Cultural Studies
"Unit Operations"An Approach to Videogame Criticism
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Suggests that any medium - from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art - can be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of meaning. This title illustrates this method of analysis with examples from all these fields. It offers a methodology for videogame criticism. Paperback, 264 pages. Size: 229 x 178 mm. Weight: 417g.
Author: Bogost, Ian
ISBN: 0262524872
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Medical Marijuana Law"
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A comprehensive guide to using medical marijuana. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 210 x 140 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Boire, Richard Glen Feeney, Kevin
ISBN: 1579510345
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Growing Up in a Culture of Respect"Child Rearing in Highland Peru
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Offers an account of child-rearing practices in the high Peruvian Andes. This book traces children's lives from birth to adulthood and features strategies of child rearing, as well as ways of living that allow teenagers to enjoy the adolescent stage of their lives while contributing to the welfare of their families and the community. With 2 line drawings, 43 halftones. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 229 x 155 mm. Weight: 71g.
Author: Bolin, Inge
ISBN: 0292712987
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Xenophobe's Guide to the Dutch"
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"Xenophobe's Guides" series; Rev ed. Paperback, 96 pages. Size: 178 x 1116 mm. Weight: 68g.
Author: Bolt, Rodney
ISBN: 1906042284
Publisher: Oval Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"The Idea of the West"Culture, Politics and History
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The West is on everyone's lips: it is defended, celebrated, hated. But how and why did it emerge? And whose idea is it? This book is about representations of the West. With maps. Paperback, 216 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 61g.
Author: Bonnett, Alastair
ISBN: 1403900353
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Race Game"Sport and Politics in South Africa
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"Sport in the Global Society" series; In this book Douglas Booth takes a fresh look at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. With 2 maps, 10 photographs, bibliography. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 595g.
Author: Booth, Douglas
ISBN: 0714643548
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Unbearable Weight"Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. The author's new preface brings the book up to date, adding to the ranks of the increasingly important research on women and their bodies. With 55 b&w photographs. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 398 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 651g.
Author: Bordo, Susan
ISBN: 0520240545
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Homo Academicus"
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A sociological analysis of modern intellectual culture, aiming to show that the academy is not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed. Key figures such as Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Derrida are discussed. With 0. New ed. Paperback, 376 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 554g.
Author: Bourdieu, Pierre
ISBN: 0745608310
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1990 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture"
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"Published in Association With Theory, Culture & Society" series; Nice, Richard (trans.) One of the most frequently cited texts on the sociology of education, this reissue includes a new introduction reflecting on the work's place in the development of sociology in the areas of education and culture. The book connects cultural phenomena to the structure of society. With tables, figures, diagrams, bibliography, index. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 370g.
Author: Bourdieu, Pierre Passeron, Jean-Claude
ISBN: 0803983204
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1990 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Sex, Death and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture"
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The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD created the most elaborate system of iconographic representation of any ancient Peruvian culture. This book raises the analysis of Moche iconography to a level through a study of visual representations of rituals involving sex, death, and sacrifice. With 259 b&w illustrations, 24 colour photographs in 16 page section. Hardback, 296 pages. Size: 264 x 183 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Bourget, Steve
ISBN: 0292712790
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies"Theory, Politics and Intervention
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"Taking on the Political" series; An innovative exploration of the ethical and political relationship between Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist theory. With no. Hardback, 248 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 50g.
Author: Bowman, Paul
ISBN: 0748617620
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"A Radical Jew"Paul and the Politics of Identity
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"Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society" series; Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not national, genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. This work turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. New ed. Paperback, 400 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 570g.
Author: Boyarin, Daniel
ISBN: 0520212142
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Origin and Evolution of Cultures"
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"Evolution & Cognition" series; The Origin and Evolution of Cultures presents articles based on two notions. That culture is crucial for understanding human behaviour; and that culture is part of biology. Interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science. With numerous line drawimgs and mathematical examples. Paperback, 464 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 640g.
Author: Boyd, Robert Richerson, Peter J.
ISBN: 019518145X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Cartographies of Diaspora"Contesting Identities
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"Gender, Racism, Ethnicity" series; By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, this book throws new light on discussions about difference, and diversity, informed by feminism and post-structuralism. Paperback, 292 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 375g.
Author: Brah, A.
ISBN: 0415121264
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Cultural Studies
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"Dreamworld Tibet"Western Illusions
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For centuries Westerners have held idealised or patronising views of Tibet, from Shangri-La to heathen yak-herders. More recent times have seen the sinister distortions of the Nazis, Hollywood misrepresentations and the rapid encroachment of the commercial- industrial complex. With pho. Hardback, 269 pages. Size: 290 x 210 mm. Weight: 1456g.
Author: Brauen, Martin
ISBN: 9745240516
Publisher: Orchid Press,Thailand
Date: 2004 (Thailand)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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