The Cultural History Reader

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

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. DescriptionThe Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period...

Reducere. This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural ...

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. 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. In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and histo...

DescriptionOne of only seven editors in chief in American Vogue's history, Jessica Daves has remained one of fashion's most enigmatic figures. Dian...

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. DescriptionAs the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of ...

Reducere. In Hazera Nation, Nadera Jamili and Ghulamreza Jamili's unique combination of research and personal experience clarify the importance of the Hazara...

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...

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-...

Description The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part...

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. DescriptionThe National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are in tune with the growing trend toward experiential travel. Each book provides inspiring ...

DescriptionJean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political t...

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

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

Jurgen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It ...

Reducere. A great political divide exists today, but can we truly grasp the significance of that divide? It is very complex and carries such deep implication...

Reducere. Enhancing the dictionary is a series of fascinating discussions of various aspects of ideograms. These include a discussion of signs and meanings, ...

How to Read Towns & Cities is a pocket-sized primer to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities. It takes a practical, highly v...

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chris SimsAuthor: Hillary Louise JohnsonThe Elements of Scrum has gained an international following and a reputation for be...

Reducere. Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, at...

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...

DescriptionManual de la Masoneria: El Tejador de los Ritos Antiguo Escoces, Frances y de Adopcion por Andres Cassard ------------------------------...

``Not just anyone makes a good pisser.``--Jean-Claude LebensztejnJean-Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures ...

Reducere. This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native Amer...

Reducere. Western esotericism has been a pervasive presence in Western culture from late antiquity to the present day, but until recently it was largely igno...

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. Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Th...

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...

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

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. 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. Rome a photographic tour is a captivating travel photography book dedicated to Rome, Italy, a city with a unique history. This photo book guides th...

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...

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

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells...

DescriptionThe third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation o...

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. 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...

Reducere. DescriptionSeeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-...

DescriptionHow has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, ...

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...

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

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. Contributor(s): Author: Devon A. Mihesuah"Mihesuah's work should be required reading for elementary and upper level teachers, college instructors a...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

DescriptionBlood of the Celts brings together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence to address the often-debated question: who were the ...

Reducere. DescriptionNow available in paperback, the most comprehensive--and only author-authorized--Wendell Berry reader. "America's greatest philosopher on...

Reducere. For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the p...

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

Reducere. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (c. 150 CE) is an excellent text for students who have completed the first year of college-level Ancient Greek. Its le...

DescriptionKohls shares a feast of Korean culture: a ricebowl of history and tradition complimented by an array of spicy tidbits that capture the r...

Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons...

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

Reducere. Including nearly nine hundred new and replacement markers that have been installed along the commonwealth's roadways since the last edition was pub...

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. 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...

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. 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 ...