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  • Romancing Through Italy
    Robert James Connors
    Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds and ghost towns come to life in visits to the hidden corners of the cradle of mo...
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    22,20 €

  • Global Perspectives on Media Events in Contemporary Society
    Andrew Fox
    Media events have been described as broadcasts that involve an engaged audience viewing the same event simultaneously; though this definition is still relevant, the way media outlets interact with and react to their audiences has greatly changed. This is in part due to the emergence of social media platforms which allow a participatory audience, something that genre-specific te...
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    216,65 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
    Jesus Nez Romay / Jesus Nunez Romay / Jesus Nzqez Romay
    Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking country has as yet carried out a Marxist-Leninist social revolution a...
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    11,00 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • The Pleasure of Thinking
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In The Pleasure of Thinking, Theodore Dalrymple embarks on an entertaining intellectual journey. With his characteristic wit, Dalrymple navigates the quirky realms of literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, highlighting the satisfaction that comes with reflecting on life’s questions. This book is for anyone who delights in the intricacies of the human mind and ...
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    19,48 €

  • Entre yuyos y buenezas
    Valentina Pereyra
    Este libro ofrece un acercamiento al mundo de las plantas medicinales y el uso que las mujeres rurales les dan en el departamento de Canelones, Uruguay.A lo largo de sus páginas se explora la producción social del conocimiento de estas mujeres en torno al uso de plantas como medicina haciendo hincapié en conocer sus prácticas y experiencias y los significados que les otorgan a ...
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    8,84 €

  • Argentina and Her People of To-day
    Nevin O. Winter
    'The Spaniards who first visited the coast of Argentina, and sailed up the broad and imposing river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean, were so impressed with the outlook and prospects, that they named the country Argentina, which means silvery or silver-like, and bestowed upon the majestic stream the name Rio de La Plata, which means river of silver. When their prospectors f...
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    17,73 €

  • Media Materialities
    Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus. ...
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    63,98 €

  • Industrial memory in North East England
    Victoria Allen
    Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region’s industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North. ...
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    157,31 €

  • The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart
    Stuart Schuffman
    For over two decades, writer, rabble-rouser, and bon vivant, Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart), has been chronicling life in San Francisco with grit, wit, and an open bar tab. Part memoir, part cultural archive, The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart brings together twenty years of stories about scraping by, speaking up, and falling in and out of love with the most beautifully hea...
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    26,19 €

  • Subculture in the 21st Century
    This book examines subcultures studies and how subcultures are structured by contours of inequality through the continued relevance of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and social class; as well as how contemporary processes, such as globalization, aging and digital technology have given us new ways of thinking about subcultures. ...
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    73,36 €

  • Subculture in the 21st Century
    This book examines subcultures studies and how subcultures are structured by contours of inequality through the continued relevance of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and social class; as well as how contemporary processes, such as globalization, aging and digital technology have given us new ways of thinking about subcultures. ...
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    254,62 €

  • The Lizard People Don’t Want You to Read This
    Robert Spinelli
    Conspiracy theories and popular culture have long been intertwined. As the most visible and effective form of communication, mass media holds a tremendous ability to transmit ideas to wide swaths of eager minds. With their implicit sense of drama, intrigue and complexity, conspiracy theories propagate themselves via dynamic characters and themes that resonate with the audien...
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    57,30 €

  • Cars & Coffee, Ten Years On
    Etienne Psaila
    At dawn, in parking lots around the world, car enthusiasts gather not for trophies or ticketed shows but for something simpler-and more profound. Cars & Coffee, Ten Years On tells the story of how a grassroots tradition that began in Southern California evolved into a global cultural institution.From Irvine to Dubai, from Tokyo to London, the Cars & Coffee format has spread acr...
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    21,77 €

  • Why We Fall for Bullsh*t
    Dustin Gross
    We like to think we’ve evolved past nonsense. Then we buy detox teas, follow 'chosen' leaders into disasters, and repost cosmic horoscopes like they’re peer-reviewed. Why We Fall for Bullsh*t is a fast, funny, brutally clear tour through humanity’s greatest hits of gullibility-from bone-rattling cave shamans to modern megachurch swagger, from medieval relic hustlers to ring-lig...
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    17,72 €

  • Second Star to the Right
    ’Star Trek’ provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, ’Star Trek’ offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and...
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    92,16 €

  • Ouija
    Katherine Schmidt
    Tapping into a growing interest in American culture with the occult and new spiritualism, this book is the first scholarly work devoted entirely to the unique place of Ouija in American culture. ...
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    255,27 €

  • Chris Claremont
    J Andrew Deman
    Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film franchise. While Claremont’s influence on popular culture is bec...
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    18,11 €

  • Palates of Pleasure
    This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. ...
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    254,78 €

  • Depicting the Afterlife in Contemporary Film and Media
    Angelique Nairn
    What lies beyond death? This book brings together a diverse collection of scholarly voices to explore how popular culture imagines—and reimagines—the afterlife. ...
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    254,29 €

  • Evolution, Feminism, and Romantic Fiction
    Ania Grant
    Drawing on research from the evolutionary sciences, Ania Grant proposes that narrative patterns of romantic stories and their enduring appeal reflect the importance of love as a fundamental human drive. ...
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    59,94 €

  • Evolution, Feminism, and Romantic Fiction
    Ania Grant
    Drawing on research from the evolutionary sciences, Ania Grant proposes that narrative patterns of romantic stories and their enduring appeal reflect the importance of love as a fundamental human drive. ...
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    241,20 €

  • Female affection
    Basil Montagu
    Unlock the timeless power of love and connection with 'Female Affection,' a captivating exploration of romantic relationships and emotional intimacy. This remarkable work, now republished by Alpha Editions after decades of being out of print, invites readers to delve into the intricacies of women’s literature and the profound impact of love on personal growth and self-discovery...
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    12,54 €

  • Imagining Ecocatastrophe
    This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media. ...
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    254,24 €

  • The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
    Henry H. Sapoznik
    A history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik-a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project-tells the story in over a baker’s dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime...
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    25,85 €

  • The Science of Laughter
    Dario Ben-Amin
    Laughter isn’t just a reaction-it’s a language, a medicine, a survival tool, and a window into what it means to be human.This thought-provoking exploration uncovers the fascinating science behind why we laugh, what it reveals about us, and how it shapes our relationships, biology, and society. From the neural sparks in your brain to the cultural scripts we follow in conversatio...
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    23,05 €

  • Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism
    Panos Kompatsiaris
    This book employs the concept of curating-the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things-to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. ...
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    76,30 €

  • Post-Popular Cultures and Digital Capitalism in Latin America
    Néstor García Canclini / Pablo Alabarces
    In Post-Popular Cultures and Digital Capitalism in Latin America, Pablo Alabarces and Néstor García Canclini evaluate the changes experienced the popular classes in Latin American democracies over the past two decades, and how the digitalization and economization of society have led to new forms of economic and cultural marginalization. ...
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    75,84 €


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