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by Albert Leffingwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
"Probably the best-considered treatise on the subject now in print. The author does not take the position that experimentation upon animals is always wrong. He maintains, however, in the most convincing way, that such experiments should be permitted only by genuine scientists.... Anyone interested...
The Friendship Cure
Reconnecting in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as a society, we are simultaneously terrified of being alone and already desperately lonely. We move through life in packs and friendship circles...
A Good Talk
The Story and Skill of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
A GOOD TALK is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities-- conversation.
Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the deeper...
by Helen Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1998
You don't just move here and immediately become a Texan; it takes training. This delightfully witty book takes you through the process of understanding our conversation, why and how we dress the way we do, why pickups are a fact of life, and how you can acquire the necessary big hair. Fixin' to Be...
Citadel Values II
Essays for Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
From the author: When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate. Also, answering prompting calls for a longer book with more essays of comfort and wisdom, we created a publication...
Potlatch
Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that often last many days, sumptuous meals are served; legends about clans and ancestors are sung and enacted...
by Jaydeep Shah
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
"The supernatural power given by the God is the voice. Don't waste it being silent." -Jaydeep Shah
Voice is a non-fiction book that includes essays about cultures and values, and social issues that describe the ongoing situation around the world based on various perspectives of cultures and values, social stratification, and community issues.
Flashbacks
From the Other Side of the Tracks
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book is a collection of personal accounts of growing up in an Italian-American home in an inter-city neighborhood of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Accompanying the text are 52 pictures of an historical era many Americans hold close to their hearts and consider the most precious of their lives. The...
by Ali Rattansi
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ghettos and cultural fragmentation, providing fertile ground for Islamic radicalism, encouraging perverse 'political correctness', and restricting liberal...
Aunt Epp's Guide for Life
From Chastity to Copper Kettles, Musings of a Victorian Lady
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Aunt Epp penned her life lessons, which form a fascinating glimpse of Victorian life, over sixty years. Sassy and opinionated, Aunt Epp was not afraid to voice her views and give her advice on topics ranging from gingerbread to genitals, sheep's head to 'softening of the member', God to golden pippins.
An Apple A Day
Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed,...
Around the Tuscan Table
Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2004
In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to...
Mind Your Manners
Managing Business Cultures in the New Global Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
"A very clever management book." - John Cleese
Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and named a Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Mind...
Culture and Value
Tourism, Heritage, and Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book is the first collection of essays by noted folklorist, Regina F. Bendix, that explore how cultures create, give, and maintain value for cultural elements and artifacts.
Bendix's work seeks to transcend specialized perspectives on cultural heritage and integrate this booming research...