Anthropology
epub |eng | 2010-04-25 | Author:Simon Kuper

A Cameroonian never calls himself a soccer fan: that he is speaks for itself. Charles was a fan too. One of the unemployed market sellers, he theoretically sold books, but ...
( Category: Nationalism March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Eric Liu

I belong to the most ancient empire on this globe. You, by your own statements, belong to the most dependent and ill-treated nation of serfs ever deprived of its liberties. ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Gooden, Philip [Gooden, Philip]

These, and countless others, were the books taken up by the expanding middle classes. The flourishing printing presses, which fed the appetite for reading by turning out not only novels ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-29 | Author:Chris Stringer

but their genes may never have impacted the gene pools of the main populations. We don’t, of course, know what language capabilities either the Neanderthals or the Cro-Magnons had, and ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

48 As for the connection to old-fashioned, Peale-style positive thinking, the literature and coaches emphasize that a good “team player” is by definition a “positive person.” He or she smiles ...
( Category: Cultural March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paco Underhill

ELEVEN Kids With gender revolt (or reconfiguration, at the very least) having changed so much about our lives, and men and women off boldly shopping new terrain, the effect on ...
( Category: Research February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

( Category: Cultural February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jacob Bronowski

It took three years, from 1684 to 1687, before Newton wrote out the proof in full. Halley nursed, wheedled and even financed the Principia. Halley’s letter to Isaac Newton when ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 15,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig 28. A lip ornament and earrings made of mother-of-pearl and feathers Gradually, all these people went away; we were sharing the hut, which measured approximately twelve metres by five, ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-30 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Diamond, Jared]

Just a stick in the ground The most recent of the three episodes related in this chapter unfolded many years after my canoe accident had convinced me of the virtues ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture February 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:J.K. Rowling

Chapter 21: The Eye of the Snake Hermione plowed her way back to Hagrid’s cabin through two feet of snow on Sunday morning. Harry and Ron wanted to go with ...
( Category: Cultural February 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald S. Lopez & Donald S. Lopez & Donald S. Lopez [Lopez, Donald S.]

THE GOING INTO EXILE The ministers advised that the Lotus-Born One be put to death by hanging, but the King said,’ This son is not of human origin; and, inasmuch ...
( Category: Tibetan February 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:n+1 [n+1]

I WAS PARTICULARLY interested in the periodizing and analysis of a white ethnic or working-class aesthetic. Doesn’t it seem as if that working-class Pittsburgh ethnic, Andy Warhol, born “Warhola,” set ...
( Category: Cultural February 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Karen Elliott House [House, Karen Elliott]

CHAPTER 9 Plans, Paralysis, and Poverty Be not like the hypocrite who, when he talks, tells lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is trusted, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Tarbox

In the morning I felt even more distraught than I had the night before. To make matters worse, my mom had bought bagels and cereal the night before for a ...
( Category: Romance January 29,2015 )