Customs Traditions category: 898 books

Histoires croustillantes au fil des âgesDes témoignages coquins que nous ont laissés Monsieur et Madame Cro-Magnon aux conceptions étonnantes des hommes et des femmes de l’Antiquité sur la sexualité ou l’homosexualité, jusqu’au sexe 2.0, friend fucking et exhibitionnisme, voici une petite...

La Sardaigne nourrit ces dernières années un mouvement artistique et littéraire sans pareil. Nombreux sont les écrivains et réalisateurs qui, en les métissant, puisent dans les « traditions » insulaires. Un détail, qui se manifeste par un mot, un terme de parenté, éveille l'intérêt. D'origine...

"We are not alone in our worry about both the physical aspect of aging and the prejudice that exists toward the elderly, which is similar to racism or sexism. What makes it different is that the prejudice also exists among those of us who are either within this group or rapidly approaching it....

Go behind the beards in this daring insider’s look at the curious Amish subculture of Pennsylvania Dutch Country! Is the “plain and simple” life really so plain and simple? How do the Amish live without cars? Electricity? NFL football? The truth is, they don’t. More than fifty million...

Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families whose sons and daughters...

“A useful guide to navigating the often confusing—and always evolving—world of manners at today’s dinner table” (James Oseland, former editor-in-chief of Saveur magazine, author of Cradle of Flavor and judge on Top Chef Masters). What’s the right way to hold a wine glass? What’s...

Don't leave home without it! For over twenty years, travelers seeking exciting and rewarding adventures abroad have looked to Bob Kohls for advice and have made Survival Kit for Overseas Living one of the most popular books ever published on crossing cultures, buying over 300,000 copies. With...

As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the *need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground...

(A5, 112 P.) - Hoy en día, los albores del siglo XXI, según los últimos datos de la ONU, alrededor de más de mil millones de personas (en su gran mayoría en los países pobres y/o poco desarrollados en África, Asia y América del Sur) se ven afectados por estos estados de la pobreza extrema. Es...

La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

Century-old letters tell a story of timeless love in a vanished country First translated by American scholar Elizabeth Cooper in 1914 and published as My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, this haunting collection of letters was out of print until discovered by bestselling author Eileen Goudge....

Ignacio Padilla ofrece un estudio sobre el fin del mundo. De Ignacio Padilla, uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más importantes en la actualidad. Desde la antigüedad, el ser humano ha tenido una constante preocupación relativa al fin del mundo. No es ni por mucho novedosa...

Increíbles historias reales de esoterismo, política y poder. José Gil Olmos documenta la relación de personajes relevantes de la historia con brujos, espíritus y chamanes. Pásele al mercado del oscurantismo, lo místico, lo esotérico. Hay chamanes, hechiceros, espiritistas, masones,...

Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England's accomplishments. The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally,...