Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Primitive Worlds: People Lost in Time 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The World’s Last Mysteries 

Social Studies

The Ways of Man: An Introduction to Many Cultures

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

The Real Flavour of Tuscany

Portraits & Recipes From 25 of Tuscany's Culinary Artisans

Margarita Engle

Slight edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.

Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.

Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her far-away family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita's worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: a Memoir

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Wade Davis

Pennsylvania

In this major new work, renowned anthropologist and bestselling author Wade Davis explores and reveals the awe-inspiring wealth of human diversity and makes an impassioned case for preservation of Earth's disappearing cultures. 80 photos.

Light at the Edge of the World

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Craig Storti

Nebraska

From the author of Why Travel Matters, the tools you need to bridge cultures and countries.

Adjusting to a new culture and getting along with the local people challenge everyone who lives and works abroad. Whether in business, diplomacy, education, or as a long-term visitor abroad, anyone can be blind-sided by a lack of international knowledge and experience and be caught at a disadvantage.

In this completely revised and expanded edition of the classic The Art of Crossing Cultures, Craig Storti shows what it takes to encounter a new culture head-on and succeed. This one-of-a-kind guidebook to bridging the cultural divide - with more than 50,000 copies sold worldwide - incorporates a stellar sampling of the writings of some of the world's greatest writers, poets and observers of the human condition.

Through the vivid perceptions and words of such literary legends as Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, and others, Storti paints an intimate portrait of the personal challenges of adjusting to another culture: anticipating differences, managing the temptation to withdraw, and gradually adjusting expectations of behaviour to fit reality.

This timely new edition focuses special attention on how to deal with country and culture shock and includes many new examples of cross-cultural misunderstandings - particularly in business. Storti breaks new ground with his easy-to-understand model of cultural adjustment and tips on how to master the process and develop adaptive strategies - the heart of the cross-cultural experience.

The Art of Crossing Cultures

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John Grisham

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever....

A Painted House

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Barnabas Kindersley

Anabel Kindersley

Susan E. Copsey

Harry Belafonte

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THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU - THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. As Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), I have traveled across the globe and met children and their families living in remarkably ditterent communities. Some of you live in rural villages, others in crowded cities. You live in rain forests, deserts, mountains, on islands, and some of you brave the cold of the Arctic tundra.
Your foods are different, your dress, your homes, your games, and your beliefs. You should be proud of these differences and celebrate your individual and unique cultures.
Yet as I travel, it is not the differences that strike me, but rather the magnificent similarities that make you all very much alike. You all have curiosity, fears, hopes, and dreams - as well as an extraordinary gift to open your hearts to others.
Wherever you live, you are entitled to protection and support by adults like me. These are your rights, and they are clearly outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a legal document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, signed and ratified by nearly every country in the world. It details your rights - to health care; food, education, play, shelter, and above all, to protection against violence, discrimination, and exploitation. This is your "constitution," and it belongs to you. It is written so that your voices are heard and that you really do come first.
In 1996, UNICEF celebrates 50 years of work for you - the children of the world. Mostly, it will be a celebration to honor you - all of you - and to pledge our support at UNICEF for the next 50 years to protecting your dreams and your future.
HARRY BELAFONTE, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR UNICEF

Damage to bottom corners of book.

Washington

Children Just Like Me is a celebration of children around the world, published to coincide with UNICEF's 50th anniversary. For the past two years, a photographer and teacher have traveled to five continents to meet and talk to children from many different walks of like. Children will enjoy reading about the dreams and beliefs, hopes and fears, and day-to-day events of other children's lives, understanding not just the obvious differences between one another, but discovering the extraordinary similarities. Children are encouraged to participate in a special pen pal arrangement, so that they may share their own experiences with children in other countries.

Children Just Like Me

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Retired school library book. Previous owners information has been marked out on the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition. 

North Carolina

A World of Shoes

Utah

Peace is the only culture for both man and the universe 

The Age of Peace

Gillian Tett

The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking down Barriers

From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments--silos--hinders our work...and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation.

One of the characteristics of industrial age enterprises is that they are organized around functional departments. This organizational structure results in both limited information and restricted thinking. The Silo Effect asks these basic questions: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as psychologist Daniel Kahneman put it, are we sometimes so "blind to our own blindness"?

Gillian Tett, journalist and senior editor for the Financial Times, answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg's City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead. These are stories of failure and success.

From ideas about how to organize office spaces and lead teams of people with disparate expertise, Tett lays bare the silo effect and explains how people organize themselves, interact with each other, and imagine the world can take hold of an organization and lead from institutional blindness to 20/20 vision.

The Silo Effect

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Kate Needham

Retired school library book. Previous owners information is marked out on the inside of the front and back covers. Interior pages are in excellent condition. 

Discusses the purpose of eating, nutrition, food sources, and famine. Suggested level: primary.

Why Do People Eat?

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Thu Buu

HC no dust jacket. Tight binding. Pages like new 

Inspired by the subtle yet unique differences in the notion of love between American and Vietnamese cultures, Where Thuong Keeps Love is a beautiful exploration of the nonverbal ways love is held and stored in every part of the body. A young Vietnamese girl tries to figure out where to keep her love for her parents. In her head where she thinks happy thoughts? Or in her mouth where she says special words? She decides to ask her friends at school and comes to realize that love is not limited to any one expression. There are many ways to love! A sweet story for families, this book teaches young kids different parts of the body while showing different ways love and affection can be expressed quietly yet still clearly and beautifully. Included at the back is a note from the author about Vietnamese culture's perspective on love and a glossary for Vietnamese words used in the story.

Where Thuong Keeps Love

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This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear  inside. There is slight wear on the hard back cover. Will package the book carefully. Will ship within  hours after your order is in. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

The children come running  F307

Gurjinder Basran

Hardly any evidence of wear but previous owner wrote their name inside

Virginia

Meena, a sixth daughter of a widowed mother, struggles to bridge cultural gaps between her family's India traditions and her North American upbringing, a situation that is further challenged by her love for a man who asks her to run away with him.

Everything Was Good-Bye

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Tricia Elam Walker

HC no dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

Winner of the 2021 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award!
 
In this moving story that celebrates cultural diversity, a shy girl brings her West African grandmother--whose face bears traditional tribal markings--to meet her classmates. This is a perfect read for back to school!

It is Grandparents Day at Zura's elementary school, and the students are excited to introduce their grandparents and share what makes them special. Aleja's grandfather is a fisherman. Bisou's grandmother is a dentist. But Zura's Nana, who is her favorite person in the world, looks a little different from other grandmas. Nana Akua was raised in Ghana, and, following an old West African tradition, has tribal markings on her face. Worried that her classmates will be scared of Nana--or worse, make fun of her--Zura is hesitant to bring her to school. Nana Akua knows what to do, though. With a quilt of traditional African symbols and a bit of face paint, Nana Akua is able to explain what makes her special, and to make all of Zura's classmates feel special, too.

Nana Akua Goes to School

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Charles P. Graves

HC no dust jacket. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

Examines the political forces and personal ambition that drove Marco Polo in his explorations.

Marco Polo (Junior World Explorers)

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Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back covers. Interior pages are in good. The first page is torn about 2” from the bottom and has not been repaired. 

AFRICAN TRADITIONS

Ashanti to Zulu

Michigan

Explore & Learn Volume 4

People in Place and Time

Isabella Hammad

New York

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.

Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to study medicine in France, and falls in love. When Midhat returns to Nablus to find it under British rule, and the entire region erupting with nationalist fervor, he must find a way to cope with his conflicting loyalties and the expectations of his community. The story of Midhat's life develops alongside the idea of a nation, as he and those close to him confront what it means to strive for independence in a world that seems on the verge of falling apart.

Against a landscape of political change that continues to define the Middle East, The Parisian explores questions of power and identity, enduring love, and the uncanny ability of the past to disrupt the present. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction.

The Parisian

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#hardcover #cultures #family #farming #southern #johngrisham

Fred Goodman

Arizona

Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce

In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-roll business. Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How did this change happen? From the moment Pete Seeger tried to cut the power at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival debut of Bob Dylan's electric band, rock's cultural influence and business potential have been grasped by a rare assortment of ambitious and farsighted musicians and businessmen. Jon Landau took calls from legendary producer Jerry Wexler in his Brandeis dorm room and went on to orchestrate Bruce Springsteen's career. Albert Grossman's cold-eyed assessment of the financial power at his clients' fingertips made him the first rock manager to blaze the trail that David Geffen transformed into a superhighway. Dylan's uncanny ability to keep his manipulation of the business separate from his art and reputation prefigured the savvy -- and increasingly cynical -- professionalism of groups like the Eagles. Fred Goodman, a longtime rock critic and journalist, digs into the contradictions and ambiguities of a generation that spurned and sought success with equal fervor.The Mansion on the Hill, named after a song title used by Hank Williams, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen, breaks new ground in our understanding of the people and forces that have shaped the music. From the Hardcover edition.

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Primitive Worlds: People Lost in Time

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The World’s Last Mysteries

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The Ways of Man: An Introduction to Many Cultures

Lori De Mori and Jason Lowe

Portraits & Recipes From 25 of Tuscany's Culinary Artisans

Margarita Engle

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: a Memoir

Wade Davis

Light at the Edge of the World

Craig Storti

The Art of Crossing Cultures

John Grisham

A Painted House

Barnabas Kindersley; Anabel Kindersley; Susan E. Copsey; Harry Belafonte

Children Just Like Me

Della Rowland

A World of Shoes

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Age of Peace

Gillian Tett

The Silo Effect

Kate Needham

Why Do People Eat?

Thu Buu; Illustrated by Bao Luu

Where Thuong Keeps Love

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The children come running F307

Gurjinder Basran

Everything Was Good-Bye

Tricia Elam Walker; Illustrated by April Harrison

Nana Akua Goes to School

Charles P. Graves

Marco Polo (Junior World Explorers)

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Where Thuong Keeps Love

Margaret Musgrove

Ashanti to Zulu

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