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  • 偷走心智的贼：阿尔茨海默病的故事
    于涵
    编辑推荐从被发现到前沿研究，从致病因素到治疗手段，全面了解阿尔茨海默病本书从阿尔茨海默病被首次发现开始讲起，沿着医学界探索人们究竟为何会患上这种疾病的道路，细数遗传学、细胞学、免疫学以及制药行业的相关研究历程，在讲述疾病研究故事的同时，让读者全面了解该病的方方面面。在充满曲折与悬念的科研故事中，求解历时百年的医学谜题本书带着读者层层拨开围绕在阿尔茨海默病周围的迷雾，从最初人们的一无所知，到今天的众说纷纭。在这个过程中，充满扣人心弦的悬念和出人意料的转折。它虽然是一本科普书，但读起来丝毫不逊色于侦探小说。借助基础的生物学知识就可以轻松读懂的科普佳作作者在解释阿尔茨海默病的致病或治疗原理时，会从基因、细胞、试验方法等最基础的层面耐心讲起，还能用通俗、形象的语言与直观的图表拆解其中的科学逻辑，降低了本书在专业层面的阅读门槛，任何读者都可以轻松读懂。秉承求真...
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    40,37 €

  • The Children’s Media Yearbook 2021
    Diana Hinshelwood
    The Children’s Media Yearbook is an annual snapshot of the creative, business, strategic and policy issues facing the children’s media industry in the UK and the UK children’s and youth media audience. It contains articles by academic, commercial and institutional researchers, media practitioners, activists and audience advocates, commentators and senior figures in the children...
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    29,32 €

  • The Children’s Media Yearbook 2020
    Diana Hinshelwood
    The Children’s Media Yearbook is an annual snapshot of the creative, business, strategic and policy issues facing the children’s media industry in the UK and the UK children’s and youth media audience. It contains articles by academic, commercial and institutional researchers, media practitioners, activists and audience advocates, commentators and senior figures in the childre...
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    29,42 €

  • Celebrity in the Time of Covid
    Christina S. Beck
    This work describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about COVID-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocated for preventive measures and the other a skeptical counter narrative that denied the disease’s existence or downplayed its severity. During the first postmodern pandemic, a slew of interactions took place across a variety...
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    57,55 €

  • Learning Social Or Orgnizational Culture
    John Lok
    This book research any countries culture improvement can assist themselves economic growth. I shall follow three aspects to research this question. The first aspect researchs whether the country researchs talent human experiment which can help any businessmen to raise productivities or efficiencies. The second aspect researchs whether the country encourages employers apply high...
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    17,94 €

  • Happy Daze
    Tom Jagtenberg
    Happy Daze exposes optimism as a mind altering cultural fix. Too much optimism has stimulated climate change denial and all manner of excessive human behaviours. Optimism may be life enhancing, but too much optimism has a corrupting influence. This book explains why and how optimism can lead to very bad outcomes. Tom Jagtenberg’s last book, Beyond the Limits: A Planet in Crisis...
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    17,00 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    121,79 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    121,99 €

  • The Afterlife in Popular Culture
    Kevin O’Neill
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    141,09 €

  • The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities
    Where human communication and development is possible, folklore is developed. With the rise of digital communications and media in past decades, humans have adopted a new form of folklore within this online landscape. Digital folklore has been developed into a culture that impacts the ways in which communities are formed, media is created, and communications are carried out. It...
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    216,33 €

  • Conversations with George Saunders
    Michael O’Connell
    Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December provides detailed insight into his own writing process...
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    21,00 €

  • Society-on-Demand
    Tim Johnston
    A combative, energetic and visceral analysis of the digital entertainment industry and its impact on political change; from the smartphone to social media, pornography to football, streaming to NFTs and more: the realm of the Online has placed us on a path of imminent social collapse. Making his debut, Tim Johnston guides us through a political and social minefield as he dissec...
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    13,70 €

  • The social significance of dining out
    Alan Warde / Jennifer Whillans / Jessica Paddock
    The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Making Sense of Ultra-Realism
    Anthony Lloyd / Justin Kotzé
    Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology, drawing upon popular films and television series to contextualise and clarify the ultra-realist school of thought and providing a theoretically rich yet accessible introduction to the topic. ...
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    87,91 €

  • The Peanut Factory
    Deborah Price
    ’A window into a time of raw energy and rough edges, Deb Price paints a vivid picture of life in the squats of South London. By turns amusing and alarming, but always engaging, we accompany a teenager as she navigates her way to womanhood in a sub-culture on the margins.’ - Allie Rogers, author of Little Gold and Tale of a ToothA coming-of-age memoir about a young woman living ...
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    14,05 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat Press
    Detailed, step-by-step rolling instructions for the world’s most infamous jointsDozens of professional tips, tricks, and techniquesOver 250 illustrations, diagrams and cartoonsFull health and legal guidesThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648371620). ...
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    21,11 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat
    Get back to basics and roll the perfect joint.Bobcat is back with his blunted bunnies to coach us on the art and joy of rolling.• Easy-to-follow instructions• Detailed step-by-step illustrationsFrom Saturday Night Special to the complex Crossroads and even the decadent Cannabis Cigar, find tips and tricks on making spliffs that will amaze your friends and win rolling contests.T...
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    19,72 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat Press
    Detailed, step-by-step rolling instructions for the world’s most infamous jointsDozens of professional tips, tricks, and techniquesOver 250 illustrations, diagrams and cartoonsFull health and legal guidesThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648371620). ...
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    31,18 €

  • The Recyclables
    Kalma Downe
    Too much angst for you? Me too. This is an attempt to show how silly and dangerous the ’my way or the highway’ attitudes have become. The allegory takes place in a zero sort recycling bin with national left and right wing newspapers arguing over contemporary topics like healthcare, gun control and more. There are lovers triangles and hacked cars to lighten some of the heavier d...
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    15,59 €

  • Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction
    María Isabel González-Cruz
    Despreciado por la crítica por su condición de literatura popular y femenina, el género romántico no solo continúa imbatible en el mercado editorial con su elevado índice de ventas, sino que en las últimas décadas está siendo objeto de interesantes estudios académicos. 'Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica' se suma a esta corriente, al abordar el análisis interdiscip...
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    78,03 €

  • The Faces and Stakes of Brand Insertion
    With traditional forms of advertisement facing increasing challenges, brand placement - the integration of a product or brand in a work of art - has exploded. It has become a lucrative phenomenon whose goal is to produce a reaction of purchase in the mind of the receiver (reader, viewer or listener). This volume seeks to complement extant studies of product placement strategies...
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    71,39 €

  • China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific
    Elaine J. Zhao / Haiqing Yu / Michael Keane
    This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China’s commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside China and can disseminate Chinese culture more effectively than government-supported me...
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    57,58 €

  • The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021
    William M. Simons
    Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions on the field and in Hall of Fame elections; baseball’s h...
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    93,76 €

  • Storybook Worlds Made Real
    Memorable children’s narratives immerse readers in imaginary worlds that bring them into the story. Some of these places have been constructed in the real world--like Pinocchio’s Tuscany or Anne of Green Gables’ Prince Edward Island--where visitors relive their favorite childhood tales. Theme parks like Walt Disney World and Harry Potter World use technology to engineer enchant...
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    71,79 €

  • Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
    David Scott
    Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colo...
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    58,92 €

  • Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-media Products
    Carmen Spano
    The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insights into the culturally specific similarities and differences that distinct audiences...
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    57,79 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    21,04 €

  • The quiet contemporary American novel
    Rachel Sykes
    This book explores the concept of ’quiet’ - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. ...
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    35,76 €

  • AI and Popular Culture
    Lee Barron
    AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next. ...
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    33,46 €

  • Music Management, Marketing and PR
    Chris Anderton / James Hannam / Johnny Hopkins
    A guide to the study and practice of the music industries in the 21st century. Tying academic research to industry insight, it helps students understand the range of roles and institutions they need to know in order to manage artists and to promote and sell music. ...
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    56,71 €


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