social life and customs

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

Introduces the history, land, culture and economy of Mexico.

Looks at the people of Mexico, discussing their ancestors, festivals, religion, and more.

Presents the text to George Bernard Shaw's classic play "Pygmalion" about a professor of languages who sets out to transform a Cockney girl into a sophisticated lady, and contains explanatory and textual notes, chronology and background information on the author, and a critical analysis of Shaw's work.

Looks at the history of the Middle Ages from the perspective of children who lived in the era.

Photographs and text describe the customs and day-to-day life of a family living in the Himalaya Mountains.

A description of a prairie boy's summer including reading in the fields, rushing to get poultry in before a storm, and milking in a stifling barn.

The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

Provides information about the jobs people had during colonial times in America, how they learned the skills they needed, how jobs were chosen, and how modern work compares with that of the colonists.