Customs Traditions category: 898 books
100 ottime ragioni per non amare Roma
e almeno due per adorarla alla follia
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2014
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...
Cornuto a chi?
Linee guida per amanti e cornuti in crisi di identità
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 16, 2018
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...
by H. G. Robley
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
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...
Salvation on Sand Mountain
Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
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...
Folk Legends from Tono
Japan's Spirits, Deities, and Phantastic Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
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...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
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...
The Courage of Hopelessness
A Year of Acting Dangerously
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Born out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
NAMED THE #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years,...
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Bossuet et la société française sous le règne de Louis XIV
Princes, courtisans et favorites, les jeunes filles, libertins et beaux esprits, les pauvres et les humbles
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Comme pour La Bruyère ou Madame de Sévigné, la Cour est pour Bossuet un vaste monde, compliqué, où les passions et les intérêts se heurtent, où sous les dehors les plus brillants se cachent les pires difformités et, sous le contentement du visage, l'âpreté et les inquiétudes de...
by Prosper Baur, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "A quelques kilomètres de la gracieuse et coquette petite ville de Rosheim, s'élève une montagne abrupte et dénudée. Pour s'y rendre, on traverse des vallées verdoyantes, arrosés de gais ruisseaux, des forêts touffues où mille oiseaux font entendre leurs gazouillements."À PROPOS DES...
by The Editors of BroBible.com
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.
He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t tell your Mom when he catches you hooking up with a girl—yet still warns you...
Double Cup Love
On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork
Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places...