Stuff
Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper
ISBN: HB: 9781805260493,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2023
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 60 illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 60 illus.
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The fascinating tale of humankind's journey from owning nothing to being owned – by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions?
Over 3 million years ago, our ancestors realised they could bre...
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Why Men?
A Human History of Violence and Inequality
ISBN: HB: 9781805260165,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of "true" human nature.
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperati...
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Football in the Middle East
State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
ISBN: PB: 9781787387133,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2022
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A tour d'horizon exploring how the world's best-loved game is affecting people, societies and governments across the region.
Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern soci...
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Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa
The Stephen Ellis Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781787383302,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2022
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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An engrossing collection of the late Stephen Ellis' key writings on African politics and history, gathered together for the first time.
When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provo...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 41
Bodies
ISBN: PB: 9781787387164,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2022
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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In our turbulent times, all varieties of bodies face serious dangers. Bodies of water are disappearing before our eyes; bodies politic risk suppression, lying on the razor's edge of the democratic struggle; human bodies fear an...
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Northumbrians
North-East England and Its People: A New History
ISBN: PB: 9781787386006,
ISBN: HB: 9781787381940,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2019, and a New Statesman Book of the Year 2019
The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets...
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Why War?
ISBN: HB: 9781787383890,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2021
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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One of our most original and compelling thinkers on conflict reflects on the Hobbesian impulse of "war of all against all".
What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to d...
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People of the Rainforest
The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon
ISBN: HB: 9781787381957,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2019
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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A thrilling and highly topical account of Brazil's most renowned modern explorers and their lasting legacy on the people of the rainforest.
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-spon...
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Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea
A History of the Comoros
ISBN: HB: 9781787381469,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2019
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous economic system that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros th...
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£45.00
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Twice-Born
Life and Death on the Ganges
ISBN: HB: 9781787381193,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2019
344 pp., 0,0x0,0 cm
344 pp., 0,0x0,0 cm
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When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was the Westernised teenager of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among New Delhi's intellectual and cultural elite. Nearly t...
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