Society & Culture: General

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholarsranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, T...

The fifth book in Thorogood's groundbreaking series of cultural guides takes Poland as its subject. Written in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewi...

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic. Inspired by the real-life drama of a romance between a Zulu boy and an...

Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of o...

Ten years later, they''re still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the Engl...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the anim...

Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents. It is a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradict...

Theres no feeling in the world like a fresh shave. Experience the nostalgia of a new haircut with every turn of the page as you traverse the 50 sta...

As interest in Russia increases, increased value and attention are focused on its history-rich ethnic dolls, and this is the only comprehensive res...

In this powerful memoir, Tasoula Hadjitofi reveals her perilous journey orchestrating The Munich Case -one of the largest European art trafficking...

This book examines the extent and nature of Irish social and cultural difference. It is a collection of twenty-three short essays written in a clea...

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapter...

Despite the relative calm apparent in Iran today, there is unmistakable evidence of political, social, and cultural ferment stirring beneath the su...

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapter...

This thoroughly updated third edition provides students with an accessible overview of Vygotskys work, combining reprints of key journal and text a...

First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a conclusion barely...