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  • Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture
    Laura J. Getty
    The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters trapped on fictional islands, the book examines how individuals react when forced to make hard choices within the liminal space of a ''prison'' island. At stake is the perception of choice: do characters believe that they have the power to choose, or do they think that...
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    79,28 €

  • Towards a Civic Theatre
    Dan Hutton
    Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, Towards a Civic Theatre makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. ...
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    14,50 €

  • And to Think I Saw it on MLK Street
    Puente Verdad
    In this pro-conservative values homage to the similarly titled Dr. Seuss classic, we follow our modern-minded protagonist as they brave a walk down MLK Street. Every day scenes, wholesome in nature, take on a darker theme as seen through the eyes of our progressive young friend. What you or I might see as normal or wholesome may look different to someone with a alternative back...
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    17,08 €

  • Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes
    Rafael Acosta Morales
    Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence.The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative...
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    77,78 €

  • Positioning Pooh
    Jennifer Harrison
    Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundzic, Ivana Milkovic, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago, disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings in the history of children’s literature. Christopher Robi...
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    158,34 €

  • Positioning Pooh
    Jennifer Harrison
    Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundzic, Ivana Milkovic, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago, disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings in the history of children’s literature. Christopher Robi...
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    50,18 €

  • My Melancholy Baby
    Michael G Garber
    Ten songs, from 'Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home' (1902) to 'You Made Me Love You' (1913), ignited the development of the classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising...
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    49,67 €

  • My Melancholy Baby
    Michael G Garber
    Ten songs, from 'Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home' (1902) to 'You Made Me Love You' (1913), ignited the development of the classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising...
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    157,82 €

  • At Arm’s Length
    Mike Cadden
    Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to readers. What can be said about the rhetorical relationship that exists between author and reader? How do authors manipulate character, specifically, to modulate the emotional appeal of character so a reader will feel empathy, awe, even delight? In At Arm’s Length:...
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    50,52 €

  • Retcon Game
    Andrew J Friedenthal
    The superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there’s a pill popped to alter memories of the past. The narrative technique of retroactive continuity seems rife lately, given all the world-building in comics. Andrew J. Friedenthal deems retroactive continuity, or 'retconning,' as a force with many implications for how Americans view history and cultu...
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    50,25 €

  • At Arm’s Length
    Mike Cadden
    Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to readers. What can be said about the rhetorical relationship that exists between author and reader? How do authors manipulate character, specifically, to modulate the emotional appeal of character so a reader will feel empathy, awe, even delight? In At Arm’s Length:...
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    158,68 €

  • An Unexpected Journal
    James W. Baker / Joseph Holmes / Seth Myers
    What Makes a Superhero? Superheroes captivate our cultural imagination. From reading comic books in our childhood bedrooms to watching the latest blockbuster on the silver screen, we long to see the champion defeat the villain and ultimately rescue the world from certain destruction. Though the stories may be fantastical, our desires are not. Our hearts are drawn to superheroes...
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    20,70 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    121,60 €

  • The Enduring Fantastic
    Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented...
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    79,41 €

  • Eat Beat Sleep Repeat
    Amos O’Henry
    This book describes my life and experiences as a Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) worker in the oil and gas industry, from trainee to fifteen-year veteran. My career - so far - has included stints on four offshore facilities and one major onshore LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project. I currently work on the World’s largest floating object which I helped build in South Korea over a three ye...
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    21,01 €

  • The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
    Jorge Téllez
    This book studies picaresque narratives from 1690 to 2013, examining how this literary form serves as a reflection on the material conditions necessary for writing literature in Mexico.In The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico, Jorge Téllez argues that Mexican writers have drawn on the picaresque as a device for pondering what they regard as the perils of intellectual an...
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    84,92 €

  • Slave Revolt on Screen
    Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
    In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This event, the first successful revolution by enslaved people in modern history, sent shock waves throughout the Atlantic World. Regardles...
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    157,90 €

  • Research Paradigm Considerations for Emerging Scholars
    This book provides insights into the experiences and reflections of researchers as they negotiate the world of paradigms and seek to find their niche. It offers an accessible exploration of research paradigms and will be a valuable resource for postgraduate researchers, emerging scholars and PhD supervisors. ...
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    157,36 €

  • Espresso
    Wendy Pojmann
    It is not an exaggeration that espresso is at the core of Italian culture and history. Millions of espresso drinkers around the world attempt to capture a special 'made in Italy' feeling in their coffee cups each day. But few are aware of how Italy became the world’s leading espresso country or why the Italian espresso bar is so difficult to replicate elsewhere. In Espresso, We...
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    16,12 €

  • I Can Read It All by Myself
    Paul V Allen
    In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children’s classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn’t stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to...
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    49,67 €

  • I Can Read It All by Myself
    Paul V Allen
    In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children’s classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn’t stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to...
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    157,83 €

  • Pop Goes the Decade
    Richard Hall
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    132,96 €

  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (B&W)
    Frances Jones
    ’The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in cultur...
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    46,42 €

  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color)
    Frances Jones
    ’The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in cultur...
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    72,85 €

  • HUMANKIND
    RUTGER BREGMAN
    यह एक विश्वास ही है जो वामपन्थियों और दक्षिणपन्थियों को, मनोवैज्ञानिकों और दार्शनिकों को, लेखकों और इतिहासकारों को एकजुट करता है। यह उन सुर्खियों को प्रेरित करता है जो हमें घेरे रहती हैं और उन नियमों को संचालित करता है जो हमारे जीवन पर प्रभाव डालते हैं। पश्चिम के चिन्तन में इस विश्वास की जड़ें, मैकियावेली से लेकर हॉब्स तक और फ्रॉइड से लेकर डॉकिन्स तक, बहुत गहराई तक समाई हुई हैं।...
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    37,58 €

  • Hero and Hero-Worship
    In the aftermath of liberalization of Indian economy in 1991, the study of star-fan studies has experienced exponential expansion. Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India explores the areas of political, religious, film and cricket star fandoms; analyzing the rise of star formations and their consequent fandoms, star-fan bonds, as well as the physical and virtual space th...
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    52,00 €

  • Lost in the Dark
    Brad Weismann
    Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other k...
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    20,88 €

  • Lost in the Dark
    Brad Weismann
    Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other k...
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    158,25 €

  • Comics of R. Crumb
    Daniel Worden
    Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and Daniel Worden From his work on underground comix like Zap and Weirdo, to his cultural prominence, R. Crumb is one of the mos...
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    157,83 €

  • Comics of R. Crumb
    Daniel Worden
    Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and Daniel Worden From his work on underground comix like Zap and Weirdo, to his cultural prominence, R. Crumb is one of the mos...
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    49,67 €


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