 | (un) Fashion
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by Harry N Abrams
Hardcover
(01 November, 2000)
(3 reviews) 
Customer Review: Costume Party!: While he was alive Tibor Kalman spent his design career showing that one could find "high art" in the everyday world. |
 | 1001 Things Everyone Should Know/South
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by Main Street Books
Paperback
(16 June, 1997)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: About time!: It's about time someone compiled this valuable data concerning one of the country's most interesting areas. This book is great for Yankees AND Southerners alike. |
 | A Dictionary of Symbols
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by Dover Publications
Paperback
(16 September, 2002)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A sacred way of looking at the outer world: This is one of the most frequently used and most deeply pondered works of my permanent collection. |
 | A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 January, 2003)
(20 reviews) 
Customer Review: a wonderful and wonderfully thorough book: it's not often i pick up a non-fiction book as engrossing and entertaining as this one. |
 | African Ceremonies
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by Harry N Abrams
Hardcover
(01 November, 1999)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: By a recent count, the continent of Africa comprises some 1,300 cultures. Some of them number millions of people, some only a few families; some are thriving, while others are in danger of disappearing, |
 | Against Love : A Polemic
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by Pantheon
Hardcover
(26 August, 2003)
(43 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Less against love than against the cultural constraints that leads us to create wrong-headed ideas of love, this is book is the perfect antidote to any lingering social guilt about being happily single. |
 | Against the Grain : How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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by North Point Press
Hardcover
(15 February, 2004)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Questioning Common Wisdom*: I received this volume for review at the same time that Manning's article, Super Organics: Inside the New Science of Smart Breeding, |
 | AIDS in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback
(16 August, 2003)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A rare focus on the social and economic context: This is the only book-length exploration of the social and economic context of the the HIV/AIDS epidemics. |
 | Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America)
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 March, 1991)
(54 reviews)
Customer Review: A "must" reference for any serious historiographer!: "Albion's Seed" by David Hackett Fischer explains in clear understandable language how four waves of English migration to these shores in the 17th century forever impacted on who and what we would become as Americans. |
 | American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback
(01 September, 1994)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: "During the 1970s and 1980s a word disappeared from the American vocabulary," begins American Apartheid ". . . That word was segregation." But the practice of segregation certainly has not disappeared, as Douglas S. |
 | An Introduction to Japanese Society (Contemporary Japanese Society)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback
(06 November, 2002)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent book for Japanese Studies: This book should be required reading for any introductory course for Japanese Studies. Sugimoto presents a very unbiased view of Japanese society, |
 | Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(03 January, 1994)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Evolutionary stories about love, science and speculation: Love was once a popular topic for scientists. It lost popularity for a while as a 'fuzzy' and perhaps even unknowable topic of study. |
 | Ancestral Passions : The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
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by Touchstone
Paperback
(14 August, 1996)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Definitive Biography of the First Family of Hominid Research: Morell's astounding level of research reveals the Leakeys individually, |
 | Architects of the Culture of Death
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by Ignatius Press
Paperback
(30 October, 2004)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Provocative with a disturbing & honest view of our world.: The authors have done their research with this one! Each chapter highlights a modern thinker/philosopher who has been immortalized in our culture. |
 | Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience
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by Free Press
Paperback
(01 March, 1995)
(40 reviews)
Customer Review: Tour the mind of an economist: If you're remotely interested in economics, you should read this book; it's a hoot.Not too many books on economics could be described as a "hoot." |
 | Au Contraire! Figuring Out The French
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by Intercultural Press
Paperback
(01 January, 2001)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: "Don't leave home without it": French and American cultures are so close on the surface and so different underneath that if you plan to live in France for some time or if you live there already, |
 | Beyond Culture
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by Anchor
Paperback
(07 December, 1976)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: A must-read for "Diversity in the Workplace": Since other reviewers have summarized this book, my suggestion is to read it with present-day work environments in mind. |
 | Bigfoot! : The True Story of Apes in America
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by Paraview Pocket Books
Paperback
(08 April, 2003)
(23 reviews)
Customer Review: Hominds and logic...the rational view: 'Bigfoot', the very word brings forward an image of a hundred grainy snapshots of men bumbling around in monkey suits, |
 | Black Like Me
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by Signet Book
Mass Market Paperback
(01 November, 1996)
(116 reviews)
Customer Review: A Book Worth Reading: John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me, contrasts the lives of Blacks and Whites in the 1950's. I was mesmerized by the hateful encounters that the Black people went through just because of their skin color. |
 | Bohemian Manifesto : A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
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by Bulfinch
Hardcover
(02 November, 2004)
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 | Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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by Simon & Schuster
Paperback
(07 August, 2001)
(58 reviews)
Customer Review: Changed the way I think about life: I saw this book quoted in the newspaper and decided to read it. Now I'm almost done with it and have been amazed by nearly every page. |
 | Broken Empire : After the Fall of the USSR
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by National Geographic
Hardcover
(01 November, 2001)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent photography, but¿.: Gerd Ludwig photography is first-class but I wish written text had been as creative as the photographer's eye. |
 | China Streetsmart: What You MUST Know to be Effective and Profitable in China
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by Prentice Hall
Paperback
(14 April, 2003)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: Great Practical Information: My company division has just started doing business in China. I didn't know where to start and found this book to be a common sense guide to business.W |
 | China's New Order : Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover
(28 November, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A unique perspective on China, from China: Most Western perspectives on China fall into two (equally wrong)camps: the celebrations of the emergence of a new economic superpower reminiscent of William Gibson on 1980s Japan or the typical right-wing paranoia of China as the new enemy. |
 | Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's
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by Warner Books
Paperback
(01 March, 1999)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent book on how to behave in China: Very clear and easy to understand, I recommend that any business traveler to Asia read this to avoid social faux pas. |
 | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(25 March, 2003)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Wonderful panoramic view of the history of Delhi and India: William Dalrymple has a great writing style and a deep apetite for understanding the historical and cultural context. |
 | City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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by Vintage
Paperback
(10 March, 1992)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, |
 | Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate, and Professional
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by Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Paperback
(01 February, 2003)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: STERN'S MANAGEMENT REVIEW RATES THIS BOOK EXCELLENT!: The book is not solely dedicated to the international arena but for everyone who works with people from different organizations and backgrounds. |
 | Combatting Cult Mind Control
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by Park Street Press
Paperback
(01 October, 1990)
(28 reviews)
Customer Review: A good starting point: Cults don't exist to people in them. A cult is always something you can point a finger at and say, "that is a cult," |
 | Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools
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by Teachers College Press
Paperback
(01 April, 1996)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: This is not the entire picture: The person that reviewed this book so far cannot understand, maybe empathize, what the parents of these children endure in a society that is dominated by the notion of "whiteness". |
 | Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches : The Riddles of Culture
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by Vintage
Paperback
(17 December, 1989)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: Slaying the Sacred Cows: First published in 1973, Marvin Harris' book suffers slightly from time lag (it closes with a refutation of the now-defunct counterculture movement), |
 | Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters With Cultural Difference
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by Intercultural Press
Paperback
(01 April, 1994)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: excellent: This was a riveting read. very insightful and helpful in understanding cultural differences. I read it to learn more about american culture and found it helpful. |
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