The Cultural History Reader

EASYREADS are a range of full-colour, non-fiction graded readers; the subjects cover art, history, science, geography, biography and cultural studi...

Reducere. For Eric Travis, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was not about hiking. It was about mentally developing himself through audiobooks. Over the 156-day...

Reducere. The southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the wi...

Reducere. This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Surv...

Reducere. Take a journey through the history and culture of the Bible with the only study Bible that unfolds in historical order.The NKJV Chronological Study...

Reducere. This book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Each chapter presents an interesting home-spu...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

Reducere. Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status. Conce...

Reducere. This book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Black and white illustrated chapters present ...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

Reducere. At 4, 097 feet Marys Peak towers over other mountains in the Oregon Coast Range. Dr. Robert J. Lillie draws on his experience as a geology professo...

Reducere. Reconstructing the activity of the "Tribunal of the Faith" in Italy during the period 1400-1600, this compelling book analyzes the ideology of its ...

DescriptionIn this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectua...

Reducere. For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manh...

Reducere. Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a remarkable work of social and c...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

Reducere. The Afrocentric School, a Blueprint is a handbook that guides the prospective educationist, parent, student, and reader to understand African cultu...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

As Lando, aged ten, emerges from the confessional booth, the reader is already embarked on an epic journey. The crossing of the first European arou...

Reducere. Western art from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century; Art Needs No Justification; Miscellaneous articles and reviews.Was Pieter Bruegel ...

From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal histo...

Reducere. Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most t...

Reducere. Romania is a true cultural melting pot, its character rooted in many traditions from Greek, Turkish, and Slavic in the south and east, to Austrian,...

Reducere. This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the perspective of the interactions that occurred on and w...

Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...

With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns l...

Reducere. If you want to learn the art of Tarot Card Meaning & Palmistry in Just 72 hours From Amazon Best Selling Author Mia Rose continue reading... A taro...

Watertown, Wisconsin, nestled in the southeastern part of the state between the largest city, Milwaukee, and the state capital, Madison, was once c...

Reducere. Newtown has a rich heritage that is abundant with historic charm. Its three-century-long growth is founded on deep agricultural roots with a notabl...

Originally settled by James Demint in 1801, Springfield, Ohio, boasts a history marked by rich agrarian roots and striking industrial advances. The...

Reducere. Greenville History Tours owner John Nolan leads the reader through downtown in a tourist-friendly guide to historic sites, with vintage photographs...

Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, ...

Reducere. In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro I...

This edition of Joseph Jacobs English Fairy Tales has been carefully reformatted with all the original illustrations.The 43 included tales cover bo...

Reducere. A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford Hist...

Reducere. Art and Entertainment; The Creative Gift; Articles on history, faith and culture, lifestyle, scholarship, and the Westminster discussions Through h...

Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehen...

Reducere. Description: This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the d...

Reducere. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted pre...

Reducere. We learn differently than we did a century ago, we don't have exposure to large parts of the Western intellectual heritage. This makes it more chal...

Enter the realm of dog magic, where you'll develop incredible relationships with your canine friends that allow you to know what your dogs are thin...

Reducere. This unique book introduces the reader to the seven Cherokee clans, found in no other American Indian tribe. They are Wolf (Ani-Wahiya), Bird (Ani-...

Reducere. In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalis...

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and polit...

Reducere. Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A m...

Reducere. Featuring more than 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader has established itself as the #1 reader o...

Reducere. In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct, " polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, mono...

DescriptionBringing together experts from across the computational and cultural fields to explore the meaning and impact of artificial intelligence...

DescriptionFrom the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dar...

Reducere. From New Interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico a...

DescriptionNinjas--Japan's famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny apt...

Reducere. DescriptionDecolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader is a compendium of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of ...

Reducere. New in paperback " . . . skillfully analyzed hundreds of primary source documents and integrated contemporary political, social and cultural elemen...

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpieceThe N...

Reducere. Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in t...

Through 100 groundbreaking dresses, The Dress traces the past and present influences and reinterpretations in clothing design. From the Victorian c...

Reducere. For Eric Travis, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was not about hiking. It was about expanding his mental development by listening to audiobooks. Ove...

Reducere. There is a current revival of Black Consciousness, as political and student movements around the world - as well as academics and campaigners worki...

The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around u...

Reducere. The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of i...

Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...

Reducere. he Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from ac...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of race melodrama through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural his...

A beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader

Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the hist...

This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt o...

Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries...

DescriptionGreece is a nation with a rich and ancient history dating back further than 2000 BCE This long history has created strong cultural roots...