Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Beyond culture Beyond culture Edward Twitchell Hall,Edward T. Hall TABLE OF CONTENTS: The paradox of culture -- Man as extension -- Consistency and life -- Hidden culture -- Rhythm and body movement -- Context and meaning -- Contexts, high and low -- Why context? --… OL1622239W
Anti-intellectualism in American life Anti-intellectualism in American life Richard Hofstadter Portrays the rise of anti-intellectualism in America during the McCarthy era. OL2465582W
De oude Grieken De oude Grieken Matilde Bardi Aan de hand van vele kleurenillustraties wordt een beeld gegeven van de oude Griekse cultuur. Behandeld worden o.a. de handel en kolonies, het hellenistisch tijdperk en de godsienst en goden. Vanaf c… OL24806247W
Medieval civilization, 400-1500 Medieval civilization, 400-1500 Jacques Le Goff This 1000-year history of the civilization of western Europe has been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a boo… OL24842216W
Mijn Frankrijk Mijn Frankrijk Jelle Noorman Bespiegelingen van een historicus over de Franse cultuur. OL26182034W
In the museum of Maya culture In the museum of Maya culture Quetzil E. Castañeda "Very interesting discussion of the ways in which anthropology, tourism, archaeology, and popular culture all contribute to the creation of the Maya as a social unit and Chichén Itzá as a place"--H… OL3239288W
Nervous acts Nervous acts G. S. Rousseau "Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-centur… OL4210917W
Making San Francisco American Making San Francisco American Barbara Berglund This book attempts to explain how the racially mixed and roughly egalitarian culture of mining-era SF was gradually molded into something acceptable to “cultured” Americans – both to the nouveau rich… OL8330614W