social life and customs

Covers the rich diversity of life in India, covering customs and rituals, artworks, artifacts, and temples.

Covers the kingdoms and peoples of pre-colonial Africa revealing traditional lifestyles, beliefs, skills, and crafts of the ancient continent, from the Sahara southwards.

Explores the life and times of the great painter, scientist, philosopher, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci.

Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Vietnam.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Recounts the true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.

Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, sets off a devastating chain of events when he falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife.

Learn about the cultural traditions, history, climate and politics of Indonesia. Travel to the city of Jakarta on the island of Java to take a trip to the top of the Monas monument, witness prayers in the Istiqlal Mosque, stroll through Old Batavia, and take a boat ride along the waterfront. Also take a trip to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, a theme park featuring pavilions that display the breadth and depth of Indonesian culture.