Adam - Customs & Traditions 1

Wer war Maria Magdalena? Diese große, biblische Frauengestalt changiert in Kirche, Kunst und Gesellschaft zwischen dem Objekt des Begehrens und der Verehrung als Heilige, zwischen frevelhafter Prost……続きを見る

First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual iden……続きを見る

Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of the……続きを見る

Sick and tired of birthdays? Me too A series of brief but impassioned rants about birthdays. Each and every one of us has one - I have no desire to celebrate mine! I really couldn’t care less about ……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the fir……続きを見る

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to ……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Valentine’s Day? Me too A collection of short but passionate rants about Valentine’s Day, the most blissful, love-filled day of the year. It’s a celebration of romance and relation……続きを見る

Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types……続きを見る

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and househo……続きを見る

This piece of a drama book, Bophelo bya Modiri Lenyalong, is intended to excite the readership in the following critical areas: - Understanding of the overarching critical underpinnings of the Pedi ……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Halloween? Me too A brief series of rants about Halloween, the most frightening day of the year, or so they say. I don’t get too excited about it and am far from its biggest fan – ……続きを見る

Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Christmas? Me too A short and uncensored collection of rants about the excessively jubilant Christmas. I may be breaking a taboo when I admit that I don’t like the biggest day of t……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting……続きを見る

In "The Myths and Fables of To-Day," Samuel Adams Drake embarks on a compelling exploration of contemporary narratives that echo ancient mythologies and folkloric traditions. Through a blend of enga……続きを見る

A wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book that offers a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotismーfrom ancient Chinese clans to families like the Gores……続きを見る