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Skin
University of California Press 2006; US$ 13.56We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that... more...
The Body
Bloomsbury Publishing 2008; US$ 99.95Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking. more...
Fearful Symmetries
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 88.40Often labelled rituals or customs, male circumcision and female excision are also irreversible amputations of human genitalia, with disastrous and at times life-long consequences for both males and females. However, scholars and activists alike have b more...
Bodies
Profile 2010; US$ 14.38In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, and eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - are growing daily, affecting children as young as six. In China, women are having... more...
Christmas in Germany
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 52.50For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice rituals of pagan "Teutonic" tribes, the celebration... more...
Now You Know Christmas
Dundurn 2007; US$ 9.99From oversized socks filled with treats to firs in living rooms and strange stories and songs, Christmas makes us all scratch our heads every now and then to wonder why we celebrate the way that we do. In Now You Know Christmas , Doug Lennoxs helps everyone make sense out of the holiday season. more...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer
Chicken Soup for the Soul 2010; US$ 14.95Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer will warm readers? hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love and joy. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart. Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members, watch the wonder in a child?s eyes, and feel the joy of giving... more...
How to be Brilliant at Christmas Time
Andrews UK 2010; US$ 17.99Blackline masters written by a working primary teacher who appreciates the need for Christmas activities which are great fun, easily administered and also worthwhile and relevant within the curriculum. Many of the sheets are language and maths based. Others deal with religious education, art and design, and other areas of the curriculum. more...
Breasts
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Breasts: The Women?s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men?s and... more...
Beauty Pays
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 17.95Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates... more...









