Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Professor Julia Gaimster
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that research.
Visual Research Methods in Fashion provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration...
American History through Hollywood Film
From the Revolution to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
American History through Hollywood Film offers a new perspective on major issues in American history from the 1770s to the end of the twentieth century and explores how they have been represented in film. Melvyn Stokes examines how and why representation has changed over time, looking at the origins,...
Documentary Case Studies
Behind the Scenes of the Greatest (True) Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Documentary students and fans revel in stories about filmmakers conquering extraordinary challenges trying to bring their work to the screen. This book brings vividly to life the sometimes humorous, sometimes excruciating-and always inspiring-stories behind the making of some of the greatest documentaries...
The US NATO Debate
From Libya to Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Lisa Pine assembles an impressive array of influential scholars in Life and Times in Nazi Germany to explore the variety and complexity of life in Germany under Hitler's totalitarian regime. The book is a thematic collection of essays that examine the extent to which social and cultural life in Germany...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation...
Newsworkers
A Comparative European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The last decade has seen a transformation of journalism industries and the working lives of our journalists. Do the changes have the same impact everywhere? Do journalists today experience these changes as a pressure or as a possibility? Is something irrevocably lost from journalism with these changes?
Newsworkers...
by Jonathan D. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now,...
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism
Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the...
The Migration Process
Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural dimensions...
by Marco V. Sánchez, Professor Rob Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible...
Salman Rushdie
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Color speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking compilation is the first to investigate how color in fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant...
Food Waste
Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches.
Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food...