices,... -
Bealport: A Novel of a Town Jeffrey Lewis 9781912208791
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45An old shoe factory in a costal New England town is up for sale again. When a private equity mogul with a fondness for the factory's shoes buys it, he sets in motion a story with profound... -
Versailles 1919: A Centennial Perspective by Alan Sharp
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.07The Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have set the world on the path to a second... -
Reluctant Meister: Germany and the New Europe by Stephen Green
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much... -
The Immensity of Being Singular – Approaching Migrant Lives in São Paulo through Resonance by Simone Toji
Booksplease Price: $21.20In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. Recovering Bronislaw Malinowski’s idea of the... -
Along the Ganges by Ilija Trojanow 9781906598914
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The River Ganges has a thousand names. Hindu priests regard it as a sin to call her a river at all. She is a goddess, the source of the world, her waters holy and healing and still sold to Hindus all... -
Callaghan by Harry Conroy 9781904950707
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the Winter of Discontent', laying the foundations for Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1979Book InformationISBN... -
Afonso Costa: Portugal by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses 9781905791873
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Portugal's poor military performance in the First World War, notably in Africa, restricted Afonso Costa's (1871-1937) ability to secure his diplomatic aims which, in any case, were highly unrealistic... -
Lord Salisbury by Eric Midwinter 9781904950547
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1 -
Karl Renner - Austria by Jamie Bulloch 9781905791897
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870 1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris,... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
Booksplease Price: $16.07Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he... -
Campbell-Bannerman by Roy Hattersley 9781904950561
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Roy Hattersley brings the politician's to this concise history of the life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, widely considered to be an ineffective Prime Minister; he was in fact the liberal of the 20th... -
Shostakovich by Brian Morton 9781913368432
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, he is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has... -
Neville Chamberlain by Graham Macklin 9781904950622
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.43With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend... -
Monet (Life & Times) by Matthias Arnold 9781904950004
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.37Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the... -
Ramsay MacDonald by Kevin Morgan 9781904950615
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In 1929 Labour was for the first time the largest party, but his new government had to grapple with the problems of the Great Depression.Book InformationISBN 9781904950615Author Kevin MorganFormat... -
Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit: 2020 by Peter Gumbel
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In2019, appalled not only by the result of the Brexit referendum but by the ugliness it exposed in... -
We are the People: The rise of the AfD in Germany by Penny Bochum
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Recent years have seen a populist wave across the Western world, exposing the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy and driving the political agenda to the right. In 2017 the far-right populist... -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing... -
Rommel: The End of a Legend by Ralf Georg Reuth
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Erwin Rommel is the best-known German field commander of WWII. Repeatedly decorated for valour during the First World War, he would go on to lead the German Panzer divisions in France and North... -
Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia by Robert McNamara 9781905791668
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia" as portrayed in David Lean's... -
Chaim Weizmann - The Zionist Dream by Tom Fraser 9781905791675
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale... -
Bevan: Creator of the NHS by Francis Beckett 9781913368838
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The creation of the National Health Service was the most significant of the many reforms of the post-war Labour government. The man responsible was Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan. The son of a Welsh miner, he... -
Partition: How and Why Ireland was Divided by Ivan Gibbons 9781913368456
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The passion and emotion felt about the partition of Ireland has not dissipated in the 100 years since and, as the disorders occurred in Northern Ireland in the Spring 2021 show, it is as... -
Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist Rüdiger Görner 9781914979149
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an artist of his time, but he also stood out among his peers - not just because of his toweringphysical height but for his artistic range: he wrote plays and stories... -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In November 1913, three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Ru ter, were ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble... -
Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile by Johannes Willms 9781905791545
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India... -
Damascus: Taste of a City by Rafik Schami
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81Seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and hearing - if you join Rafik Schami and his sister Marie Fadel on a stroll through their native Damascus, you will discover this Queen of the Orient with all...