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To celebrate the new year and thank you for all your support, we’re offering 50% off ALL Paperbacks and eBooks across the website.
In addition to this, we’re also pleased to offer 50% off all of the below bestselling titles from 2025, for a limited time only.
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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
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Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject to the play of global energy markets. It is also a feature of the nation’s position in the world system––one in which imperial powers are always ready to take advantage of Venezuela’s internal political battles in order to capture a share of its resources. In this light, it is hardly surprising that Venezuelan leaders often find themselves contesting those manoeuvres and that they can rise and fall just as quickly as the price of oil.
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I was hesitant when, in 2009, my then-boyfriend, Tyler, asked if I were interested in keeping bees. I did not much care for honey and was alarmed by the prospect of stings. But when we ended up renting an apartment with a small orchard in the yard, we decided to give it a shot. We proudly documented the first few weeks and months, with photos that I now recognize as miscaptioned; the oversized gloves I wore on the day I dumped our new bees into a hive make me laugh now!
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Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.
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The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial.
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