Barracoon
This nonfiction work is based on a series of interviews with Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of the Middle Passage slave trade in the 1800s. Hurston allows the reader to enter Cudjo's world through...
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How We Got Here: The 70’s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life (for Better or for Worse)
In How We Got Here, David Frum contends that it was the 70s, not the mythical 60s, that shaped American society into what it is now. At times a jeremiad, at times optimistic, at times provocative...
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
It is often said that the Church has a reactionary attitude concerning the progress of science and the novelty of ideas. The author starts from the premise that in general one has a caricatural vision of...
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures.
It is a posthumous book by the well known philosopher specializing in the medieval period, Umberto Eco (1932-2016). It contains some interventions of the author in the academic festival “La Milanesiana (...
The Aran Islands
A famous work about the history of the Aran Isles, in Galway Bay, where villagers spoke the ancient Irish rather than English. John Millington Synge, an Irish playwright, lived there for a few summers to...
Precious Cargo. How Foods from the Americas Changed the World
This almost coffee-table book is a collection of essays on how the foods from the Americas affected the food and eating habits of the peoples in the various continents, and how in turn some of those foods...
Culture Shock! India. A survival Guide to customs and etiquette
A book of the popular collection "Culture Shock”. Peppered with personal anecdotes, it gives practical advice to avoid cultural misunderstandings while in India as well as tips on how to find a suitable...
Inidia. An Illustrated History
Although not a deep study in Indian history it provides the reader with a brief version in about 150 pages and then with a short guide to the different religions, festivities, customs and rituals, food...