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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Jingle Bell Christmas
Portable Press 2012; US$ 12.95It?s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . again! Uncle John?s follow-up to his wildly successful Christmas Collection unwraps even more treasures of holidays past and present. Packed with more fun than an elf?s goodie bag, this anthology includes all the legends, lore, trivia, and history we didn?t have room for in the first Christmas collection.... more...
A Kosher Christmas
Rutgers University Press 2012; US$ 22.95A Kosher Christmas portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans through unique and innovative responses, including transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas; creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants... more...
The Search for the Beautiful Woman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 48.99While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness. For centuries, Japanese... more...
More Pages from the Red Suit Diaries
Baker Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.99With warmth, humor, and wonder, Ed Butchart shares more stories from his life as a professional Santa Claus in More Pages from the Red Suit Diaries . more...
Trick or Treat
Reaktion Books 2013; US$ 24.95Every year, children and adults alike take to the streets dressed as witches, demons, animals, celebrities, and more. They carve pumpkins and play pranks, and the braver ones watch scary movies and go on ghost tours. There are parades, fireworks displays, cornfield mazes, and haunted houses—and, most important, copious amounts of bite-sized... more...
The Body in Society
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization... more...
Living Across and Through Skins
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them. What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early ... more...
German Bodies
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 41.95Explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. more...
Thinking Through the Skin
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 62.95This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.... more...
Tattoos - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
ICON Group International Inc. 2003; US$ 34.95This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to tattoos. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students... more...









