Nature's Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture
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Leaves are all around us in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks...
America's Disaster Culture: The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events...
Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet
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What do we mean when we call any group a cult? Defining that term is a slippery proposition - the...
Mix it Up: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
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Mix It Up demonstrates how a sociological perspective can help us better understand popular culture...
Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture
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Through revisiting and challenging what we think we know about the work of Edward Burnett Tylor, a...
Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture
Alison Clarke and Elana Shapira
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Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture considers the lasting contribution made by Central...
India: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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India s population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each...
Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
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How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For...