10,446円 Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and cultural situation within the US ethnic and class organization. However, there have been groups of women who have defied their fates at different tim...

1,400円 Los noticieros dan cuenta de ella a diario, todo político en campaña promete erradicarla, los ciudadanos de a pie la padecen ーo se valen de ella para ahorrarse la pena de cumplir la leyー, muchos funcionarios públicos la consideran un elemento consustancial a su cargo: la corrupción es una grave...

1,326円 "Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature. Along the way exploring topics related to tea appreciation, including Zen, flower arranging and Taoism. An early cultural activist, Okakura's mission was to preserve Japanese art and aesthetic prac...

1,989円 Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitfordーwho lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomatー...

1,989円 The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a detailed examination of the five-centuries-old tea ceremonyーor Cha-no-Yu in Japanese, literally "hot water for tea"ーa cornerstone of Japanese culture and a core practice of Zen Buddhism. Framed by intricately choreographed steps, the tea ceremony is as much about ...

1,132円 The definitive exploration of the unknown and paranormal. BORDERLANDS contains hundreds of personal accounts of strange phenomena ranging from surviving mammoths in Siberia to intelligent clouds over New Zealand, from frozen frogs to plagues of murderous manhole covers. It also examines how and w...

2,958円 Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the na...

7,296円 The landscapes of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan are filled with holy places. Some are of natural originーsummits, rivers and lakes, caves, or forest sanctuaries. Others are consecrated by religious practiceーshrines, temples, monasteries, or burial grounds. The holy sites of the Himalaya unite faith a...

5,172円 In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside ...

2,122円 How do Egyptian Muslims celebrate Ramadan? How do Copts Egyptian Christians celebrate Easter? What should you expect to find on the table when invited to eat in an Egyptian home? What do you say when an Egyptian colleague sneezes? Exactly what do Egyptians do with a mortar and pestle, a sieve, an...

1,061円 Goeie maniere maak deure en harte oop, en die is n tydige en bruikbare gids vir die modern era van etiket! Hierdie handige gids is ontbeerlik vir almal wat beskaafdheid belangrik ag. Hierdie is ‘n splinternuwe gids vir die moderne Afrikaanssprekende, een met duidelike riglyne wat die leser in eni...

1,723円 Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do...