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Wasted Lives
Wiley 2013; US$ 22.95The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. As long as large parts of the world remained wholly... more...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the Present
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 200.00Find out what we wore and why we wore it in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing in American History-Twentieth Century to the Present. This fascinating reference set provides two levels of information: descriptions of styles of clothes that Americans have worn and, as important, why they wore those types of clothes. With volume one covering 1900-1949... more...
The Lore of the Playground
Random House 2010; US$ 26.69From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation, it emerges, has... more...
Middle Eastern careers in context
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00Mainstream work on careers tends to be situated within an individualistic paradigm and against a North American/Western European context (although frequently unacknowledged). This paper throws new conceptual and contextual insights on the career concept through its exploration of careers in the Middle East. It draws on articles included in two special... more...
It's True! Fashion Can Be Fatal
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 10.86The history of European fashion and fashion folly, this is the seventh book in the fantastic non-fiction series, It's True! more...
Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1976; US$ 210.00New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of domesticated animals and cultivated plants in the ancient... more...
Das Thema Kleidung in den Etymologien Isidors von Sevilla und im Summarium Heinrici 1
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 252.00This work provides the primary source as well as German translations, critical commentary, and overview discussions on the topic of clothing. more...
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 69.95Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions... more...
Riding costume in Egypt
BRILL 2004; US$ 144.00This work deals with the evolution and distribution of the oriental riding costume in the Middle and Near East through the ages and the historical background on the find spot. It also focuses on the original costumes in various museum collections including technical researches and reconstructions. more...









