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Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to create radical feminist sites of resistance. In what ways did zines document feminism and activism of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781333501761Author George R. SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 526g

This single-volume work covers many traditions, customs, and activities Westerners may find unusual or shocking, covering everything from the Ashanti people's funeral celebrations to wife-carrying competitions in Finland. In Maharashtra, India, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404055Author G Muir MacKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 898g

Virtually every aspect of American culture has been influenced by Irish immigrants and their descendants. This encyclopedia tells the full story of the Irish-American experience, covering immigration, assimilation, and achievement. The Irish have had a...

From explorations of video game series to Netflix shows to Facebook timelines, Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia helps readers understand what it is actually like to be nostalgic in a world that increasingly asks us to interact with our...

In this volume we are provided with a unique insider's perspective on the rich culture of the northern Chin area of Burma/Myanmar by S. Khup Chin Pau, who, as grandson of Chief Hau Chin Khup, grew up amongst the feasts of merit and clan funerals of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765120316Author Ken TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765116043Author Jonathan H. X. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909606555Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Spradabach PublishingPublisher Spradabach PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784473042477Author Soshitsu XV I SenPage Count 132Imprint Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.Publisher Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.

One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614934479Author Joanna HubbardFormat PaperbackImprint Peppertree PressPublisher Peppertree PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543768848Author Khoo Boo EngFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing SingaporeWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543768831Author Khoo Boo EngFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing SingaporeWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951737320Author Felix AntonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Antony MwauPublisher Antony MwauWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412005883Author Beverly ChalmersFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223836711Author C P KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint C. P. KumarPublisher C. P. KumarWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631398692Author Palmira JucevicieneFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Peter Lang GmbHPublisher Peter Lang GmbHWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357415439Author Bhupinder Kumar PallFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Blue Rose PublisherPublisher Blue Rose PublisherWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359392721Author Samuel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872620Author Eva March TappanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637237472Author Pierre MollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781117902968Author Pierre-Jean De SmetFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)Publisher BCR (Bibliographical Center...

From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358007329Author Amy Wilson-CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Lector House LLPPublisher Lector House LLP

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822953456Author GlimmFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

'Food Waste Philosophy' is a unique book that deals with food in a way no other book has. Disclosing the truth behind food, and how our food affects our lives, Shane Jordan documents his relationship with food from childhood to the present day. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563383199Author HORSLEYFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group - TrinityPublisher Continuum International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945408755Author Davidson SumoFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Village Tales PublishingPublisher Village Tales PublishingWeight(grams) 177g

As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to expand into news reporting. Why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What effects does this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589399662Author Samuel M RandolphFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633919471Author Alain BernheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 435g

'If the four-leafed shamrock was lucky, the hungry grass who quite the opposite, and very unlucky he who trod on it.' In point of fact if you trod on the hungry grass you almost expired of hunger -- for this is where some poor wretch died of starvation...

Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress 'ways' associated with a...

Mutated Symbols in Law and Pop Culture plays with iconic representations of fusion, liminality, dispossession, and development. Mutations embody life because they illustrate phases and progression. Mutations and mutants fascinate the public. They are...

For ninety years, young society women in San Antonio, Texas have donned custom-designed dresses and trains to take part in the Coronation of a queen and her court. These royal robes, which weigh fifty pounds and more and cost an average of $18,000, are...

Asian Cuisines: Food Culture and History of Asia from Japan and China to Afghanistan and Turkey (A Berkshire Essential) is a compilation of expert-written articles on national and regional cuisines as well as agriculture, important foodstuffs, and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633919402Author Pierre MollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 649g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605974378Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackImprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 186g