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With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studi...
'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming 'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colo...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power...
The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth ...
This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from...
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts ...
Craic, or crack is a Gaelic word, with no exact English translation. The closest you get is fun. The expression ceoil agus craic, means music and fun,...
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped ...
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explo...
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that ...
Great communication skills can make all the difference in your personal and professional life, and author Elizabeth Kuhnke shares with you her top tips for successful communication in any situation. Packed with advice on active listening, building rapport with people, verbal and non-verbal communication, communicating using modern technology, and l
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cu...
Why our democracies need urgent reform, before it's too lateA generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is once again on the edge of cha...
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-to...
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers
What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Ann...
Contains over 70 experiments, complete with notes and ingredients with the focus on Tryptamines. The first half concentrates on Shulgin's spiritual jo...
In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describin...
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future realities of this emerging technology: how w...
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Keep calm - but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit - except that it will be deeply dama...
Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinit...
People who want to express admiration for culture often say it's valuable 'for its own sake'. The School of Life disagrees: culture is valuable becaus...
Modernism is the movement which attempts to redefine the relationship between art and life, seeking to establish a mode of thought to account for new ...
The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies...
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers and The Confectioners, coming summer 2017
What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth g...
With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns ling...
In 1771 Joseph Banks and other wealthy collectors sent a talented, self-taught naturalist to Sierra Leone to collect all things rare and curious, from...
The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society.
This agenda-setting book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary wa...
Extreme metal--one step beyond heavy metal--can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicia...
What is life like in England? Island Story weaves history and ideas telling a story of rebellion (think Brexit) and retail parks, migration and inerti...
Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples ...
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo live...
Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so-a single curve undulates from the tip of the bird's beak to the end of its tail. T...
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been po...
To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout...
Ireland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the Céide Fields, established a t...
Queer Intentions provides the ultimate exploration of the joys and pains of being LGBTQ+ in the West at a time when queer culture has never been so ma...
In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level vo...
Many brands, including Marks & Spencer, Heinz and Kelloggs, were named after their founders whilst others have quirkier origins - did you know tha...
Centred on the lives of the employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interes...
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing ...
What can performers in the West learn from the technical performance traditions of Africa and Asia?The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a n...
Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the ...
Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range...
Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a glob...
The Chinese are inordinately proud of having invented, among a whole host of other things, the compass (without which the world would have got lost), ...
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign an...
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen-the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later-are...
This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability...
In German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while...
Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to m...