3,980円 After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region in 2005, the city debated whether to press on with Mardi Gras or cancel the parades. Ultimately, they decided to proceed. New Orleans’s recovery certainly has resulted from a complex of factors, but the city’s unique cultur...

5,701円 Featuring detailed analyses of clothing culture in 17th-century provincial Sussex, this original study draws on previously unexploited sources to create an intimate and nuanced portrait of people and their clothes. An introductory chapter uses 17th-century literature to identify and explore conte...

300円 Novo livro de Luiz Antonio Simas, referência sobre cultura popular brasileira. As ruas, como vistas por Luiz Antonio Simas, incorporam o movimento. São terreiro de encontros improváveis, território de Exu, que se manifesta na alteridade da fala e na afluência das encruzilhadas. Do Centro ao subúr...

5,194円 Runner-up for the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies 2020 Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than t...

933円 A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditati...

5,305円 Often described as the "hottest" retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing. These temporary stores "pop-up" without notice, quickly attract crowds, then disappear or morph into something else. Although they share similarities with traditio...

1,432円 Now a major motion picture titled Blinded by the Light, directed by Gurinder Chadha, a charming memoir of growing up during the eighties as both a Pakistani Muslim and Bruce Springsteen fan 'Every detail rings so true ... Manzoor's warm, humane**, unsensational voice ... makes you want to extend ...

9,160円 As a consequence of being sued by more than 20 foreign investors, India terminated close to 60 investment treaties and adopted a new Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) purportedly to balance investment protection with the host State’s right to regulate. This book is a critical study of India...

1,326円 Tiu ĉi estas la unua romano de la aŭtoro (el 12 entute), verkita en la jaro 1958. Kvankam ankoraŭ sufiĉe juna, Adem Demaĉi demonstris sian fortan karakteron kaj patriotan kaj humanistan vizion akirante la subtenon de la plimulto de albanoj loĝintaj en la eksa komunisma Jugoslavio (en Kosovo, Make...

297円 This book is written by Kakuzo Okakura about the concept of teaism and how tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The writer himself has learnt English language since the young age and is proficient at it. So he took the chance to share his thoughts to the We...

300円 "...The natural position of woman is clearly, to a limited degree, a subordinate one. Such it has always been throughout the world, in all ages, and in many widely different conditions of society. There are three conclusive reasons why we should expect it to continue so for the future. First. Wom...

9,119円 From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienatio...