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American Gothic: A Life Of America's Most Famous Paintingby Steven BielISBN 0393328554 (0-393-32855-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394711068 (0-394-71106-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary:In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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The Birth of the Clinicby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415307724 (0-415-30772-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic'Book summary:In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucaults penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again.
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394710975 (0-394-71097-5)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fearby Jan BondesonISBN 039332222X (0-393-32222-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear'Book summary:What could be worse than waking up in a dark, confined space and realizing that you are in a sealed coffin? Jan Bondeson details the history--factual and fictional--of this primal fear in Buried Alive.
Premature burial has a long literary history, from Boccaccio's Decameron to Romeo and Juliet to Wilkie Collins's Jezebel's Daughter and, of course, Edgar Allan Poe's "Premature Burial" and other works. Macabre tales of narrow escapes owing to grave robbers and lazy gravediggers, as well as horrific stories of exhumed coffins containing bloodied, contorted corpses, were common in both the medical and the lay press in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bondeson shows how these stories reflected public fears--fears caused in part by the development of resuscitation techniques for drowning victims, which fed a growing doubt in the reliability of prevailing signs of death. The medical community was divided on the issue; some were offended that the general public doubted their ability to determine death. Others, however, searched for definitive signs of death, many of which seem ludicrous today (one suggestion involved sticking the finger of a suspected corpse in the doctor's ear; if life remained the doctor would hear a faint buzzing sound). Bondeson also describes, in gleeful detail, other systems developed to prevent premature burial, including elaborate security coffins with signaling devices inside. More remarkable are the "Leichenhäuser" or waiting mortuaries where corpses were kept in warm rooms until putrefaction was evident. Each corpse had a number of strings or wires attached to its fingers and toes, so that the slightest twitch would sound an alarm and medical aid could be brought immediately. These Leichenhäuser were built in many cities in German-speaking Europe; one built in Munich in 1808 featured both a common and a luxury section and was open to the public (Mark Twain visited in the 1880s); the Vienna Leichenhäus used an electronic warning system (though not in its separate section for suicides, it's interesting to note); and two were built in Stuttgart as late as 1875.
Were these precautions necessary? No "patient" ever actually revived while in any of the German waiting mortuaries, but Bondeson does describe some documented near-miss cases from the 20th century in which supposed corpses were revived. Throughout the book, Bondeson recounts old wives' tales, urban legends, and scientific study with equal levels of straightforwardness and humor--and, perhaps, a slight smirk. Though it's not for the squeamish (which is perhaps an unnecessary warning; what squeamish person is going to read a book about premature burial?), Buried Alive is an entertaining and eminently readable look at this little-known history. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolutionby Ivan IllichISBN 0394714725 (0-394-71472-5)
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television And Contemporary Criticismby Robert C. AllenISBN 0415080592 (0-415-08059-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Raceby Robert J. C. YoungISBN 0415053749 (0-415-05374-9)
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Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing study of the history of Englishness and 'culture'. Robert Young argues that the theories advanced today about post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. 'Englishness', Young argues, has been less fixed and stable than uncertain, fissured with difference and a desire for otherness. [via]More editions of Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race:
Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eatby David Bell, Gill ValentineISBN 0415137683 (0-415-13768-3)
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Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the food media, this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food - we are where we eat! [via]More editions of Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat:
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Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394483383 (0-394-48338-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tearsby Tom LutzISBN 0393321037 (0-393-32103-7)
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The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0394751752 (0-394-75175-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Cultural Studies: A Critical Introductionby Simon DuringISBN 0415246571 (0-415-24657-1)
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Cultural Theory: The Key Conceptsby Peter Sedgewick, Andrew EdgarISBN 0415284260 (0-415-28426-0)
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Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers In Cultural Studies, 1972-79by Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, Andrew Lowe, Dorothy HobsonISBN 0415079063 (0-415-07906-3)
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Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Goingby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393307115 (0-393-30711-5)
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The Cybercultures Readerby David Bell, Barbara M. KennedyISBN 0415183790 (0-415-18379-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cybercultures Reader'Book summary:The Cybercultures Reader brings together key writings covering the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century. The reader is divided into thematic sections focussing on key issues such as subcultures in cyberspace, posthumanism and cyberbodies, and pop-cultural depictions of human-machine interaction. Key features include: each section features an introduction locating the essays in their theoretical and technological context; editor's introduction and accompanying user's guide; extensive bibliography Issues include: theoretical approaches to cyberculture; representations in fiction and on film; the development of distinct cyber-subcultures; feminist and queer approaches within cyberculture. Anne Balsamo, Michael Benedikt, Gareth Branwyn, Scott Bukatman, Lisa Cartwright, Susan Clerc, David B Downing, Arturo Escobar, Mike Featherstone, Jennifer Gonzalez, Donna Haraway, Alison Landsberg, [via]
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Desperately Seeking the Audienceby Ien AngISBN 041505270X (0-415-05270-X)
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The Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E.D. HirschISBN 0395437482 (0-395-43748-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy'Book summary:"The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2nd edition" is a compendium of the words, phrases, names, places, events and other items, familiar to most Americans, which combines our common knowledge as a 'collective memory' and informs our late 20th Century discourse; allows us to comprehend daily newspapers, magazines, news reports, to understand our peers, leaders and even jokes; and colors the sound of our national culture. This is not 'expert' knowledge but rather the shared 'common' knowledge which allows people to communicate, forms the basis of communities, and distinguishes our national culture as unique. [via]
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Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disasterby Steven BielISBN 0393316769 (0-393-31676-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legendby Gilbert B. RodmanISBN 0415110033 (0-415-11003-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend'Book summary:'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.'
Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US culture? Why does he continue to enjoy a cultural prominence that would be the envy of the most heavily publicized living celebrities?
In Elvis after Elvis Gil Rodman traces the myriad manifestations of The King in popular and not-so-popular culture. He asks why Elvis continues to defy our expectations of how dead stars are supposed to behave: Elvis not only refuses to go away, he keeps showing up in places where he seemingly doesn't belong.
Rodman draws upon an extensive and eclectic body of Elvis 'sightings', from Elvis's appearances at the heart of the 1992 Presidential campaign to the debate over his worthiness as a subject for a postage stamp, and from Elvis's central role in furious debates about racism and the appropriation of African-American music to the world of Elvis impersonators and the importance of Graceland as a place of pilgrimage for Elvis fans and followers.
Rodman shows how Elvis has become inseparable from many of the defining myths of US culture, enmeshed with the American dream and the very idea of the 'United States', caught up in debates about race, gender and sexuality and in the wars over what constitutes a national culture.
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Evil Sisters : The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhoodby Bram DijkstraISBN 0394569458 (0-394-56945-8)
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Facing the Music: Pantheon Guide to Popular Cultureby Simon FrithISBN 039475185X (0-394-75185-X)
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830 to 1980by Elaine ShowalterISBN 0394520211 (0-394-52021-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Feminine Mystiqueby Betty Friedan, Anna QuindlenISBN 0393322572 (0-393-32257-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminine Mystique'Book summary:When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. [via]
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The Hour of Our Deathby Philippe AriesISBN 0394751566 (0-394-75156-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of Our Death'Book summary:This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Aries shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Aries identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Aries shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century--how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives--and points out what may be done to "re-tame" this secret terror.
The richness of Aries's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history--indeed the pathology--of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death. [via] 
The Idea of the Postmodern: A Historyby Hans BertensISBN 0415060125 (0-415-06012-5)
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An Introduction to Theories of Popular Cultureby Dominic StrinatiISBN 0415235006 (0-415-23500-6)
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Key Concepts in Cultural Theoryby Andrew Edgar, Peter R. SedgwickISBN 0415114039 (0-415-11403-9)
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The Labyrinth of Solitude ; The Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogreby Octavio PazISBN 0394179927 (0-394-17992-7)
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Lenny Bruce: An Autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence Peopleby Lenny BruceISBN 0404199275 (0-404-19927-5)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James Agee, Webster's II DictionariesISBN 039529696X (0-395-29696-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: 3 Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0395957710 (0-395-95771-0)
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Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern Worldby Ien AngISBN 0415128013 (0-415-12801-3)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyISBN 0394549260 (0-394-54926-0)
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Maps of Meaning : An Introduction to Cultural Geographyby Peter JacksonISBN 0415090881 (0-415-09088-1)
Softcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps of Meaning : An Introduction to Cultural Geography'Book summary:This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.
Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, race, language and ideology. Questioning the ways in which we invest the world with meaning, the book is an introduction to both culture's geographies and the geography of culture.
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. TuckerISBN 0393099652 (0-393-09965-2)
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The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Translated by Samuel Moore
Das Kapital (Marx) Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) Translated by Emil F. Teichert
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels) Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)Essays (Marx) Translated by H. J. Stenning:
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English RevolutionAppendix:
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Karl Marx Biography
Friedrich Engels Biography
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. TuckerISBN 039309040X (0-393-09040-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Ageby Sadie PlantISBN 0415062225 (0-415-06222-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Cultureby Andrew RossISBN 0415900379 (0-415-90037-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismby Vincent B. LeitchISBN 0393974294 (0-393-97429-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the Westby Ien AngISBN 0415259134 (0-415-25913-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Politics of Postmodernismby Linda HutcheonISBN 0415280168 (0-415-28016-8)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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The Postmodern Adventure: Science Technology And Cultural Studies at the Third Millenniumby Douglas Kellner, Steven BestISBN 041523963X (0-415-23963-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promiseby Akbar S. AhmedISBN 0415062934 (0-415-06293-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Psychoanalysis and Feminismby Juliet MitchellISBN 0394714423 (0-394-71442-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Sub-Cultures in Post-War Britainby Stuart Hall, Tony JeffersonISBN 041532436X (0-415-32436-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutionsby Simon Frith, Tony Bennett, Lawrence GrossbergISBN 041506368X (0-415-06368-X)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutionsby Tony Bennett, Et AlISBN 0415063698 (0-415-06369-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products and Images of Well-Beingby William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut JhallyISBN 0415900840 (0-415-90084-0)
Hardcover, Nelson Canada
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A Society of Signs?by David HarrisISBN 0415111293 (0-415-11129-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Sound Effectsby Simon FrithISBN 0394504615 (0-394-50461-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sound Effects : Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' Rollby Simon FrithISBN 0394748115 (0-394-74811-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studiesby Stuart Hall, David Morley, Kuan-Hsing ChenISBN 0415088046 (0-415-08804-6)
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In addition to presenting classic writings by Hall and new interviews with Hall in dialogue with Kuan-Hsing Chen, the collection, which includes work by Angela McRobbie, Kobena Mercer, John Fiske, Charlotte Brunsdon, Ien Ang and Isaac Julien, provides a detailed analysis of Hall's work and his contribution to the development of cultural studies by leading cultural critics and cultural practitioners. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Stuart Hall's writings. [via]More editions of Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies:
Television: Technology and Cultural Formby Ederyn WilliamsISBN 0415030471 (0-415-03047-1)
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Television: Technology and Cultural Formby Raymond Williams, Ederyn WilliamsISBN 0415314569 (0-415-31456-9)
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Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting the determinism of McLuhan's dictum that 'the medium is the message'. If the medium really is the message, Williams asks, what is left for us to do or say? Williams argues that, on the contrary, we as viewers have the power to disturb, disrupt and to distract the otherwise cold logic of history and technology - not just because television is part of the fabric of our daily lives, but because new technologies continue to offer opportunities, momentarily outside the sway of transnational corporations or the grasp of media moguls, for new forms of self and political expression. [via]More editions of Television: Technology and Cultural Form:
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Totem and Tabooby Sigmund FreudISBN 0394701240 (0-394-70124-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Understanding Popular Cultureby John FiskeISBN 0415078768 (0-415-07876-8)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394497716 (0-394-49771-6)
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The Vanishing Hitchhikerby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393951693 (0-393-95169-3)
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Virtual States : Globalisation Inequality and the Internetby Jerry EverardISBN 0415172136 (0-415-17213-6)
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Virtual States: The Internet and the Boundaries of the Nation-Stateby Jerry EverardISBN 0415172144 (0-415-17214-4)
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Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jewsby Chaim PotokISBN 0394501101 (0-394-50110-1)
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Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imaginationby Ien Ang, Della CoulingISBN 0415045983 (0-415-04598-3)
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poorby David S. LandesISBN 0393318885 (0-393-31888-5)
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0395691303 (0-395-69130-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394723929 (0-394-72392-9)
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghostsby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394400674 (0-394-40067-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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