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Of Sand or Soil by Samin Nadav
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Samin, Nadav

NAMES, TRIBES, AND RACE Invited one evening to a gathering in al-ʿUlā in December 2011, I was brought by a friend, ʿAwda, to meet the members of his social circle. ...
( Category: Cultural March 9,2020 )
Pandora's Seed by Spencer Wells
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Spencer Wells [Wells, Spencer]

FIGURE 23: SCENE FROM THE TUCKERS FACTORY IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 1910. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL TUCKER.) In the final chapter of this book I will discuss how this alienation has ...
( Category: Human Geography June 8,2017 )
The Fifth Trimester by Lauren Smith Brody
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Lauren Smith Brody

These are not unreasonable things to ask for, especially if you make the case loud and clear that pumping time can be working time. Nothing moves mountains faster than dollars ...
( Category: Motherhood May 22,2017 )
Poverty in America by Iceland John
epub |eng | | Author:Iceland, John

A fair reckoning of these two arguments—one economic and one cultural—is that both have elements of truth to them. Below I draw extensively from an excellent review of the social ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations March 22,2017 )
Selected Works by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Cicero

PART TWO HOW TO LIVE CHAPTER FOUR A PRACTICAL CODE OF BEHAVIOUR (ON DUTIES · III) No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2017 )
Conversing with the Planets by Anthony Aveni
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Anthony Aveni [Aveni, Anthony]

Table 4-1. Intervals (in Days) Used in Simple Models to Predict the Future Whereabouts of the Planet Venus The temporal architecture of these predictions is neither random nor whimsical, for ...
( Category: Cultural February 24,2017 )
Cannibalism by Bill Schutt
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Bill Schutt

He continued, quiet and calm. “And it would make that tree you’re sitting under the real George Donner Tree.” The Donner detectives smiled wry smiles, sensing my momentary confusion as ...
( Category: Cultural February 24,2017 )
Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
epub |eng | | Author:Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

It’s Complicated Theorizing through the ’hoodjab, I hold that Muslim Cool is a technology of racial-religious performativity that constructs and “shores up” social identity. The ’hoodjab marked my teachers’ identities ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 24,2017 )
Medieval Islamic Political Thought (New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys) by Patricia Crone
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Patricia Crone [Crone, Patricia]

Caliph and sultan Al-Ghazālī’s caliph had a novel feature in that he was not meant to rule his followers in political terms. Unlike the Ismailis, or for that matter his ...
( Category: Cultural January 11,2017 )
The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-06 | Author:Herbert Croly

III Nationality and Democracy in England It has already been observed that England was the first European state both in mediæval and modern times to reach a high degree of ...
( Category: History & Theory December 7,2016 )
The Mestizo Augustine by Justo L. González
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Justo L. González [González, Justo L.]

5 The Shepherd and the Donatists The Background By the last decades of the third century, the northern shores of Africa were one of the regions in which Christianity grew ...
( Category: Historical December 1,2016 )
Unlatched by Jennifer Grayson
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Jennifer Grayson

eight Breasts Are for Men So what is it about this small gland of postnatal nourishment that puts a great nation in a dither? . . . Perhaps the problem ...
( Category: Cultural November 30,2016 )
Deep History by Shryock Andrew & Daniel Lord Smail
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Shryock, Andrew & Daniel Lord Smail

KIN RECOGNITION Humans do not find it particularly difficult to distinguish kin from nonkin. Family ties validated and reinforced through language usually make clear who is related to whom. But ...
( Category: General November 17,2016 )
America the Anxious by Ruth Whippman
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Whippman

6. GOD’S PLAN OF HAPPINESS Both sets of grandparents are perched nervously in our living room, bitching about the quality of the bagels, not quite as good as those other ...
( Category: Cultural November 12,2016 )
Primitive Culture Volume I by Tylor Edward Burnett;
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Tylor, Edward Burnett; [Edward Burnett Tylor]

Dooe saltee 2d. due soldi. Tray saltee 3d. tre soldi. Quarterer saltes 4d. quattro soldi. Chinker saltee 5d. cinque soldi. Say saltee 6d. sei soldi. Say oney saltee or setter ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2016 )

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