Kategória: Életmód

America’s Favorite Holidays

America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidays—Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving—came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday’s traditions.

Who Needs Books? : Reading in the Digital Age

„We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of’the book’from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into web-surfing automatons and books themselves into museum pieces? The bogeyman of technological change has haunted humans ever since Plato warned about the dangers of the written word, and every generation is convinced its youth will bring about the end of civilization.

Hari Kunzru: A kaméleon

A történet színhelye és vázolt társadalmi közege egyébként kuriózum, a mi máshoz szokott világunk számára. Rettentően érdekes. Csak a leírással bajlódom. De majdcsak belejövök. Sűrű szövésű történet. Roppant érdekes. Tipikusan az a fajta, amelyikre azt mondom, újra elő fogom venni. Rengeteget lehet belőle tanulni a helyi kultúráról.

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year.

Beyond Boycotts : Sport During the Cold War in Europe

Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of’soft power’during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events’beyond boycotts’many and that unknown connections existed inside sport.

Emma Bloomwealth: Amerikai álom, nem luxuskivitelben : kivándorló nők és anyák a 21. században

A szerző maga is elsőgenerációs kivándorló, aki a riportkönyvével azokat szeretné segíteni, aki azon gondolkodnak, hogy Amerikában kezdenek új életet. Nők és anyák igaz történetein keresztül mutatja be, hogy mi vár rájuk, milyen tapasztalataik és nehézségeik voltak, és felhívja a figyelmet arra is, hogy nincsenek egyedül. Érdekes és manapság aktuális olvasmány.