Customs & Traditions
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How to Hygge: The Nordic Secrets to a Happy Life
$24.00 Add to cartThe “Danish coziness” philosophy is fast becoming the new “French living” in terms of aspirational lifestyle books and blogs. There are countless viral articles comparing the happiness levels of Ameri
- Author: Johansen, Signe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250122031
- Language: English
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The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday
$18.95 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Drawing on a wealth of research, this “fascinating” book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Ch… [more below]
- Author: Nissenbaum, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1997
- ISBN10: 0679740384
- Language: English
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Lost on Planet China: One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China–a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0767922018
- Language: English
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D?a de Muertos: Una Celebraci?n de la Vida Y de la Muerte / The Day of the Dead
$50.00 Add to cartEl D?a de Muertos forma ya parte del calendario de celebraciones en el mundo.
C?mo un ritual que fusiona algunas ceremonias ind?genas con el culto a la muerte en Europa se ha extendido por el planeta?
- Author: Holtz, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 6073916221
- Language: Spanish
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Bless Your Heart: A Field Guide to All Things Southern
$25.00 Add to cartHey, y’all. Welcome to the South! Viral sensation and TikToker Landon Bryant (@LandonTalks) presents his tongue-in-cheek “anthropological dive” into the food, fashion, linguistics, culture, holidays, … [more below]
- Author: Bryant, Landon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0762488328
- Language: English
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Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen
$45.00 Add to cartPreserving the Japanese Way, nominated for a 2016 James Beard Award in the International Cookbook category, introduces Japanese methods of salting, pickling, and fermenting that are approachable and e… [more below]
- Author: Hachisu, Nancy Singleton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1524894761
- Language: English
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Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and Bdsm Communities
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you’re a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there’s always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink.
While there are plenty of other boo… [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0937609587
- Language: English
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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
$19.99 Add to cartApples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States’ “most endangered food.” The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at “critical” risk for extinction. Unique date palms, fou
- Author: Lohman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086335
- Language: English
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The Henna Archive: A Step-By-Step Guide to 30 Designs
$19.95 Read moreWith detailed how-tos, evocative stories, and expert advice, this curated collection of 30 beautiful, easily reproducible designs by henna expert Azra Khamissa captures the past, present, and future o… [more below]
- Author: Khamissa, Azra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1797215892
- Language: English
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Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
$22.95 Read moreFive generations of Marnie O. Mamminga’s family have been rejuvenated by times together in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. In a series of evocative remembrances accompanied by a treasure trove of vintage fami
- Author: Mamminga, Marnie O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0870204912
- Language: English
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Costa Rica – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$12.99 Add to cartCosta Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the “Ticos”–its people’s own name for themselves–and its political stability. This “Switzerland of the Americas” is widely reg… [more below]
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Koutnik, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1857336658
- Language: English
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bruce, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0198822960
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Cookbook
$25.00 Add to cartThe Mississippi Cookbook was prepared in an attempt to collect, make available, and thus preserve the favorite recipes of fine cooks throughout Mississippi. Over 7,000 recipes were collected from all … [more below]
- Author: Service, Mississippi Cooperative Extensi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: December 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0878053816
- Language: English
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Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cartToques, mittens and scarves are all associated with northern climates, but the quintessential garment of Canadian knitting is surely the bulky and distinctly patterned West Coast cardigan. In the earl
- Author: Olsen, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1771622865
- Language: English
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Hidden Differences: Doing Business with the Japanese
$17.00 Read moreAn analysis and explanation of the unstated rulesof Japanese-American business relations. Bydrawing Western readers into the world in which theymust function, the Halls simplify the process ofadapting… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Edward T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 18 1990
- ISBN10: 0385238843
- Language: English
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The American Way of Death Revisited
$19.00 Add to cartOnly the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expos? of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When fi… [more below]
- Author: Mitford, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0679771867
- Language: English
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Tea Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Quips about the World’s Most Celebrated Beverage
$15.95 Read moreThis book is a beautiful collection of quotes, pictures, and illustrations on the topic of tea.
“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it w- Author: Fisher, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0804839786
- Language: English
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The Long, Long Life of Trees
$18.00 Read moreA lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings
Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankin- Author: Stafford, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228201
- Language: English
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
$19.00 Add to cart“Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe. . . . A] brave and honest book.”
The Strange Order of Things is a path
—The New York Times Book Review- Author: Damasio, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0345807146
- Language: English
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Nan Domi: An Initiate’s Journey Into Haitian Vodou
$21.95 Read more“This new and valuable book delves into the ‘interior’ experience of voodoo, as opposed to the usual outsider focus on ritual and cosmology. In telling the story of her own initiation and painstaking
- Author: Beaubrun, Mimerose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0872865746
- Language: English
