Cultural Memory Studies
This overview of cultural memory theories explores how communities establish their identity—a process now challenged by the digital turn. The book presents arguments by the most important memory theorists and describes the most significant forms of cultural memory.
The Importance of Media Literacy
This book explores the effects of media, from video games and social media to fake news and screen addiction. It emphasizes the need for a healthy media diet and media literacy for all, providing empirically based approaches and sample lesson plans.
Signs of Hope
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Manual elections are weakened by human interference, causing irregularities and delays. This book argues that electronic voting should be implemented in both mature and new democracies to ensure accurate, swift poll results.
Mexican Mural Art
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
Religious Anarchism
This unique book presents fresh scholarship on the intersection of religion and anarchism. It explores diverse traditions from early Christianity to Daoism, Buddhism, and Islam, revealing innovative perspectives on the radical political implications of faith.
The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment
This book investigates the scientific basis of what we think we know about healthy living. How much of the information presented as fact by the media is true? It provides a key to understanding how we can all improve our health to thrive in any phase of life.
The Willow’s Whisper
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
Objects, Audiences, and Literatures
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
Using Poetry for Economic Analysis
This book is the first to amalgamate economics with poetry, novels, paintings, and movies. It presents the principles of economics in plain and lyrical English, analysing real-world issues for students, financial practitioners, and lay readers alike.
Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
Franz Boas was a ground-breaking anthropologist whose work denied racial superiority and introduced cultural relativity. A fierce pacifist and defender of free speech, he was among the first to recognize the strength of a scientist speaking out on political issues.
When the spherical molecule C60 was discovered in 1985, a science journalist did more than just report the news. He linked the glamorous discovery to the world of soot science, contriving a spectacular argument between scientists to promote the discoverers’ claim to fame.
The definitive musical biography of Mikis Theodorakis, the revolutionary composer who became a Greek icon of resistance. Born from the author’s personal friendship with the composer and written with his blessing, this is the authoritative account of a true popular hero.
Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
Explore the history of Chinese food and drink through its utensils, ingredients, and dining practices. This collection of essays examines items from Han jade goblets to 18th century imperial tea houses to reveal the evolution of culinary concepts and food cultures in China.
Assessing Social Capital
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
This book covers the key principles, theories, and applications of information and communication technologies for academic and professional audiences. It explores network architecture, information theory, wireless communications, network security, and optimisation methods.
Critical Practices in Architecture
Inspired by Jane Rendell’s critical spatial practice, this book shows how socially engaged architects, designers, and artists work to change the world. Bridging global perspectives, it explores urgent themes of equality, ethics, pedagogy, and representation.
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