Cultural Studies
"The Machine at Work"Technology, Work and Organization
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This work reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. It also examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and the organization of work. With 0. Paperback, 208 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 318g.
Author: Woolgar, Steve Grint, Keith
ISBN: 0745609252
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Drifting Towards Love"Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
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Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York. Hardback, 240 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 422g.
Author: Wright, Kai
ISBN: 0807079685
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Tank"The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
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The military tank, always more than the sum of its mechanical parts, is a social and cultural object, partly mythical, a curious compound of fact and fantasy, surrounded by legend. Going beyond military history, this book examines the tank's development as a 20th-century icon. With 8pp colour illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 509 pages. Size: 218 x 135 mm. Weight: 577g.
Author: Wright, Patrick
ISBN: 0571207456
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Producing Culture and Capital"Family Firms in Italy
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Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. With 1 map. 5 line illus.. Paperback, 248 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 342g.
Author: Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko
ISBN: 0691095108
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2002 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Art of Being In-Between"Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca
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Focuses on Villa Alta, Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, and remote region of New Spain. This book tells the story of the dynamic period prior to and after the Cajonos Rebellion of 1700 through the eyes of native intermediary figures: indigenous elites conversant in Spanish language and legal rhetoric. With 9 illustrations. Paperback, 312 pages. Size: 235 x 159 mm. Weight: 460g.
Author: Yannakakis, Yanna P.
ISBN: 0822341662
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Cultural Exclusion in China"State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference
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"Comparative Development and Policy in Asia" series; Shows that underlying economic inequality are educational inequality and cultural exclusion, which in turn lead to problems of social mobility and thereby to poverty. This book discusses the policy and practice of education for ethnic minorities, the chauvinistic Chinese national culture, from which minorities feel excluded. With 2 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones. Hardback, 192 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 430g.
Author: Yi, Lin
ISBN: 0415457610
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Cultural Studies
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"Dear First Lady"Letters to the White House
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A collection of letters culled from the Library of Congress and the National Archives. This book contains messages to and from the First Ladies as facsimiles. With 100 colour photos. Hardback, 192 pages. Size: 254 x 202 mm. Weight: 942g.
Author: Young, Dwight Johnson, Mark
ISBN: 1426200870
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"The Exclusive Society"Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity
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Charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division. This book develops a theory based on citizenship and a reflexive modernity. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 340g.
Author: Young, Jock
ISBN: 0803981511
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Vertigo of Late Modernity"
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Describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. This book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'. With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 379g.
Author: Young, Jock
ISBN: 1412935741
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Tortoise"
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"Animal" series; Animal is a series that explores the natural and cultural histories of a number of animals. The animals addressed by the different authors include the ant, tortoise, cockroach and the crow. With 80 b&w and 20 colour illustrations. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 190 x 135 mm. Weight: 350g.
Author: Young, Peter
ISBN: 1861891911
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Stranger in a Strange Land"Encounters in the Disunited States
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Encounters in the Disunited States. America seen through the eyes of Gary Younge, a black British journalist who writes for the guardian and the nation. Co-publication with The Guardian. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 235 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Younge, Gary
ISBN: 1595580689
Publisher: The New Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Monstrosities"Bodies and British Romanticism
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With 8 halftones, 28 line drawings. Hardback, 264 pages. Size: 229 x 148 mm. Weight: 476g.
Author: Youngquist, Paul (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University)
ISBN: 0816639795
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"The Coolie Speaks"Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
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"Asian American History & Culture" series; Focuses on Chinese labourers who worked with African slaves in Cuba. This book offers examinations of 'Chinese', 'African', and 'Latino' in mutually imbricated contexts. It features a historical introduction and literary readings. It is intended for scholars in American studies, Africana studies, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. With 6 tables, 2 illustrations, 2 figures. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 233 x 160 mm. Weight: 577g.
Author: Yun, Lisa
ISBN: 1592135811
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Gender and Nation"
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"Politics and Culture Series" series; This text provides a critique of the literature on gender and nationhood and an analysis of the ways in which gender relations are affected by national projects and processes. It argues that nationhood usually involves specific notions of manhood and womanhood. Paperback, 168 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 318g.
Author: Yuval-Davis, Nira
ISBN: 0803986645
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans"
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"Xenophobe's Guides" series; With map. Paperback, 96 pages. Size: 178 x 111 mm. Weight: 68g.
Author: Zeidenitz, Stefan Barko, Ben
ISBN: 1906042330
Publisher: Oval Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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