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The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

By Judith Flanders

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

Food and Feast in Medieval England

By Peter Hammond

Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt

By Nefissa Naguib

The Arab Way: How to Work More Effectively with Arab Cultures

By Jehad Al-Omari

On Islam: Muslims and the Media

By Hilary E. Kahn, Rosemary Pennington, Arsalan Iftikhar, Peter Gottschalk, Zarqa Nawaz

The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity

By Barry Smart

Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

By Robert W. Hefner, Anver Emon, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Zakia Salime, Malika Zeghal

Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

By Hildi Hendrickson

Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa

By Adam Kuper

Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By Roy Richard Grinker

Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life

By Penny Edgell Becker (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Weird News Stories

Africa

By Alice Werner

Christmas!

By Stella Ross Collins

Christmas Crackers

By Peter Kimpton

Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today

By William M. Johnston

Culture Shock! Myanmar: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By Myat Yin Saw

Cannibal (PB)

French Leave: Over 100 Irresistible Recipes

By John Burton Race

Days of Majesty

By Simon Welfare, Alistair Bruce

Birthday Wish: Traditional Sentiments and Tokens of Birthtide

By Pat Ross

Four Corners: Days to Remember

By Robert Gott

Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End

By David Darling, Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Yemen Engraved: Illustrations by Foreign Travellers 1690 to 1900

By Leila Ingrams

The Bible Code 2: The Countdown

By Drosnin, Michael

A Tudor Christmas

By Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke

Strange But True

By Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson

Totemism

Happiness: A History

By Ben Weider Professor Darrin M McMahon