Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy, Paperback - Graham M. Jones

In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they...

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

This invaluable text, written by one of the world's most influential black scholars, re-imagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdNumber of pages: 180Collection: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book SeriesPublicati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 31 colour and 53 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 24C...

A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologistsPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s):...

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author u...

Project management is of critical importance in construction, yet its execution poses major challenges. In order to keep a project on track, decisi...

Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a h...

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh In God's Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spiri...

This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own en...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. S...

A full and comprehensive history of De Havilland Enterprises. Acquaints the reader with the man behind the company, Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilla...

De nominum analogia by Cajetan introduces a spurious argument that is not found in Aquinas's writing. This text traces the source of the confusion ...

Reducere. Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anth...

In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful...

Artistic residency has recently become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice f...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the book's title suggests, this book uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology as an academic d...

De 6 saptamani este iubita stralucitorului si stralucitului avocat Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) si nimic nu este mai incantator pentru Bridget. Sau est...

Whether on the printed page, the television screen or the digital app, we live in a world saturated with images. Some images help shape our underst...

During the 1950s, at the time Elvis Presley was rocking the world with Hound Dog and the USA was aiming to become the world's only superpower, plan...

Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it's like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat . . .

Reducere. Have you tried Mindfulness but find your brain does not stop?Do you long for a mind that defaults to quiet relaxation? Ever wonder what meditating ...

Reducere. Memorial Ride is a high-speed, ragtag chase across the American Southwest. Cooper Town, an American Indian soldier, has returned from the Middle Ea...

From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched a...

Publisher: Grobags BooksAuthor(s): Graham JonesIllustration(s): 32 illustrationsNumber of pages: 40Collection: Time Travelling TobyPublication date...

Publisher: Grobags BooksAuthor(s): Graham JonesIllustration(s): 20 cartoonsNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 253 x 280 x 8Cover ...

Reducere. We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first t...

Reducere. A new, fully revised edition of this bestselling textbook in linguistic anthropology, updated to address the impacts of globalization, pandemics, a...

Contributor(s): Author: John Graham JonesIn the years since its original publication, John Graham Jones's The History of Wales has become the stand...

Reducere. The Business Side of Veterinary Medicine: What Veterinary Schools Don't Teach You So you're a practicing veterinarian, with a mind filled with the ...

Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: F. A. HayekEditor: Bruce CaldwellF. A. Hayek never published the grand project he conceived in a letter to Fritz Machlup in...

A brand-new anthology with fifteen exclusive short stories offering taut and dramatic tales set on Earth and in dark reaches of space, featuring th...

Using shocks (natural disaster, military catastrophe) not as a justification for privatisation, cuts and a lack of free market restraint, but inste...

Reducere. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant and translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn. The Critique of Pure Reason is a book by Immanuel Kant that has...

Reducere. Magic is closer than you ever thought possible in this madcap middle grade adventure perfect for fans of James Riley and Chris Grabenstein. For Mas...

Reducere. A serial killer has the city of Boston in his grip. He's killing with antique Revolutionary War weapons and leaving bodies at markers on the city's...

Oliver Graham-Jones recalls his time as chief vet at London Zoo, beginning in 1950, and how he brought it from its Victorian past into the high-tec...

Reducere. Back cover: What is the most hopeful word in History?For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.Salvation from what?From our selfish and self-destruc...

Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new visi...

Reason and Life begins with a critical historical examination of past forms of reason (Ancient and Modern) as well as more recent contenders (Exist...

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is a classic defence of Christian belief against many well-known objections. This edition includes a...

Reducere. Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthrop...

DescriptionA teen copes with her grandmother's coma by becoming obsessed with a mystery bird that she cannot identify in Adrienne Kisner's sharp an...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax