Footbinding for women on China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length. This practice may have begun in the tenth century as a whim of the Imperial court; by the twelfth century,...
“Why is Sex Fun? is the best book on the subject I've read. This lively exploration of our sexual heritage offers fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do.”— Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the...
The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why...
First published in 1935, The Crow Indians offers a concise and accessible introduction to the nineteenth-century world of the Crow Indians. Drawing on interviews with Crow elders in the early twentieth century, Robert H. Lowie showcases many...