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Dancing with the Dead
Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and...
As Luck Would Have It
Incredible Stories, from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
I felt, intuitively, that luck exists. It’s like capitalism: For better or for
worse, and whether you believe in it or not, luck is inescapable. —from As Luck Would Have It
While cowriting the books in the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, Joshua Piven came across dozens of...
You Will Die
The Burden of Modern Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
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...
A Tribe Apart
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston,...
In the Royal Manner
Expert Advice on Etiquette and Entertaining from the Former Butler to Diana, Princess of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Paul Burrell has worked in the service of the royal family for 22 years, working his way up from footman to the Queen, to Princess Diana's personal butler at both Highgrove and Kensington Palace. Now, for the first time ever, he shares the secrets of royal entertaining with the general public. Burrell...
Gourmands and Gluttons
The Rhetoric of Food Excess
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.
While...
Fruits of the Harvest
Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays offers more than 125 treasured recipes from people of African descent all over the world: Jerked Pork Chops and Fresh Papaya Chutney from Jamaica; New-Fashioned Fried Chicken, a dish from the Deep South; and Tiebou Dienne, Senegalese...
Appalachian Home Cooking
History, Culture, and Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Mark F. Sohn's classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen....
by Arthur Reade
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The question of the influence of tea, as well as that of alcohol and tobacco, has occupied the attention of the author for some time. Apart from its physiological aspect, the subject of tea-drinking is extremely interesting; and in the following pages an attempt has been made to describe its introduction...
Southern Living Christmas at Home
205 Recipes and Ideas to Make This Your Most Festive Holiday Ever!
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
There's nothing like being at home for the holidays, and imagine how special your holiday can be with the help of Southern Living. For over 50 years, the experts at Southern Living have been helping their readers navigate the holidays with the best holiday recipes and advice on holiday decorating,...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
Intoxication
The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A scientific and cultural exploration of the pursuit of altered states of consciousness in both humans and animals
• Contains myriad studies and examples from the author's 20 years of research
• By the foremost authority on the social and psychological effects of drug use
History...
The Strange Order of Things
Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...
Imagining Robin Hood
The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard illuminates the legend of this yeoman hero and champion of justice as never...