eBooks List For Item Cultural studies
Telling Sexual Stories
- ISBN:
- 0415102952
- Authors:
- Ken Plummer
Telling Sexual Stories explores the rites of a sexual storytelling culture. Taking three major examples--rape stories, coming-out stories, recovery stories--it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which give rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the ``recovery'' movement as harbingers of significant social change that encourage the...
Facing Postmodernity: French Intellectual Thought (Routledge Social Futures Series.)
- ISBN:
- 0415128943
- Authors:
- Max Silverman
The challenges which face French society today are representative of the new conditions that all western democracies must now confront. This book discusses major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, including Lyotard, Levinas and Derrida. It covers many questions central to the postmodern debate, such as questions of history, representation, identity, ethics and community.
War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945
- ISBN:
- 0520082362
- Authors:
- Chang-tai Hung
This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino- Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural formsespecially dramas, cartoons, and newspapersto reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the...
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (New Departures in Anthropology)
- ISBN:
- 0521546877
- Authors:
- Karin Barber
What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the...
Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives. (Consciousness, Literature & the Arts)
- ISBN:
- 9042025816
- Authors:
- Gregory Minissale
Framing Consciousness in Art examines how the conscious mind enacts and processes the frame that both surrounds the work of art yet is also shown as an element inside its space. These 'frames-in-frames' may be seen in works by Teniers, Velázquez, Vermeer, Degas, Rodin, and Cartier-Bresson and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Buñuel. The book also deals with framing in a variety of cultural contexts: Indian, Chinese and African, going...
Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture
- ISBN:
- 0061195391
- Authors:
- Trevor Kelley, Leslie Simon
What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands. There's nothing new about that perfect chocolate and peanut butter combination––teenagers and angst. What is new...
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
- ISBN:
- 019507775X
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus...
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age
- ISBN:
- 0195146328
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the contributors to this volume attempt to bridge the two decades-old gap between scholars and critics who hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. By exploring some of the ways in...
For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism
- ISBN:
- 0198279523
- Authors:
- Maurizio Viroli
Reconstructing the historical meaning of the terms nationalism and patriotism, Viroli shows how the two concepts have been used within specific cultural and ideological contexts. He reviews the political thought of modern and early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on France, Italy, England, and Germany, and comes up with a fundamental difference between patriotism and nationalism. Viroli argues that patriotism and nationalism are two...
Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- ISBN:
- 0198294263
- Authors:
- R. D. Grillo
This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.
Infinity and Perspective
- ISBN:
- 0262082926
- Authors:
- Karsten Harries
Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's...
Creative Business: The Making of Addictive Stories
- ISBN:
- 0273656716
- Authors:
- Paul Nero, Neeta Patel
What do Elvis Presley, Dungeons and Dragons, Agatha Christie, Coronation Street and Star Wars have in common? They are enduring and successful business properties - transferring through time, across media. Whether it's a book, TV show, computer game, film or song, and whether it's 50 years old or was created last week, some stories, characters and phenomena are fleeting in our collective conscience and some pass the test of time. Just how have...
Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0299218805
- Authors:
- Robert Frankel
Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville and Frances Trollope, visitors to America have written some of the most penetrating and, occasionally, scathing commentaries on U.S. politics and culture. Observing America focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 and 1950. The colorful journalist W. T. Stead championed Anglo-American unity while plunging into reform efforts in Chicago. The versatile writer H. G....
The Hamburger: A History (Icons of America)
- ISBN:
- 0300117582
- Authors:
- Mr. Josh Ozersky
What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is it cooking or commodity? An icon of freedom or the quintessence of conformity? This fast-paced and entertaining book unfolds the immense significance of...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide: [Six Volumes]
- ISBN:
- 0313336148
- Authors:
- Laura Arntson, Irving Epstein, Leslie Limage, Sheryl Lutjens, Jyotsna Pattnaik, Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Talhami, Ghada Hashem
From the skyrocketing AIDS rate in Haiti to the oppressive pollution in industrial China, from the violent street culture of Nigeria to the crippling poverty in Nicaragua, from child trafficking in Thailand to child marriages in India, this jam-packed six-volume set explores all these issues and more in an unprecedented look at the world's children at the dawn of the 21st century. In recent years, while many countries have enjoyed a higher...
Culture and Customs of the United States [Two Volumes] (Culture and Customs of North America)
- ISBN:
- 0313338752
American life and culture is truly unique in that it was born from many other cultures around the world. When immigrants migrated to the Land of Opportunity, they brought with them pieces of their own heritage: foods, religions, holidays, festivals, music, and art, just to name a few. Through time, these customs have developed into what we now know as American life. Explore how even within the US, various cultures and customs differ from New...
Gender in Russian History and Culture (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)
- ISBN:
- 0333720784
This book charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late 17th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The essays, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.
In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain Function (Methods and New Frontiers in Neuroscience)
- ISBN:
- 0849323894
The major advantage of in vivo optical techniques is the ability to study many levels of function of the CNS that are inaccessible by other methods. This rapidly expanding field is multidisciplinary in nature and findings have thus far been scattered throughout the literature. In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain Function brings together, for the first time, a review of the wide variety of optical imaging techniques that have recently emerged for...
Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results, Third Edition (PLANT ENGINEERING SERIES)
- ISBN:
- 0849353408
- Authors:
- Robert J. Latino, Kenneth C. Latino
There is no easy answer to the question, “What is RCA?” Some will give a general idea of what Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is designed to accomplish, while others will advocate a specific approach. In this third edition of the best-selling Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results , acclaimed experts Robert and Kenneth Latino offer a broad look at the various types of approaches to RCA, comparing their pros and cons...
EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing (Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook)
- ISBN:
- 0849379237
Presenting a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools, and methodologies used to design integrated circuits, the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook is available in two volumes. The first volume, EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing , thoroughly examines system-level design, microarchitectural design, logical verification, and testing. Chapters contributed by leading experts...
Information Assurance Architecture
- ISBN:
- 0849380677
- Authors:
- Keith D. Willett
Safeguard Your Organization’s Information! Now that information has become the lifeblood of your organization, you must be especially vigilant about assuring it. The hacker, spy, or cyber-thief of today can breach any barrier if it remains unchanged long enough or has even the tiniest leak. In Information Assurance Architecture , Keith D. Willett draws on his over 25 years of technical, security, and business experience to provide a framework...
Tea and Tea Products: Chemistry and Health-Promoting Properties (Nutraceutical Science and Technology)
- ISBN:
- 0849380820
The past decade has seen considerable interest and progress in unraveling the beneficial health effects of tea, particularly its polyphenolic components and its antioxidant activity. Understanding the science behind the claims will help in the production and marketing of teas and tea products. Pulling together recent research and presenting it in an organized format, Tea and Tea Products discusses the manufacturing and chemistry of various teas...
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
- ISBN:
- 1595800174
- Authors:
- Chris Strodder
A celebration of the 1960s, this encyclopedia profiles the 250 most interesting personalities who significantly changed popular culture, including musicians, actors, directors, artists, athletes, politicians, writers, and astronauts. Sidebars provide a trip down memory lane with lists including the top movies, television shows, cars, Bond girls, Playmates, concerts, and cameos in beach movies, plus a running calendar of "what happened on...
Technoculture: The Key Concepts
- ISBN:
- 184520297X
- Authors:
- Debra Benita Shaw
We live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionized the ways we communicate with each other and engage with the world outside us. Technoculture: The Key Concepts explores the power of scientific ideas, their impact on how we understand the natural world and how...
Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists (Anthropology and Material Culture)
- ISBN:
- 1845203593
- Authors:
- Richard Wilk
Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to give an important...
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners (The Interact Series)
- ISBN:
- 1877864153
- Authors:
- Margaret K. Nydell
From the rise of fundamentalism to the historically uneasy relationship between the Arab World and the West, Margaret Nydell has expanded her highly respected book to bring today's complex issues into clearer focus. This third edition of "Understanding Arabs" introduces the complexities of Arab culture and Islam in an evenhanded, unbiased style. The book covers such topics as beliefs and values, religion and society, the role of the family,...
The Yin and Yang of American Culture: A Paradox
- ISBN:
- 1877864854
- Authors:
- Eun Y. Kim
This title uses the unique Asian concept of yin and yang to explain how American virtues and vices are opposite sides of the same coin. Unlike the dualism characteristic of the West, in much of Asia the forces of yin and yang are seen to co-exist in everything, and to complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. Culture amd entity regarded as yin in one light can be regarded as yang in another. Eun Y. Kim begins by looking at America in the...
A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)
- ISBN:
- 079145259X
- Authors:
- David R. Loy
A Buddhist interpretation of Western history that shows civilization shaped by the self's desire for groundedness.
I Die With My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870 (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)
- ISBN:
- 0803227620
The Paraguayan War (1864–70) was the most extensive and profound interstate war ever fought in South America. It directly involved the four countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and took the lives of hundreds of thousands, combatants and noncombatants alike. While the war still stirs emotions on the southern continent, until today few scholars from outside the region have taken on the daunting task of analyzing the conflict. In...
Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
- ISBN:
- 0807021180
- Authors:
- Mark Hyman
Near the end of a long season, fourteen-year-old baseball pitcher Ben Hyman approached his father with disappointing, if not surprising, news: his pitching shoulder was tired. With each throw to home plate, he felt a twinge in his still maturing arm. Any doctor would have advised the young boy to take off the rest of the season. Author Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the next game. After all, it was play-off time. Stories like these are...
Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama as Persuasive Practice
- ISBN:
- 0809324091
- Authors:
- Associate Professor Steven N Lipkin PhD
Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, this book explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing storylines. It posits that such appeal is rooted in docudrama's representation of actual people and events by means of melodramatic narrative structures that play on the emotions of the viewer. The dual nature of docudramas - blending narrative and...
Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence
- ISBN:
- 1844670058
- Authors:
- Judith Butler
One of America's leading intellectuals responds to the current US policies to wage perpetual war. This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a...
Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World)
- ISBN:
- 1851094490
- Authors:
- Andrew Hammond
This volume explores Arab cultural life since World War II. Chapters cover topics such as radio/TV, the press, cinema, music, theatre, popular religion, belly dance, western consumerism, sport and the Arabic language.
Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World)
- ISBN:
- 1851095047
- Authors:
- Lisa Shaw, Stephanie Dennison
This is a survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. The book aims to show how different music and cultural traditions take different forms with peoples throughout the region.
Living And Studying Abroad: Research And Practice (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education)
- ISBN:
- 1853599115
Presents studies of students who travel to other countries for study. This work includes students travelling within Europe, from Europe and America to East Asia and China and vice versa. It includes articles that report the results of research and also give detailed accounts of the research methods used. It is of interest to other researchers.
Working the American Way
- ISBN:
- 185703984X
- Authors:
- Robert Day
The purpose of this book is to help the reader to better understand American values, expectations, and behaviours in business activities and to help them to develop practical strategies for being successful in working with Americans.
High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning
- ISBN:
- 1857882601
- Authors:
- John Naisbitt
(Nicholas Brealey Publishing) A penetrating look at technology in business and contemporary society, taking the reader on a tour of what the author describes as our 'technology immersion' and our accelerated search for meaning. Examines and probes key trends, focusing on the effects of technology in reshaping society. Softcover. DLC: Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self-Presentation in Japan (Dress, Body, Culture)
- ISBN:
- 1859734855
- Authors:
- Brian J. McVeigh
Uniforms are not unique to Japan, but their popularity there suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Conformity in dress is especially apparent amongst students, who are required...
Insects and Human Life
- ISBN:
- 1859738478
- Authors:
- Brian Morris
What is the cultural importance of insects? Why do we spend a good deal of time and money in the West trying to exterminate insects? How are human-insect relations far more subtle in other societies? From bathtub-invaders to protein-source, insects play a multi-faceted role that has not previously been recognized. To investigate this fully, Brian Morris spent years in Malawi. Here, as in many tropical regions, insects have a profound impact on...