Mark Sloan: 3 books
Birth Day
A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author...
New Forms of Consumption
Consumers, Culture, and Commodification
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification...
Krampusnacht
Twelve Nights of Krampus
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
For bad children, a lump of coal from Santa is positively light punishment when Krampus is ready and waiting to beat them with a stick, wrap them in chains, and drag them down to hell—all with St. Nick's encouragement and approval.
Krampusnacht holds within its pages twelve tales of Krampus...