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Product Description: ‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better...read more
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9781859846605 | Verso Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Baudrillard here turns his hand to political debates and issues.

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9781781681558 | Verso Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: ‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation.
9781859843857 | Verso Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Baudrillard here turns his hand to political debates and issues.

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Product Description: “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Sea: A Cultural History, John Mack considers those great expanses that both unite and divide us, and the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea, from navigation to colonization to trade...read more
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9781861898098 | Reaktion Books, May 15, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad.

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9781780231846 | Reprint edition (Reaktion Books, September 15, 2013), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad.

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Product Description: The art of the tattoo has emerged from the garage to the parlor, from the local bar to the boardroom. With interest in tattoos at a high point, the time is right for a detailed look at the art, and the artists, who create the elaborate designs...read more
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9781935828822 | Revised edition (Wolfgang Productions, August 15, 2013), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The art of the tattoo has emerged from the garage to the parlor, from the local bar to the boardroom.

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Product Description: Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits...read more
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9781616147495 | Prometheus Books, June 4, 2013, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more.

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Product Description: In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth...read more
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9780415106221 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays.

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9780415867788 | Routledge, May 22, 2013, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays.
9780415106238 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays.

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9780203426449 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $53.95

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Product Description: Located at the intersection of British imperial and cultural history, and classical reception studies, Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to Britain's culture of imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long nineteenth century...read more
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9780230278615 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 25, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Located at the intersection of British imperial and cultural history, and classical reception studies, Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to Britain's culture of imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long nineteenth century.

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Product Description: From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping...read more
By Stella Bruzzi (editor) and Pamela Church Gibson (editor)
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9780415680059, titled "Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis" | 2 edition (Routledge, December 13, 2013), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture.
9780415206853 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture.

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9780415680066, titled "Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis" | 2 edition (Routledge, December 13, 2013), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture.
9780415206860 | Routledge, December 1, 2000, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture.

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Product Description: What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into film studies to repair the schism that characterizes the field today, as historical and cultural modes of analysis have come to displace theoretical and philosophical ones...read more
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9781137306135 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 13, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art?

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Product Description: A fascinating exploration of the relationship between humans and their unique form of expression: writing.Writing makes history possible, as it aims to sew together a continuous record of the past. Yet its own history is elusive. Born of the capacities for attention and invention bequeathed to us by evolution, it has continually revised and expanded human consciousness, our sense of self and of others...read more
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9780393058857 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 8, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A fascinating exploration of the relationship between humans and their unique form of expression: writing.

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9780077520618 | 7 lslf edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, April 4, 2011), cover price $117.15

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Product Description: The Second Edition of this student favorite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question, design the project and write it up. It enables students to have a clear sense of how their own work relates to broader scholarship and inspires understanding of why studying the media matters...read more
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9781849207850 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, December 6, 2012), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The Second Edition of this student favorite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question, design the project and write it up.

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9781849207867 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, December 6, 2012), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Second Edition of this student favorite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question, design the project and write it up.

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Product Description: Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment. Acknowledging widespread fears of cultural erosion at the hands of dominant global forces, Mohammed argues that what we understand as culture has always been the product of global forces, including those of trade and exchange...read more
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9780739166512 | Lexington Books, September 1, 2011, cover price $68.50 | About this edition: Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment.

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9780739180976 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, December 14, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment.

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Product Description: This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and how they relate to post-war debates over memory, culture and national identity...read more
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9780719082658 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 11, 2012, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction.

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Product Description: For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost...read more
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9780307378538 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, March 13, 2012), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide.

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9780307473806 | Vintage Books, December 11, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us.

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Product Description: This wide-ranging multidisciplinary collection highlights the centrality of representations for the study of peace and conflict. Its analysis covers topics as diverse as British soldiers' photographic records, social identity in Northern Ireland; memory work; the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission; the London memorial to the Women of World War II and protest songs in the popular music charts...read more
By Simon Mollan (editor)
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9780230298668 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2012, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This wide-ranging multidisciplinary collection highlights the centrality of representations for the study of peace and conflict.

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Product Description: Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh German Yearbook is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field...read more
By Mary Cosgrove (editor) and Anna Richards (editor)
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9781571135285 | Camden House, December 3, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh German Yearbook is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field.

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Product Description: The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society combines the scholarship and research of 45 notable contributors in one volume suitable for college-level students studying geography, anthropology, or area studies. The 33 chapters cover geography, history, culture, population, and economy...read more
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9781573060837 | Bess Pr Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.

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9780824835866, titled "Pacific Islands: Environment and Society" | Univ of Hawaii Pr, April 30, 2013, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society combines the scholarship and research of 45 notable contributors in one volume suitable for college-level students studying geography, anthropology, or area studies.
9781573060424 | Bess Pr Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.

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Product Description: Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the center of debates in development studies, introducing new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of "social suffering...read more
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9781780323152 | Zed Books, November 13, 2012, cover price $134.95 | About this edition: Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the center of debates in development studies, introducing new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of "social suffering.

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9781780323145 | Zed Books, November 13, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the center of debates in development studies, introducing new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of "social suffering.

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Product Description: The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media — stand-up comedy, movies, television, and a blockbuster trilogy of novel...read more
By Joanne Waugh (editor)
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9780739172247 | Lexington Books, December 6, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society.

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Product Description: Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid...read more
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9781442219632 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 13, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid.

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Product Description: While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women...read more
By kyo cho and Kyoko Selden (trans)
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9781442218932 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 12, 2012), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan.

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Product Description: How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? Here Alex Drace-Francis offers a well-researched and readable guide to the development of literary, educational, and printing institutions in the Romanian lands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...read more
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9781845110666 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 20, 2006, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity?

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9781780760384 | Reprint edition (I B Tauris & Co Ltd, January 8, 2013), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity?

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Product Description: It is a constant source of surprise that Chinese people can speak of the habits and beliefs of all their millions of compatriots with such certainty that they are right – but generally they are. Thousands of years of cultural development have developed an enormous set of understandings that tend to be a total mystery to outsiders...read more
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9789881900241 | Natl Book Network, January 16, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It is a constant source of surprise that Chinese people can speak of the habits and beliefs of all their millions of compatriots with such certainty that they are right – but generally they are.

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Product Description: A short stroll up Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, reveals a veritable walking art gallery with flesh as medium. Hipsters sit on the stoops of brownstones or on the benches outside cafés and restaurants showing off their ink...read more
By Nadine Rubin Nathan (introduced by)
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9780985136802 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, September 16, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A short stroll up Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, reveals a veritable walking art gallery with flesh as medium.

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Product Description: Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Pamela A. Hays’ Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper’s Toolkit provides both students and professionals in health care and social service with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with their clients and with the community at large...read more
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9781452217918 | Sage Pubns, August 24, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Pamela A.

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