social life and customs

Explores how children grow up in Iran.

Features an overview of Saudi Arabia as well as insights into how Saudi youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.

Readers explore the complex and unique civilization that developed in ancient Egypt with a strong focus on the most exciting aspects of this common social studies curriculum topic.

Examines the lives of ordinary Russians in Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center that is home to the Russian nuclear program, charting the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.

A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and sensibility" in which two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

"This book examines how material objects of the 20th century reflect dominant ideas and testify to the ways social change happens"--Amazon.

Presents an abridged version of Charles Dickens' autobiographical novel about a young boy who endures hardships as a child laborer, depicting the social conditions in nineteenth-century England.

Chronicles gentrification in New York City in the twenty-first century that is transforming the city from a metropolis of unique neighborhoods into a suburbanized luxury zone that only the richest can afford.

Moses Feldman and Mohammed Hassan both live on Flatbush Avenue, but when they meet at the grocery store they quickly become best friends, sharing a picnic while their families prepare for the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan.

Learn about the cultural traditions, history, climate and politics of Germany. Travel to the capital city of Berlin to see some of its famous sites: the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Berlin Wall. Operate a printing press in the German Museum of Technology, and play a harpsichord in the Museum of Musical Instruments. Also wander the halls of Sanssouci Palace, and attend an Easter service at the Berlin Cathedral.