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The goth Bible
A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2004
What you don't know about goths could fill a book!
An artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement, The goth Bible brings to light the traditions and history of all that is goth. The goth culture has been one of the most controversial and maligned in media history. Presented...
Afrofuturism
The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Comprising elements of the avant-garde, science fiction, cutting-edge hip-hop, black comix, and graphic novels, Afrofuturism spans both underground and mainstream pop culture. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and all social limitations...
Fanatics
Power, Identity and Fandom in Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Embracing studies of football fans across Europe, this book tackles questions of power, national and regional identities, and race and racism, highlighting the changing role of fans in the game. Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with critical assessments of the commercialization...
Science, Technology and Culture
Cultural Studies Volume 12 Issue 3
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
How To Be a Geek
Essays on the Culture of Software
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand...
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults...
The Ultimate Cigar Book
4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the current cigar smoking craze. It has been reprinted numerous times in the United States, and is now sold worldwide. No other book contains as much detailed and...
by Jean-Joseph JULAUD
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
De Victor Hugo à Molière en passant par Marcel Pagnol : le top 50 des écrivains préférés des français
Pour ne plus hésiter et se souvenir à coup sûr qui est l'auteur des œuvres restées à la postérité, parcourez ce petit livre. Embrassez d'un seul coup d'œil la production des...
The New Analog
Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A pointedly passionate look at what’s been lost in the digital era.” —Los Angeles Times
A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital....
by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
It's Complicated
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media....
The Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment...
Musical ImagiNation
U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music...
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...