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In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion in the northern Balkans. If left unattended, the entire edifice could easily collapse under its own weight. Through a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, the author demonstrates that communities living beyond the frontier competed for access to Byzantine goods and reshaped their identity as a result of continual negotiation, reinvention, and hybridization. In the hands of 'barbarians', Byzantine objects, such as coins, jewelry, and terracotta lamps, possessed more than functional or economic value, bringing social prestige, conveying religious symbolism embedded in the iconography, and offering a general sense of sharing in the Early Byzantine provincial lifestyle.

Set of 9 photographic puzzles featuring people from different cultures. Each puzzle includes traditional or festive dress as well as unique backgrounds and surroundings that help kids connect and promote social awareness and learning. Made of durable plywood, puzzles measure 9 inches x 12 inches and range from 7 - 12 pieces each. Accompanying posters describe each scene. PROMOTES MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS: Children can learn similarities and differences between people by exploring languages, locations, customs, ethnicities, wardrobes and more from countries around the world.; REAL PHOTOS ENCOURAGE REAL CONNECTIONS: Each 9 inches x 12 inches puzzle is a real full-color photograph of people in everyday or festive scenes from 9 different cultures. Real photos help young children connect with the images and promote social awareness and learning. ; VIBRANT SCENES FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Puzzles depict festive celebrations and everyday life from 9 different cultures. Kids will love assembling puzzles to reveal a family meal in China, an alpaca herder in Peru, Mexican dancers, tea service in Morocco, and more!; DURABLE WOODEN CONSTRUCTION: Puzzle trays and pieces are made of durable plywood for years of use. Laser-cut puzzle piece count ranges from 7 - 12 pieces that are easy to put together.; SEL: Supports social emotional development and social emotional learning.; CALM-DOWN TOOLS: Use this in conjunction with other calm-down tools to create a place of peace in your classroom.; diversity culture languages locations customs ethnicity wardrobe countries world multicultural globe multicultural puzzles multicultural puzzles for toddlers multicultural puzzles for preschoolers diversity culture languages locations customs ethnicity wardrobe countries world multicultural globe multicultural puzzles multicultural puzzles for toddlers multicultural puzzles for preschoolers

Allow young puppeteers to bring stories to life. Set of 8 puppets includes: Peruvian boy, Mexican girl, African boy, American girl, Russian boy, Chinese girl, Australian boy, and Japanese girl. How many puppet shows themes can your littles act out? The sky is the limit. The potential play scenarios will help develop the use of imagination and creativity while also enhancing social and language skills. Providing puppets from diverse cultural backgrounds is a fun way to instill a positive world view where individual uniqueness is celebrated. Machine washable and dryable to ensure your classroom or playroom cleaning regimen is simple and quick. CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: Children learn to celebrate diversity from a very young age. Providing littles with pretend play puppets helps them appreciate and celebrate the beauty of all. MACHINE WASHABLE & DRYABLE: Puppeteers unite. To keep classrooms and playrooms clean and sparkling shouldn't require a difficult cleaning regimen. These puppets are easy to clean. Simply machine wash and dry. SAFETY FIRST: Nothing is more important when choosing dolls or puppets for kids than safety. This set of puppets has no small, attached eyeballs and parts. Faces are screened-on for safety. Puppets are 9" tall. COLORFUL PUPPETS: Puppets are constructed using brightly colored fabrics to bring pretend play to life. Set of 8 puppets: 1 Peruvian boy, 1 Mexican girl, 1 African boy, 1 American girl, 1 Russian boy, 1 Chinese girl, 1 Australian boy, and 1 Japanese girl. AGES: 3 years and older. DIMENSIONS: 9 x 8 x 2.5 inches. WARRANTY: 2 years. puppets pretend play dramatic play multi-cultural puppets pretend play dramatic play multi-cultural

Introducing the iconic Stuart Weitzman 5050 over-knee boot, a cultural phenomenon since its debut in 1993. The half-and-half construction features a stretch suede front and stretch back, providing a flawless fit that is both stylish and comfortable. Handcrafted by artisans in Spain, this boot is a favorite of celebrities and SW Women worldwide. The suede fabric adds a touch of luxury to this timeless design.

Introducing the iconic Stuart Weitzman 5050 over-knee boot, a cultural phenomenon since its debut in 1993. The half-and-half construction features a stretch suede front and stretch back, providing a flawless fit that is both stylish and comfortable. Handcrafted by artisans in Spain, this boot is a favorite of celebrities and SW Women worldwide. The suede fabric adds a touch of luxury to this timeless design.

Introducing the iconic Stuart Weitzman 5050 over-knee boot, a cultural phenomenon since its debut in 1993. The half-and-half construction features a stretch suede front and stretch back, providing a flawless fit that is both stylish and comfortable. Handcrafted by artisans in Spain, this boot is a favorite of celebrities and SW Women worldwide. The suede fabric adds a touch of luxury to this timeless design.

Freestanding bathroom vanity can be set wherever you want; don't be concerned with the wall weight capacity. Also, gain more using space with the freestanding structure. The cabinet also needs to be installed on the wall for safety use, but just using the screw included. The cabinet frame is made of solid wood, which has stronger product stability and can prolong the service life, and the Vanity material is MDF with a free painting plate E1 class, which is good for health. Easy clean, and grand with the integrated sink made of premium material. The diversified gel basin design allows us to escape from the traditional countertop. The lines and shapes of the products bring us enjoyment that can not be provided by ceramic countertops or stone countertops. Features an overflow hole that prevents water leaks and spills. Color: Green.

2018 release. Cultural Daze has everything for the classic AOR rock fans wrapped up in a modernized production by Von Baltzer and a first class vintage rock mix by Swedish producer Magnus Johansson. While each song captures remnants of the 80s and 90s best rock artists from Asia, Bon Jovi, Boston, Toto and a musical hint of Yes, Von Baltzer clearly have a unique style and individual sound, while still appealing to fans of Bad English, Journey and Rainbow alike. Cultural Daze comprises of 10 me

This unique series is a comprehensive record of the greatest achievements in the history of western culture. Featuring the Medieval World, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolution and a New Vision - Impressionism.

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2016 release. Tippa Lee was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He started performing on his fathers Sound System as a child, standing up on a beer bottle box to reach the mic. He made his first recordings at King Tubby ' s studio at the age of 12. Eventually he teamed up with Rappa Robert and as a duo had a number of hits including "No Trouble We", an anthemic statement against police harassment, which was a #1 Jamaican hit in 1988 and is still played often

Western civilization has only recently tapped into the ancient wisdom of Chinese enlightenment, from alternative medicines to spiritual balance and so much more. Cultural Atlas of China embodies the history, geography, and uniqueness of the world's oldest civilization, providing readers with a guided tour of this momentous kingdom. This revised edition has been updated to include: a completely updated and expanded bibliography; coverage of Chinese environmental problems, Taiwan, and the Chinese Diaspora; new maps and photographs.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.

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More than any other sport, baseball has developed a niche in the American psyche. Researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HANK onward, all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball are covered (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. ADVERTISING, AGENTS, DRAFTS, ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES, SUPERSTITIONS, TRIPLEHEADERS, and YOUNGEST PLAYERS are among the thousands of subjects.

The book has practical guidelines for mapping the cultural resources of communities and devising and implementing appropriate cultural development strategies.

In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.

‘In the forty years it took me to write this book, I only gradually realized that the finished work, if it were going to be true to the pattern of my experience, would have no pattern... The book I wanted to write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell my best books to buy food, so I never underlined anything. When conditions improved I became less fastidious. Not long after I began marking passages for future consideration, I also began keeping notes in the margin beside the markings, and then longer notes on the endpapers... As the time for assembling my reflections approached, I resolved that a premature synthesis was the thing to be avoided. So this is a book about how not to reach one. If I have done my job properly, themes will emerge from the apparent randomness and make this work intelligible. But it will undoubtedly be a turbulent read, and if this book were not difficult, it would not be true.’ A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over 100 essays, it’s the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, it’s a book for our times – and, indeed, for all time.

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur.Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational.Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic.Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.

Trade Sized Paperback. First Edition. 188 pages with notes, glossary, bibliography and index. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright.All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Helping therapists hone their skills for working with diverse children and families, this unique volume looks at play therapy through a multicultural lens. Experienced practitioners examine how cultural factors may influence the ways children express themselves through play, the feelings they associate with different activities, and the responses of children and parents to particular interventions. Filled with evocative clinical material, chapters highlight specific issues to consider when working with African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American children. The book also provides suggestions for setting up a therapeutic playroom that is engaging and welcoming to all.