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Human Nature: Fact and Fiction by Edited by Robin Headlam Wells & Johnjoe McFadden (£59.50)Publisher: Continuum — 2006Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0826485464]Condition: Near Fine.Description: First in this, paperback, edition. From the cover: “What do we mean by ‘human nature’? Is there a genetically determined core of humanity that unites us all as members of a single species? Or is the thing we call human nature a social construct? And how do we explain the mystery of human creativity? Do great writers have an intuitive grasp of what makes human beings tick, or are they merely the mouthpiece of contemporary culture? It has been claimed that ‘the greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities’ (Edward O. Wilson). This ground-breaking book marks the beginning of a new dialogue between the two. Rather than focusing on the division between what C.P. Snow called ‘the two cultures’, it shows that the sciences and humanities have much to learn from each other. Points of disagreement remain. Yet there is in this volume a genuine attempt to bridge the gulf that has traditionally separated the sciences and humanities and to reach a better understanding of what it means to be human. Human Nature — Fact and Fiction is a major new contribution to the debate on human nature, set to be required reading for anyone with a background in either the arts or the sciences who is interested in understanding what defines us as human beings — in what we are, and why.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by A. C. Grayling. Size: B Format (7¾" x 5¼"). 200 pages. Tags: adorno adultery adventures aesthetics agassiz agency aggression alan alice's alien allegory althusser altruism amadeus analysis andrew anthropology anti-semitism antonio approach aries aristotelians artificial arts asperger's attacks austen austin autism balibar baron-cohen barthes beckett beethoven behavior behaviours bellow benign berlin bernard beteille biological blackmore blakemore blank-slate bloom bookchin bovary bowker brain brent
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Origin & Evolution of the Human Race by Albert Churchward (£50.00)Publisher: London: George Allen & Unwin — 1921Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Heavily faded at the spine. Hinges weakening, near exposed at the frontis. Pages gently tanned with scattered spotting throughout. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Chronological Tables; Diagrams;Notes: Size: 10" x 6¼". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. [XV] 511 pages. Tags: churchward ethnology anthropology human beings origin man origins palaeoanthropology evolution primitive societies biology anthropology-history
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Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land by Richard Bradley (£33.00)Publisher: Routledge — 1997Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0415165369]Condition: Very Good. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Tables;
From the cover: “Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain are numerous rock carvings made 4-5000 years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist. This full-length treatment of the subject is based largely on recent fieldwork and asserts that these carvings should be interpreted as a series of symbolic messages that are shared between monuments, artefacts and natural places in the landscape. The author discusses the cultural setting of the rock carvings and the ways in which they can be interpreted in relation to ancient land use, the creation of ritual monuments and the burial of the dead.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 6¾". [XIV] 238 pages. Tags: rock paintings europe atlantic coast prehistory prehistoric archaeology art peoples petroglyphs lad zbs dso lhr coastal man antiquities primitive anthropology history social science richard bradley 0415165369
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Law and Sexuality: The Global Arena by Edited by Carl Stychin & Didi Herman (£28.00)Publisher: University of Minnesota Press — 2001Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0816638705]Condition: Very Good. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. First published by The Athlone Press in 2000 as Sexuality in the Legal Arena
From the cover: “What does your sexuality have to do with your status as subject, citizen, or spouse? In our global political economy, this question has moved out of the domestic closet and into the world of public policy, human rights, and cultural norms, and is increasingly mediated, negotiated, and legislated in the legal arena. Prominent scholars of law and sexuality on four continents cross disciplines and national boundaries to explore provocative legal and political issues raised by the cultural, social, and political organization of intimate life. Encompassing a broad spectrum of perspectives, from literary analysis and postcolonial studies to feminist, queer, and race theory, their critical, skeptical, and often pragmatic analysis maps the current state of the global intersections between law and sexuality and social change.
Contributors: Heather Brook, Richard Collier, Derek Dalton, Pierre de Vos, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Patrick Hanafin, Emma Henderson, Adrian Howe, Rebecca Johnson, Thomas Kuttner, Derek McGhee, Leslie J. Moran, Wayne Morgan, Oliver Phillips, Jennifer Spruill, and Claire Young.”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [IX] 293 pages. Tags: herman 0816638705 sex law gays legal status laws studies sexuality initial social change deconstruction literary analysis feminist queer critical race theory post colonial anthropology masculinity radical political
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Learning and Teaching Social Theory by Edited by Jon Cope, Joyce E. Canaan & Dave Harris (£28.00)Publisher: C-SAP University of Birmingham, — 2006Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 190219134X]Condition: Very Good+. Description: Number 8 in the series. First in this, paperback, edition. From the cover: “The challenges of learning and teaching theory in the social sciences have been a subject of concern and debate since these subjects first emerged as a part of the higher education canon. However, in recent years, far reaching changes inside and outside the university have compounded such concerns in the minds of both students and teachers as higher education is re-organised within the logic of neo-liberalism. The authors in this volume discuss these contemporary contexts and reflect upon the difficulties and opportunities that arise in the classroom and beyond. This monograph enables authors from several nations — the United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand and South Africa — with a shared concern about the state of the university at present and the challenges that this offers for them and their students, to consider how engagement with social theory can help develop the kinds of critical evaluation skills that students will need in the world they enter after graduation. The book therefore represents essential reading for anyone considering how to encourage students and lecturers to consider the relevance of learning and teaching social theory for their appreciation of the world today..”Notes: Size: 8¼" x 5¾". In the C-SAP Monograph series. [XV] 212 pages. Tags: academy and anthropology birmingham britain canaan cope c-sap dave education great harris higher jon joyce methodology network politics research sciences social sociology study teaching the
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Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Eugen Strouhal (£26.00)Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press — 1992Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 9774242858]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little rubbed at the edges. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with photographs, in colour & black and white with maps. From the cover: “There is a wealth of literature on the kings of ancient Egypt, on the history of their reigns, and on their temples and pyramids. But of the ordinary, hard-working people who left us such awe-inspiring monuments as well as beautiful everyday objects, our knowledge remains hazy. Happily there is plenty of evidence, physical as well as literary and artistic, on which the author of this rare insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt has been able to draw, offering us the fruits of a lifetime of tireless research and fieldwork. He charts the progress of the ancient Egyptian step by step from cradle to grave, from children’s games to adult entertainment, from courtship to marriage and sometimes to divorce. The position of women in society is discussed in detail, as is fashion and the care of the body. The author describes the work of farmers, fishermen, and hunters, of artisans and builders, artists and scribes, priests and healers. In the closing chapter we follow the ancient Egyptian on the arduous last journey to the gates of the other world.
Few studies of ancient Egypt cover so broad a scope. The text is complemented by many illustrations of artefacts, works of art, and scenes of life in ancient Egypt as recorded in tomb reliefs and paintings and on papyri. Many of Werner Forman’s superb photographs were taken specially for this volume in Egypt and in the great public and private collections.”Notes: Illustrated by Werner Forman (Photos.). Foreword or introduction by Geoffrey T. Martin. Size: 11¼" x 8½". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 278 pages. Tags: african also ancient and anthropology antiquities archaeology artefacts civilization culture customs east egypt egyptian general history life middle paleopathology science see social world
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Burma by R. [Robert] Talbot Kelly (£24.00)Publisher: London: Adam & Charles Black — 1909Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with heavy wear to the spine. Shaken, hinges weak throughout. Previous owners' gift inscription to the first blank. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: Illustrated by way of: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Colour Plates [11]; Maps [1];Notes: Size: 7¾" x 5½". Red (with laid on colour plate) boards with Gilt & Black titling to the Spine & Upper Board. In the Peeps at Many Lands series. [VII] 84 [6] pages. Tags: peeps many lands travel burma irrawaddy river burmese social conditions writing myanmar anthropology asia mandalay rangoon pagoda pagan
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Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Environment and Identity in Gidden's Social Theory by Edited by Martin O'Brien, Sue Penna & Colin Hay (£23.00)Publisher: Longman — 1999Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0582307430]Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Scattered researcher's highlighting throughout. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [IX] 226 pages. Tags: and anthios anthony anthropology aspects bagguley benton beyond brien charles civilization colin criminality dave dickens difference differences divisions duality earth emancipation? environment environments exploring floya geography giddens harris hay how identity individual interview jenny know? late left lemert life limits martin modern modernity mouzelis movements neither nicos nor orders paul penna peter philosophy political politics postmodernism pure radical reflections reflexivity relations responses right? science sciences smith so? social sociology structure sue ted the theorising theory views what will with world
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Modernity and the State: East, West by Claus Offe (£19.50)Publisher: Polity Press — 1996Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0745616747]Condition: Very Good. Light reading creases to the spine. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wrappers. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. From the cover: “This volume addresses the problem of how modern societies politically cohere and poses one of the most fundamental questions of contemporary political analysis: how can legitimate authority coexist with effective governing capacity? In addressing this question, Offe draws on a wide variety of material in both political theory and empirical sociology.
The book is divided into four parts. In the first of these, Offe explores general questions concerning the nature and stability of modern societies and critically examines contemporary approaches to political theory. In the second part he examines new developments facing the state and assesses new departures in state theory. In the third part, problems and policy prescriptions which have emerged in connection with developments in Western welfare states are addressed.
In the final part, Offe seeks to illuminate through comparative analysis many of the new questions facing political sociology in the light of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The result is a highly original account of developments in contemporary society both in the West and in the East. Modernity and the State will be welcomed by students and scholars in social and political theory, political sociology and East European studies..”Notes: Size: 9" x 6". [XII] 270 pages. Tags: and anthropology democracy history policy political politics process processes science social sociology state structure the theories theory welfare
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Science For All: An Outline For Busy People (Articles by Various Writers) by Introduced by Sir Charles S. [Scott] Sherrington (£19.00)Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co. — UndatedBinding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: B0017X3WA4]Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled, a little faded, slightly frayed at head of spine. Pages very gently age-tanned but a presentable copy.Description: From the cover: “This authoritative volume is designed to meet the needs of the large and rapidly increasing class of readers who, while keenly interested in Natural Science, have neither the time nor the means to master the innumerable text books, ‘papers’ and reports necessary to an intelligent understanding not only of recent developments but of the elementary principles and ‘laws’ upon which all the amazing progress of the present century has been based.”Notes: Size: 8½" x 5¾". 384 pages. Tags: ainsworth ainsworth-davis andrew anthropology arthur astronomy biology botany charles chemistry contents crommelin david davis drummond everett evolution frank geology henry herbert history human james main man montagu natural owen physics physiology richard science scott sherrington shipley sir story subject swale the thomas vincent zoology
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Human Types by R. W. Firth (£18.50)Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons — 1950Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+ - in Poor DJ. Unlaminated DJ a little edgeworn and faded with loss at the head of the upper panel, head and tail of the spine. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned. Offset to the endpapers.Description: No. 11 in the series. Later printing [1938 thus]. Illustrated frontispiece. From the cover: “With improvements in communications bringing us into more rapid contact with distant lands, general interest has been aroused in the ways of life of their peoples. In a readable manner the author outlines recent developments in modem social anthropology, and demonstrates its uses in improving international relations. Most of the examples given are drawn from recent field-work, and do not appear in the usual textbooks; so far they have been available only in articles in periodicals. The author has much of interest to say on such controversial subjects as the brain capacities of different races, comparative codes of manners, and the ‘simple way of life of the savage’.”Notes: Size: 7¼" x 4¾". Green boards with White titling to the Spine. In the Discussion Books series. 211 pages. Tags: racial traits mental differences primitive communities social structure human belief anthropology anthropologists aborigines ashand boas colonial government morality duhamel primitive races hippocrates hottentot intelligence tests cultural group james weldon johnson keesing language malinowski maori intermarriage polygamy polyandry trobrianders mohammedans montesquieu trobriand islanders economics industry kinship groups ratzel unreason belief ecological descent social customs sheddick shellshear native problem negroes passing for whites
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Sociology by Anthony Giddens (£18.50)Publisher: Polity Press — 1996Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 9780745611150]Condition: Good. Upper wrap a little curled. A slightly dog-eared copy.Description: Second Edition, Fully Revised & Updated. The new edition has been thoroughly revised using the very latest available empirical data. In addition, there are a number of completely new sections, many covering topics hardly discussed in other introductory textbooks. Contains, for example, extended analyses of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe and Russia, the upsurge in new forms of nationalism and ethnicity, and the debate over the 'end of history' as well as covering all the more orthodox areas of sociological work in a lively and stimulating way.Notes: Size: 9¾" x 6¾". 819 pages. Tags: functionalists geographically specialisation stratification rational-legal relationships socialisation organisations mechanisation phenomenology investigation ethnocentrism powerlessness institutions reductionism epistemology urbanisation surroundings geographical expectations explanations normlessness propositions considerable conservative hierarchical sociological face-to-face behaviourism specifically agricultural consequences anthropology standardised transmission organisation instability disapproved proletariat bourgeoisie objectivity consanguine consequence bureaucracy association determinism delinquency adolescence interaction preliminary formulation
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Men Before Adam by Anne Terry White (£18.00)Publisher: London: Robert Hale — 1942Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed with loss at the tail of the spine and the foot of the lower panel. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Pages lightly age-tanned with spotting to the blanks. Previous owners' stamp to the first blank, last blank and dedication page. Description: Illustrated by way of: Frontispiece; Portraits; Black & White Photographs;Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XII] 196 pages. Tags: human beings origin prehistoric anthropology darwin tracing man’s lineage neanderthal grimaldi cro-magnon man pithecanthropus piltdown heidelberg altamira
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Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock & Santha Faiia (£17.50)Publisher: Michael Joseph — 1998Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0718143329]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper, pulled at the head of the upper panel with a slight tear to the top corner of the same. Ding to the spine. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Plans;
From the cover: “In Heaven’s Mirror, author Graham Hancock continues the quest begun in his No. 1 international bestseller Fingerprints Of Thf Gods to rediscover the hidden legacy of mankind — the revelation that the cultures we term ancient were, in fact, the heirs to a far older forgotten civilization, and the inheritors of its archaic wisdom…
Working with the photographer Santha Faiia, his wife, Hancock traces a network of sacred sites around the globe on a spectacular voyage of discovery that takes us from the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt to the enigmatic statues of Easter Island, from the haunting ruins of pre-Columbian America to the splendours of Angkor Wat, in order to crack the code of our lost ancestors. It is an odyssey that leads to sunken monuments and hidden chambers — a journey through myth and magic, and astounding archaeological revelations, that forces us to rethink our entire conception of the origins of civilization.
Much more than a sequel to Fingerprints Of The Gods, Heaven’s Mirror is a plunge into the spirituality of the ancients — a search for the revelation of a secret written in the language of astronomy, and recorded in the very foundations of the holiest sites of antiquity…
A secret which speaks of a mysterious connection between earth and heaven…
A secret which transforms temples into stars and men into gods…
The deepest and darkest secret of our forgotten past.”Notes: Size: 10½" x 8". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 336 pages. Tags: astronomy ancient prehistoric peoples megalithic monuments civilization lost continents sacred places archaeology lab people body mind spirit thought practice world prehistory anthropology controversial knowledge reference curiosities wonders social science mysticism self-awareness graham hancock santha faiia 0718143329 first editions firsts printings 1st
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On Understanding Japanese Religion by Joseph M. [Mitsuo] Kitagawa (£17.00)Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press — 1987Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0691102295]Condition: Very Good. Gently faded at the spine. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: A Later Printing. Contains: Chronological tables; Glossary;
From the cover: “Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan’s intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America.
Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skilfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [XXXI] 343 pages. Tags: religion japan japanese religions shinto buddhism confucianism taoism state history oriental eastern asia social science anthropology cultural prehistory historic development tradition buddhist religious 0691102295
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History of World Exploration by John Keay (£16.00)Publisher: Mallard Press — 1991Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0792453255]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dustwrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Previous owners inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white & colour photographs, maps and drawings. From the cover: “The history of the exploration of our world is a heroic adventure, a centuries-old quest to extend the limit of our physical horizons and to test our courage and fortitude. The stories of these explorers and their expeditions have, from ancient times, inspired and embodied the ascent of man. From Marco Polo, Columbus and Cook, Livingstone, Burton and Speke, to those intrepid polar explorers Scott and Amundsen, to Edmund Hillary who scaled the peak of Everest — all are a breed apart and all have their own remarkable stories to tell.”Notes: Size: 11½" x 8½". Cream boards with Black titling to the Spine. 322 pages. Tags: royal geographical society early exploration asia africa north america central south america oceanography antarctic exploration explorers expeditions equipment expeditionary records motives for exploration discovery migrations colonization spanish conquistadores polynesians remotest islands terrestrial explorers david livingstone zambezi cartographv great geographer eratosthenes expedition earth chinese exploration zheng venetian traveller trade luxury
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The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Planning in the 1960s by Edited by Paul Streeten & Michael Lipton (£14.00)Publisher: Oxford University Press — 1968Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with nicks at the spine ends and corners. Price Clipped.Description: Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. From the cover: “Droughts, foreign exchange shortages, political separation, high defence costs — yet India’s planners expect the country to be self-sufficient in food by 1970-1, with farm output up 27 per cent from the 1964-5 level, and industrial production up 78 per cent. The prospects for India’s experiment in democratic planning, forced through crisis to fundamental change, are important far beyond the borders of India.
This book analyses the main aspects of Indian planning in the late 1960s. The introduction suggests that a big shift of emphasis is needed: from aggregate targets to comparative analysis of local situations within India. The book then considers the effects on the planning process of India’s federal democracy. The next four chapters assess planning and prospects in industry, agriculture, overhead capital, and energy. The human factor is then considered, with discussions of education and health, the family planning programme, and the contribution of social anthropology to Indian planning. The next group of chapters looks at three external constraints on Indian development: poor trade prospects, scarcity of aid, and big defence needs. The book closes with a statistical record of Indian planning and achievement.
Each main aspect of Indian planning, then, is analysed by an expert in the respective field. The book is not just a symposium; each author led a discussion of his chapter in April 1967, at a conference in Palmer, Sussex. The conference was sponsored by the Institute of Development Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Sussex University, and was attended by political scientists, anthropologists, businessmen, officials, planners, and economists from India and Britain. The chapters have been extensively revised in the light of the discussion and of events since April 1967.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [VII] 416 pages. Tags: development economics india planning policy problems
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Cowboys: A Vanishing World by Jon Nicholson (£12.50)Publisher: London: Macmillan — 2001Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0333902084]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Sticker shadow to the top corner of the upper panel otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; The American cowboy is a dying breed. Well depicted in films and a confirmed part of popular culture, the cowbow is having to adapt his lifestyle to cope with the inevitable technological advances of the new millennium. This book provides a record of the cowboy as he moves into the 21st centuryNotes: Size: 9" x 10¾". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. Tags: cowboys west ranchers united states photography artistic american history cultural men work labour usa 20th century social science anthropology sociology business economics labor ranch customs
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Oceans by Paul Rose & Anne Laking (£12.50)Publisher: London: BBC Books — 2008Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 9781846075056]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Slight rubbing and nick to the foot of the spine of the dust wrapper otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Maps;
From the cover: “The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They shape our climate, our culture and our future. But despite this, their depths have remained a mysterious and unchartered expanse on our maps.
This book, which accompanies a major BBC television series, draws on the most exciting stories from the fields of sub-aquatic archaeology, geology, marine biology and anthropology to reveal an astonishing landscape of forgotten shipwrecks, submerged volcanoes and hidden caves.
For Oceans, explorer Paul Rose and his team of expert divers filmed fluorescence in Red Sea corals for the very first time and explored the undisturbed waters of the ‘Black Hole’ off the Bahamas. They witnessed rarely seen behaviour in sperm whales in the Sea of Cortez and discovered a potentially unknown species below the Arctic pack ice. Undertaking thrilling and often dangerous dives, Paul and his team show why the oceans are so important to human existence, and the possible consequences of climate change on their delicate balance.
Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 colour photographs, Oceans unravels the mysteries of the deep and provides illuminating insights into this vast undersea domain.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Philippe Cousteau. Size: 11" x 8¾". Green boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 240 pages. Tags: laking 184607505x oceanography ocean marine sea cortez atlantic biology ecology arctic natural history seas nature ecosystems habitats oceans science earth sciences indian mediterranean
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The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine by Edited By Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick & Susan C. Scrimshaw (£12.50)Publisher: London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE Publications — 2001Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0761956174]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: A Later Printing. Illustrated by way of: Graphs; Diagrams; Tables;Notes: Jacket designed by Malcolm Harvey Young. Size: 10" x 7". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XXVII] 545 pages. Tags: social medicine sciences cultural context sociology medical health status attitiude care anthropology cross globalisation handbooks systems services fitness research science influences delivery aspects
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Thinking Nursing by Tom Mason & Elizabeth Whitehead (£12.50)Publisher: Open University Press — 2003Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0335210406]Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. A slightly dog-eared copy. Leans. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Notes: Size: 9¾" x 7½". [XV] 439 pages. Tags: and anthropology britain care economics education general great health medical nurses nursing philosophy physical politics practice psychology public science sociology study teaching theory thinking training writing
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Whatever Happened to the Human Race by Francis A. Schaeffer; C. Everett Koop; (£12.50)Publisher: Marshall, Morgan & Scott — 1980Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 055100830X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little rubbed at the edges with the laminate lifting slightly in occasional places. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: From the cover: “Today choices are being made that undermine the right to life, the basic human right, this book examines this issue and shows how abortion, infanticide and the threat of euthanasia are growing at an alarming rate. It demonstrates how this destruction of human life is being sanctioned on an ever increasing scale, by the law, by parents and by silent Christians. It exposes how human life has been cheapened, as laws based on God’s standards have been replaced by laws based on man’s standards. Humanism is shown to be bankrupt. The book argues for a return to the high view of man, based on man being made in the image of God. It insists that there must be protest and action in the same way as Christians in the nineteenth century fought for the dignity of man in their battle against slavery. At the same time it emphasises the need for caring, practical alternatives to help, for example, women with unwanted pregnancies.”Notes: Size: 10" x 7¾". 212 pages. Tags: abortion anthropology apologetics aspects bible christianity criticism euthanasia infanticide interpretation moral pro-life religious states theological united
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Living Sociology: A Critical Introduction by Deena & Michael Weinstein (£11.50)Publisher: David McKay — 1974Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0679302522]Condition: Very Good. Upper wrap a little curled, slightly dog-eared. A more than acceptable reading or reference copy.Description: An introduction to the theories of sociology. 488ppTags: functionalists geographically specialisation stratification rational-legal relationships socialisation organisations mechanisation phenomenology investigation ethnocentrism powerlessness institutions reductionism epistemology urbanisation surroundings geographical expectations explanations normlessness propositions considerable conservative hierarchical sociological face-to-face behaviourism specifically agricultural consequences anthropology standardised transmission organisation instability disapproved proletariat bourgeoisie objectivity consanguine consequence bureaucracy association determinism delinquency adolescence interaction preliminary formulation
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The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips (£11.50)Publisher: Faber & Faber — 1987Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0571147135]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly ruffled at the edges. Pages very gently age-tanned.Description: From the cover: “In 1984, the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt, as he put it, ‘to come to terms with what it is like to feel both of, and not of, Europe’.
To clarify this fundamental question of identity, Phillips visited almost every European country from Spam to the Soviet Union. In a series of fascinating snapshots, part travelogue, part autobiography, part polemic — he gives us a moving and subtle account of a journey of the heart and mind as well as of Europe today.
The European Tribe covers topics as diverse as the English on the Costa del Sol, Othello’s Venice, racialism in Mitterrand’s France, Irish missions to Nigeria, and black power in Moscow. It is an important and challenging statement from one of Britain’s most urgent new voices.”Tags: also and anthropology caryl cultural description england essays europe general holiday interest journeys observations peoples personal phillips photography pictorials places race regional relations science see social studies subjects themes travel travelogues writing
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The Idea of Culture in the Social Sciences by Charles Schneider; David Bonjean; (£11.50)Publisher: Cambridge University Press — 1973Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0521202094]Condition: Good - in Good DJ. Ex-library with usual marks, numerals to the spine, pocket to the pastedown, slip to the ffep, stamp to the reverse of the title page.Description: Contains: “Further Operations of Culture in Anthropology: A Synthesis of and for Debate, James A. Boon; culture and Social System Revisited, Talcott Parsons; toward the Development of a Cultural Economics, Kenneth E. Boulding; culture and Political Science: Problems in the Evaluation of fhe Concept of Political Culture, Lucian W. Pye; Clio and the Culture Concept: Some Impressions of a Changing Relationship in American Historiography, Robert F. Berkhofer; Place and Location: Notes on the Spatial Patterning of Culture, David E. Sopher; The idea of Culture in the Social Sciences: Critical and Supplementary Observations, Louis Schneider;”.Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". 149 pages. Tags: society belief art morals law custom anthropology sociology political science history geography anthropologist institutionalization cultural economics political science historiography dionysian appollonian
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Highland Folk Ways by I. F. [Isabel Frances] Grant (£10.50)Publisher: Edinburgh: Birlinn — 1995Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1874744424]Condition: Very Good. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Drawings; Maps; Describes the lifestyles, festivals, beliefs and customs of Highland people. Amongst other topics, it explores pre-clan history, the formation of the clans, the geography of the settlements and the development of farming techniques and crofting.Notes: Size: C Format (8½" x 5¼"). [XIII] 377 pages. Tags: history customs social cultural british northern scotland highlands islands science anthropology europe britain country included opening first ever open-air museum kingussie folklore highland
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Man on Earth by John Reader (£10.50)Publisher: Penguin — 1990Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0140126996]Condition: Very Good. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: First in this, paperback, edition. From the cover: “This book provides an examination of how the wide range of behavioural patterns and social organization has allowed humans to adapt to a wide variety of environments. In a series of portraits, the authors present a diverse range of societies, both “primitive” and “advanced”, from the rice groves of Bali, to the fisherman of Maine, the hunters of the Kalahari and the city-dwellers of Chicago.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 7". 256 pages. Tags: anthropological anthropology beings culture ecology effect ethnology general geography human medical nature perspectives physical science social
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Maya Monuments by Nigel Hughes (£10.50)Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club — 2000Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1851492941]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with slight fraying to the top corner of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Drawings; Maps to the endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: “Maya Monuments is a record of forty representative Maya buildings and sculpted monoliths, selected by the author to show the stylistic range of the Classic and Post classic periods of that remarkable and accomplished civilization. All are beautiful in their context, which is generally one of elegiac abandonment to the encroachments of nature. Resources are insufficient these days to protect them all, and many are now suffering from exposure to the elements, from ransacking and undermining by looters, and, in some cases, from the new pressures of tourism.
The book contains forty-one illustrations in colour by the author and numerous minor drawings taken from his site sketch books. The original paintings are large watercolours in the tradition of nineteenth century travelling artists such as Lear in the Levant, Roberts in Egypt and Palestine, the Daniells in India and, of course, Frederick Catherwood whose most celebrated work was in Mexico and Central America. The paintings in this volume have been exhibited to great acclaim at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico and in New York. The text consists of an introduction, thirty short essays on the culture, economy, beliefs and government of the ancient Maya, with an emphasis on the time of their greatest artistic flowering, and an epilogue. The paintings took five years to complete and the text contains many original observations and deductions arrived at during the author’s travels and studies.”Notes: Size: 11" x 9". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 151 pages. Tags: maya architecture mayas antiquities monuments central america dates palenque ftopoxte hormiguero cuitlacoche dzibilnocac fortress tulum civilization mexico
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The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (£10.50)Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC] — 1981Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0563170646]Condition: Good. A reasonable reading copy only. Upper wrap a little curled.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs & drawings. From the cover: “Traces our rise — both as a species and as moulders of our own environment and future. The book covers invention from the flint tool to geometry, from the arch to the Theory of Relativity. It also explores the social and historical background that gave rise to those inventions. Its grasp of both science and civilization shows man’s ability to understand nature, to control it and not be controlled by it.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 7". 448 pages. Tags: and anthropology aspects bbc beings biological biology bronowski civilisation civilization cultural culture development ecology engineering evolution flint general geometry history human humanity ideas intellectual jacob man natural nature philosophy relativity sciences social studies technology theory tool
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Big Babies: Or Why Can't We Just Grow Up? by Michael Bywater (£9.50)Publisher: Granta — 2006Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1862078831]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 262 pages. Tags: age and anthropology behavior britain childlessness cultural culture government great human humour kingdom mass maturation media political politics popular psychology science social united
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Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890: A Source Book of Contemporary Writings by Edited by J. M. Golby (£9.50)Publisher: Oxford University Press — 1992Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0198711123]Condition: Very Good. Light reading creases to the spine. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Corrected reprint. From the cover: “In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the world. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances in scientific knowledge were applied increasingly to all industries and the nation’s work force remained industrious. This confidence was not shared by all. Despite material advances, poverty had not been eliminated; the new industrial processes and the resulting division of labour had made jobs monotonous and, some felt, dehumanizing. The supporters of Ruskin also contended that the use of the new mechanical techniques debased art by encouraging ornateness at the expense of beauty. The contemporary writings offered in this anthology reflect these concerns and vividly convey a sense of mid-Victorian society and the changes undergone by Britain during these forty years. Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 approaches the period through the arts (high and popular), philosophy, religion, and history (social and political), in a way that will appeal to the general reader as well as to a wide range of students, including those following the Open University Arts Foundation course.”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [XIII] 342 pages. Tags: 19th anthropology britain british century conditions contemporary covered cultural culture dates distance economic education england essays from great history irish journals kingdom learning letters moral open other prose readings reign science social sources studies united victoria works
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Every Man by Derek Llewellyn-Jones (£9.50)Publisher: Oxford University Press — 1981Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0192177249]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Leans slightly.Description: Much has been written about women, their bodies, and their feelings, but this book aims to restore the balance and offer men a detailed and sympathetic account of their bodies, needs, and problems.Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 302 pages. Tags: active and anthropology behavior biological conception coping coronary cultural development diet differentiation diseases erectile ethnography fitness function gender genital health heart herpes human hygiene identity impotence instruction intercourse masculinity medicine men mesh organs ovulation personal physical popular problems psychology puberty response science self-help sex sexual sexuality sexually social sociology studies syphilis testicular vasectomy warts with works
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From Symbolism to Structuralism: Levi-Strauss in a Literary Tradition by James A. [Alexander] Boon (£9.50)Publisher: Oxford: Basil Blackwell — 1972Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0631141006]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Previous owners' gift inscription to the first blank. The pages are somewhat tanned, if tight, and a little musty. Description: Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. In the Explorations in Interpretative Sociology series. [XII] 250 pages. Tags: explorations interpretative sociology criticism interpretation levi-strauss symbolism literature literary movement structural anthropology structuralism influence french symbolist theory 0631141006 9780631141006
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From the Collections: UBC Museum of Anthropology Cookbook, 50th Anniversary Edition by Nancy Brodie & Judith Eyrl (£9.50)Publisher: Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia — 2000Binding: Hardback (Spiral Bound) [ISBN: 0888651279]Condition: Very Good. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Number 37 in the series. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;
From the cover: “Established in 1947, the UBC Museum of Anthropology moved into its present location in May 1976. The building and landscape were designed by award-winning architect Arthur Erickson to simulate a native village setting, with totem poles and Northwest Coast First Nations houses visible through the 13. 7 metre (44. 9 feet) high windows of the Great Hall.
The Museum of Anthropology’s collections include both archaeological material and ethnographic objects from around the world. MOA is best known for its collections from the aboriginal peoples of coastal British Columbia. The large red cedar ‘Ksan Doors, Great Hall of massive carvings, and famous The Raven and the First Men sculpture by Bill Reid are a few highlights. The Museum also houses the Koerner Ceramics Gallery, a unique collection of European ceramics, and collections of Inuit sculpture, Greek and Roman antiquities, and Asian arts. MOA’s Visible Storage Galleries present more than 15,000 objects from around the world for exploration by students, researchers and the public.
From the Collections: UBC Museum of Anthropology Cookbook is a compilation of recipes by the Museum’s Volunteer Associates, illustrated with photographs of artefacts and events from the Museum.
As you prepare one of the recipes and thumb through the photographs remember with pleasure your visit to the UBC Museum of Anthropology.”Notes: Size: 9" x 6¼". In the Museum Note series. 136 pages. Tags: cookery canada museum anthropology university british columbia rituals surrounding the preparation serving and sharing food are vancouver area okanagan valley meat poultry interior ranches fraser farir ley farms last harvest pacific ocean nancy brodie judith eyrl 0888651279 note
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Health and Wellbeing: A Reader by Alan Beattie; Marjorie Gott; Linda Jones; Moyra Sidell; (£9.50)Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan — 1994Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0333587170]Condition: Good. A reasonable reading copy only. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wraps. Light reading creases to the spine. Text bright and tight.Description: Reprint [1993]. From the cover: “This volume chronicles a growing debate about health and wellbeing. Some new voices speak for lay experiences and values. Other new voices are health professionals seeking to challenge dominant medical perspectives from within.
Competing perspectives on health are shown in familiar areas of everyday life, focusing on the body, the home and the workplace. Conflicts about health are revealed in wider debates in social planning and policy-making, specifically in the marketing of lifestyles and in transport policies. Speculations on ‘alternative futures’ give us new horizons for health and show that prospects for health are bound up with political, economic and cultural wellbeing.
The book has been developed as a reader to accompany a new Open University second-level course, Health and Wellbeing. It will be an invaluable resource for all those engaged in health and welfare work, as professionals, students, volunteers or campaigners.”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). 322 pages. Tags: absence accounting advertising alternative anthropology attitudes behavior behaviour britain caribbean centre child-rearing cigarette clinical community construction continuing cosmology cultural delivery disease economics education familist fitness gaze genetics health healthy ideology impact individualism industrial issues k258 kingdom knowledge labor life-styles living maternity medical medicine medicine’s mental myth neighbourhood occupational peckham perspectives philosophy planning policies policy possessive projects promotion psychometric public remedies role safety scales services social socioeconomic sociology studies style systems teaching transport united university visiting welfare women’s
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine (£9.50)Publisher: Free Press — 2006Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0743269357]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper.Description: Reprint. From the cover: “The idea occurs to me, as so many desperate resolutions do, during the holiday season. I have maxed out the Visa, moved on to the Citibank debit card, and am tapping the ATM like an Iraqi guerrilla pulling crude from the pipeline. Convinced I am picking up no more than the occasional trinket… this atheist Grinch has managed to scatter $1,001 across New York City and the World Wide Web. And so, disgusted with the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, panicked over the fate of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment — to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year. Without consumer goods and experiences, Judith and Paul pursue their careers, nurture relationships, and try to keep their sanity, their identities, and their sense of humor intact. Tracking their progress — and inevitable lapses — Levine contemplates need and desire, scarcity and security, consumerism and citizenship. She asks the Big Questions: Can the economy survive without shopping? Are Q-tips necessary? Not Buying It is no primer on the simple life and how to live it. It’s the confessions of a woman any reader can identify with: someone who can’t live without French roast coffee or SmartWool socks but who has had it up to here with overconsumption and its effects on the earth and everyone who dwells there. The book will have readers discussing how and why they, too, might survive without shopping.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 273 pages. Tags: autobiography anthropology biography education personal cultural shopping consumer memoirs studies social issues
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Suburban Discipline by Peter Lang & Tam Miller (£9.50)Publisher: New York: Princeton Architectural Press — 1997Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1568981066]Condition: Good. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers with a scar to the lower wrapper from a sticker being removed. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;Notes: Size: 8½" x 5¾". 141 pages. Tags: suburbs suburban theory architecture social groups communities cultural town planning architectural aspects criticism science anthropology physical sociology
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The Christian Doctrine Of Man by H. [Henry] Wheeler Robinson (£9.50)Publisher: T. & T. Clark — 1913Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards. Slightly shaken. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: 2nd impression. [First Edition: 1911]Notes: Size: 8½" x 5¾". Dark Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XII] 365 [16] pages. Tags: theological anthropology christianity man theology henry wheeler robinson
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The Doctrine of Humanity by Charles Sherlock (£9.50)Publisher: Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press — 1996Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0851118941]Condition: Near Fine. Description: First in this, paperback, edition.Notes: Size: 9" x 6". In the Contours of Christian Theology series. 303 pages. Tags: contours christian theology 9780851118949 man image god theological anthropology christianity humans human nature
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The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips (£9.50)Publisher: Faber & Faber — 1987Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0571147135]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Pages lightly age-tanned.Description: From the cover: “In 1984, the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt, as he put it, ‘to come to terms with what it is like to feel both of, and not of, Europe’.
To clarify this fundamental question of identity, Phillips visited almost every European country from Spam to the Soviet Union. In a series of fascinating snapshots, part travelogue, part autobiography, part polemic — he gives us a moving and subtle account of a journey of the heart and mind as well as of Europe today.
The European Tribe covers topics as diverse as the English on the Costa del Sol, Othello’s Venice, racialism in Mitterrand’s France, Irish missions to Nigeria, and black power in Moscow. It is an important and challenging statement from one of Britain’s most urgent new voices.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Silver titling to the Spine. [XIII] 129 pages. Tags: also and anthropology caryl cultural description england essays europe general holiday interest journeys observations peoples personal phillips photography pictorials places race regional relations science see social studies subjects themes travel travelogues writing
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The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White (£9.50)Publisher: San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco — 2003Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0060524367]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly spotted at the verso. A few light marks to the front pastedown otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Signed by the author on the half-title page — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium.
From the cover: “What is The Middle Mind? According to Curtis White, it’s the dominant force shaping American culture — and as we know, American culture is increasingly our culture too. Providing insights into the absurdity of the US lifestyle, this book calls for a recovery of imagination.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6¼". Black Spine Strip on Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 205 pages. Tags: culture united states social cultural anthropology usa science sociology values critical thinking conditions moral intellectual
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Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives and Unbounded Categories by Benson Saler (£8.50)Publisher: New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books — 2000Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1571812199]Condition: Near Fine. Description: Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [XVI] 292 pages. Tags: religion ethnology religious aspects anthropology theory traditional folk classification monotheism history philosophy law constitutional social science cultural methodology
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Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning by Bradd Shore (£8.50)Publisher: New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press — 1996Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0195126629]Condition: Very Good. Spine slightly bowed. Leans a little. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: A Later Printing.Notes: Foreword or introduction by Jerome Bruner. Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [XVII] 428 pages. Tags: ethnopsychology cognition culture social perception symbolic anthropology psychology cross cultural semiotics symbolism theory philosophy mind cognitive science 0195126629 9780195126624
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Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Edited by Kandice Chuh & Karen Shimakawa (£8.50)Publisher: Durham & London: Duke University Press — 2001Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0822327392]Condition: Very Good. Upper wrapper slighty curled Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 5¾"). [X] 339 pages. Tags: shimakawa 0822327392 9780822327394 asian americans study teaching cold war asia united states multicultural anthropology biological cultural usa history social science human geography minority
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The Body in Late Capitalist Usa by Donald M. Lowe (£8.50)Publisher: Durham & London: Duke University Press — 1995Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0822316722]Condition: Very Good. Upper wrapper slighty curled otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: First in this, paperback, edition.Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6". In the Post-contemporary Interventions series. 197 pages. Tags: post-contemporary interventions capitalism united states human body families sex role mental health family conditions anthropology usa science culture sociology philosophy
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A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s by Adam Schwarz (£8.00)Publisher: Allen & Unwin — 1994Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1863736352]Condition: Good. Wrappers unevenly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: First in this, paperback, edition.
From the cover: “Spanning a wide variety of contemporary issues, this text offers a detailed glimpse of one of the world’s largest and least understood nations. It chronicles the economic development Indonesia has enjoyed under the 27-year leadership of President Soeharto, as well as the difficult challenges which lie ahead. Using first-hand information, the author gives life to the heated debates on economic policy, corruption and the controversial role of ethnic-Chinese entrepreneurs. The book analyzes the political demands of Indonesia’s Muslim community, the mishandled incorporation of East Timor, the emerging debate on human rights, and the thorny problem of arranging a smooth transition of power. The underlying theme is the widening gap between an increasingly modernized economy and a rigid political system that is struggling to keep up with the times.”Notes: Size: C Format (8½" x 5¼"). [XIII] 370 pages. Tags: soeharto suharto studies indonesia politics and government 1966-1998 economic conditions asian middle eastern history asia southeast social science sociology president political process anthropology professional adam schwarz 1863736352
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Dear Girl: The Diaries and Letters of Two Working Women, 1897-1917 by Tierl Thompson (£8.00)Publisher: The Women's Press — 1987Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0704340267]Condition: Very Good. Description: First in this, paperback, edition.
From the cover: “This unique record of a friendship takes us to the heart of early 20th century feminism in Britain, viewing what has been regarded as an exclusively middle-class movement through the eyes of two working women, whose enthusiastic experiments with sex, socialism and feminism will be irresistibly familiar to modern readers.
Ruth Slate was a clerk in a grocery firm in the City, Eva Slawson a legal secretary from Walthamstow. They met in 1902, and formed a loving friendship which Ruth called ‘the foundation of my life’. The letters and diaries they wrote over twenty years provide a first hand account of some of the great suffrage rallies, of leaders like Christabel Pankhurst and Charlotte Despard. They reveal a gradual disenchantment with orthodox religion and a commitment to pacifism which grew during World War I. Above all they show the valiant efforts of Ruth and Eva, despite poverty, sickness and loss, to respond and contribute to the great issues of their time.”Notes: Size: B Format (7¾" x 5¼"). 320 pages. Tags: slawson eva 1882-1916 slate ruth 1884-1953 feminists great britain biography feminism correspondence diaries women employment history 20th century social conditions white collar workers participation first world war 1914-1918 sociology science anthropology studies united kingdom tierl thompson 0704340267
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Peruvian Pottery by George Bankes (£8.00)Publisher: Shire — 1989Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0747800138]Condition: Very Good. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Number 15 in the series. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Maps [1];Notes: Size: 8¼" x 5¾". In the Shire Ethonography series. 72 pages. Tags: archaeology anthropology cultural social science peru studies george bankes 0747800138 shire ethonography
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Prehistoric Houses in Britain by Malcolm Reid (£8.00)Publisher: Shire — 1993Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0747802181]Condition: Very Good. A little faded at the spine. Leans slightly. Errata slip tipped in to the first blank. Description: Number 70 in the series. First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Diagrams; Maps;
From the cover: “This book examines the diversity of prehistoric house types and styles in relation to the materials and methods used in construction, together with the various social requirements that influenced design.”Notes: Size: 8¼" x 5¾". In the Shire Archaeology series. 72 pages. Tags: human settlements great britain historic sites prehistoric peoples dwellings antiquities archaeology sociology anthropology social science period region united kingdom malcolm reid 0747802181 shire
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Race and Ethnicity by John Rex (£8.00)Publisher: Open University Press — 1989Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0335153852]Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Pages gently age tanned. Description: A Later Printing. Notes: Size: C Format (8½" x 5¼"). [VIII] 148 pages. Tags: and anthropology benign class colonial concept concepts cultural ethnic ethnicity field malign metropolis multi-cultural otherwise race racerelations racism relations science social society sociological structure studies the theory
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