The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
ISBN: 9781138249103 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British imperial gothic of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender,...
The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even po...
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247,26 zł |
Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9781138249059 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, UroA A voro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk: described as backward music, whose misogynist and Serb nationalist iconography represents a threat to cosmopolitanism, turbo-folk s iconography is also perceived as a genuinely Balkan form of...
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, thi...
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247,26 zł |
Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism
ISBN: 9780190212605 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white power music and skinhead subculture. But though nationalists once embraced a reputation for crude chauvinism, they are now seeking to reinvent themselves as upstanding and righteous, and they are using music to do it. Lions of the North explores this transformation of...
Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their oppositi...
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140,14 zł |
Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism
ISBN: 9780190212599 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white power music and skinhead subculture. But though nationalists once embraced a reputation for crude chauvinism, they are now seeking to reinvent themselves as upstanding and righteous, and they are using music to do it. Lions of the North explores this transformation...
Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their oppositi...
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532,29 zł |
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
ISBN: 9780399184130 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong -- now in paperback.
But What If We're Wrong? is a book of original, reported, interconnected pieces, which speculate on the likelihood that many universally accepted, deeply ingrained cultural and scientific beliefs will someday seem absurd. Covering a spectrum of objective and subjective topics, the book attempts to visualize present-day society the... The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently h...
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72,65 zł |
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
ISBN: 9781138127586 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorati...
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605,68 zł |
Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for System Change
ISBN: 9789402400427 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups.
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher educa...
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296,10 zł |
The Future of University Education
ISBN: 9783319468938 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university...
This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange ...
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388,20 zł |
Interactional Competences in Institutional Settings: From School to the Workplace
ISBN: 9783319468662 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collection discusses interactional competences across a variety of institutional settings, and reflects on the institutional order by scrutinizing how such competences are interactionally treated within everyday institutional practices.
The collection discusses interactional competences across a variety of institutional settings, and reflects on the institutional order by scrutinizing...
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349,38 zł |
Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book and Ten Other Extraordinary Cyphering Books
ISBN: 9783319377377 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well-illustrated book provides strong qualitative and comparative support for the main arguments developed by Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements in their groundbreaking Rewriting this History of School Mathematics in North America 1607 1861: The Central Role of Cyphering Books. Eleven extraordinary handwritten school mathematics manuscripts are carefully analyzed six were prepared entirely in Great Britain, four entirely in North America, and 1 partly in Great Britain and partly in North America. The earliest of the 11 cyphering books was prepared around 1630, and the latest in... This well-illustrated book provides strong qualitative and comparative support for the main arguments developed by Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements... |
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582,32 zł |
Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop
ISBN: 9781349372430 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop.
Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that ...
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194,08 zł |
Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940
ISBN: 9781349395361 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.
In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginat...
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388,20 zł |
André Malraux: A Reassessment
ISBN: 9781349396290 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses Malraux's writing from his journalism in Indochina to his novels, art studies and (anti)memorialist essays. Cutting through the established dual biographical image of Malraux as a committed leftwinger and revolutionary novelist turned unconditional Gaullist and diehard anti-Communist at the Liberation, it makes a balanced assessment of Malraux as a non-ideological if elitist artist who shaped his public role as much as he shaped the existence of his heroes both novelistic and real.
This book analyses Malraux's writing from his journalism in Indochina to his novels, art studies and (anti)memorialist essays. Cutting through the est...
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388,20 zł |
Cannabis for Seniors
ISBN: 9781579512422 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CANNABIS FOR SENIORS is for seniors who are curious about cannabis and how they might use it to better their lives. CANNABIS FOR SENIORS reviews research regarding the health effects of cannabis and the effectiveness of various strains for managing specific health conditions and improving quality of life. CANNABIS FOR SENIORS debunks myths and discusses concerns that seniors may have about cannabis use. Docpotter describes methods of using cannabis, explaining how smoking, eating, and topicals users. CANNABIS FOR SENIORS discusses ways seniors can...
CANNABIS FOR SENIORS is for seniors who are curious about cannabis and how they might use it to better their lives. CANNABIS FOR SENIOR...
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80,99 zł |
Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times
ISBN: 9789811025488 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times. The authors explore these new imaginings for sustainability using varying theoretical perspectives in order to consider innovative ways of engaging with concepts that are now influencing the field of sustainability and education. Through their theoretical analysis, research and field work, the authors explore novel approaches to designing sustainability and sustainability education. These...
This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and ...
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388,20 zł |
Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781442275645 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular culture channels, much of the understanding of heroines has been limited to females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of overly weak/strong (and even violent) women. This book analyzes the new vision of female heroes in popular culture. It features award-winning authors from a variety of disciplines, broadening our understanding of how heroines are portrayed, as well as how these important popular culture representations both simultaneously empower and/or constrain real life women.
Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular culture channels, much of the understanding of heroine...
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185,96 zł |
Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who
ISBN: 9781784532673 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We're all stories in the end," said the Doctor in 'The Big Bang." Stories are fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated and interwoven, sometimes contradictory, body of tales that constitute this eccentric masterpiece of modern mythology. Concerned equally with "classic" and "New Who," Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord's story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. Doctor Who is considered as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in complex and at times...
"We're all stories in the end," said the Doctor in 'The Big Bang." Stories are fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a li...
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100,89 zł |
Impeding Bullying Among Young Children in International Group Contexts
ISBN: 9783319472799 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume constitutes an overview of an international and multilingual [English, Spanish and Japanese] approach to anti-bullying, harassment, intimidation and teasing [HIBT] education. Chapter content includes the genesis of The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book in response to a need for program materials for younger children;
This volume constitutes an overview of an international and multilingual [English, Spanish and Japanese] approach to anti-bullying, harassment, intimi...
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465,84 zł |
Applied Discourse Analysis: Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9783319471808 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses the basic principles of discourse theory and applies them to various aspects of popular culture, media and everyday life. Among the topics it analyzes are speed dating, advertising, jokes, language use, myths, fairy tales and material culture.
This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses the basic principles of di...
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213,50 zł |
Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East
ISBN: 9781786990150 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A muggy night in Abu Dhabi in 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians, and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians, and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting for Metallica's first-ever show in the Middle East. Many of the people in the audience have faced untold violence in their lives, but for tonight, all that is put aside, and nothing else matters. Journalist and lifelong heavy metal fan Orlando Crowcroft spent six years penetrating...
A muggy night in Abu Dhabi in 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians, and Egyptians wait in anticipation...
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75,66 zł |