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Spoken Here by Mark Abley 9780099460220 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.22Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world... -
The Silver Palace Restaurant: Volume 16 by Mark Abley 9780773529984
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56A deeply humane and accessible volumeA deeply humane and accessible volumeAbout the AuthorMark Abley is the author of many books of poetry and non-fiction including Spoken Here: Travels Among... -
Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail by Mark Abley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a... -
Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies by Thomas G. Andrews 9780674088573
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and... -
Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century by James Clifford 9780674724921
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22Returns explores homecomings-the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where... -
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford 9780674779617
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.45When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James... -
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy 9780674293939
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.19"At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery."-The Economist"Insightful and... -
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett 9780674976580
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.99"An assured guide" (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells. We tend to assume that... -
Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon by Michael Engelhard
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £27.05Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good... -
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.37Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and...