Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
ISBN: 9781604734072 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a number of topics touching on the ways in which her cultural output shapes contemporary America. The volume examines how Oprah has fashioned a persona--which emphasizes her rural, poverty-stricken roots over other factors--that helps her popularize her unique blend of New Age spirituality, neoliberal politics, and African American preaching. She packages New Age spirituality through the rhetoric of race, gender, and the black preacher tradition.... Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a ... |
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306,92 zł |
Kanye West: A Biography
ISBN: 9780313374609 / Angielski / Twarda / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kanye West is a star. His music has jumped from sensation to staple in the rap industry, while his personality, his philosophies, and his willingness to speak out for what he believes in regularly place him at the center of controversy. "Kanye West: A Biography" traces the star's life from his birth through the present day to paint a detailed picture of the artist and the man. Raised by a single mother who was an English professor in Chicago, West admits he came from "the wrong side of the mall" rather than the wrong side of the tracks. His name, his style, and the way he conducts his... Kanye West is a star. His music has jumped from sensation to staple in the rap industry, while his personality, his philosophies, and his willingne... |
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264,83 zł |
Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements
ISBN: 9781594517884 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed. Is it truly the 'lifeblood' of movements, as some have declared, or merely the entertainment between the speeches? Drawing on interviews, case studies and musical and lyrical analysis, Rosenthal and Flacks offer a brilliant analysis and a wide-ranging look at the use of music in movements, in the US and elsewhere, over the past hundred years. From their interviews, the voices of Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello,...
Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarel...
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941,15 zł |
Jean Langlais: A Bio-Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313255472 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book on the French composer Jean Langlais to be published in English and also the first to provide complete information on all of his published works plus 86 unplubished compositions, and eleven orchestral works. This book traces Langlais' development from his early years of study at the National Institute for the Young Blind, through his long and active career as composer, church musician, and concert organist, and explores the impact that Langlais' hard work, determination, and talent have had on the musical world. It is divided into five major sections, including a... This is the first book on the French composer Jean Langlais to be published in English and also the first to provide complete information on all of... |
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270,84 zł |
Food Culture in Central America
ISBN: 9780313347672 / Angielski / Twarda / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Culture in Central America illustrates the unique foodways of the region in depth and in English for the first time. Important foods and ingredients, techniques, and lore associated with food preparation are surveyed. Typical meals eaten at home are presented, with attention to the cultural context in which those meals take place, including regional or national differences. The book also examines various meal settings street vendors, modest comedors, and fancy restaurants. The role of food in common festivals and life cycle rituals is explored as well, including... Food Culture in Central America illustrates the unique foodways of the region in depth and in English for the first time. Important foods a... |
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373,05 zł |
The Earnhardts: A Biography
ISBN: 9780313358401 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From mid-century dirt tracks to today's super speedways, The Earnhardts: A Biography tells the remarkable story of a racing family Dale, his father Ralph, and son Dale Jr. whose careers span the full history of NASCAR and whose accomplishments define this unique American motorsport. Drawing on extensive research, including interviews with friends, family, and sports writers covering the NASCAR scene, Gerry Souter follows the Earnhardts' story from Ralph's short track racing in cars he built himself to Dale's record-setting career and shocking death to Dale Jr.'s... From mid-century dirt tracks to today's super speedways, The Earnhardts: A Biography tells the remarkable story of a racing family Dale, his... |
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264,83 zł |
Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780826516336 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as well as in the highly visible political roles played by many Latin American intellectuals.
Yet the authors of this book argue that the... The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship ...
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607,23 zł |
Landscape Modelling: Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios
ISBN: 9789048130511 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing damaged ecosystems on the one hand, and finding effective ways to use the landscape on the other. The discipline has the specific goal of designing and assessing future scenarios of landscape development, while not losing sight of its past history, both ecological and... Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the des... |
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585,00 zł |
Mechademia 4: War/Time Volume 4
ISBN: 9780816667499 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propaganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity... The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War ... |
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96,61 zł |
The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
ISBN: 9780292787469 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastian, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension and a papal dispensation to continue dressing in men's clothing. This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted,... Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastia... |
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111,87 zł |
Regional American Food Culture
ISBN: 9780313340437 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic fare and evolving food traditions from New England to the West are illuminated like never before.
The classic fare and evolving food traditions from New England to the West are illuminated like never before.
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251,69 zł |
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
ISBN: 9781137490148 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the catalytic role of workers education in mobilizing political activism and women s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on the letters and papers of Fannia Mary Cohn, a prominent figure in the US garment industry s trade union movement, it discusses and further theorizes the importance of gender as an analytical category in the forceful interaction of labour, education and migration histories. The significance of the visual...
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers education in mobilizing political activism and women s involvement in labour struggles and politics...
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428,99 zł |
War and the Media: Essays on News Reporting, Propaganda and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780786446070 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers of those images. This work examines examples that reflect the role of the media or mass communication or both during wartime.
Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the ...
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186,36 zł |
Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory
ISBN: 9780803988125 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A book to get you thinking. It has proved impossible to convey accurately the exciting, wide-ranging, seemingly effortless trawl across a wide variety of schools, disciplines and thinkers which Rojek employs to support his argument. He uses a direct personal style which shines through the closely argued material and keeps you turning the pages to the very end. Students brought up in the modernist traditions of sociologies of leisure may find this book challenging and ultimately even frustrating, but it is an essential text which I hope will appear on recommended reading lists everywhere...
A book to get you thinking. It has proved impossible to convey accurately the exciting, wide-ranging, seemingly effortless trawl across a wide variety...
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732,56 zł |
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
ISBN: 9781416575993 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narcissism--an inflated view of the self--is everywhere. Public figures say it's what makes them stray from their wives. Parents teach it by dressing children in T-shirts that say "Princess." Teenagers and young adults hone it on Facebook, and celebrity newsmakers have elevated it to an art form. And it's what's making people depressed, lonely, and buried under piles of debt. Jean Twenge's influential first book, Generation Me, spurred a national debate with its depiction of the challenges twenty- and thirty-somethings face in today's world--and the fallout these issues create for...
Narcissism--an inflated view of the self--is everywhere. Public figures say it's what makes them stray from their wives. Parents teach it by dressing ...
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81,55 zł |
Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning: Beyond the Flatlands
ISBN: 9789048132089 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ways in which these ICTs can expand the language of planning and the creativity of planners; can evoke the lived experience (the spirit, memories, desires) of our 21st century mongrel... The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refe... |
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585,00 zł |
Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
ISBN: 9780865479791 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically active. Rejecting both traditional gender roles and their parents' brand of feminism, riot grrrls celebrated and deconstructed femininity. The media went into a titillated frenzy covering followers who wrote "slut" on their bodies, wore frilly dresses with combat boots, and talked openly about sexual politics. The movement's message of "revolution girl-style now" soon filtered into the mainstream as "girl power," popularized... In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become ... |
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68,71 zł |
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
ISBN: 9780415560610 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book David Wittner situates Japan's Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice. Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government's guiding principle was not simply economic development or providing a technical model for private industry as is commonly claimed. Choice of technique was based on the ability of a technological... In this book David Wittner situates Japan's Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, p... |
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264,48 zł |
School Culture
ISBN: 9781853964336 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School Culture
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686,78 zł |
Regulating Football : Commodification, Consumption and the Law
ISBN: 9780745310268 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at the impact of the ever-increasing commercialization of football. Providing historical background, the book looks at the implications for clubs, and questions whether we have reached the point where commercial issues have superseded the club and even football itself.
This work looks at the impact of the ever-increasing commercialization of football. Providing historical background, the book looks at the implication...
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160,60 zł |