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Nightwork
Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen...
SOUTHERN LIVING Christmas at Home
205 Recipes and Ideas to Make This Your Most Festive Holiday Ever!
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
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,...
Delft Blue to Denim Blue
Contemporary Dutch Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue to Denim Blue maps the landscape of Dutch fashion in all its rich variety and complexity.Luxuriously illustrated in colour, the book uncovers the cultural...
Beyond the Nation
Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts...
by Jim Gramon
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001
Texans will use any excuse to have fun! Pull up a chair and let a legendary Texas storyteller take you on a yearlong tour to 1,600 of his favorite fun Texas events in over 600 towns.
Mule Trader
Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.
This delightful book, first published in 1992 as You Live and Learn....
by Anna Servaes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
French traditions in America do not live solely in Louisiana. Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée travels to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to mark the Franco-American traditions still practiced in both these Midwestern towns. This Franco-American cultural...
by Tom Rannachan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
In Psychic Scotland, Scottish psychic medium and paranormal investigator Tom Rannachan takes us on a dark journey through the supernatural side of his native land. He shares clairvoyant incidents that happened in the early days and some of the truly frightening paranormal experiences he has had. Witness...
by Lydia Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century.
• Gives extensive attention to the experiences of working-class women as well as elite...
The Affinity of the Eye
Writing Nikkei in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through...
Mean Green
Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the...
by Vlady Peters
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Ever watched an Officiant in action and thought ‘I’d like to that’?
Or are you already an Officiant who’s not as busy as you’d expected or like to be?
Well, here’s a book to show you what is involved in being an Officiant, and how you can improve the Officiant business you...
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
From the Land of Shadows
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's...