Customs & Traditions Social Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Sandhaus

I had consumed every last drop of water in the hotel room by the time Auntie called, twenty minutes early, to say she was in the lobby. After I scraped ...
( Category: Spirits March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Paul Dickson

Irish There is no area of the world where English is spoken—and probably none where any other language is spoken for that matter—that can compare to Ireland as a stronghold ...
( Category: Family Activities March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Tompkins, Kyla Wazana;

The Archive and the Exuberance of Racist Affect It is almost impossible to know how many trade cards were produced, though one scholar estimates that across the period of their ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Alexandra Fiada [Fiada, Alexandra]

The purists complain that the young speak a kind of ‘Greeklish’ and that ‘our beautiful language is going to pot’, while the more tolerant claim that they show an inventiveness ...
( Category: Humor March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-28 | Author:Paul Dickson

See our glorious banner waving, Hear the bugle call; Rally comrades to the standard Down with alcohol! —American nonalcoholic toast, popular among temperance groups, circa 1915 To our women, our ...
( Category: Etiquette Guides & Advice March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Craig Storti

Going Through the Boss Probably the most common problem the empowerment difference causes in the workplace is when Westerners try to deal directly with subordinates on an Indian team without ...
( Category: Global Marketing March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Hitchings, Henry [Hitchings, Henry]

15 The Englishness of English manners Edmund Burke, an admirer of Fanny Burney’s books, was instrumental in getting her released from her confinement, and his own brushes with monarchy, less ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Ethan Pollock

There was no predicament, however, when it came to extoling the benefits of the banya to the population. Propaganda posters clarified the degree to which state agencies saw banyas as ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Colin Spencer

Tea was the meal of ceremony and we had fifty odd kinds of teabread. One Scott made a little fortune by his milk-bakes. His shop in Forrester’s Wynd was surrounded ...
( Category: English, Scottish & Welsh March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Lena Malouf

The hollow square is a versatile style and is often used for conference sessions, with all guests or delegates facing toward the center. The square U shape is a popular ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 10,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Sarangerel

Soul Retrieval Soul retrieval is usually necessary in cases of severe and chronic illness. The absence of the ami or suns souls makes it practically impossible for a body to ...
( Category: Shamanism March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Clement A. Miles [Miles, Clement A.]

* * * CHAPTER IX CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE TWELVE DAYS Christkind, Santa Klaus, and Knecht Ruprecht —Talking Animals and other Wonders of Christmas Eve —Scandinavian Beliefs about Trolls and ...
( Category: Christmas March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Booth

21. THE SAKE CRISIS The Japanese sake industry is in crisis. Consumption of what was for centuries the country’s most popular alcoholic drink— so integral to the economy that it ...
( Category: Essays March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Peter Robb [Robb, Peter]

Rosane had no intention of being merely decorative as first lady. When she began to make her own way in the world, Globo’s viewing public was bemused to find a ...
( Category: General Brazil Travel Guides March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Jason G. Karlin [Karlin, Jason G.]

FIGURE 3.5. “Genroku geisha,” by Yamamoto Matsutani. SOURCE: Fūzoku gahō, no. 322 (Aug. 10, 1905). Another source of popular fascination with the Genroku era was the legend of the Forty-Seven ...
( Category: Asian March 6,2020 )