Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Pressure Cooker
Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relationship to food, but one suggestion rises above the din: We need to get back in the kitchen. Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable...
by P. C. Remondino
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In ancient Egypt the performance of circumcision was at one time limited to the priesthood, who, in addition to the cleanliness that this operation imparted to that class, added the shaving of the whole body as a means of further purification. The nobility, royalty, and the higher warrior class seem...
by Kevin Alan McGill
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
"Canadian? Me?" is for anyone who wants to celebrate the experience of living in this land.
Want to put some meaning into the holidays? Want to feel included rather than excluded? "Canadian? Me?" is for you!
In a pageant-style meant to capture the spirit of Being Canadian, the book presents...
Café
Café
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 4, 2014
“SOY UN DROGADICTO. TOMO DIEZ CAFÉS POR DÍA”, declara sin vueltas en el prólogo de su libro Nicolás Artusi. Semejante conciencia de sí mismo, tamaña confesión, no puede sino preparar el mejor de los terrenos para encarar la genealogía de una de las bebidas más controvertidas de los últimos...
Estamos como somos
Por qué los argentinos no tenemos el país que queremos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Un llamado a los argentinos a asumir nuestras responsabilidades y hacernos cargo de nuestro propio destino. Una revisión de los mitos ("La Argentina potencia") que nos hacen vernos como algo diferente de lo que somos y sentir que siempre estamos por debajo de como nos merecemos. Tomás...
Au milieu des hommes
Notes et Impressions
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "On ne rencontre pas certains êtres hideux ou haineux dont les instincts font horreur sans se demander pourquoi ce sont ceux-là qui ont une âme et les chiens qui n'en ont pas. C'est sans doute pour les passions à grand spectacle que les romanciers ont imaginé les déclarations et les aveux...
The Book of Tea
The best written account about Japanese aesthetics and spirit. Annotated edition.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Annotated edition of “The Book of Tea”, by Okakura Kakuzō.
Okakura Kakuzō's biography, biographical references of the historical characters in the book, chronology of Chinese dynasties, glossary and notes by Natalio Cardoso.
Master work about Japanese aesthetics
"The...
History of Latinos: Exploring Diverse Roots
Exploring Diverse Roots
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The first text of its kind to trace the combined history of Latino groups in the United States from 1500 to the present day.
• Features a timetable of major events in Latina/o history
• Emphasizes the bonds between different groups rather than their differences
• Includes...
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
The Exquisite Corpse of
Asian America
addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social
construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,
authors,...
La Argentina ansiolítica
Medicados y automedicados: cómo nos están cambiando la vida las pastillas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2012
La medicalización de la vida cotidiana es un fenómeno que se repite en
cada vez más países, pero la forma en que los argentinos se
relacionan con pastillas de todo tipo presenta sus particularidades.
Shapira las aborda sin prejuicios y con humor.
Un hombre que llega a la guardia de una...
by Orlando Carrió
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Los amigos de Cuba que llegan a La Habana se sienten de nuevo como en casa. Cualquiera te da una palmadita en el hombro y te dice: «Vamos, yo te llevo». En una esquina la abuela se encapricha en darte un buchito de café y en la otra un cubano gritón y desparramado te habla de la belleza sin par...
by José María Ballester Sansano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2013
San Fulgencio y la vaca murciana pretende contar la bella historia de un pueblo y una gente maravillosa. Asimismo, mediante el recuerdo se intenta agradecer el encomiable trabajo y ayuda prestada por la vaca murciana. Es un homenaje de gratitud a sus antepasados, y a su tierra, de la que los autores se sienten muy orgullosos.
by Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The Mississippi Cookbook was prepared in an attempt to collect, make available, and thus preserve the favorite recipes of fine cooks throughout Mississippi. Over 7,000 recipes were collected from all areas of the state. From this total, the home economists of the state Cooperative Extension Service...
by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
THE IMAGINARY OF EXAGGERATION is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms are used by the man of Antioquia to create new cultural products. In particular, they are analyzed the imaginary processes and processes of exaggeration.
The oral tradition becomes the source...