Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy.

• Chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world
• Draws together, in one accessible volume, seminal essays written across...

A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims.

• Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa


• Challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims


• Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of Africa's past


• Lays out research questions that...

A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims.

• Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa


• Challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims


• Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of Africa's past


• Lays out research questions that...

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying.

• Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world
  
• Considers the profound influence death has had on...

This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The expert and well-known scholars who have written these essays cover central topics that have evolved over the past 25 years.

• Brings together 20 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on cities and society in one accessible volume

• Offers an international focus, as well as case studies, all by leading experts in the field

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In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics.

• A vivid montage of literature that touches on a broad range of ethical subjects and themes
  
• Offers a unique contribution to the study of moral philosophy and literature
  
• Demonstrates how literary sources can add richness to discussions of real-life moral questions and dilemmas
  
• Brings together selections and excerpts from the world's most celebrated...

There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln's Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship.

• Contains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War
  
• Reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War
  
• Reproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage...

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works.

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and...

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works.

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and...

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence.



Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and...