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La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
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Include books by the same authorThe Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Sarah Lyall · 304 pages
Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Michael Booth · 406 pages
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? This book deals with these questions.
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
Louis Theroux · 280 pages
A book that chronicles the author's travels among subcultures in america, including a man who claims to have killed 10 aliens, and a neo-Nazi whose daughters have formed a white power folk singing group.
The Undutchables: An Observation of the Netherlands: Its Culture and Its Inhabitants
Colin White, Laurie Boucke · 272 pages
Speelse karakterschets van de Nederlander door twee Amerikanen.
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell · 354 pages
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born, or mad
How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom
Franz Wisner · 308 pages
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty · 272 pages
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral indust
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
Benjamin Law · 288 pages
How To Be Danish
Patrick Kingsley · 151 pages
Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it's the motherland of The Bridge, Borgen, and The Killing, and home to Noma, the world's best restaurant. But though we wear their jumpers and watch their thrillers, how much do we really know about the Danes themselves?
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
Diccon Bewes · 310 pages
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz · 432 pages
Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. He joins "hardcore" reenactors; witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; finds that Ande
Tickling the English
Dara O Briain · 310 pages
Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin consumption and occasional violence ... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English.
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
Warren St. John · 288 pages
Author's first person account of events occuring during a season of Alabama football focusing on travel, game day tailgating, and post-game celebrations or mourning. Focuses on the fans of the team, why they follow the team, and why they choose to attend games.
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
Elisabeth Bumiller · 306 pages
Reveals the lives of India's women of all social classes, the Indian women's movement, population control and other issues affecting womens' lives.
Stephen Fry in America
Stephen Fry · 320 pages
Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London cab.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic journey across America, visiting eac
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Bill Bryson · 381 pages
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks
Poor People
William T. Vollmann · 464 pages
“The book struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and its quiet resignation. ‘Poor People’ allows the poor to speak for themselves, explaining the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms.” -Publisher
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta · 542 pages
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in sea
City of Lies
Ramita Navai · 301 pages
"Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts. Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the stat
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
Elaine Sciolino · 338 pages
Reveals the role of seduction in French culture while explaining how crucial the game of seduction is to understanding France, identifying seduction as a key ideology that shapes how the French conduct business, politics, and relationships.
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · 320 pages
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow · 359 pages