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  • Nurse in Popular Media
    Marcus K Harmes
    The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale’s voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses--r...
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    79,29 €

  • The Ethics of Affect
    Patrick W. Galbraith / Patrick WGalbraith
    Based on ongoing fieldwork in the Akihabara neighborhood of Tokyo, specifically a targeted subproject from 2014 to 2015, this book explores how and to what effect lines are drawn by producers, players and critics of bishōjo games. Focusing on interactions with manga/anime-style characters, these adult computer games often feature explicit sex acts. Noting that the bishōjo, or '...
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    35,94 €

  • Where Misfits Fit
    Thomas Michael Kersen
    All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the...
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    158,24 €

  • Where Misfits Fit
    Thomas Michael Kersen
    All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the...
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    50,08 €

  • The Assimilation
    Edward Winterhalder / Wil De Clercq
    In the early 1990s, Maurice 'Mom' Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex-friend of Boucher, the Rock Machine had every intention of standing up against the Hells Angels. Seven years of bloody conflict,...
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    17,01 €

  • Biker Chicz
    Edward Winterhalder / Wil De Clercq
    In Biker Chicz: The Attraction of Women to Motorcycles and Outlaw Bikers, the authors provide the reader with an intriguing snapshot of the culture through women who have an intimate knowledge of the lifestyle. Although many people question their motivation to be involved with a lifestyle that most people find frightening and repulsive, to some women there is an attraction to t...
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    17,40 €

  • The Ultimate Biker Anthology
    Outlaw bikers and 1%er motorcycle clubs have always carefully guarded their privacy, however in recent years more and more books have come to be written by and about outlaw bikers, the lifestyle, and the realities of life inside the patched motorcycle club world. This anthology brings together some of the best authors in the world, who have recently written about motorcycle clu...
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    16,93 €

  • THE NEW TEMPERANCE
    David Wagner
    The author compares the current 'temperance 'movements (against drugs, smoking, alcohol, teen pregnancy, pornography, fatty foods, and even politically incorrect language) with similar movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book addresses why the new campaigns emerged after the supposed freer days of the 1960s, and why these issues are popular in Amer...
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    17,45 €

  • Six Steps Wiser
    D’Moon Team
    Step by step, into tomorrow, prudent or two left feet on dance floor?Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision, Yesterday is Tomorrow’s advisor?Thus comes World Culture Pictorial® Reading and Reflection - from poetry to policy, from history to technology to characters, legends...Cutting humour, rich content, exquisite art, top quality press - one-of-a-kind ...
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    10,68 €

  • Five Steps Wiser
    D’Moon Team
    Step by step, into tomorrow, prudent or two left feet on dance floor?Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision, Yesterday is Tomorrow’s advisor?Thus comes World Culture Pictorial® Reading and Reflection - from poetry to policy, from history to technology to characters, legends...Cutting humour, rich content, exquisite art, top quality press - one-of-a-kind ...
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    10,75 €

  • Mythic Mr. Lincoln
    Jeff O’Bryant
    Honest Abe. The rail-splitter. The Great Emancipator. Old Abe. These are familiar monikers of Abraham Lincoln. They describe a man who has influenced the lives of everyday people as well as notables like Leo Tolstoy, Marilyn Monroe, and Winston Churchill. But there is also a multitude of fictional Lincolns almost as familiar as the original: time traveler, android, monster hunt...
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    57,44 €

  • Nineties to Now
    Matthew McKeever
    What is it actually like to live today? It’s an era where world politics play out on Twitter, and where the gig economy has made the nine-to-five job an object of aspiration rather than dread. Rates of mental illness are soaring, inequality predominates everything and much of life is contained in our phones. The core idea of this book is that we can only understand what life is...
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    57,54 €

  • Clubhouse Culture
    Pete Cohen
    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GO DIRECTLY TO THE COCOS FOUNDATION. www.cocosfoundation.co.ukLove it or hate it, Social Media is here to stay - and now there is a new app ready to take on the ’big four,’ disrupting and challenging the way we view the time we spend online.Although still in its testing stage and currently ’invitation-only,’ Clubhouse is an audio-only app...
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    30,91 €

  • Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner
    Amanda DiGioia / Samantha Holland
    Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott’s contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema, showcasing how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still run rampant. ...
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    87,93 €

  • My Teapot Country
    Wakatendeka Bwanya
    Planning a vacation or road trip in Zimbabwe? This book is a great idea to invite your kids to participate in in planning the trip and entertaining them along the way! Waka Bwanya shares her real life experiences of her travels across exciting destinations in Zimbabwe.This is an edutaining book with bits of local Zimbabwean lingo, beautiful images of Waka’s experiences and fun ...
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    41,20 €

  • Sociology of Sports
    Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of athletics, this text also highlights many of sports’ positive features. This new edition includes significantly updat...
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    59,45 €

  • Encountering the Impossible
    Alexander Sergeant
    The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. ...
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    121,71 €

  • Culture Unveiled
    Sherill Asis-Gilbas
    This compilation of five research articles served as a Reader for research and literary enthusiasts. The materials are various literary genres from prose and poetry as well as prose narratives. The articles utilized various theories and approaches focused on identifying cultural aspects. The first article identified culture as an inherent factor in addressing the questions of ...
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    10,07 €

  • How I Walked Into a Story and Came Out With a Song
    Richard Philip
    How I walked into a story and came out with a song: A journey into the invention of music from words is a book that sheds light on the mystery and power of creativity. Through short stories, songs composed based on the stories, and interesting, highly revealing narrative essays on the creative process involved in deriving music from works of fiction, author and musician Richard...
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    27,41 €

  • Screening American Nostalgia
    This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural chall...
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    79,49 €

  • Robert Kirkman
    Terrence R Wandtke
    Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical acclaim. In some ways, this would be enough to justify this career-spanning collection of interviews. Yet Kirkman represents ...
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    42,79 €

  • Comics World
    Benjamin Woo
    Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection t...
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    158,15 €

  • Comics World
    Benjamin Woo
    Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection t...
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    49,99 €

  • Robert Kirkman
    Terrence R Wandtke
    Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical acclaim. In some ways, this would be enough to justify this career-spanning collection of interviews. Yet Kirkman represents ...
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    158,24 €

  • Imperial nostalgia
    Peter Mitchell
    A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. ...
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    144,89 €

  • Imperial nostalgia
    Peter Mitchell
    A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. ...
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    26,03 €

  • Robots in Popular Culture
    Richard Hall
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    140,99 €

  • Garbage in Popular Culture
    Mehita Iqani
    Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. ...
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    40,96 €

  • Race and the Suburbs in American Film
    Merrill Schleier
    Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film. ...
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    121,62 €

  • Perpetual Movement
    Neil Badmington
    Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film’s eleven shots. ...
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    121,89 €


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