Cultural

Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the ...

Asking Provocative And Profound Questions About Human Motivation And Contemporary Living And Reaching Some Astonishing Conclusions, 'freakonomics' Will Make...

Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam ha...

This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance t...

Ann Mcelroy And Patricia K. Townsend ; [with Contributions By Pamela L. Erickson And Others]. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 325-357) And Index....

Introduction: The Land Of Desire And The Culture Of Consumer Capitalism -- I: Strategies Of Enticement. The Dawn Of A Commercial Empire -- Facades Of Color,...

The definitive account of workplace wellbeing and its key drivers, offering a fresh, data-driven perspective on the connections between happiness, producti...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

Mcdougall Reveals The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Distance Runners--the Tarahumara Indians Of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and How He Trained For The Challeng...

Product Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracis...

The entry for kvetchn (the verbal form) in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary reads simply: press, squeeze, pinch; strain...

'the Politics Of Food' Raises Provocative Questions About How We Relate To Food In The 21st Century. Through Ethnographic Case Studies It Reveals How Food H...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

commercial Breaks, Radio Spots, Product Placements, Billboards, Pop-up Ads—we Sometimes Take For Granted How Much Advertising Surrounds Us In Our Daily Li...

Riane Eisler Shows Us How History Has Consistently Promoted The Link Between Sex And Violence—and How We Can Sever This Link And Move To A Politics Of Par...

About the Author\Harold R. Johnson (1954–2022) was the author of six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction, including Firewater: How Alcohol is Kil...

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In ...

Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as...

From dust jacket flap: This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

Asking And Listening Is The First Book To Trace The Changing Ways In Which Human Beings Have Learned To Look At The Others Beyond The Gate With Their Strang...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts...

“Rutherford describes Humanimal as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of crea...

Long Before Hygge, Lagom, Or Ikigai Took The World By Storm, There Was La Dolce Vita-the Italian Phrase For The Sweet Life. La Dolce Vita Encourages The Ben...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

drawing On Experience Gleaned From Many Years Of Traveling, Studying, And Teaching In Italy, Killinger (history, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Flori...

This Concise Guide Offers Not Only The Practical 'how-to' For Doing Business In The People's Republic But Also The Valuable 'why' For Understanding Chinese ...

Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo D...

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks fro...

Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields...

Our Ancestors Crossed Deserts, Mountains, And Oceans-- Feats Of Endurance That Now Seem Impossible Without Modern Technology. Can We Hack Our Bodies And Use...

This Book Is Not Only An Analysis Of Demographic And Political Realities In Europe, But Also An Eyewitness Account Of A Continent In Self-destruct Mode. It ...

Here, Richard Florida Traces The Fundamental Theme That Runs Through A Host Of Seemingly Unrelated Changes In American Society: The Growing Role Of Creativi...

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the...

Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole w...

Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle. ...

collected Here, The Massey Lectures From Legendary Novelist Margaret Atwood Investigate The Highly Topical Subject Of Debt. She Doesn’t Talk About High Fi...

Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Cana...

400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urb...

No Longer The Exclusive Province Of The Far Right And Far Left, Anti-semitism Finds A Home In Identity Politics And The Reaction Against Identity Politics, ...

An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed wi...

The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers an...

An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of...

Andrea Tone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Law SpecialtiesLabor Law

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most p...

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslav...

Argues That American Children Are Deprived Of Cultural Literacy. Literacy And Cultural Literacy -- The Discovery Of The Schema -- National Language And Nati...