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Digination

Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains

by Robert C. MacDougall
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader,...
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Eat the Year

366 Fun and Fabulous Food Holidays to Celebrate Every Day

by Steff Deschenes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

Everyone loves food. But did you know that every day is a national food or drink holiday? It's true! There's National Bloody Mary Day, National Cheese Lover's Day, and even National Blueberry Pancake Day-just to name a few. Based on the popular blog Almanac of Eats, Eat the Year is a...
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Identities Through Fashion

A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's...
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Curatorial Conversations

Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping...
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Gratuity

A Contextual Understanding of Tipping Norms from the Perspective of Tipped Employees

by Richard Seltzer, Holona LeAnne Ochs
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010

Gratuity is based on interviews with 425 people in more than 50 occupational categories. The respondents from across the U.S. reflect the diversity of the population but have one thing in common: they earn tips. A tip is a price set almost entirely by a customer, less connected to demand than to social...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010

Online education has the potential to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to bring together learners, e-facilitators, and e-contents. The Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate...
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by Richard D. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

Finland: the world's best-kept secret Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. Pursuing a "Lone Wolf" policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state in 1945 to one of the most developed countries in the world. The...
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by Arch G. Woodside
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

"Luxury Fashion and Culture" focuses on the study of how humans use high quality, highly pleasurable, and frequently rare products, services, and experiences to distinguish to themselves and others who they are as well as whom they are not - both within and across cultures. Luxury fashion...
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La doble vida de los jeans

La cara oculta de la moda rápida y la ropa de segunda mano

by Andrew Brooks
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Por su resistencia han sido el uniforme clásico del obrero estadounidense y del cowboy icónico. Símbolo de la producción en serie del capitalismo fordista e indumentaria de la subversión, al ser adoptados por Marlon Brando, James Dean y Marilyn Monroe para construir una imagen plena de libertad...
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by Mihir Thakkar, Sachi Sood
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

Are you ready and excited to start designing your wedding? Keep this in mind: the most important thing is to enjoy this wonderful process. This is an exciting beginning of a wonderful life. Your wedding week is a celebration, so let's make planning it a celebration as well by incorporating...
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by Albert Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010

This fascinating book explains to the reader the multitude of symbolism present in Freemasonry, and discusses the truths, facts and legends behind the world's most famous 'secret' society. An excellent read both for members of the masonic movement and those interested in finding out more about its...
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by Nathan Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006

Desperation, duty and desire - the three primary motives for breaking what is the oldest taboo in the Western world, cannibalism. This book investigates all three and presents startling evidence that will challenge cultural and moral perceptions as never before. It explains how in some societies, 'duty'...
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

The Riddles of Culture

by Marvin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011

One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these...
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Ritual Sacrifice

An Illustrated History

by Brenda Ralph-Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007

The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. Human, animal or inanimate offerings were an essential part of an effort to handle natural disasters, secure good luck or good health, ensure success in war or commerce, in fact to produce any outcome that could better life on Earth. This...
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