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The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture
Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in this indispensable series. In The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim explore the fascinating...
Thailand - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For many outsiders Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting – a view largely formed by Hollywood films like The King and I. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday...
by Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms,...
France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French...
Canada - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and spanning six time zones. From coast to coast lie vast forests, breathtaking mountains, flat, open plains, and thousands of lakes and rivers. It is also the world's second-most sparsely populated...
by Dina Khapaeva
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity. Dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. “Corpse chic” and “skull style” have...
Brazil - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval and fine coffee, but it is much more than beaches and bossa nova. If you could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of racial types, lifestyles, wealth, landscape and climate is enormous. Jeitinho...
Cuba - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it is a tropical paradise that Christopher Columbus called "the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen." It is famous for the romantic...
Philippines - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Costa Rica - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Costa Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the "Ticos"—its people's own name for themselves—and its political stability. This "Switzerland of the Americas" is widely regarded as an oasis of democracy in turbulent Central America. Since the first...
Ecuador - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Squeezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, volunteers,...
Iran - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Iran is rarely out of the headlines, and there is likely to be a rush of interest from tourists and investors if the provisional framework agreement reached in April 2015 is implemented, lifting most sanctions in exchange for limits on its nuclear program for at least ten years. Western fascination...
The People and Culture of Japan
Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks—which mainly explore the foundation of Japanese culture—took...