Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin, Hardcover - Lisa T. Sarasohn

For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, ...

If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presen...

Reducere. A Sense of Dread features three main sections. 1) A detailed examination of the biological, psychological, and cultural bases of fear. What fears d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rod PhillipsWine is a drink with a long history. It is produced in every continent apart from Antarctica, and there are ver...

Reducere. Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conce...

Reducere. "A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unf...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Neil T. AndersonJoint Author: Rich MillerWhether horrific enough to garner national headlines, such as at Columbine, or min...

Reducere. How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biolo...

Reducere. Did Abraham Lincoln hate his father so much that he would not visit him on his deathbed or buy him a tombstone? Is it true that Ann Rutledge, who d...

Reducere. About the Book The Skin You Are In empowers children to embrace who they are and others. The book seeks to motivate and teach children in the follo...

The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the childre...

A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience--from a New York Times...

Reducere. An art form unique in the world, tattoos are as varied in style and form as the living bodies they adorn. Under the Skin examines tattoos from thre...

Reducere. Reproduction of the original: The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum

Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through bri...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Linda VillarosaNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of the skin in its multifaceted physical, psychological, and social aspects Providing a cover for our delicate and intric...

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a 'creative class' in society, and always have been: there was no...

Reducere. Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series of...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

Publisher: Juxta PressAuthor(s): Andrew RossCollection: Thoughts One Couldn't Do WithoutPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 134 x 200 x 6Cover type: ...

Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, thr...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. I...

Reducere. "Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears--all of it, not just a sliver." --KIRKUS REVIEWS For more t...

Reducere. In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil...

Reducere. After leaving England behind for a new life in the West Indies with her sisters, Verity Banning wants something to call her own. Her affinity for a...

Omar's family have found asylum, but a bully is present in Omar's tower block and his class, causing Omar to act on a defiant need to protect and a...

Reducere. Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies in this heartfelt celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlh...

Reducere. Did you know that your brain has up to 100 billion nerve cells? Wow What else is going on in your body? In The Human Body: Get Under the Skin with ...

Reducere. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5, 000 years), who bear more than a casual ...

Publisher: Three Rivers PressAuthor(s): Eli ZaretskyNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 204 x 133 x 26Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

Reducere. This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias.Magnolia, South Ca...

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of p...

Reducere. Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award and Choice Magazine s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of ...

DescriptionWhere previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural hi...

This book investigates the effects of digital transformation on cultural organisations. With contributions from scholars globally, the book identif...

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture--embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely...

Reducere. Is there anything more splendid than a baby s skin? For families of all stripes comes a sweet celebration of what makes us unique and what holds us...