Cultural Studies
"Gun Show Nation"Gun Culture and American Democracy
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Gun Culture and American Democracy. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 210 x 140 mm. Weight: 311g.
Author: Burbick, Joan
ISBN: 1595582045
Publisher: The New Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Made in Brighton"
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Brighton has long been at the vanguard of English tastes - in its attitudes towards homosexuality, the rise of the chav and binge-drinking, as well as its music and drug cultures. This book looks at the changing face of Britain, using Brighton as a focal point. It is suitable for anyone with a curiosity and a love for Britain. With 1x8pp b/w illustrations. Hardback, 208 pages. Size: 222 x 138 mm. Weight: 377g.
Author: Burchill, Julie Raven, Daniel
ISBN: 185227395X
Publisher: Virgin Books
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Fez"City of Islam
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Stoddart, William (trans.) As a young man in the 1930s, the author spent some years in Morocco where he became acquainted with several representatives of the spiritual heritage of the Maghrib. This book relates the teachings, parables and miracles of the saints of many centuries, and also looks at Islamic arts and sciences. With 41 colour and 17 b&w photographs, index. English. Hardback, 180 pages. Size: 245 x 185 mm. Weight: 748g.
Author: Burckhardt, Titus
ISBN: 0946621179
Publisher: Islamic Texts Society
Date: 1992 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"The European Renaissance"Centres and Peripheries
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"The Making of Europe" series; Offers an account of the geography, chronology and sociology of the European Renaissance. This book provides an examination of the Renaissance across the whole of the continent. It examines the conditions in which innovation took place in cultural centers such as Florence, Avignon, Flanders and Rome in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. With 0. Hardback, 296 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 519g.
Author: Burke, Peter
ISBN: 0631198458
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe"
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This revised reprint contains a new preface looking at developments in recent years in the study of popular culture and the difficulty in fixing these two terms. A supplementary bibliography also adds to the information about recent research in the area. With notes, bibliography, index. New ed. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 139 x 216 mm. Weight: 540g.
Author: Burke, Peter
ISBN: 1859281028
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis"Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
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Traverses the ancient world's three great centres of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium BC. New ed. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 208 x 140 mm. Weight: 182g.
Author: Burkert, Walter
ISBN: 0674023994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Social Selves"Theories of Self and Society
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Seeks to answer the basic social question of 'who am I?' by developing an understanding of self-identity as formed in social relations and social activity. Including chapters on gender and class, this book shows how identity 'works'. It is useful reading on courses in self and society, identity and personality formation. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 216 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 337g.
Author: Burkitt, Ian
ISBN: 1412912725
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Wha's Like Us?"On the Unrealities of Being Scottish
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On the Unrealities of Being Scottish. With none. Paperback, 128 pages. Size: 164 x 111 mm. Weight: 91g.
Author: Burnside, Andrew
ISBN: 1906134081
Publisher: Argyll Publishing
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Kalashnikov Ak-47"One Small Item, One Giant Impact
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"Trigger Issues S" series; Part of a series which presents a single object that has had far-reaching effects on the modern world, this title explores the Kalashnikov, an iconic but deadly Russian rifle, through its impact on society and often surprising cultural connections. With 15 b&w illustration and photographs. Paperback, 96 pages. Size: 174 x 124 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Burrows, Gideon
ISBN: 1904456308
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Postmodernism"
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"Pocket Essential" series; A range of books, films, artists and TV series are discussed from the point of view of postmodern aesthetics, and arguments against postmodernism are explored. Paperback, 96 pages. Size: 178 x 111 mm. Weight: 146g.
Author: Butler, Andrew M. Ford, Bob
ISBN: 1904048242
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Excitable Speech"Politics of the Performative
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Addresses speech as a conduct which has become subject to political debate and regulation. The text invesigates hate speech regulation, anti-pornography arguments and controversies about gay self-declaration in the military. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 6 x 9 mm. Weight: 454g.
Author: Butler, Judith P.
ISBN: 0415915880
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Precarious Life"The Power of Mourning and Violence
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Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 191 x 140 mm. Weight: 211g.
Author: Butler, Judith P.
ISBN: 1844670058
Publisher: Verso Books
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Jean Baudrillard"The Defence of the Real
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"Core Cultural Theorists Series" series; This introductory text aims to go beyond Baudrillard's thoughts on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. Through close readings of his texts, Butler argues that we must seek to judge Baudrillard in his own terms. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 204g.
Author: Butler, Rex
ISBN: 0761958339
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Slavoj Zizek"
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"Live Theory" series; Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of ideology. With illustrations. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 227g.
Author: Butler, Rex
ISBN: 0826469957
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"It's Getting Ugly Out There"The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America
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Explains why Americans must take our country back from those who are harming it. This book argues that the government works for the lobbyists who have had a big hand in influencing legislation favoring not the average American citizen but instead big business: health insurance, pharmaceutical and oil companies, and defense contractors. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 238 x 165 mm. Weight: 499g.
Author: Cafferty, Jack
ISBN: 0470144793
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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