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We Can Swing Together
The Story of Lindisfarne
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
When singer-songwriter Alan Hull joined the group Brethren in 1969 and they were renamed Lindisfarne shortly afterwards, nobody could have foreseen that the name would still be around more than forty years later. It has been a chequered saga for them, from the members’ origins in the beat and folk...
"Our Bums"
The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don’t know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the...
Geek in China
Discovering the Land of Alibaba, Bullet Trains and Dim Sum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom.
Packed with photographs and short articles on all aspects of Chinese culture, past and present, A Geek in China introduces readers to everything...
by Kumar, Srini
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Advertising is Pollution!, or so says a popular bumper sticker. So what does that make stickers?SMASH PROCRASTINATIONMUTE THE COMMERCIALSUNCLICKABLEMIX BUSINESS WITH PLEASURENOBODY OWNS YOUCOLLABORATEI REFUSE TO BE A VICTIMWE LEARN BY TEACHINGDONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READDEBUG THE VOTESrini...
by Robert R. Prechter
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Suppose you could understand why stars who rule the airwaves and movie screens one minute can be catapulted to obscurity the next. And why genres of TV shows become popular overnight. How and why trends fluctuate in the attendance of sporting events; the next big thing in fashion; and the styles,...
Golden State, Golden Youth
The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images...
Elements of Taste
Understanding What We Like and Why
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
From My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love
Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton. Gilmore Girls. We all have our most and least favorite things. But why?
In this smart, funny, and well-researched book, Benjamin Errett...
Planet Cosplay
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice. Planet Cosplay comprises chapters from scholars who are widely published in this field, examining the subject of cosplay from sources...
Otaku
Japan's Database Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture...
True Crime
Observations on Violence and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence,...
Uncommon Cultures
Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This edition from the hugely popular Easiest 5-Finger Piano Collection series features 15 popular chart hits arranged for 5-finger piano.
The songs included are:
- Black Heart [Stooshe]
- Catch My Breath [Kelly Clarkson]
- Change Your Life [Little Mix]
- Impossible [James Arthur]
- Learn...
Performance Anxieties
Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini...
This Is Not a President
Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
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In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American...