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As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the *need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground...

(A5, 112 P.) - Hoy en día, los albores del siglo XXI, según los últimos datos de la ONU, alrededor de más de mil millones de personas (en su gran mayoría en los países pobres y/o poco desarrollados en África, Asia y América del Sur) se ven afectados por estos estados de la pobreza extrema. Es...

La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

Century-old letters tell a story of timeless love in a vanished country First translated by American scholar Elizabeth Cooper in 1914 and published as My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, this haunting collection of letters was out of print until discovered by bestselling author Eileen Goudge....

Ignacio Padilla ofrece un estudio sobre el fin del mundo. De Ignacio Padilla, uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más importantes en la actualidad. Desde la antigüedad, el ser humano ha tenido una constante preocupación relativa al fin del mundo. No es ni por mucho novedosa...

Increíbles historias reales de esoterismo, política y poder. José Gil Olmos documenta la relación de personajes relevantes de la historia con brujos, espíritus y chamanes. Pásele al mercado del oscurantismo, lo místico, lo esotérico. Hay chamanes, hechiceros, espiritistas, masones,...

Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England's accomplishments. The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally,...

Caserme e merchandising ecclesiastico; gatti e casinò; manifestazioni e omofobia; rugby e sampietrini; homeless e murales; esodi di massa e immondizia… Roma non è solo la città raccontata e decantata dalle guide turistiche di tutto il mondo, che ne esaltano gli aspetti da cartolina. Oltre alle...

Definire un cornuto oggi non è facile come nel passato, quando c’era evidentemente una vittima ed uno, o più, “carnefici”. Oggi il cornuto è solo chi soffre di più in un “ménage” allargato, in una compagine di tradimento che si è resa più complessa dalle maggiori frequenza e scioltezza...

Originally published in 1896, this classic of ethnography was assembled by a skilled illustrator who first encountered Maori tattoo art during his military service in New Zealand. Maori tattooing (moko) consists of a complex design of marks, made in ink and incised into the skin, that communicate the...

A haunting exploration of faith, from a preacher convicted of attempted murder to a first-hand account of holiness serpent handling--"One of the best books on American religion from the last 25 years" (Chicago Tribune) For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the modern era. This is the first time these 299 tales have been published in English. Morse’s insightful interpretation of the tales, his rich...

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center...

In THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS, maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible. In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that...