A nationwide listing of folk customs and practices, both past and present, in the British Isles. The book covers events around the country such as April Noddy Day, the Furry Dance and clipping the church, alongside more familiar commemorations such as Guy Fawkes, Ash Wednesday and hot cross buns.

A dictionary of British folk customs

Hole, Christina

Reference

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The author argues against the idea that history is bunk and suggests that today is only possible because of the changes that took place yesterday. His philosophy of history is supported by examples drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. From the author of the Psychoanalytic Movement.

Plough, sword, and book: The structure of human history

GELLNER, ERNEST

History

“The first accessible book about menstruation as a human reality . . . entirely praiseworthy.”—The Sunday TimesThis is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing or curse?This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes toward a natural phenomenon that has been reviled and denigrated over the centuries. Thoroughly researched yet highly readable, combining psychology, anthropology, and poetry, Shuttle and Redgrove illustrate their theories using examples ranging from the Bible to such modern-day pop horrors as vampire movies and the cult film The Exorcist.

The wise wound: Menstruation and everywoman

Politics & Social Sciences

Margaret Drabble

Penelope Shuttle

Peter Redgrove

Women's Studies

What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

What is masculinity? Drawing on psychoanalysis and an understanding of ideology, Easthope shows how the masculine myth forces men to try to be masculine and only masculine, denying their feminine side. In an original contribution to the understanding of gender, he analyzes masculinity as it is represented in a wide range of mass media --films, television, newspapers, pop music, and pop novels. Why are two men in a John Wayne western more concerned with each other than with the women in their lives? Is aggressive male banter a sign that men hate or love each other? Why does a jealous man always have to see his rival? Written in lively, witty, and accessible style, What a Man's Gotta Do is certain to become controversial but essential reading.

What a man's gotta do: The masculine myth in popular culture

Easthope,Antony

Social Sciences

Why do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.The first edition of A New Science of Life created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal Nature called it "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake's hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition.

A new science of life: The hypothesis of formative causation

Science & Math

Rupert Sheldrake

Biological Sciences

Begins at the birth of science fiction, with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and studies the development of the genre to its present position in contemporary literature

Trillion Year Spree ; the History of Science Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Aldiss, Brian: Wingrove, David

World Literature

No markings. A nice copy with very moderate wear. contains some photographic illustrations.

Sean O'Casey

Biographies & Memoirs

O'CONNOR, GARRY

Community & Culture

Views from Abroad: The Spectator Book of Travel Writing

Travel

The Journey To The East

Hermann, Hesse

Contemporary

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