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Il ritorno degli dei
Il sapere dimenticato di una civiltà perduta
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 18, 2016
DOPO IMPRONTE DEGLI DEI, 10 MILIONI DI COPIE VENDUTE NEL MONDO,
L'ATTESISSIMO NUOVO BESTSELLER DI GRAHAM HANCOCK Vent’anni fa Graham Hancock ha scritto «Impronte degli dèi», un libro che esamina in una chiave rivoluzionaria il passato dell’umanità aprendo la strada a un nuovo concetto di archeologia....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders...
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind...
by Bob Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Boys author Bob Fields depicts an accurate and vivid description of young adolescent males in the 1940's & early 1950's in rural Maine. Fields’ perceptive analysis of boy’s personality traits and how they influence their attitude toward life (and girls) is on target. The onset of testosterone...
Traditional Food
A Taste of Korean Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Nowadays, with healthy living and the 'slow food' movement receiving spotlight worldwide, Korean cuisine is drawing much interest as a healthy cuisine with nutritional harmony and balance. In fact, Koreans have traditionally viewed food as 'medicine,' a means to keep oneself healthy and strong.
(..)Korea's...
Licht op het noorden
Stine in Scandinavie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Scandinavië is in opkomst. De Scandinavische talen, ooit beschouwd als de lelijkste talen ter wereld, zijn tegenwoordig hip. Iedereen leest Scandinavische misdaadliteratuur, koopt zijn inrichting bij Ikea en is in de ban van Borgen en The Killing. Maar hoe is het echte leven in het Noorden? Zijn...
Sweden's Dark Soul
The Unravelling of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation....
Ethnography
Principles in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on ‘Ethnography in the digital world’.
The authors...
Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadō) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chadō system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s...
The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign...
Lost Tea Rooms of Downtown Cincinnati
Reflections & Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
It was a different time. Ladies wore gloves, hats and nice attire to luncheons at the Woman's Exchange. Shillito's provided a cosmopolitan environment for its patrons, while Mullane's was the perfect place to sip and socialize. The popular Good Morning Show radio program hosted by charming Bob Braun,...
by Seo Ryeung Ju, Himasari Hanan, Syed Iskandar Ariffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Southeast Asian architecture tends to be generalized under one umbrella due to the countries’ common geographical, climatic, and historical context. However, Southeast Asian countries are dissimilar due to their ethnic and religious differences, which led to each country’s own subtle characteristics...
Warrior Ways
Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily...