Product Description: Closing the Circle: Cultural History of the Rock Revolution

Product Description: For courses covering the Internet/World Wide Web and HTML.SELECT: Internet provides introductory level students with skill-building, hands-on exercises that will get them up and running on the Internet in no time! The focus is on a spiraled development approach that integrates all features of the Internet into a powerful resource package, rather than focusing on each component as a separate entity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: He squeezes down chimneys on Christmas Eve, his rotund stomach full of milk and cookies. He quickly and stealthily enters the rooms of little boys and girls to deliver gifts and goodies. Santa Claus symbolizes everything good and everything cheery with the world...read more

Product Description: Call it an encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics. In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, the writer whom Steven Millhauser called "the most original essayist since George Orwell" examines with devastating wit and in a style distinctly his own the contagious appeal of that which is not art, the uses of the useless, the politics of product design and advertising...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With 30 all-new cases and thorough guides to reading each of them, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CASES is the best casebook of its kind on the market. With STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CASES, you'll not only learn from the biggest stars of the corporate world, you'll also discover key strategies that smaller companies have used to succeed...read more

In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. Here, the author uses his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, and describes a journey - both physical and psychological - toward a definition of home in this world gone mobile.

An in-depth study of the 'Simpsons' examines the relationship between the show and the society it satarizes, analyzing the way each character symbolizes an aspect of American life.

Product Description: IIn „Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse“ wird der medienanalytische Ansatz der Cultural Studies umfassend vorgestellt. Bezogen auf den Gegenstand„Medien“ werden einerseits die Theorieansätze der Cultural Studies diskutiert und ihre forschungsgeschichtliche Entwicklung bis heute dargelegt...read more

Product Description: Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that the symbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense are in many different ways, understood as and within popular culture. It is debated that it has been polarized as a negative or positive counterpart to other dimensions of cultural activity...read more

Product Description: Spanning geographical, cultural, and methodological boundaries, the essays in Being and Becoming Visible examine female representation in a variety of performative and visual media. Olga M. Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Fève situate the disciplines of visual culture and performance studies within two conceptual frameworks―multicultural and feminist―through the overarching thematic trope of visibility...read more

Product Description: The Huffington Post's "Let's Bring Back..." columnist, Lesley M. M. Blume, invites you to consider whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many "friends" but have done away with the much more useful word "acquaintance"? All of these things, plus hot toddies, riddles, proverbs, corsets, calling cards, and many more, are due for a revival...read more

This unique dictionary is an authoritative and up-to-date reference book on all aspects of the study of plants. While many of the over 5,000 entries in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany have been taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Natural History, a substantial number have been written especially for this volume. Completely comprehensive, this dictionary offers concise and accessible explanations of terms from biogeology, evolution, earth history, and all the earth sciences, as well as up-to-date entries on more current fields of interest such as ecology, genetics, plant physiology, biochemistry, and cytology. In addition, the book offers world-wide coverage of taxonomic groups and takes full account of recent taxonomical revisions. One-third of the entries are devoted to taxa, from bacteria and fungi to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. Brief biographical sketches of important botanists are also included. With almost twice the number of entries as any similar dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany is perfect for amateur botanists, and anyone interested in the world around us.

Product Description: In our society, cultural activity - or 'the arts' - usually refers to the high culture of the elites and popular mass culture. Clarke Mackey argues for a third category that is as old as human society itself but seldom discussed: vernacular culture...read more

Product Description: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular’...read more

Product Description: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular’...read more

Product Description: Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions about celebrity culture stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest