Cultural Studies
"Chaos and Order"Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
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"New Practices of Inquiry" series; Paperback, 312 pages. Size: 230 x 153 mm. Weight: 452g.
Author: (Hayles, N. Katherine, ed.)
ISBN: 0226321444
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date: 1991 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"China"A Portrait of the People, Place and Culture
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Includes seven hundred photographs to create a revealing portrait of China. This book explores several aspects of the world's oldest civilization: from landscapes, 4,000 year history to ancient philosophical traditions. With col. illustrations. Hardback, 360 pages. Weight: 2198g.
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ISBN: 1405316276
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"The City"Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century
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The editors of this text have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of the city of Los Angeles, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. Together the essays seek to create a new kind of urban analysis. With 58 illustrations, 15 tables. New ed. Paperback, 483 pages. Size: 232 x 155 mm. Weight: 730g.
Author: (Scott, Allen J., ed.)
ISBN: 0520213130
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1998 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Civil Rights Movement"
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"Blackwell Readers in American Social & Cultural History" series; This volume offers a collection of 12 essays covering arguably the most important American social movement of the 20th century. The readings cover pre-World War II activism to the era of affirmative action, addressing historiographic problems found in recent studies of the movement. With 0. Revised. Paperback, 344 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 658g.
Author: (Davis, Jack E., ed.)
ISBN: 0631220445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Claiming Individuality"The Cultural Politics of Distinction
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Individuality is interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book addresses an effort within anthropology to interrogate sociality. It illustrates the variation and ingenuity with which people in various settings claim diverse forms of individuality, their motivations, and the outcomes of their actions. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 220 x 136 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Amit, Vared, ed.)
ISBN: 0745324584
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Club Kids"From Speakeasies to Boombox and Beyond
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A visual overview of the young people who shape our societies, trends and is a celebration of the underground night culture. With 250 b/w and colour illustrations. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 200 x 230 mm. Weight: 782g.
Author: (Smith, Raven, ed.)
ISBN: 1906155542
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Cogito and the Unconscious"
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"[Sic] Series" series; The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that 'I think, therefore I am' - is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. This book challenges us to reconsider the fundamental notions of human consciousness and modern subjectivity. With illustrations. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 152 x 229 mm. Weight: 476g.
Author: (Zizek, Slavoj, ed.)
ISBN: 0822320975
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 1998 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Communities in Cyberspace"
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This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to the real one as lived out in todays societies. With 12 line figures. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 613g.
Author: (Smith, Marc, ed.)
ISBN: 0415191408
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"A Companion to Postcolonial Studies"An Historical Introduction
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"Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies" series; Examines the changes that have occurred in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. This book presents introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization. With illustrations. Paperback, 624 pages. Size: 246 x 172 mm. Weight: 239g.
Author: (Schwarz, Henry, ed.)
ISBN: 0631206639
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"A Companion to the City"
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"Blackwell Companions to Geography" series; Provides readers with an overview of the debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. With 8. New ed. Paperback, 656 pages. Size: 246 x 171 mm. Weight: 1117g.
Author: (Bridge, Gary, ed.)
ISBN: 0631235787
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Comte De Gobineau and Orientalism"Selected Eastern Writings
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"Culture and Civilization in the Middle East" series; O'Donoghue, Daniel (trans.) Offers an introduction, which contextualises Gobineau's work in the light of contemporary scholarship, and assesses its impact on nineteenth century Orientalists and modern Iranians, and its relevance to debates around Islam and modernity. With 1 black & white tables. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 547g.
Author: (Nash, Geoffrey, ed.)
ISBN: 041544019X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Cultural Studies
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"Conceiving Cosmopolitanism"Theory, Context and Practice
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The term cosmopolitanism has attracted many understandings and uses over the years. Covering the global, national, social and personal levels of analysis, this text considers the multiple meanings of the term and develops new ways of conceiving the term. Paperback, 326 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 423g.
Author: (Vertovec, Steven, ed.)
ISBN: 0199252289
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Consumer Society Reader"
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This volume is a collection of contemporary and classic literature on consumption and consumer society. From Karl Marx to Jean Baudrillard, it introduces students and researchers to the topics, themes, and preoccupations of 20th-century consumer culture. With 0. Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 244 x 172 mm. Weight: 612g.
Author: (Lee, Prof Martyn (Coventry University Uk), ed.)
ISBN: 0631207988
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1999 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Consuming China"Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
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"Consumasian" series; Examines the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People's Republic of China. This book suggests that it is not simply a symptom of economic reform within China, neither a product of the emergence and transformation of contemporary Chinese capitalism. It offers a fresh perspective on Chinese consumption. With 3 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white halftones. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: (Klein, Jakob, ed.)
ISBN: 0700714022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Consuming Germany in the Cold War"
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"Leisure, Consumption & Culture" series; Focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left. This book assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failure to create a viable socialist consumer society in the East helped lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With 10 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. First. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 340g.
Author: (Crew, David F., ed.)
ISBN: 1859737714
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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