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A perceptive and humorous insight into student life in the UK today and an eye-opener for Britons to see what their culture looks like from the outside. "This is a wonderful book, with every chapter full of revelations, both for people who work with international students and for prospective...

This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological...

More than 8.5 million people visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, every year to experience the culture of the oldest Amish community in the world. This book by the leading scholar of the Amish explains the uncommon lifestyle of these simple-living people who intrigue so many visitors. Mini essays...

La ricerca di Paolo Passano, condotta sul terreno con attenzione e profondità metodologica, scopre e recupera i tratti salienti di un mondo contadino di cui poco resta, sommerso nel cemento di quella speculazione edilizia che magistralmente ha raccontato Italo Calvino (1963). Gli anni del dopoguerra...

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by the Indian poet, Toru Dutt.This book will show you the ancient ballads of India,and legend of it.

Bridging the traditional divide between East and West, the Eurasian people are able to draw on an unmatched wealth of traditions for inspiration in the arts and cuisine. Join us on a voyage of discovery as we explore the rich and unique heritage of a true world culture in this part of the Montage Culture series!

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery,...

L’opera, pubblicata originariamente in dodici puntate, dal 1893 al 1895, sulla “Rivista delle tradizioni popolari italiane”, diretta da Angelo de Gubernatis, è una raccolta di saggi etnografici pubblicati dalla Deledda poco più che ventenne. Ella descrive gli usi e i costumi dei sardi della...

Le figure dei nani e dei folletti, che si trovano nei vecchi poemi, nelle tradizioni antichissime dei popoli, nelle leggende sparse ancora adesso in ogni parte della terra, sono così strane nel loro aspetto soprannaturale, che mi hanno indotta a raccogliere con amore la parte più interessante della...

We find in most countries a popular belief in different classes of beings distinct from men, and from the higher orders of divinities. These beings are usually believed to inhabit, in the caverns of earth, or the depths of the waters, a region of their own. They generally excel mankind in power and...

How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking...

Let Origins of Chinese Culture guide you through the perplexing maze of all things Chinese. Pick up interesting facts about the “Four Treasures of the Study” — the brush, ink, paper and inkstone — which form the cornerstone of Chinese culture. You will be amazed by the wisdom and exquisite...

Beast and Man in India, A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the People is a historic story written by the art teacher from JJ College Bombay and the father of Rudyard Kipling. This story provides some interesting art works. The most cryptic piece is the dedication page with...

The most well-known Korean ceramics are the celadon of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) and the white porcelain of the ensuing Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). [...] The celadons of Goryeo, their grace and color tinged with feminine beauty, symbolized an aristocratic Buddhist culture, while the white porcelains...