12,907円 The hen (or bachelorette) party, with its groups of visible, raucous women on trains, planes, and in public spaces is ubiquitous throughout the English-speaking world. The practice of the blackening, a unique form of kidnapping and “punishment” ritual, is limited to North Eastern parts of Scotlan...

182円 "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy was published in instalments between 1875 and 1877 and it is considered one of the pinnacles of world literature. This masterwork tracks the life of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her tryst with Count Vronsky. The novel is staged in the late nineteenth century at the ...

500円 The past is brought back as people of older generations share stories about the sustainable lifestyles that were common when they were young. These stories reveal a global experience, from as near as Brooklyn to as far as China, from Italy, Ghana, Kazakhstan, and France to Ecuador and the Dominic...

8,368円 Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents. Though the designer's otherwise glittering career has been punctured by years out of the limelight, his catalogue of work remains astonishing. Written by internationally renowned fashion ex...

1,122円 Originally published in 1901, 'What a Young Wife Ought to Know' is a vintage guide for young married women written by Emma F. Angell Drake. It includes guidance on all manner of subjects including how to dress, how to behave, how to bring up children, and much more besides. This volume will appea...

152円 "En torno al Casticismo", obra esencial de Miguel de Unamuno, es una sucesión de preguntas que el pensador vasco dirige al lector, lector que él espera con cierto afán intelectual y cargado de dudas en torno a un país en caída libre que acaba de ser sacudido por el desastre del 98. España huye de...

152円 Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric, and scholar, published anonymously in 1798 his main work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population". This book predicted a grim future, as population increased. While it was not the first book on population, it was revised for over 28 years and has been a...

4,800円 Mit ›Wie Musik wirkt‹ ermöglicht Musiker David Byrne den Lesern einen außergewöhnlichen Blick in die Welt der Musik – die Mischung aus Musikgeschichte, Autobiographie und Handbuch ist so vielseitig wie der Talking Heads-Gründer selbst David Byrne ist ein Vordenker des Pop und ihm immer einen Schr...

9,758円 This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate. The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline – a...

1,300円 Esta obra constituye una incitación al estudio del pensamiento cubano, a pensar desde lo pensado. En sus páginas se revelan componentes transferidos de una a otra época, el accionar de ideas con su carga de tradiciones, realidades y mentalidades del conjunto social e histórico, el cual se imbrica...

310円 En "La gran aldea; costumbres bonaerenses", Lucio Vicente López ofrece un vívido retrato de la vida cotidiana y las costumbres de la población de Buenos Aires durante el siglo XIX. A través de un estilo literario ágil y descriptivo, López entrelaza elementos de la prosa criolla con observaciones ...

466円 Scotland is a beautiful country steeped in history, culture, legend and customs. Many of its customs live on and this book looks at some of the most important of these, notably: Haggis (Scotland's national dish which is celebrated on Burns' night), Halloween, and Hogmanay.