The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation
ISBN: 9780252014529 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to explore a range of hidden assumptions and attitudes about menstruation.
Aims to explore a range of hidden assumptions and attitudes about menstruation.
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117,64 zł |
Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter's View of Sports, Journalism, and Society
ISBN: 9780252064159 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,68 zł |
Circus Queen & Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline
ISBN: 9780252075100 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging memoir follows the life and career of circus performer Tiny Kline (1891-1964) from the burlesque house to the circus tent, and on to Disneyland and the silver screen. While working for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Kline became well known for her signature "slide for life" stunt, an "iron jaw" act in which she slid to the ground while dangling from trapeze rigging by her teeth. Kline renewed her spectacular acrobatics at the age of seventy when she played Tinker Bell in the "Fantasy in the Sky" fireworks show at Disneyland. In that same year, she also began... This engaging memoir follows the life and career of circus performer Tiny Kline (1891-1964) from the burlesque house to the circus tent, and on to ... |
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112,53 zł |
Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them
ISBN: 9780252075186 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a way that's compelling to academics and lay readers alike. Self-Help Books also offers an interpretation of why these books are so popular, arguing that they continue the well-established American penchant for self-education, articulate problems of daily life and supposed solutions for them, and present their content in an accessible rather than arcane form and style. Using methods associated with folklore studies, Dolby then examines... Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a wa... |
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129,22 zł |
Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life
ISBN: 9780252075469 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This rigorous and original study combines theories of the public sphere, cinema, and visual culture with a growing body of critical work on affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Justus Nieland challenges these notions by approaching emotion through a poetics of modernist publicity. He argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public products of modernity rather than as the private property of the self. Nieland's fresh account of the moderns' revolutionary designs on... This rigorous and original study combines theories of the public sphere, cinema, and visual culture with a growing body of critical work on affect.... |
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122,77 zł |
Choreographing History
ISBN: 9780253209351 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ." . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." -Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History . . . assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches . . . and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." -Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars...
." . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to...
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107,40 zł |
Samba: Resistance in Motion
ISBN: 9780253209566 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in the dance cultures of Brazil and of Brazilian exile communities in the U.S. Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnograph... |
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86,94 zł |
Posthuman Bodies
ISBN: 9780253209702 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of literature and science researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." Richard Doyle Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others bodies. "..". will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of literature a... |
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132,99 zł |
Deviant Bodies
ISBN: 9780253209757 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." Times Literary Supplement "Highly recommended for cultural studies... " The Reader s Review "It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women s studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." Contemporary Sociology ..". a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily... ..". the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." Times Literary Supplem... |
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143,23 zł |
Representing Animals
ISBN: 9780253215512 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors--historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies--examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics such as pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs. Representing Animals demonstrates the deep connections between the way we think about animals and the... Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contr... |
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117,64 zł |
American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780253218025 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive... Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books ... |
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107,40 zł |
Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival
ISBN: 9780253218834 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a major transnational festival. In Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green, Philip W. Scher, and an international group of scholars explore Carnival as a reflection of the nation and culture of Trinidad and Trinidadians worldwide. The nine essays cover topics such as women in Carnival, the politics and poetics of Carnival, Carnival and cultural memory, Carnival as a tourist enterprise, the... Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a... |
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112,53 zł |
Global Institutions and Social Knowledge: Generating Research at the Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1900s-1990s
ISBN: 9780262731676 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature -- which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions -- and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a theory of institutional mechanisms by which global institutions shape the generation of knowledge, the book turns to detailed case studies of two institutions in the under- studied but vital area... This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's appr... |
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157,34 zł |
Indecent Liberties
ISBN: 9780268031572 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series of eight provocative essays examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social movements, and other aspects of life. Robert Schmuhl considers historical examples (the hunting of the buffalo in the West, Prohibition, business ventures in the Gilded Age) but concentrates on contemporary subjects, including the emphasis on what shocks the audience as entertainment today, tensions among specific groups, the decline of private life, and the excesses of news media coverage in the O.J. Simpson and Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky...
This series of eight provocative essays examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social ...
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86,94 zł |
Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country
ISBN: 9780271026329 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexico is a developing society that only recently has begun to fully appreciate the importance of technology to economic success. It has had no clear vision of what the role of science is of how a scientific community can be formed. Understandably, in these circumstances, careers in science still do not have the status and recognition that such professions as medicine, engineering, and law have traditionally enjoyed. A program to train students in biomedical research was launches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the early 1980s as an experiment in providing... Mexico is a developing society that only recently has begun to fully appreciate the importance of technology to economic success. It has had no cle... |
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259,75 zł |
Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music
ISBN: 9780275926243 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new study of the political uses of popular music, from the era of slavery to the present traces the search for individual identity, freedom, and dignity as it has been expressed in popular music. Beginning with the spirituals of the slaves and the gospel of the black church and continuing through the blues, jazz forms, country, folk, and rock, Pratt presents popular music as part of a continuing effort, over two centuries, to create community values and identity in the face of social transformations. The book refutes the idea that the use of popular music for expression by a... This important new study of the political uses of popular music, from the era of slavery to the present traces the search for individual identity, ... |
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834,02 zł |
Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780275969288 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental issues, and politics and environmental issues, no book has yet focused on the relationship between popular culture and environmental issues. This collection of essays provides a rigorous and multifaceted rhetorical and critical perspective on the ways in which the language and imagery of nature is incorporated strategically into various popular culture texts--ranging from greeting cards to advertisements to supermarket tabloids. As a... Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental... |
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580,26 zł |
The Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780275973988 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and now the Internet, because they serve core social functions in successful cultures. Initial chapters of this book provide an overview of the development of modern newspapers. Subsequent chapters examine particular societies and geographic regions to see what common traits exist among the uses and forms of newspapers and those artifacts that carry the name newspaper but do not meet the commonly accepted definition. The conclusion suggests that... The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and no... |
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580,26 zł |
Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities
ISBN: 9780275974091 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By examining the cultural spaces occupied by youth--spaces represented in texts produced for youth, about youth, and in some cases by youth--contributors to this volume present challenging ways of applying critical ideas and theoretical frameworks to the crucial issues that surround youth and the cultures they inhabit as evidenced in their literature, magazines, computer games, films, television programs, popular music, and fashion. Many of the writers in this unique new collection write from provocative standpoints drawing on film and feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, semiotics,... By examining the cultural spaces occupied by youth--spaces represented in texts produced for youth, about youth, and in some cases by youth--contri... |
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580,26 zł |
Monochrome Memories: Nostalgia and Style in Retro America
ISBN: 9780275976187 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a series of engaging and interlinked case studies on the news magazine, Hollywood film, brand advertising, and movie colorization, this volume examines the resurgence of the black and white image in the 1990s. At a time when American culture was undergoing both diversification and demystification, the black and white image became the expression of nostalgia as a cultural style and was strategically used in the media to visualize a sense of American memory, heritage, and identity. Challenging the current definition of nostalgia as a mood connected to longing and loss, the author... Through a series of engaging and interlinked case studies on the news magazine, Hollywood film, brand advertising, and movie colorization, this vol... |
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580,26 zł |