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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Born out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
NAMED THE #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years,...
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Bossuet et la société française sous le règne de Louis XIV
Princes, courtisans et favorites, les jeunes filles, libertins et beaux esprits, les pauvres et les humbles
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Comme pour La Bruyère ou Madame de Sévigné, la Cour est pour Bossuet un vaste monde, compliqué, où les passions et les intérêts se heurtent, où sous les dehors les plus brillants se cachent les pires difformités et, sous le contentement du visage, l'âpreté et les inquiétudes de...
by Prosper Baur, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "A quelques kilomètres de la gracieuse et coquette petite ville de Rosheim, s'élève une montagne abrupte et dénudée. Pour s'y rendre, on traverse des vallées verdoyantes, arrosés de gais ruisseaux, des forêts touffues où mille oiseaux font entendre leurs gazouillements."À PROPOS DES...
by The Editors of BroBible.com
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.
He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t tell your Mom when he catches you hooking up with a girl—yet still warns you...
Double Cup Love
On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork
Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places...
The Dead Beat
Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London...
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple.
Narrative of Four Years' Residence On the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey Into the Far Interior
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1901 edition by Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh. This is an Illustrated edition. This is an account of Susie Carson Rijnhart (1868 - 1908) and her husband, Petrus Rijnhart, spent as missionaries in Tibet from 1895-1899. Susie Rijnhart and her husband offered...
by Kakuzo Okakura
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times.In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile...
The Book of Tea Classic Edition
Classic Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding...
by Walter Weston
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London. This book includes maps available as a free download. This is an Illustrated edition. Walter Weston (25 December 1860 – 27 March 1940), was an English clergyman, missionary, and mountaineer. This is a great travel book with a lot...
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into...
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
This book is a collection of fifty eight blogs posted on the author’s personal web site over a two year period. It was headed ‘The Best of British’ and was inspired by my collection of news clippings. Read about cultural events that take place on May Day such as Penky Follar, famous and ordinary...