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Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
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 )
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

( Category: Cultural February 15,2015 )
Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Classics) by Levi-Strauss Claude
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 )
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Diamond Jared
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 )
5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
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 )
What Was the Hipster? by n+1
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 )
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
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 )
Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity by Edward Tenner
epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Edward Tenner [Tenner, Edward]

THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRY, THE FALL OF AN IDEAL Recliners still faced challenges. Like the original La-Z-Boy the Barcalounger was expensive, even covered in Naugahyde. A skilled workforce assembled ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 29,2015 )
Working by Studs Terkel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Studs Terkel

“When you make a mistake, you get three chances. Then they take it out of your pay, which is right. You can’t make a ten-dollar mistake every week. It’s fishy. ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations January 29,2015 )
Those Who Forget the Past by Ron Rosenbaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum

PART SEVEN THE DEICIDE ACCUSATION NAT HENTOFF Who Did Kill Christ? LENNY BRUCE USED TO TELL, in his act, about a Jew who was weary not only of being called ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 29,2015 )
The English by Jeremy Paxman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

By preserving the ruins, the National Trust feeds this belief that the worst is yet to come. Of course, the millions who visit historic houses and gardens have a gentle, ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
BOWLING ALONE by Robert D. Putnam
epub |eng | 2000-01-25 | Author:Robert D. Putnam

SOCIAL CAPITAL AFFECTS NOT ONLY what goes into politics, but also what comes out of it. The best illustration of the powerful impact of civic engagement on government performance comes ...
( Category: Curricula January 26,2015 )
Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery by Lempert Michael
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Lempert, Michael [Lempert, Michael]

When someone creates a small infraction of the rules of this great and precious college, if such a person is sitting at the head of the row one should look ...
( Category: Linguistics January 22,2015 )
Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths Among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists by Robert Desjarlais
azw3 |eng | 2003-03-03 | Author:Robert Desjarlais

One was your father's [and Rinjin Lama's] mother. Then along with her was my mother-in-law [Wangel Lama's mother]. She [the woman who left] was my cousin. Then, she left me ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
Nigger by Kennedy Randall
epub |eng | 2008-12-18 | Author:Kennedy, Randall [Kennedy, Randall]

Like every other significant feature of American life—including cigarettes, guns, pornography, drugs, stock trading, sex, religion, and money—nigger is thoroughly enmeshed in litigation. The disorderly diversity of the conflicts in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 21,2015 )

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