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***NOW IN PAPERBACK*** School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a...

Excerpt Mr. Oscar Wilde, who asks us to permit him ‘that most charming of all pleasures, the pleasure of answering one’s critics,’ sends us the following remarks:— The ‘Girl Graduate’ must of course have precedence, not merely for her sex but for her sanity: her letter...

“ Aux confins de l’Europe végète, asservie et malheureuse, une nation à peine connue de nom aujourd’hui, et digne cependant de tout notre intérêt. Cette nation est celle des Bulgares ; elle a conservé dans le plus dur esclavage ses vieilles mœurs, sa foi vive, son noble caractère, et,...

You’ll find everything you need to know about a Honeymoon to remember in ‘Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle’ Whether you’re thinking of leisure from dawn to dusk, activities day and night, great dining experience, learning new skills, touring nature’s wonders or exploring some of the...

Street Culture explores the family tree of youth movements, examining the lines that tie Beatniks to Bikers, Punks to Emos, Goths to Metal Heads. Illustrated throughout, the book presents a sumptuous visual history of youth culture, and the style, behaviour and values of the groups who have defined it.

Focusing on an isolated community in central Australia, this highly-readable examination presents insights into the cultural underpinnings of indigenous daily life through evocative narratives revolving around five Warlpiri women. The seemingly contradictory realities of a distant hunter-gatherer...

Why is FGM on the increase in industrialized countries in spite of existing policies against the practice? How is political correctness contributing to this increase? And how does religion contribute implicitly or explicitly to the persistence of FGM? This work is authored by a Kenyan immigrant to...

Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this light, fashion has represented an...

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing...

“Durante una passeggiata, se in un terreno abbandonato trovavamo davanti a noi un alberello corroso dai parassiti, egli era capace di ripulirlo per bene; dopo, ne seguiva attentamente la crescita. Così visitavamo quell’acero come se fosse un bambino convalescente, liberato da una malattia”....

L’autore, in questa sua opera, tende a descrivere, con cognizione di causa, virgole temporali di un tempo che è stato, individuando, molto paradossalmente, nella arretratezza e nel sottosviluppo sociale un’ oscurantismo di un passato nel quale le disuguaglianze sociali trapelano la tetra immagine...

Il volume è incentrato sulla memoria, l’Autore scrive con l’intento di affidare alla carta stampata aspetti di una vita contadina, alla periferia della città, che da molti anni non esiste più. Le descrizioni sono piacevoli, ricche di particolari, il frequente uso del dialetto poi rende il racconto più vivo e schietto.

From the pages of PeopleFood and from the best celebrity chefs, hottest bloggers and famous home cooks comes an essential collection of recipes to make your holidays warm, bright and easy. With great ideas for entertaining a crowd of overnight guests, or a hosting a casual family dinner, this beautifully...