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Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences uses the term “threshold” as a means to understand the relationship between Self and Other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of “threshold” defines the relationship between inside and outside...

To those still accustomed to seeing social order depicted in classes, strata, central groups, or institutions, and who measure and classify the social world according to "centers" and "margins," modern society presents itself as ambiguous and unmanageable. This is not unprecedented....

The modernization of traditional houses in each country may be understood as a process by which various aspects of culture and architecture originating from China, India, European colonial countries and international style were assimilated into various forms and elements of traditional houses. In...

When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...

The title is, in fact, a bit misleading, because the article is not about the survival of Bulgarian people under our incompetent democracy (because: whatever the demos such is also the -cracy) but about this how we /should have/ tried to survive. With other words, the author here explains some main...

This is the Introduction I think some introductory remarks are necessary here because this is not a book but a folder with quite motley materials, and they are surely not fiction, and the name is not only “Feast” but also PIR. About the name it is easy, the initials PIR in Russian — and I usually...

Primul lucru care te fascinează, ca român, atunci când îl cunoşti pe profesorul Claudio Mutti, italian din Parma, clasicist de formaţie, dar şi cu studii de filologie… maghiară, este perfecta stăpânire a limbii române, până la nuanţe care scapă uneori chiar vorbitorului nativ de astăzi....

My book starts with a historical perspective of previous empires. What did they do right and what did they do wrong? What can we learn from them? Chapter two looks at the different socioeconomic classes existing in society. Where do you fit in? After locating your class in society, try to find out...

***NOW IN PAPERBACK*** School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a...

Excerpt Mr. Oscar Wilde, who asks us to permit him ‘that most charming of all pleasures, the pleasure of answering one’s critics,’ sends us the following remarks:— The ‘Girl Graduate’ must of course have precedence, not merely for her sex but for her sanity: her letter...

“ Aux confins de l’Europe végète, asservie et malheureuse, une nation à peine connue de nom aujourd’hui, et digne cependant de tout notre intérêt. Cette nation est celle des Bulgares ; elle a conservé dans le plus dur esclavage ses vieilles mœurs, sa foi vive, son noble caractère, et,...

You’ll find everything you need to know about a Honeymoon to remember in ‘Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle’ Whether you’re thinking of leisure from dawn to dusk, activities day and night, great dining experience, learning new skills, touring nature’s wonders or exploring some of the...

Street Culture explores the family tree of youth movements, examining the lines that tie Beatniks to Bikers, Punks to Emos, Goths to Metal Heads. Illustrated throughout, the book presents a sumptuous visual history of youth culture, and the style, behaviour and values of the groups who have defined it.

Focusing on an isolated community in central Australia, this highly-readable examination presents insights into the cultural underpinnings of indigenous daily life through evocative narratives revolving around five Warlpiri women. The seemingly contradictory realities of a distant hunter-gatherer...