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The Cry of the Huna
The Ancestral Voices of Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Explores the breakdown in the chain of cultural transmission that has led to the decimation of Hawaiian spirituality, and how it can be restored
• Shows how reconnection to the ancestral ways can be achieved through letting go and forgiveness of the effects of colonization
• Reveals...
Stuff Parisians Like
Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians.
To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other...
God of the Rodeo
The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole,...
Once Upon a Quinceanera
Coming of Age in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a “phenomenal, indispensable” (USA Today) exploration of the Latina “sweet fifteen” celebration, by the bestselling author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies
The quinceañera, a celebration...
Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members. Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution...
by Wallace Charition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1991
Puzzles, games, and trivia questions introduce the history, symbols, and people of Texas.
The Thoughtful Dresser
The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear*.* For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter,...
Comanches
The History of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American...
by Steven A. Jent
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world. People beyond its borders have had interesting things to say about Texas and Texans for almost as long.
This book brings together some 700 noteworthy...
by George N. Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
Replica of 1892 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and New York.
Oversize maps are available as a free download.
Persia and the Persian Question, written in 1892, has been considered Curzon’s magnum opus...
American Fun
Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American.
From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans...
Rudeness and Civility
Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1991
With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette...
by Henry Morley
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited translations...
Black Creek Pioneer Village
Toronto's Living History Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto’s Living History Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the 1800s. Nestled on 56 acres of tranquility, the village is a step-back-in-time, a respite from the towering buildings and bustling traffic of the 21st...