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  • American Ways

    A Cultural Guide to the United States of America

    de Gary Althern, Janet Bennett ...
    This essential guide sheds light on the unique American psyche and national character, now in a third edition.Whether you're a businessperson beginning to work in the United States or a foreign student visiting for a semester, this new edition of American Ways will help you navigate America's diverse and changing culture. From the deep-seated attitudes that mark the American character to customs ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

    The Riddles of Culture

    de Marvin Harris ...
    One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches?Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may ... Leer más

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  • You Will Die

    The Burden of Modern Taboos

    de Robert Arthur ...
    A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers? In You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos Robert Arthur does that and more to demonstrate that taboos are not relics of primitive societies. America has its own ridiculous phobias and beliefs that cause tedium, suffering, and death. The government and the media use these taboos to lie and mislead. It is not a conspiracy, but by ... Leer más

    Antes $17.29 USD Ahora $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Celtic Psaltery

    Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish & Welsh Poetry

    de Alfred Perceval Graves ...
    In "A Celtic Psaltery," Alfred Perceval Graves weaves a rich tapestry of poetic forms that draw deeply from the wellspring of Celtic mythology and heritage. The collection exhibits a lyrical style, marked by vivid imagery and rhythmic precision, melding traditional themes of nature, spirituality, and the human experience. Through a blend of elegy, ode, and folk-inspired meter, Graves captures the ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sisterhood

    Inside the Lives of Mormon Women

    de Dorothy Allred Solomon ...
    Many hold a deep fascination with Mormonism but erroneously think of it as a secret religion that celebrates polygamy and confinement. Most outsiders regard Latter-day Saint women as submissive and pitiable. In The Sisterhood, award-winning author Dorothy Allred Solomon takes us inside the lives of women of the faith. She focuses on the roles of Mormon women in the nineteenth, twentieth, and ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD

  • Grandmother's Wisdom

    Good, Old-Fashioned Advice Handed Down Through the Ages

    de Lee Faber ...
    Grandmothers have been handing out advice for centuries and their tried and tested methods are often the answer to many modern day problems. Did you know that malt vinegar and baking soda are as good as any branded cleaning product? That you can make your own delicious lemonade? Or shampoo that's perfect for your hair colour? Or what the best way to banish nasty bruises and a nagging toothache is ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

    Fashionable Society in Georgian London

    de Hannah Greig ...
    Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society - the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • I Like Being Catholic

    Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories

    de Michael Leach, Therese J. Borchard ...
    A celebration of the treasured traditions, rituals, and stories that run through the bloodstream of American CatholicsFor Andrew Greeley, it is the reverence of Christmas night and the exultation of Easter morn. Martin Scorsese, like many others, remains grateful for the nuns who rapped his knuckles but built his self-esteem. Mary Gordon recalls the sense of lightness that follows confession; ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Telling Our Stories

    Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay

    de Louis Bird ...
    Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays. In nine chapters, he presents some of the most vivid legends and historical stories from his collection, casting new light on his people’s history, culture, and values. Working with the editors and ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Clueless in Tokyo

    An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan

    de Betty Reynolds ...
    A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as the Japanese script for key words and phrases.Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolors. Clueless in Tokyo provides an outsider's take on everyday life in Japan's capital city—a place where ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • Fashion Victims

    The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

    de Alison Matthews David ...
    From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns.Fabulously gory and gruesome, ... Leer más

    $28.19 USD

  • Appetites

    Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

    de Judith Farquhar, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD