wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook
ISBN: 9781442256286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies have proved just the opposite: that the use of Native American mascots in educational institutions has perpetuated a shameful history of racial insensitivity. The Native American Mascot Controversy provides an overview of the issues that have been associated with this topic for the past 40 years. The book provides a comprehensive and critical account of the issues surrounding the controversy,...
Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once ...
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164,12 zł |
Unsettling America: The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781442216686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about them. It examines the means and meanings of competing uses and understandings of Indianness, unraveling their significance for broader understandings of race and racism, sovereignty and self-determination, and the possibilities of decolonization. To this end, it takes up four themes: -false claims...
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in po...
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191,47 zł |
Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
ISBN: 9781472442376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a 'metaphor of waste', from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects of American culture. With analyses of scientific and popular cultural texts such as novels and films, scholarly or medical models of addiction, reality television, TV drama, public health and...
Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on ...
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753,56 zł |
Competition Law
ISBN: 9780198836322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 1084 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Whish and Bailey's Competition Law is the definitive textbook on this subject. An authoritative treatment of competition law is paired with an easy-to-follow writing style to make this comprehensive guide essential reading for law students, practitioners, and officials. The authors explain the purpose of competition policy, introduce the reader to key concepts and techniques in competition law, and provide insights into the numerous issues that arise when analysing market behaviour. Describing the law in its economic and market context, they particularly consider the competition law...
Whish and Bailey's Competition Law is the definitive textbook on this subject. An authoritative treatment of competition law is paired with an easy-to...
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336,53 zł |
Remarks on the Alliance Between Church and State, and on the Test-Laws.
ISBN: 9781240146345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,34 zł |
Consumerism on TV: Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present
ISBN: 9781472447562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace, Birds of a Feather, Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as 'reality' television, this book examines the transformations that have occurred in consumer society since its appearance and the ways in which these have been constructed and represented in popular media imagery. With analyses of the ways in which consumerism has played out in society, Consumerism on TV highlights specific aspects of the changing nature of consumerism by way of considerations of gender, sexuality and class, as well as less definable...
Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace, Birds of a Feather, Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as 'realit...
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701,59 zł |
Well of Sins: Book Four: Of Patience & Wrath
ISBN: 9781493162918 / Angielski / Inna / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,47 zł |
Well of Sins: Book Four: Of Patience & Wrath
ISBN: 9781493162925 / Angielski / Inna / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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164,66 zł |
Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate
ISBN: 9781472435507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced. Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, the author combines analyses of visual and textual discourse, including comic-book letters pages, to come to a more complete picture of the relationship between comic-books as documents and the people who read and created them. Exploring the ways in which ideas about the US and its place in the world were represented in major superhero comic-books...
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in w...
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753,56 zł |
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke
ISBN: 9781472457721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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779,55 zł |
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy: Beyond Boy Wizards and Kick-Ass Chicks
ISBN: 9781472447531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games. Engaging directly with an enormously successful popular genre which is often overlooked by literary and cultural criticism, contributors pay close attention to the ways in which the...
This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to ...
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805,53 zł |