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Food in the USA: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415932325 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this title brings together useful reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the corporate food industry, soup kitchens, meat-eating, fast food, waitressing, Coca-Cola, Aunt Jemima, the Passover Seder, soul food, diabetes and nutrition. Together, the collection provides an interesting look at how and why we are what we eat.
From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this title brings together useful reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of essay...
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The Book of Tea
ISBN: 9780486200705 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kakuzo Okakura, who was known in America as a scholar, art critic, and Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, directed almost his entire adult life toward the preservation and reawakening of the Japanese national heritage -- in art, ethics, social customs, and other areas of life -- in the face of the Westernizing influences that were revolutionizing Japan around the turn of the century.
This modern classic is essentially an apology for Eastern traditions and feelings to the Western world -- not in passionate, oversentimental terms, but with a charm and... Kakuzo Okakura, who was known in America as a scholar, art critic, and Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, directed...
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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780520203549 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disencha...
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126,58 |
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Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
ISBN: 9780520227910 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we know what we know? Where do we belong, and how do we fit in? Sklar's own background and learned values form the conscious, constantly challenged raw material for the undertaking, and the intimate language of the body and sensation is her medium. Her ten-year study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the "backstage" work involved in the festival take her deep into...
Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions ...
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160,78 |
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Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Dietvolume 7
ISBN: 9780520234390 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of how from 1880 to 1930, as America's industries and cities swelled, various reformers tried to use the new nutritional science to make Americans eat more economically and healthily, sometimes with bizarre results. In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of how from 1880 to 1930, as America's industries and cities swelled, various r... |
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154,04 |
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Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Weddingvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520240087 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture--romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important...
The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage...
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146,34 |
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The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour
ISBN: 9780521025201 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines the debate, and reveals how the moral and ideological status of duelling was considered within a much broader cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. Understanding the duel involves knowing crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England. Peltonen's wide-ranging study engages the attention of a significant audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines ...
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226,79 |
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Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
ISBN: 9780521386593 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first comprehensive study of how a great imperial ceremony actually developed and how it influenced both the eastern and western heirs to the Roman legacy, the Roman triumph's resurgence and afterlife is documented from the Tetrarchy down to the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and down to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval...
As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the e...
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154,17 |
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Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
ISBN: 9780521590440 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of information into people's attitudes toward, and expectations of, eating out as a form of entertainment and an expression of taste and status. This book will be a valuable resource to academics, advanced students and practitioners in the sociology of consumption, cultural studies, tourism and hospitality, home economics, marketing and to the general reader.
Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the ...
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Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
ISBN: 9780521599696 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of information into people's attitudes toward, and expectations of, eating out as a form of entertainment and an expression of taste and status. This book will be a valuable resource to academics, advanced students and practitioners in the sociology of consumption, cultural studies, tourism and hospitality, home economics, marketing and to the general reader.
Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the ...
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200,38 |
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Future Shock
ISBN: 9780553277371 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
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Seeking an Alliance: A Psychiatrist's Guide to the Indian Matrimonial Process in America
ISBN: 9780595313846 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing intrigues us more than how two people come together and fall in love. The question of "How did you two meet?" may be answered by a charming story of one couple's good luck. And yet another happy relationship may have started on a blind date.
Tales of traditionally arranged marriages in India shock many Westerners. Since the Indian community has grown in the West, the updated rules make the current approach less shocking. Unlike any other book previously, "Seeking an Alliance" uniquely describes the current Indian matrimonial process in America. From psychological viewpoints to... Nothing intrigues us more than how two people come together and fall in love. The question of "How did you two meet?" may be answered by a charming st...
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Village Life in Bengal Hindu Customs in Bengal
ISBN: 9780595362332 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls. Understanding Modern India is not all that difficult as it is much like the United States. However, even in modern India, people retain many of the religious beliefs and superstitions which they have absorbed from timeless India. "Village Life in Bengal" by Tara Krishna Basu and "Hindu Customs in Bengal" by Besanta Koomar Bose, describe part of the life which exists just under the surface of modern India.
India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls. Understanding Modern India is ...
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A Missionary's Journey: The Gentle Teacher's Letters from Kyoto
ISBN: 9780595383368 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1917-1921, Yasashii Sensei Dorothy Spencer taught at St. Agnes School and St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Kyoto learning Japanese in her missionary work. Young Buddhists were dishonored if they continued in their Christian inquiry. A young man asked to hear the history of Christianity from the time of Christ to the present. Another difficult task was reaching across language and cultural barriers to give comfort and an answer to 'why?" coming from a young mother who had just lost her three year old. Dorothy climbed mountains, visited temples, celebrated festivals and learned about different...
From 1917-1921, Yasashii Sensei Dorothy Spencer taught at St. Agnes School and St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Kyoto learning Japanese in her missionary ...
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African-American Spirituality, Thought & Culture
ISBN: 9780595442317 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "African-American Spirituality, Thought and Culture" delves into the mysterious and the sacred sciences of African-American people by examining aspects such as dreams, prophecies, healing traditions, spiritual processions, and other cultural aspects that has informed and guided many in the culture for hundreds of years.
"African-American Spirituality, Thought and Culture" delves into the mysterious and the sacred sciences of African-American people by examining aspect...
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
ISBN: 9780674011113 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of America's abundant food--its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese, fruits and vegetables, coffee and beer--reflected their earlier deprivations and shaped their ethnic practices in the new land. Hungering for America tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic... Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How the... |
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All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival
ISBN: 9780674016231 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. In All on a Mardi Gras Day Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804. Woven into his narrative are observations of the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras--themes of unity, exclusion, and elitism course through these tales as they do through the Crescent City. Moving through the decades,... With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a ... |
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A History of Private Life
ISBN: 9780674400016 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second volume of A History of Private Life contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This secret epic aims to construct a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in different places in the 11th to the 15th centuries.
The second volume of A History of Private Life contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This secret epic...
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A History of Private Life
ISBN: 9780674400023 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This volume celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries.
An examination of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This volume celebrates the emergence of individualis...
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
ISBN: 9780679724681 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.
Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources. One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.
Why do Hindus worship co... |
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