The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown (Bhattacharjee Manash Firaq)(Paperback)

The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown (Bhattacharjee Manash Firaq)(Paperback)

How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers and lovers merge with his concerns for the

Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City (Kneale Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven

Indigenous Life Around the Great Lakes: War, Climate, and Culture (W. Edwards Richard)(Paperback)

Enormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology

Lake House (Barlow Christie)(Paperback / softback)

The only book you need during lockdown - heartwarming, uplifting and a cast of characters who will become your best

Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (Luthar Breda)(Paperback)

This collection of essays helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power. This volume attempts to uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia from

Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology (Starn Orin)(Paperback)

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the 'writing culture'

Town Mouse and Country Mouse (Davidson Susanna)(Paperback / softback)

Toby Town Mouse loves to live the high-life, while his cousin Pipin prefers a quainter, quieter life. When the cousins visit each other's houses, they come to realise that different tastes are not necessarily a bad thing. A delightful retelling of the classic fable following two friends as they

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of

How to Be Nowhere (Macgabhann Tim)(Paperback)

Life is finally on the right track for reporter and recovering addict Andrew: he is slowly coming to terms with the murder of his photographer boyfriend Carlos, pursuing sobriety and building a new home with a new partner. Andrew has almost forgotten about the story that ruined his life - but that

Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment (tienne Nomie)(Paperback)

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain,

Quarantine Comix: A Memoir of Life in Lockdown (Smith Rachael)(Paperback)

'Funny and sad and relatable and wise - Rachael Smith's Quarantine Comix are like the hug from a friend you didn't know you needed.' Chris Addison An award-winning graphic memoir of lockdown life, Quarantine Comix is a funny, tender, heartfelt and insightful look at isolation. Written and drawn

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War (Hague Parthenia)(Paperback)

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life (Frykman Jonas)(Paperback)

'Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective.'--Robert Nye, Rutgers University ' This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the turn of the century . . . is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too, are once again recognized as

Be Gay, Do Comics (The Nib)(Paperback)

The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA

Snapshot Versions of Life (Chalfen Richard)(Paperback)

Snapshot Versions of Life is an important foray into the culture of photography and home life from an anthropologist's perspective. Examining what he calls 'Home Mode' photography, Richard Chalfen explores snapshots, slide shows, family albums, home movies, and home videos, uncovering what people

Chichester in the 1960s: Culture, Conservation and Change (Green Alan H. J.)(Paperback)

Chichester is the archetypal Georgian town, with its streets of elegant buildings gathered closely around its ancient cathedral. It usually appears to today s first-time visitor that the city has been largely untouched by the hand of time particularly the destructive hand that guided the 1960s

Three-A-Penny (Malleson Lucy)(Paperback)

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her time.With a new introduction by Sophie Hannah THREE-A-PENNY describes what it is like to be a woman in a man's world - about the ups and downs of earning

Arts in Primary Education - Breathing life, colour and culture into the curriculum (Kenyon Lady Ghislaine)(Paperback / softback)

The Weatherhouse (Shepherd Nan)(Paperback)

The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new

Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 (Williams Samantha)(Paperback)

Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the

Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (Bartov Omer)(Paperback)

'A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence' (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another--as seen through the eastern European border town of

The Ocean Fell Into the Drop: A Memoir (Stamp Terence)(Paperback)

During my first visit to the cinema the empathy I felt from Gary Cooper was life-changing, and a secret dream was born in the darkened auditorium. Later, my forays to the East revealed an original take on humanity which fell into two categories: those who remembered and those who didn't. The former

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Attfield Judy)(Paperback)

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to

Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman