Popular Culture
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Blake Lingle

That’s my hand and those were my fries! The fries lasted forty-three seconds. The hand is still with me. A bar across the street from the popular Vlaams Friethuis in ...
( Category: France May 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Dacher Keltner [Keltner, Dacher]

In the relevant study, I brought pairs of strangers to the lab: one person in each pair felt more powerful vis-à-vis the other, while the other felt less powerful. The ...
( Category: Popular Culture May 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brian Switek [Switek, Brian]

Seven Dinosaur Feathers Sometimes I get a little selfish about dinosaur skeletons. As thrilled as I am that museum dinosaur exhibits are so well attended, the stampeding hordes of schoolchildren ...
( Category: Dinosaurs May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Alison Stewart & Alison Stewart [Stewart, Alison]

With every volley of the Container Store catalog, and each new store opening—20 to date—it becomes more and more apparent that there are scads of organizational devices one “simply must ...
( Category: Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elana Levine

Nail Polish and Femininity A number of popular authors and bloggers have associated nail polish applications with normative femininity. According to Stylish Eve, “every woman loves to care about her ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:James McBride

“You gotta remember, me growing up in the sixties and seventies, he was more than just a hot artist to me,” Sharpton explains. “He was black history. He was so ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:James McBride

He steps inside the tattered screen door of Brooker’s soul food restaurant in Barnwell, South Carolina, like he owns it. And in a way, he does. He’s an old-timer. Miss ...
( Category: Soul April 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Laura Bates [Bates, Laura]

Vital Statistics Women working full time in the UK in 2012 earned 14.9 per cent less than men Fawcett Society, 2013 In the City of London the pay gap rises ...
( Category: Feminist Theory April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

CHAPTER V A Note on Culture and Politics Politics did not, however, so much engage him as to withhold his thoughts from things of more importance. SAMUEL JOHNSON ON GEORGE ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Guobin Yang

Source: CND, March 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999. *This number is based on my estimate. According to CND, it had 47,600 subscribers among an estimated total readership of 150,000 ...
( Category: Asian April 21,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:Fisher, Mark [Fisher, Mark]

Home is Where The Haunt is: The Shining’s Hauntology k-punk post, January 23, 2006 1. The sound of hauntology Conjecture: hauntology has an intrinsically sonic dimension. The pun – hauntology, ...
( Category: Cultural April 19,2016 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Nicholas Mirzoeff [Mirzoeff, Nicholas]

Figure 51. Checkpoint Charlie The material fact of the wall created a social fact of segregation. This new fact had to be learned and was constantly emphasized by signs. Figure ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Peter Moruzzi

It all began with Don the Beachcomber. Not with his original Hollywood haunt, but rather the first Beachcomber franchise, which Don’s wife Sunny Sund opened in Chicago in the 1940s ...
( Category: United States April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Nicholas Mirzoeff

DIVIDED CITIES During the Cold War, certain cities became separated and divided in ways that could not be ignored. If Paris was the paradigm of nineteenth-century imperial cities, Berlin was ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )