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The Social Animalby David Brooks
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done.... more...
Understanding Roman Inscriptionsby Lawrence Keppie
Routledge 1991; US$ 44.95This is the first comprehensive treatment in English to provide an explanation of not only the language of inscriptions but also the context in which they were produced. more...
Prom Nightby Amy L Best
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95Amy Best interviews countless teens about their prom experiences, and she looks at popular media to understand today's teens. more...
Geishaby Mineko Iwasaki; Rande Brown
Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 12.99GEISHA, A LIFE "No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out." Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains... more...
Clubbingby Ben Malbon
Routledge 1999; US$ 71.95Offering an informative and intimate insight into the world of clubbing and the experiences of clubbers, this book presents a clear academic framework for study in this field. more...
Thinking Through the Skinby Sara Ahmed; Jackie Stacey
Routledge 2001; US$ 58.95This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic. more...
Women of the Pleasure Quartersby Lesley Downer
Broadway Books 2002; US$ 13.99From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha. Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha . The reality of the geisha's existence, though, whether today or in history, has rarely been addressed. Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but, literally, "arts people." Their accomplishments include singing, dancing, playing a musical instruments; but above all, they are masters of the art of conversation, soothing the... more...
Carnivalby Milla Cozart Riggio
Routledge 2004; US$ 46.95This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. more...
Wearing of the Greenby Mike Cronin; Daryl Adair
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 23.95Published in paperback for the first time, the first book to chronicle the full history of St Patrick's Day explores the shared heritage of the Irish through the development of this unique national holiday. more...
Irish Parading Traditionby T.G. Fraser; Seamus Dunn; Valerie Morgan
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 125.00The book examines the evolution and current significance of the parading tradition in Ireland. Since 1995, confrontations over parades have existed side by side with the Northern Ireland peace process. The most bitter of these have occurred over the Drumcree church parade at Portadown and the Relief of Derry parades. Using a range of historical and anthropological perspectives, the book traces the parading tradition from the seventeenth century to the present. more...









