Customs & Traditions

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting...

a New York Times Bestseller That Has Changed The Way Readers View The Ecology Of Eating, This Revolutionary Book By Award Winner Michael Pollan Asks The Se...

Stories, Poems, Carols, And Recollections Of Christmas By World-famous Authors, With 120 Illustrations By Norman Rockwell.Categories: Arts & Photography...

from Beginning To End Why "rituals"?my Thinking Was Set In Motion By Those Who, Knowing I Was A Parish Minister For Many Years, Have Asked Me For Advice A...

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating c...

Presents The Rules Of Parliamentary Procedure Designed To Help Meetings Run More Smoothly And Efficiently. The Basics -- The Order Of A Business Meeting -- ...

In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella ...

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.In Afghanis...

Robert Fulghum. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 266-273).Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCustoms & Traditions

Widely praised as "impressive" (The Washington Post Book World), "ambitious" (The Wall Street Journal), and "alluring" (Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the ...

An American Expatriate Living In London Explores The Historical And Cultural Differences Between American And British Versions Of English, Covering Snacking...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, ...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters...

In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous national traits ...

Product Description From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Natur...

A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concept...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-West...

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and di...

Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and re...

In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummie...

Manitous lived in human form among the Ojibway in the early days, after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae (Mother ...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...