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Echocardiography for the Neonatologist by Jonathan Skinner 9780443054808
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £78.69This book provides a highly practical atlas on the use of echocardiography by the neonatologist in the management of the neonate. Whilst recognising the limitations of the non-specialist in... -
The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach Jonathan Skinner 9781847889393
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £34.32What are new interview methods and practices in our new 'interview society' and how do they relate to traditional social science research? This volume interrogates the interview as understood, used -... -
Writing the Dark Side of Travel by Jonathan Skinner 9780857453419
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how... -
Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism Jonathan Skinner 9780857452771
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of... -
Murals and Tourism: Heritage, Politics and Identity by Jonathan Skinner 9780367218942
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or... -
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field by Angela Hume 9781609385590
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume's essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first... -
Creating Heritage for Tourism by Catherine Palmer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24What does 'heritage' mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an... -
Ethnologia Europaea vol. 48:2 by Jackie Feldman 9788763546478
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.33This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea focuses on tour guides as cultural mediators. It opens with a discussion of tour guiding in the anthropology of tourism by Jackie Feldman and Jonathan... -
Varieties of Victorianism: The Uses of a Past by Gary Day 9781349267446
Booksplease Price: £92.16The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. They show how characteristic postmodern anxieties and celebrations concerning truth,... -
Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance by Helene Neveu Kringelbach 9780857455758
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Dance is more than an aesthetic of life - dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances... -
Varieties of Victorianism: The Uses of a Past by Gary E. Day 9780333629017
Booksplease Price: £92.16The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. They show how characteristic postmodern anxieties and celebrations concerning truth,... -
Cognitive Ecopoetics: A New Theory of Lyric by Dr Sharon Lattig 9781350186132
Booksplease Price: £33.84New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics,... -
Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? Zoë Skoulding 9781800175389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Skoulding's second Carcanet collection develops the author's contribution to ecopoetics, inventing new forms to think through relationships with the more-than-human world. Through ferns, plastic,... -
Cognitive Ecopoetics: A New Theory of Lyric by Dr Sharon Lattig 9781350069251
Booksplease Price: £112.13New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics,... -
Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word, Environment by Stephen Benson 9781474406697
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Intervenes in contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recordingA field recording is any audio recording made outside of the studio. Such recordings have lately become... -
Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City by Susanna Rostas 9781607321385
Booksplease Price: £26.61In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links... -
Polkadot Wounds Anthony Vahni Capildeo 9781800174252
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times. Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with others (dead and living), amongst glimpsing reflections of encounters... -
The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives by S. Elizabeth Bird 9780253221261
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective-as a form of cultural meaning-making... -
Lessways Least Scarce Among: Poems 2002-2009 by Peter Larkin 9781848612426
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34"For Larkin, landscape is not so much a thing as a process, a kind of prosody marked by opening (which the prose poem enacts through clearings of verse) and by colonizing, to a rhythm not necessarily... -
Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity by Maeve McCusker 9789042034068
Booksplease Price: £90.48The island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness. Yet the island has also been imagined... -
Displaced Heritage - Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss by Dr. Ian Convery 9781783274307
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.62Considerations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites. The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural... -
Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying 9781607327288
Booksplease Price: £29.42This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon-and mediate-life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment... -
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who... -
The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg by Cheryll Glotfelty
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life. As one of the originators... -
Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy Garcia
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the... -
Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy Garcia 9780822354819
Booksplease Price: £97.27In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the... -
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men by Carlos Ulises Decena
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City,... -
Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation by James B. Rebitzer 9780197603109
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.07An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can...