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Basic Management Skills: Essential Reading for First Time Manager, Supervisors and Existing Leaders Who Want to Upgrade Their Skills by Chris Thomas 9780956495907
RRP: £9.19Booksplease Price: £8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956495907Author Chris ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art... -
Governance and Regionalism in Asia by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £46.79In the decade since the Asian financial crisis the ten states of Southeast Asia that form ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea have formed the basis of a community intended to support... -
Gauguin and Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas 9781801105231
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in... -
Shamanism, History, and the State by Nicholas Thomas 9780472084012
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The literature on shamanism and related topics is extensive, but has in general been biased toward curing and trance; the political and historical significance of shamanic activities has been largely... -
Governance and Regionalism in Asia by Nicholas Thomas 9780415667159
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54In the decade since the Asian financial crisis the ten states of Southeast Asia that form ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea have formed the basis of a community intended to support... -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781803284637
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire Nicholas Thomas 9780300180565
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and... -
In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9780822319986
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his... -
Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously... -
Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse by Nicholas Thomas 9780472083770
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Despite the enormous amount of work that has attempted to combine historical and anthropological approaches in recent years, few books have outlined the underlying premises that make integration of... -
The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good for in the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Thomas
Booksplease Price: £20.03Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they... -
Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9780521659987
Booksplease Price: £34.48Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and... -
Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9781877578694
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578694Author Thomas NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint -
Bleeding Hearts: a poetry collection by, Nicholas Thomas Durham by Eric Jonathon Pino 9780692285190
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692285190Author Eric Jonathon PinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint -
Democracy Denied: Identity, Civil Society and Illiberal Democracy in Hong Kong by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.89Published in 1999, this book is designed to provide the reader with a detailed understanding of Hong Kong's social and political development. It offers a contemporary, holistic understanding of Hong... -
OpUS: Bound TEXT/UREs: Volume 1: 2013 - 2015 by Nicholas Thomas Hranilovich 9780692535349
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692535349Author Nicholas Thomas HranilovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 88< -
Cultures of Collecting by John Elsner 9780948462511
Booksplease Price: £21.06This title includes essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger... -
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter by Michelle Keown 9780367666583
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature,... -
Body Art by Thomas Nicholas 9780500204207
Booksplease Price: £15.34Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has proliferated... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes... -
Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific by Ton Utio
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69It is striking that in many Pacific nations, 'national' narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings, such as those concerning local political dynasties and conversion to... -
Engaging Colonial Knowledge: Reading European Archives in World History by Ricardo Roque 9780230241985
Booksplease Price: £46.28Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and... -
Advancing East Asian Regionalism Melissa Curley 9780415546874
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the... -
Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture by Mark Adams 9781991150981
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £37.68When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. It told the story of the late Sulu'ape Paulo II, the pre-eminent... -
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N T Wright
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060872700Author N T WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Advancing East Asian Regionalism by Melissa Curley 9780415349093
Booksplease Price: £110.69Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the... -
Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe by Anna Cole 9781861892256
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.87The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term 'tattoo' entered... -
Towards Inclusive Social Policies?: Southeast Asia after the Pandemic Diego Fossati 9781447376231
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and upended lives - but did it also open the door to more inclusive policies? Focusing on both... -
The Making of Asmat Art: Indigenous Art in a World Perspective by Nick Stanley 9781907774201
Booksplease Price: £70.89Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significant and prolonged impact on the world stage? This book explores the way major collections were made and... -
Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 by Chloe Chard 9780300063820
Booksplease Price: £45.29In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences... -
Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment Christopher Pinney 9781859734643
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to... -
Islands in History and Representation Rod Edmond 9780415418577
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers... -
Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina by A. Schneider 9781349534401
Booksplease Price: £46.28How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures,... -
Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology by 9781032340395
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories and praxis... -
Meeting Place: The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence by Paul Carter 9780816685394
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook... -
Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters by Vanessa Smith
Booksplease Price: £83.00When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they... -
East Asia and the Global Economy: Japan’s Ascent, with Implications for China’s Future by Stephen G. Bunker 9780801885938
Booksplease Price: £47.79After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw material procurement, the redesign of... -
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville by Stephen A. Barney 9780521145916
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £36.75This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an... -
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and...