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Sociology & Anthropology
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The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay : Scotland's Festive Traditions€11.99From Celtic druids and Viking Yule to the outright banning of Christmas for 400 years, The Broons, first footing and the Loony Dook, this is a joyous miscellany that showcases the creative, elaborate and sometimes downright bizarre aspects of Scottish Christmas and New Year, from the ancient past to the more recent present.
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Patria : Lost Countries of South America€33.00Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands.
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Our Future is Biotech€33.00A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better.
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Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection€27.50What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.
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Nations, States and Empires€24.99This highly original book will be essential reading for students and scholars in sociology and politics and for anyone interested in the political forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the modern world.
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Eve : How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution€15.99How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?
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How to Raise a Viking : The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children€20.99What do Vikings know about raising children? Turns out, quite a lot… After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children are different. They eat differently. They learn differently.
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Galway: Making a Capital of Culture€17.99This book offers a fresh perspective on contemporary place development, using the unique case of Galway, Ireland. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, sociology, planning cultural and Irish studies. While a specific case study, the story of Galway is an international one.
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The Good Enough Life€26.99This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.
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The Little Book of Floriography : The Secret Language of Flowers€8.99Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal. Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they may not be able to articulate through words.
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The Conspiracy Tourist : Travels Through a Strange World€26.99Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so. Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh.
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The Persuaders : Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age€12.99The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over.
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The Naked Neanderthal€23.99What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions.
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Caste : The Origins of our Discontents€17.99From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives
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It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live : Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate€26.99This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there.
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Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance (Hardback)€72.00Covering almost 8% of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze.
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Ireland Through a Critical Lense : A Miscellany of Life-Writing on Politics, Culture and Film€51.00This compendium gathers together his published work and films produced over the last forty years. Sociology of Ireland.
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Religion and the Rise of Sport in England€44.99Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties. They have sometimes been in competition for people's resources of time and money, but can also be mutually supportive.
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Living Together : Searching for Community in a Fractured World€18.99Seventy-six per cent of British adults feel that we've become more distanced from our neighbours in the last 20 years. We are less likely than our grandparents, or even our parents, to know the names of our neighbours, to enjoy multi-generational friendships or to share resources and childcare.
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Human Growth and Development across the Lifespan€34.99Full colour, updated 3rd edition of this hugely popular book introducing the concept of human growth and development across the lifespan.