Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Global Families
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international...
The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s diary, with its daily weather observations,...
by Steven McFadden, Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a journalist's account of one of the core myths of America, and an electrifying exploration of how that myth is playing out in real time.
One dominant myth is formed by advertising images of vast, luxurious wealth-the myth of materialism. Another myth is conjured...
Mexicans & Americans
Cracking the Cultural Code
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Understand why good neighbors are separated by the meaning of yes
Whether negotiating a delivery date, launching a local franchise or renting a car in Mexico City, speaking the language and knowing the rules of business are not enough. In any culture where yes can mean no - or sometimes maybe...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
(A5, 112 P.) - Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, according to more recent UN data, over one billion people (in their great majorities in poor and/or underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia and South America) are affected by states of poverty extreme.
That is, approx. from 15% to 20%...
The Argument Culture
Stopping America's War of Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In her number one bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen showed why talking to someone of the other sex can be like talking to someone from another world. Her bestseller Talking from 9 to 5 did for workplace communication what You Just Don't Understand did for personal relationships....
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and...
Eating Asian America
A Food Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food.
by Gilbert Seldes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:
This book is not a record of the major events in American history during
the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the
cults and manias of that period. Its personages...
by Craig Storti
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Transform the reentry experience from a struggle to an art
Expecting that the home will be the way it was when you left? Are you instead shocked to discover that both you and home have changed? The Art of Coming Home offers the solid advice you need to reduce the stress of making the transition...
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “breezy and entertaining” tour of parenting practices around the world that shows there’s more than one way to diaper a baby (The Boston Globe).
Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan—now living in Buenos Aires—was shocked that Argentine parents allowed their...
Symbols
A Universal Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Symbols: A Universal Language looks at the story behind the world's most famous symbols, from the peace sign to the smiley. It shows just how much importance has been attached to the smallest and simplest of ideas and features over 40 of the most significant symbols from religion, politics and popular...
Grandma's Remedies
A Guide to Traditional Cures and Treatments from Mustard Poultices to Rosehip Syrup
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies. Reused and refined year after year, they were handed down through the generations then lovingly copied into personal 'receipt' books. Grandma's Remedies brings together a beguiling...