Song of Negros. Myths and Culture in the Philippines, Paperback - Victoria Hoffarth

Well written and interesting stories about myths in the Philippines and how they compare to myths elsewhere. For the curious as to why such fantast...

Reducere. This beautiful and bright children's picture book brings the story of Teacup's life into your home. Teacup is a real Shih Tzu that lives in the Phi...

Reducere. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12, 000 people were murdered on the streets, gu...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of 37 Myths, Legends, and Folktales from around the Philippines that showcase the rich and diverse cultural identity throug...

Reducere. An endless festival amidst an endless war is the central image of this novel of the Philippines of the time of Marcos. Three young people seek reli...

Reducere. The author uses his inquisitive mind to set out and prove the existence of Yamashita's infamous untouched treasure deposits buried all around the P...

Reducere. Join Riley the Raccoon, as she learns from her friends about cultural traditions that celebrate connection, kindness, wonder and much more.Pack you...

DescriptionBeginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the pr...

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for ...

Culture and Customs of the Philippines provides the best general overview to the Asian archipelago and to a people with close ties to the United St...

Reducere. With a foreword by Gina Apostol. "As a Filipino who dreams in Waray, I have waited too long for Ulir t." A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Ph...

Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - Ioana Baciu

DescriptionA beautiful, comprehensive, and evocative cookbook on a relatively undiscovered cuisine. Despite the Philippines' location right in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work chronicles how the cacao plant is grown commercially in the Philippines; how to properly grow, harvest and sell the cacao plan...

Reducere. Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - este o carte care se adreseaza unui public divers: studenti ai literaturii americane, profesori, cercet...

Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, an...

DescriptionCastration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding hare...

Reducere. In The Secret Art of Derobio Escrima Grandmaster Dan Medina will take you on a journey into the lives and history of two of Leyte's Legendary Men. ...

An eighteenth-century Spanish friar from Galicia, Spain, became an ancestor to countless descendants in the Philippines. This is a journey of one d...

For fans of Slay in Your Lane and Little Black Book, this no-nonsense exploration of colour and culture at work is essential reading for Black wome...

Reducere. Maayong Buntag (Good Morning ) is an easy-to-use guide to the Visayan language (also known as Cebuano) - the language for millions of people of the...

Reducere. In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperia...

After a period of neglect, the idealist and romantic philosophies that emerged in the wake of Kant's revolutionary writings have once more become i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...

DescriptionHow do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, betwee...

Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which ...

Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings t...

The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologie...

Reducere. The New Patterns in the Sky, a modern classic in the literature of star lore, is a comprehensive collection of myths, legends, and historical notes...

Reducere. Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue pre...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

Reducere. Understanding how communication works in society is a crucial part of social psychology; this groundbreaking work by Ruesch and Bateson explains th...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Reducere. A comprehensive collection of creation stories ranging across widely varying times and cultures, including Ancient Egyptian, African, and Native Am...

A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, drawing on data from Slavic languages. Sipka addresses issues of interes...

Reducere. The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from La...

Reducere. Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In M...

DescriptionFor the past century, Japan has been a center of attention due to its rapid industrialization and modernization. Still, certain aspects ...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Reducere. What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power int...

Reducere. The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napole...