Cultural

Cultural refers to books that depict a place or time and its culture.

New Releases Tagged "Cultural"

Kiss Her Goodbye (Frankie Elkin, #4)
What Hunger
Sunbirth
Women, Seated
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Behind Frenemy Lines
The Fourth Daughter
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Kiss Her Goodbye (Frankie Elkin, #4)
The Homemade God
Speak to Me of Home
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Rosarita
The Anthropologists
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
An Enemy in the Village (Bruno, Chief of Police #18)
The Original Daughter
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Sisters in the Wind
What Will People Think?
City of Night Birds
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieCinder by Marissa MeyerAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Diversity in Young Adult and Middle Grade
1,913 books — 1,212 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,349 books — 2,190 voters


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Kite Runner
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Pachinko
Esperanza Rising
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Joy Luck Club
Americanah
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Peter Ustinov
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter Ustinov

Naomi Wolf
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for th ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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