Catálogo de libros: Estudios culturales

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  • The Beatles in Perspective
    The Beatles’ lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading scholars of The Beatles to examine their origins, output and legacy.Interdiscipl...
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    128,92 €

  • Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
    Lucy Robinson
    Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality. ...
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    144,74 €

  • Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
    Lucy Robinson
    Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality. ...
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    25,52 €

  • Torturous Etiquettes
    Daniel Varndell
    Explores the 'torture' of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema. ...
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    121,57 €

  • WHY BRITAIN ROCKED
    Elizabeth Sharkey
    Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of ’Beatlemania’ by travelling deep into history to trace the events that led to Britain’s twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframes the hist...
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    34,84 €

  • Turkish Drama Serials
    Miriam Berg
    Examines the reach and reception of Turkish drama serials in the Middle East and Latin America, exploring what it is that makes Turkish television so successful as entertainment in places as diverse as Qatar, Chile and Israel. ...
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    128,00 €

  • Explaining the Practice of Elevating an Ancestor for Veneration
    George Shakwelele
    The Bisa people of Nabwalya, Zambia love their culture and gladly celebrate all their traditional festivals. This book presents exciting research into Kusefya pa ngena, rituals through which the Bisa elect ancestors for veneration. The Bisa speak freely of how their belief in ancestor veneration does not conflict with their worship of God. For them, the two work hand in hand. T...
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    26,17 €

  • Explaining the Practice of Elevating an Ancestor for Veneration
    George Shakwelele
    The Bisa people of Nabwalya, Zambia love their culture and gladly celebrate all their traditional festivals. This book presents exciting research into Kusefya pa ngena, rituals through which the Bisa elect ancestors for veneration. The Bisa speak freely of how their belief in ancestor veneration does not conflict with their worship of God. For them, the two work hand in hand. T...
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    40,08 €

  • The Folklore of Devon
    Mark Norman
    Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume. ...
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    76,43 €

  • The Magic Beyond Form
    Silvia Hagen
    This is a book about courage. The courage to look at things in life from different perspectives. To connect spirituality with science. To take a deeper look at and explore the collective consciousness that infuences each individual, as well as companies. At the age of two and a half, the world comes crashing down for Silvia Hagen. Due to a tragic accident, she finds her life in...
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    25,89 €

  • Ducktails, Drive-ins, and Broken Hearts
    Hank Davis
    An unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of ’50s rock and roll, from the biggest stars, like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, to those who barely grabbed the spotlight. ...
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    25,95 €

  • Toward an American Renewal
    Adam M. Brodsky
    The United States of America is becoming a divided nation and it needs help. Americans need new ways of thinking which will allow them to vigorously advocate for their own deeply held beliefs while at the same time remaining true to a common overarching story. This is deeper than just having civil discourse. This is deeper than just respecting the other side. This is deeper tha...
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    16,05 €

  • Toward an American Renewal
    Adam M. Brodsky
    The United States of America is becoming a divided nation and it needs help. Americans need new ways of thinking which will allow them to vigorously advocate for their own deeply held beliefs while at the same time remaining true to a common overarching story. This is deeper than just having civil discourse. This is deeper than just respecting the other side. This is deeper tha...
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    29,41 €

  • Fandom Culture and The Archers
    Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in teaching, learning, research and professional settings, and how the Academic Archers fandom helps shape these real life impacts. ...
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    34,72 €

  • My Costume, Myself
    Thomas G. Endres
    Cosplay. Celebrity impersonation. Historical reenactment. Drag. Ren Fairs. Through research and stories, come discover the transformational and inclusive world of costumes, and how they can be used to uncover, cultivate, and represent aspects of one’s inner self. Thomas Endres presents a much-needed deeper dive into a phenomenon defined by difference. The case study interviews,...
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    40,19 €

  • My Costume, Myself
    Thomas G. Endres
    Cosplay. Celebrity impersonation. Historical reenactment. Drag. Ren Fairs. Through research and stories, come discover the transformational and inclusive world of costumes, and how they can be used to uncover, cultivate, and represent aspects of one’s inner self. Thomas Endres presents a much-needed deeper dive into a phenomenon defined by difference. The case study interviews,...
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    30,00 €

  • The Mystery of Grandpa’s Christmas Cane
    Nick Nichols
    The snow flurries and Christmas carols in the air were a sure sign that Christmas was just around the corner! But those weren’t the things Christian was so excited about. To him, they signaled that Grandpa would soon be getting out his special Christmas cane! Christian would never have a Christmas like this… Starting from when he was just knee-high to a grasshopper, little Chri...
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    7,39 €

  • Adventures of a Mall Santa
    Nick Nichols
    I never had a Christmas like this!!! Bursting into the photo lab David, the mall manager, said to me, "QUICK, put down what you’re doing; our mall Santa canceled, and we need a Santa NOW!!" On our way out the door he said, "I need you to be Santa for this week through Christmas Eve," and then almost as a second thought, he asked, "Have you ever been a Santa before?"  I said, "N...
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    7,52 €

  • Mr. Tambourine Man
    Nicholson
    The book is a travelogue of 23 years gap year travel. Mr. Tambourine Man is a book written up from a travel diary describing the experiences of and places visited by author. This is a truthful account of an author experiences traveling and this offer a wide breadth of information, experience, and knowledge. This shares about other people, other countries, other customs and cult...
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    15,35 €

  • Beauty Within Weddings
    Bhupinder Kumar Pall
    'Beauty Within Weddings is Fabulous Signature Indian Weddings description. A dream book filled with beauty of inherited culture, traditions, customs, fun and frolic. About 30,000 weddings taking place per day, on average, in India 900,000 weddings a month are celebrated, more than 10 million per year. The annual cost of Indian wedding is 25 Billion USD business annually. India...
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    15,08 €

  • SEX, DRUGS, ROCK and WAR
    Daniel Muller
    We have all heard the nicknames for the current generations in the news. Besides the ’Silent Generation’ (a.k.a. The Greatest Generation) born before 1946, there are Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (also known as the Millennials), and Generation Z.In the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of coverage and discussion about the growing frustration between...
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    38,17 €

  • Crowds in American Culture, Society and Politics
    Arthur Asa Berger
    This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics. ...
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    35,86 €

  • Relocating the Sacred
    Niyi Afolabi
    Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms. ...
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    42,92 €

  • The Book of Vice
    Peter Sagal
    Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host--the man who puts the second 'l' in 'vanilla'--decided to find out if it’s true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his glasses there), Sagal explores what the s...
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    14,59 €

  • Leading Masonic Organizations
    Ashley Moye
    Fraternal politics is a thing in all fraternities, sororities, and social clubs. This book discusses fraternal politics through the lens of Freemasonry to help shed light on the troubling consequence of fraternal politics from lived experiences. To analyze the framework of our political system: consider the foundational teachings of Freemasonry and Masonic scholars’ warnings ab...
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    10,85 €

  • The Global Citizen
    Warren Brown
    This is the age of the digital nomad. There are professionals travelling and working all around the globe, far away from their homes. These freelancers are comfortable in the countries that they visit. These entrepreneurs adapt to the land they live in as digital nomads. How are they able to live and work in an entirely new country?Every country is so different and diverse from...
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    12,99 €

  • Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore
    Ronesa Aveela
    Venture into the magical, healing world of trees and embrace the power of nature. Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore highlights centuries of folklore and historical facts about 21 healing and magical trees from Slavic folklore and other traditions. Plus, it includes rituals, herbal remedies, and simple recipes. Several high-quality color photos, as well as a full-page bot...
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    65,08 €

  • Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore
    Ronesa Aveela
    Venture into the magical, healing world of trees and embrace the power of nature. Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore highlights centuries of folklore and historical facts about 21 healing and magical trees from Slavic folklore and other traditions. Plus, it includes rituals, herbal remedies, and simple recipes. Several high-quality color photos, as well as a full-page bot...
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    51,49 €

  • There Was No Alternative
    Jeff Gomez
    Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organization, a group of activists dedicated to raising money and awareness of AIDS, released their third compilation CD featuring the biggest bands of the era--Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Nirvana and m...
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    42,88 €

  • All I Ever Wanted
    Jane Lo
    Norah, a vivacious ESL teacher in Hong Kong, deftly straddles two worlds: she is Chinese, but sees life through a western lens because of her upbringing. These two worlds collide when she meets sweet, chivalrous Ben and marries him against her parents’ wishes. Suddenly a wife and daughter-in-law in a traditional Chinese household, Norah is torn between speaking Chinese and Engl...
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    24,39 €


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