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Ski Style
Sport and Culture in the Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2004
Visitors to Colorado's famous ski resorts embrace alpine adventures, luxurious amenities, and a glamorous nightlife, all against a backdrop of towering mountains and high-drifted snow. Wherever they go in search of fresh powder, one thing is certain: skiing has become a major part of recreational...
by Guy Julier
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly...
Argentina - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a...
Kazakhstan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged...
Switzerland - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
There is far more to Switzerland than beautiful scenery, chocolate, watches, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is full of surprises and anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart of Europe has been a confederation since the first three cantons...
Culture Jam
How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--any Why We Must
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations...
by Vincent Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
"This is an outstanding book. It is one of only a few scholarly texts that successfully combine a nuanced theoretical understanding of the digital age with empirical case studies of contemporary media culture. The scope is impressive, ranging from questions of digital inequality to emergent forms...
Vietnam - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In the second half of the twentieth century war raged in Vietnam. It was hard to know if it would ever end, and harder still to understand fully the rights and wrongs of the various protagonists. At last, the North Vietnamese turned out to be tough, resilient, and ultimately victorious. Patience in...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
Myanmar - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Myanmar, as Burma is now known, is strategically situated between the world's two most populous nations—China and India—and its distinctive ancient culture shares some traditions with both countries. Hidden away from the eyes of the world for half a century by its military rulers' policy of self-isolation,...
Egypt - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo's Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties,...
Tokyo Geek's Guide
Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More - The Ultimate Guide to Japan's Otaku Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's famous "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe.
This is the most comprehensive Japan travel guide ever produced which features Tokyo's geeky underworld. It provides a comprehensive run-down of each major Tokyo district...
by Mark Sheerin, Coco Khan, Susan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
What is counterculture?
– It’s an alternative lifestyle…
– The ideas that spread a revolution…
– A movement that changes the world…
This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature...
by Linda C. Ehrlich, Irene González-López, Dolores P. Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not...