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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...
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...
Celebrity Tantrums!
ECW Press 2003; US$ 8.95The scandals, cat fights, temper tantrums, and felonies of more than 100 celebrities are revealed in this chronicle of the most notorious faux pas of the rich and famous. All kinds of unflattering provocations and outrageous reactions are detailed, including what pushed Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman over the edge and inspired him to... more...
The Dressed Society
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 55.00This exhaustive book demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender, and religion. It does this through an analysis of topics like the Islamic clothing controversy in state schools, the multitude of identities associated with dress, the Dress Reform movement,... more...
The 1980s and 1990s
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 42.00The last decades of the 20th century saw the fall of communism, the recovery of financial markets thanks to large gains in the technology sector, and fashion that ranged from the "shoulder-pad" 1980s to the grunge 1990s. The 1980s and 1990s will give readers a good background about these decades, the fashions and costumes popular during this... more...
The 1980s
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 42.00From the designer suits of yuppie men and women to ripped jeans to the mini-crinoline craze to the eloquent fashion sense of Princess Diana, the 1980s encapsulates a time when it became fashionable to make money and dress well. This work explores the enthralling history of fashion as it recreated itself through the popular trends of the eighties. more...









