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The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims by A. Basham
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:A. Basham [Basham, A.]

The Evolution of the Great Vehicle It is never claimed in the Pali scriptures that the Buddha was in any way supernatural. His supreme insight was gained by his own ...
( Category: India April 24,2015 )
Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-10-17 | Author:Fatema Mernissi

1. Hilal al-Sabi, Rusum dar al Khilafa (Rules and Regulations of the Abbasid Court), translated by Elie Salem (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1977), p. 21. Hilal al-Sabi died in ...
( Category: Cultural April 5,2015 )
Tailor of Inverness, The by Zajac Matthew
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Zajac, Matthew [Matthew Zajac]

Diversity was the buzzword in Berlin in 2002. Still painfully conscious of the crimes of fascism (though less so of the crimes of communism: the communist period, though full of ...
( Category: Cultural March 22,2015 )
Primates of Park Avenue by Martin Wednesday
epub |eng | | Author:Martin,Wednesday

CHAPTER FIVE A Girls’ Night In Fieldnotes The natives seem to have accepted me. After many months of observing their tribal ways, countless attempts to mimic and participate in their ...
( Category: Motherhood March 22,2015 )
Virgin: The Untouched History by Blank Hanne
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Blank, Hanne [Blank, Hanne]

CHAPTER 9 Heaven and Earth Valde durum est contradiciere quod habet gustus pomi. It is so hard to deny things that taste of the apple. —Saint Hildegard of Bingen THE ...
( Category: Sexuality March 21,2015 )
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Forrest Carter

The cabin looked crazy and tilted when I run into the clearing, and I tried to yell for Granma … but nothing would come out. I fell through the kitchen ...
( Category: Biographical March 16,2015 )
Modern Chinas Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West by Hsiao-ting Lin
mobi |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Hsiao-ting Lin

* * * 6 Reconfiguring ethnic frontier territoriality The summit, rising prestige, and grand planning In the fall of 1943, when Chiang Kai-shek was invited to meet with Allied leaders ...
( Category: Cultural March 15,2015 )
The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence by edited by Susanna B. Hecht Kathleen D. Morrison & Christine Padoch
epub |eng | | Author:edited by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison & Christine Padoch [Hecht, Susanna B.]

Narratives of Change: Northern Laos Across the border in Northern Laos a different story has unfolded.4 Postwar political insecurity until the mid-1980s prevented active development efforts in the uplands; government ...
( Category: Botany March 14,2015 )
Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal by Daniel Cloud
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Daniel Cloud

Fortunately, however, the people who study cultural evolution already have thought about the question of what sort of cognitive capabilities are needed for the evolution of a human cumulative culture, ...
( Category: Linguistics March 9,2015 )
The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us by Sheril Kirshenbaum
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Sheril Kirshenbaum [Kirshenbaum, Sheril]

What His Nose Knows In 2000, psychologists in Texas conducted a study similar to Wedekind’s experiment. Seventeen women—who, importantly, were not using hormonal contraceptives at the time—wore the same T-shirt ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 4,2015 )
Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Savage

I ate my Danish as I walked through the trade show in an adjacent ballroom, checking out the super-plus-size T-shirts, jeans, lingerie, and swimsuits. At one table I picked up ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 4,2015 )
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
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 )
A Chinaman's Chance by Eric Liu
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 )
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Gooden Philip
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 )
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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 )

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