Cultural studies Books
Yale University Press Culture and Anarchy
Book SynopsisThis work argues for reason over anarchy and seems to advocate what many see as an elitist model of culture. This edition adds to the debate with essays from Maurice Cowling, Gerald Graff, Samuel Lipman and Steven Marcus.
£30.44
Yale University Press The Management of Conflict
Book SynopsisThis text offers a cross-cultural approach to conflict management. It identifies key features of constructive conflict management societies and evaluates three strategies of conflict management showing how each succeeds or fails, for example, the hostility in Northern Ireland.
£30.44
Yale University Press Most German of the Arts
Book SynopsisThis study examines the social, economic and intellectual factors that caused German musical scholars to support the ideological aims of the Nazis, and argues that many of the ideas that served the regime survived the Nazi period to influence the conception of music history down to the present.
£60.48
Yale University Press In the Shadow of War
Book SynopsisExamining how war has defined modern America, this text argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as important as the Revolution, the end of the frontier, and other watersheds in American history.
£54.91
Yale University Press A History of Gay Literature
Book SynopsisA full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. It includes chapters on significant periods of cultural history, on major writers, and on common themes.
£44.90
Yale University Press The Citys End
Book SynopsisFrom 19th-century paintings of fires raging through New York to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the movie "Deep Impact", images of the city's end have been diverse. This book investigates 2 centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and offers a perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.Trade Review"An informative and provocative read."—Tama Starr, Wall Street Journal -- Tama Starr * Wall Street Journal *"Erudite but lavishly illustrated."—Sam Roberts, New York Times -- Sam Roberts * New York Times *"The City's End explores the imaginative and often profitable ways that filmmakers, writers, and artists have blown up, incinerated, drowned or depopulated New York City. . . . Page thoughtfully analyzes why the city's ruination has been such an enduringly popular theme."—Ann Levin, Newsday -- Ann Levin * Newsday *
£46.01
Yale University Press Moses and Civilization
Trade ReviewWinner of the 1996 National Jewish Book Award (in the category of Jewish Thought)Winner of the 1996 Heinz Hartmann Award given by the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Winner of the best book in cultural anthropology from the American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the 1996 Boyer Prize given by the Society for Psychological Anthropology "This very important book is a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of the Torah that frequently illuminates texts that have been quite mysterious."—Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley"In Moses and Civilization Robert Paul confronts a baffling intellectual puzzle which, in a tour de force, he tackles with the skill of a master puzzler. Although not everyone will agree with his proposed solution, no one, whether Freudian or anti-Freudian, will deny that it is achieved with rare insight and intelligence. It is a genuine intellectual treat."—Melford Spiro, University of California, San Diego"Were the murders of the primal horde repeated in the saga of Moses, and did they lead to the birth of civilization and Judeo-Christian morality? Paul's hypothesis to this effect offers new understandings of the Bible, of Freud, of Western civilization, and of the primal horde as mythic paradigm rather than discredited reconstruction of ancient history."—M.D. E. Moore, m.d., co-editor with Bernard Fine of Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts and Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts.
£32.67
Yale University Press Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies
Trade Review"This is the most comprehensive collection of serious scholarly studies on Cassirer’s thought since the Library of Living Philosophers released its collection over fifty years ago. This collection rivals that one in scope and depth, and has the added benefit of historical distance."—Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University; Editor, Library of Living Philosophers
£34.89
Springer Healthcare Development Strategies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Springer Of Microbes and Art
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Balance Mothering the Mother
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Palgrave Macmillan Between Heaven and Hell The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
Book SynopsisIntroduction; Y.Slezkine & G.Diment - Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians: The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia; Y.Slezkine, - Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature; B.T.Holl - Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early Nineteenth Century Irkutsk Writers: G.Diment - Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1880s; J.R.Gibson 'Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud': Siberia and the Myth of Exile; H.Murav - The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860-1920; S.Watrous - Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections; N.G.O.Pereira - Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma; L.Toker - Vasilii Shukshin and His Siberia; J.Givens - Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature; J.Nichols - The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature; A.Barker - Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous People; B.Grant - A Paradise Lost? Siberia and its Writers, 1960-1990; D.GillesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Y.Slezkine & G.Diment - Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians: The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia; Y.Slezkine, - Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature; B.T.Holl - Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early Nineteenth Century Irkutsk Writers: G.Diment - Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1880s; J.R.Gibson 'Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud': Siberia and the Myth of Exile; H.Murav - The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860-1920; S.Watrous - Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections; N.G.O.Pereira - Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma; L.Toker - Vasilii Shukshin and His Siberia; J.Givens - Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature; J.Nichols - The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature; A.Barker - Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous People; B.Grant - A Paradise Lost? Siberia and its Writers, 1960-1990; D.Gillespie - Index
£76.49
St Martins Press Group Reefer Madness A History Of Marijuana
Book SynopsisA social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming of George Washington, author Larry 'Ratso' Sloman traces the story of our nation's love/hate relationship with the resilient weed we know as marijuana.
£26.28
Palgrave USA Method Acting Reconsidered
Book SynopsisMethod Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. It has not only shaped important schools of acting, but has been a fundamental constant of all American acting. This insightful volume explores Method Acting from a broad perspective, focusing on a point of equilibrium between the principles of the Method and its relationship to other theories of performance. David Krasner has gathered together some of the most well-known theater scholars and acting teachers to look at the Method. By concentrating on three areas of the Method--its theory, practice, and future application--the collection will serve to inform and teach us how to approach acting and acting theory in the 21st century.
£51.99
Palgrave Macmillan Women in the Medieval Islamic World
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and History; Gavin R.G.Hambly Three Queens, Two Wives, and a Goddess: The Roles and Images of Women in Sasanian Iran; J.Rose Women in Pre-Islamic Central Asia: The Khatun of Bukhara; R.N.Frye Zaynab Bint `Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shi'ite Devotional Literature; D.Pinault The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and `Fitna' in the 'Sirat Dhatal-Himma'; R.Kruk Sayyida Hurra: The Isma'ili Sulayhid Queen of Yemen; F. Daftary Women's Lamentations as Protest in the Shahnama; O.M.Davidson Heroines and Others in the Heroic Age of the Turks; G.Lewis Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj; M.Tolmacheva Sultan Radiyya Bint Iltutmish; P.Jackson Timurid Women: A Cultural Perspective; P.P.Soucek Conjugal Rights Versus Class Prerogatives: A Divorce Case in Mamluk Cairo; C.F.Petty Invisible Women: Residents of Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul; Y.J.Seng 'She Is Trouble...and I Will DiTable of ContentsIntroduction: Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and History; Gavin R.G.Hambly Three Queens, Two Wives, and a Goddess: The Roles and Images of Women in Sasanian Iran; J.Rose Women in Pre-Islamic Central Asia: The Khatun of Bukhara; R.N.Frye Zaynab Bint `Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shi'ite Devotional Literature; D.Pinault The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and `Fitna' in the 'Sirat Dhatal-Himma'; R.Kruk Sayyida Hurra: The Isma'ili Sulayhid Queen of Yemen; F. Daftary Women's Lamentations as Protest in the Shahnama; O.M.Davidson Heroines and Others in the Heroic Age of the Turks; G.Lewis Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj; M.Tolmacheva Sultan Radiyya Bint Iltutmish; P.Jackson Timurid Women: A Cultural Perspective; P.P.Soucek Conjugal Rights Versus Class Prerogatives: A Divorce Case in Mamluk Cairo; C.F.Petty Invisible Women: Residents of Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul; Y.J.Seng 'She Is Trouble...and I Will Divorce Her': Orality, Honor, and Representation in the Ottoman Court of `Aintab; L.Peirce Women and the Public Eye in 18th Century Istanbul; F.Zarinebaf-Shahr The 'Jewels of Wonder': Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran; M.Szuppe The 'Aqa'id al-Nisa': A Glimpse at Safavid Women in Local Isfahani Culture; K.Babyan Women in Safavid Iran: The Evidence of European Travelers; R.W.Ferrier Contributors to the Urban Landscape: Women Builders in Safavid Isfahan and Mughal Shahjahanabad; S.P.Blake Armed Women Retainers in the Zenanas of Indo-Muslim Rulers: The Case of Bibi Fatima; G.R.G.Hambly Private Lives and Public Piety: Women and the Practice of Islam in Mughal India; G.C.Kozlowski Women and the Feminine in the Court and High Culture of Awadh,1720-1856; M.H.Fisher Embattled Begams: Women as Power Brokers in Early Modern India; R.B.Barnett Sitt Nasra Bint `Adlan: A Sudanese Noblewoman in History and Tradition I. S.al-Hasan & N.McHugh
£75.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Rethinking Victorian Culture
Book SynopsisAt the cusp of literary and cultural studies, this wide-ranging critical anthology reevaluates Victorian culture in the light of the literature of the period and vice versa. Also, essays by eminent and emerging Victorianists offer a reassessment, explicit and implicit, of Victorian studies and its methodologies.
£85.49
Palgrave Macmillan Peace Building in Northern Ireland Israel and South Africa Transition Transformation and Reconciliation Ethnic and Intercommunity Conflict
Book SynopsisPolitical accommodation in Northern Ireland, Israel, and South Africa at the macro level may not, by itself, be sufficient to achieve the long-term goals of building peace and reconciliation. This book uses Lederach's peace-building model to explore issues which may provide a basis for transformation and a lasting peace in the three countries.
£85.49
Palgrave MacMillan Us Acting like a Woman in Modern Japan Theater Gender and Nationalism
Book SynopsisWeaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage.Trade Review'A sophisticated analysis of the relationship between the 'new theater,' the 'new woman,' the new nation, and the new empire in turn of the twentieth-century Japan, engagingly told through the stories of the two actresses who pioneered women (rather than men) playing women's roles on the Japanese stage. A meaningful and mesmerizing book.' - Carol Gluck, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPART I: SETTING THE STAGE Acting Like a Woman Modern Formations of Gender and Performance PART II: KAWAKAMI SADAYAKKO Wifeing the Woman Straightening the Theater Reproducing the Empire PART III: MATSUI SUMAKO A New Woman A New Theater Feminists and Femmes Fatales Epilogue: Revealing the Real Body
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera Sublimation and the Gothic in LeRouxs Novel and Its Progeny THE UNDERGROUNDS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SUBLIMATION AND THE GOTHIC IN LEROUXS NOVEL AND ITS PROGENY By Hogle Jerrold E Author Ma
Book SynopsisPART I: THE NOVEL: LEROUX'S DISTINCTIVE CHOICES AND THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS The Original Fantôme's Mysteries: An Introduction The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantôme's 'Unconscious Depths' and their Social Foundations Leroux's Sublimations of Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed 'Otherness' The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantôme and the Cultural Work of the Gothic PART II: THE MAJOR ADAPTATIONS: NEO-GOTHIC SUBLIMATIONS OF CHANGING CULTURAL FEARS Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of its Cultural Functions Notes IllustratiTrade Review'The book offers quite a remarkable account of Leroux's Phantom and its various adaptations, an account notable for the skilful combination of textual scholarship, cultural-historical research, subtle critical interpretation and innovative theoretical approach.' - Fred Botting, Keele University 'This book is a well-written, thorough, and engaging assessment that I would recommend as one of particular use to scholars interested in the Gothic novel, adaptation, opera, European history, and psychoanalysis and the novel.' - Joanna Aroutian, Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsPART I: THE NOVEL: LEROUX'S DISTINCTIVE CHOICES AND THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS The Original Fantôme's Mysteries: An Introduction The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantôme's 'Unconscious Depths' and their Social Foundations Leroux's Sublimations of Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed 'Otherness' The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantôme and the Cultural Work of the Gothic PART II: THE MAJOR ADAPTATIONS: NEO-GOTHIC SUBLIMATIONS OF CHANGING CULTURAL FEARS Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of its Cultural Functions Notes Illustrations Works Cited Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Shadow Boxing Black Feminist Politics
Book SynopsisShadowboxing presents an explosive analysis of the history and practice of black feminisms, drawing upon political theory, history, and cultural studies in a sweepingly interdisciplinary work.Trade Review"Remarkable...James reveals a radical tradition that could free us all." - Robin D. G. Kelley "With the publication of Shadowboxing...Joy James is poised to become a major figure among contemporary black intellectuals." - Mark Anthony Neal, Washington Post Book World "A provocative look at the dynamics of race, gender, and radicalism." - Ebony "An interdisciplinary and well-analyzed representation of radical black women fighting for rights and visibility." - Library JournalTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction Forging Community: From Segregation to Transcendence Protofeminists and Liberation Limbos Radicalizing Feminisms from 'The Movement' Era Contemporary Revolutionary Icons and 'Neoslave Narratives' Depoliticizing Representations: Sexual-Racial Stereotypes Fostering Alliances: Black Male Profeminisms Conclusion: Framing Feminism
£35.99
ABC-CLIO The Vietnam Experience
Book SynopsisBy examining those works, this book provides readers with a fascinating resource that explores America's ongoing struggle to assess the war and its legacies.This encyclopedia includes 44 essays, each providing detailed information on an important film, song, or literary work about Vietnam.Table of ContentsAdvisory Board Preface After Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other Draft Resisters Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory Experience Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon "Ballad of the Green Berets": U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam The Best and the Brightest: Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African-Americans and Vietnam "Born in the U.S.A.": Returning Home from the War Born on the Fourth of July: Disabled Veterans in America A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Vann and His Experiences in Vietnam Casualties of War: Atrocities in Vietnam Coming Home: Antiwar Vietnam Veterans The Deer Hunter: The Fall of Saigon Dispatches: Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive Fields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar Movement Fire in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society "Fortunate Son": Vietnam as a Working-Class War Friendly Fire: "Friendly Fire" Casualties and Stateside Grief Full Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic Training Go Tell the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in Vietnam Going After Cacciato: Desertion during the Vietnam War The Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of the War The Hanoi Hilton: American POWs Hearts and Minds: American Apathy after the U.S. Withdrawal Home Before Morning: American Nurses in Vietnam In Country: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Pharaoh's Army: "Survivor's Guilt" In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and the War The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia "Masters of War": The Military-Industrial Complex Meditations in Green: Drug Abuse in Vietnam "Ohio": The Kent State Shootings "Okie from Muskogee": Anthems of the "Silent Majority" Paco's Story: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans Platoon: Decline in U.S. Military Performance in Vietnam: Causes and Consequences The Quiet American: American Intervention in the French-Viet Minh War Rambo: First Blood, Part II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980s The Real War: American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and People A Rumor of War: "Americanization" of the War Song of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran Poetry Sticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family Networks The Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai Province The 13th Valley: "Humping the Boonies": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate "We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Rock and Roll Soundtrack to the War Winners and Losers: Women Correspondents in Vietnam Other Notable Works About the Vietnam War: Fictional Films, Documentary Films, Songs, Fiction, Nonfiction (Memoirs and Oral Narratives), Poetry, Plays Index
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ABC-CLIO South Sea Maidens
Book SynopsisWhile women from far off lands have always been presented as exotic and alluring, the South Sea maiden has come to symbolize feminine sexuality, sensuality, and romance of the South Pacific. This work looks at South Sea image-makers and the women they find so seductive.Table of ContentsAdventures in Paradise The Delicious Isle Beauty, the Beast and the Bounty The Nubile Savage Naked Encounters South Sea Fictions 20th Century Visions Revisions Bibliography Index
£70.00
ABC-CLIO Culture and Customs of Serbia and Montenegro
Book SynopsisWith their recently declared independence from one another in the aftermath of the breakdown of the USSR, Serbia and Montenegro are coming into their own, all while keeping their long histories of traditions and customs alive and growing.Trade ReviewA specialist on the Balkans, American journalist and travel writer Deliso does not take up the issue of recent events in Yugoslavia and its successor states nor the worldwide portrayal of Serbians as monsters. He includes just enough history to provide a foundation for discussions of the land and people; religion and thought; marriage, gender, family, and education; holidays, customs, and leisure; cuisine and fashion; literary and performing arts; and art and architecture. * Reference & Research Book News *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Chronology 1 Land, People, and History 2 Religion and Thought 3 Marriage, Gender, Family, and Education 4 Holidays, Customs, and Leisure Activities 5 Cuisine and Fashion 6 Literature 7 Media and Cinema 8 Performing Arts 9 Art and Architecture
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Salvaging Spenser Colonialism Culture and Identity Language Discourse Society
Book SynopsisSalvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.Table of ContentsPreface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Salvaging Spenser - 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text - Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland - Varieties of Englishness: Planting a New Culture Beyond the Pale - 'Who knowes not Arlo-hill?': Changing Places in The Faerie Queene - 'And nought but presed gras where she had Iyen': Royal Absenteeism and Viceregal Verses - How Milton and Some Contemporaries read the View - The View from Scotland: Combing the Celtic Fringe - Spensership: a Judicial Review - Select Bibliography: Spenser and Ireland - Notes - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Independent Television in Britain Volume 6 New Developments in Independent Television 198192 Channel 4 TVam Cable and Satellite
Book SynopsisSuccess out of near disaster, finances taken to the edge of bankruptcy, resignations - this volume tells the dramatic stories of the major new commercial television developments in Britain between 1981-92.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: CHANNEL 4 The Fourth Channel: Conception to Birth Countdown to Countdown : Setting up the Channel and Getting on the Air Programmes, Reactions and Progress 1982-87: 'The Isaacs Years' Politics, Scheduling and Selling 1988-1992: 'The Grade Years' PART TWO: TV-AM Breakfast-time Contract: TV-am Financing, Ratings and Resignation Dyke to the Rescue Wizard of Oz From Packer to Bond Exit TV-am PART THREE: OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ITC Cable and Satellite
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A History of Israel Macmillan Essential Histories
Book SynopsisAHRON BREGMAN is a Lecturer in History at Webster University, London and also a journalist for the Daily Telegraph and other national newspapers in the UK and the US.
£30.43
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Feminism and Youth Culture
Book SynopsisANGELA McROBBIE has written on young women and popular culture for many years. She is Professor of Communication at Goldsmiths College and the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture, British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry and In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion, Music.
£43.29
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Culture and Technology
Book SynopsisDr ANDREW MURPHIE lectures in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.JOHN POTTS also lectures in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
£43.29
Sarah Crichton Books Exit
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Random House USA Inc Beyond Culture
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Springer Rentseeking Institutions and Reforms in Africa Theory and Empirical Evidence for Tanzania
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Springer Cultural Heritage and Human Rights Cultural Heritage in a Globalized World
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Springer Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
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Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S. Priest and Parish in Vienna 1780 to 1880 Studies in Central European histories 15
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W. W. Norton & Company Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
Book Synopsis"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington PostTrade Review"[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty." -- Keith Thomas - New York Review of Books"Edmund S. Morgan . . . [is] a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. . . . The story he tells is of enormous interest and importance." -- Pauline Meier - New York Times Book Review
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W. W. Norton & Company Crying A Natural Cultural History of Tears
Book Synopsis"Highly readable. . . . A fascinating and thoughtful book."—Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Uncertainty
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bodies Exploring Fluid Boundaries Critical Geographies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin Out of the Natural Order
Book SynopsisJane Goodall reveals the ways in which the major themes of evolution were taken up in the performing arts during Darwin's adult lifetime and in the generation after his death.Trade Review'This well crafted and entertaining book makes a valuable contribution to this history of ideas.' - New Theatre QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter One: Out of Natural History. Chapter Two: Missing Links and Lilliputians. Chapter Three: Performing Ethnology. Chapter Four: Varieties. Chapter Five: Lowly Origins. Chapter Six: Natural Vigour. Notes and References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Time Space and the Unknown Maasai Configurations
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2004. Uncertainty is an aspect of existence among the Maasai in East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune, especially at their ceremonial gatherings, which exude displays of confidence, and generate a sense of time, space, community, and being. Yet their performances are undermined by a concern for clandestine psychopaths who are thought to create havoc through sorcery. Normally elders seek moral explanations for erratic encounters with misfortune, viewing God as the Supreme and unknowable figure of Providence. However, sorcery lies beyond their collective wisdom, and they look for guidance from their Prophet, as a more powerful sorcerer to whom they are bound for protection. This work examines the variation of this pattern, associated with different profiles of social life and tension across the Maasai federation.Table of ContentsPaul Spencer is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at SOAS and Honorary Director of the International African Institute. He has published extensively on age systems and pastoralism in East Africa; and the present work follows from his earlier books on The Samburu (1965) and The Maasai of Matapato (1988) both now reissued by Routledge.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Politics Queer Reading
Book SynopsisFollowing a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book''s agenda for a new form of cultural critique and a truly political lesbian and gay studies. Sinfield renews his call for an ''Englit'' that incorporates ongoing study of the cultures of ethnicity, gender and sexuality.Challenging the assumptions that have shaped the study of English literature, Sinfield engages provocatively with topics such as the gendering of literary culture, the sexual politics of psychoanalysis during the Cold War and the history of cultural materialism. He discusses such key figures as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller, Holly Hughes, Audre Lorde and Jeanette Winterson.This influential invTable of ContentsSituating Cultural Politics – Queer Reading (2004) Foreword 1. Shakespeare and Dissident Reading 2. Art as Cultural Production 3. Un-American Activities 4.Beyond Englit Notes. Texts Cited. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond the Arab Disease New Perspectives in
Book SynopsisPresenting bold and original insights, this book examines the policies and diplomacies pursued by Arab and Western governments, while discussing both the political and cultural roles played by the modern Arab World. It explores the various facets of the malaise affecting the Arab world, stressing the urgent call for reform and recovery, as well as the need to address major issues including inter-Arab affairs, relations with a hegemonic USA, and peace with Israel.In addition, the book provides new perspectives on a range of topics including Arab and Muslim diplomacy, literature, and culture; often as these interact with Western models and paradigms in an increasingly interconnected but challenging world. Employing a combination of disciplines and discourses, the book aids learners and policy-makers in better understanding the Arab worldâs successes and failures in its problematic relations with the West and modernity. Table of Contents1. The Arab Disease: Bittersweet Pills to Swallow? 2. Islamic Diplomacy: The Need for A New Vision: A Conceptual Approach 3. Modern Arabic Literature: The West as a Bridge to Freedom: A Bird’s Eye View 1384 4. George Bernard Shaw on Muhammad, Egypt and Palestine 5. The One and the Many: The Sufi Path to Social Responsibility: From Anecdote to Action? 6. Literature and Peacemaking: A Role Explored
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Muscular Judaism The Jewish Body and the Politics
Book SynopsisProviding valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.Trade Review'This is a seminal book. It is a book that any one interested in European thought from the 1860s to the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel must read. It is a book of depth and breadth; one that reflects the inordinate strength of a discipline about how to flex its muscles without embarrassment.' - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University'Presner's Muscular Judaism is evidence of excellent scholarship. His book is an outcome of a serious, illuminating, and original dissertation project that successfully integrates its insights into a well-established field of research and contributes to an ongoing critical discussion on the origins and implications of the Zionist discourse. The book is very well written, its arguments are clear and convincing. Presner's use of theory is useful but not exaggerated, and his historiographical methods are very productive' - Journal of Israeli History, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Origins of Muscular Judaism 2. The Rhetoric of Regeneration: "Clear Heads, Solid Stomachs, and Hard Muscles" 3. The Aesthetics of Regeneration: Martin Buber, E.M. Lilien, and the Aesthetic State 4. The Gymnastics of Regeneration: The Anatomo-Politics of the Jewish Body 5. The Land of Regeneration: Seafaring Jews and the Zionist Colonial Imaginary 6. Soldiers of Regeneration: The Military Might of Old-New Maccabees and the Great War. Concluding Remarks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reproductions of Reproduction
Book SynopsisReproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate the paternal metaphor. While this shift affects our understandings of everything from narratives to law to time, it also suggests a point of potential political intervention, allowing us to identify the full implications of these changes.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1a REPRODUCTIVE PREHISTORIES; Chapter 2 THE END OF POP; Chapter 3 LAW IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION; Chapter 4 UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION; Chapter 5 DIGITAL DAD;
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Taylor & Francis Globalization The Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Meaning of Video Games
Book SynopsisThe Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in todayâs culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningfulânot just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it also aims to enrich textual studies.Early video game studies scholars were quick to point out that a game should never be reduced to merely its story or narrative content and they rightly insist on the importance of studying games as games. But here Steven E. Jones demonstrates that textual studiesâwhich grows historically out of ancient questions of textual recension, multiple versions, production, reproduction, and receptionâcan fruitfully be applied to the study of video games. Citing specific examples such as Myst and Lost, Katamari Damacy, Trade Review"Steven E. Jones rolls his katamari through wonderful terrain, collecting insights about how video games relate to reality TV, otaku culture, British gift-book annuals, and our perspectives on outer space. The Meaning of Video Games draws on the methods of textual studies and on a solid understanding of games and how they are played. It is an enjoyable, edifying, next-generation book." -Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "In The Meaning of Video Games Steven E. Jones makes it look easy, effortlessly dissolving distinctions between media studies, game studies, and textual studies. Close readings become 'close playings' (and back again) as the book creates an interdisciplinary convergence culture every bit as mobile and networked as the objects of its study." -Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "This is a perfect case of a book hitting the market exactly when we need it. While there have been individual academic accounts of specific types and modes of games before, Jones's book is the first scholarly (and 'popular') study of an increasingly pervasive element of contemporary culture, deftly integrating the phenomenology of game design and game playing with the general textuality in which Jones wisely chooses to discuss both the creation and reception of gaming. Avoiding the pitfalls of a straight historical narrative, the author selects certain emblematic moments in the growth of games and games studies (from Lost to Halo to the Wii-and 'platform studies' -to the forthcoming Spore). He sets these exempla against a wide array of other disciplines and approaches: media studies, psychology, textual studies, popular culture, sociology, anthropology, and even 'literature.' Whether Jones has provided the last word on the 'meaning' of video games remains to be seen, but it will certainly inspire others to continue the search for such 'meaning.'" -David Greetham, City University of New York "Steven E. Jones rolls his katamari through wonderful terrain, collecting insights about how video games relate to reality TV, otaku culture, British gift-book annuals, and our perspectives on outer space. The Meaning of Video Games draws on the methods of textual studies and on a solid understanding of games and how they are played. It is an enjoyable, edifying, next-generation book." -Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "In The Meaning of Video Games Steven E. Jones makes it look easy, effortlessly dissolving distinctions between media studies, game studies, and textual studies. Close readings become 'close playings' (and back again) as the book creates an interdisciplinary convergence culture every bit as mobile and networked as the objects of its study." -Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "This is a perfect case of a book hitting the market exactly when we need it. While there have been individual academic accounts of specific types and modes of games before, Jones's book is the first scholarly (and 'popular') study of an increasingly pervasive element of contemporary culture, deftly integrating the phenomenology of game design and game playing with the general textuality in which Jones wisely chooses to discuss both the creation and reception of gaming. Avoiding the pitfalls of a straight historical narrative, the author selects certain emblematic moments in the growth of games and games studies (from Lost to Halo to the Wii-and 'platform studies' -to the forthcoming Spore). He sets these exempla against a wide array of other disciplines and approaches: media studies, psychology, textual studies, popular culture, sociology, anthropology, and even 'literature.' Whether Jones has provided the last word on the 'meaning' of video games remains to be seen, but it will certainly inspire others to continue the search for such 'meaning.'" -David Greetham, City University of New York "The meaning of video games - suggests Jones - is not intrinsic to the text, but is produced dynamically from the interaction between author and user, code and system, machine and human being. The pleasant digressions on otaku culture, reality TV shows and TV series such as Lost (which opens the volume) make reading The Meaning of Video Games pleasant, if not essential." - Matteo Bittanti, Videoludica "As his title promises, Jones successfully demonstrates strategies for understanding the meanings of video games. His six case studies present insightful analyses and exemplify how scholars might approach games using textual studies theories...Jones provides another fruitful contribution to the interdisciplinary network of game studies, offering close textual readings of specific game artifacts to illuminate how video games are the "quintessential social texts of our present cultural moment."" -Cinema Journal Spring 2009 Issue "Ultimately, Jones’ contributions in this excellent collection of more or less stand-alone chapters sums up with a wonderful exposition of the ceaseless movement of significance in the paratextual character of the human engagement with videogames." -New Media and Society 2009; 11; 641 Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The game of Lost2. Collecting Katamari Damacy3. The Halo universe4. The game behind Facade 5. The Wii platform6. Anticpating Spore Notes Selected Bibliography Glossary Index
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