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Media Virus!
Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.
by T. T. Waterman
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
The people known as Diegueño, called by themselves Kawakipai or southern people, occupy the extreme southern part of California. The region which they inhabit coincides approximately with the boundaries of San Diego county.
In culture, the Diegueño show a marked similarity to their neighbors,...
Lo que mi abuela me dijo / What My Grandmother Told Me
Practical Wisdom from Spanish Proverbs and Sayings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Dichos, or proverbs, offer a daily source of strength and inspiration in Spanish-speaking households all over the world. In this book about growing up in Manila with a Filipina grandmother, Maria Paz Eleizegui Weir shares the centuries-old dichos she learned from her abuelita: wisdom that is still...
by Ian McKay
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure simple idyllic people is false argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values.
by Jill M Parris
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book follows a six months journey of a Zulu man born under Apartheid and raised in the new South Africa.
It is set in the first half of 2015 and captures Themba's dream for a future beyond freedom.
The invitation to the reader is to believe in themselves and work together for change...
by Miriam López Hernández
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Aztec Women and Goddesses explores the various stages of the Mexica womans life. Miriam López analyzes the mythology, the archaeological discoveries, and the codices and sixteenth-century chronicles with perfect ease as she describes the conduct expected of women and the possibilities for their lives...
Dancing with the Dead
Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and...
As Luck Would Have It
Incredible Stories, from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
I felt, intuitively, that luck exists. It’s like capitalism: For better or for
worse, and whether you believe in it or not, luck is inescapable. —from As Luck Would Have It
While cowriting the books in the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, Joshua Piven came across dozens of...
You Will Die
The Burden of Modern Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers? In You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos Robert Arthur does that and more to demonstrate that taboos are not relics of primitive societies. America has its own ridiculous phobias and beliefs that cause tedium, suffering, and death. The...
A Tribe Apart
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston,...
In the Royal Manner
Expert Advice on Etiquette and Entertaining from the Former Butler to Diana, Princess of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Paul Burrell has worked in the service of the royal family for 22 years, working his way up from footman to the Queen, to Princess Diana's personal butler at both Highgrove and Kensington Palace. Now, for the first time ever, he shares the secrets of royal entertaining with the general public. Burrell...
Gourmands and Gluttons
The Rhetoric of Food Excess
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.
While...
Fruits of the Harvest
Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays offers more than 125 treasured recipes from people of African descent all over the world: Jerked Pork Chops and Fresh Papaya Chutney from Jamaica; New-Fashioned Fried Chicken, a dish from the Deep South; and Tiebou Dienne, Senegalese...
Appalachian Home Cooking
History, Culture, and Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Mark F. Sohn's classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen....