Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside
ISBN: 9780812696882 / Angielski / Miękka / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-blowing adventures. They discuss, among other topics, the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a universe with millions of intelligent species, what makes one life-form more important than another, whether time travelers can change history, and how the Doctor Who TV show is changing the world we live in. The chapters draw freely on both the classic series (1963-1989) and the new series. The book includes a collection of...
In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-bl...
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168,08 zł |
Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina
ISBN: 9780230104341 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power.
Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention...
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195,42 zł |
Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade
ISBN: 9780739124895 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume explore the themes of fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation as expressed in remade horror, science fiction, and fantasy films. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiety, this collection ends with a suggestion that repeated confrontation with these issues allows the opportunity for creative and positive transformation.
The contributors to this volume explore the themes of fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation as expressed in remade horror, science fiction, and f...
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231,62 zł |
American Cultural Studies: A Reader
ISBN: 9780198742548 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative new collection shows how the burgeoning field of cultural studies has developed in the U.S. Introducing vital concepts, arguments, theories, and disciplinary debates, American Cultural Studies: A Reader is a panorama of great writing and powerful ideas. It illustrates a uniquely American response to questions of power and identity in the politics of culture. More than forty selections from key figures in "new journalism," cultural theory, the social sciences, humanities, and visual arts are gathered together in seven sections, each one introduced by helpful notes. A...
This provocative new collection shows how the burgeoning field of cultural studies has developed in the U.S. Introducing vital concepts, arguments, th...
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321,36 zł |
The John Fiske Collection
ISBN: 9780415601191 / Angielski / Miękka / 1280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These revised editions of four classic texts each include a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining Why Fiske Still Matters for today s students, followed by a discussion chapter between former Fiske students. This new material underlines the continuing relevance of these foundational texts in the study of communication, contemporary media and popular culture. The John Fiske Collection includes re-issues of the following four classic texts:
These revised editions of four classic texts each include a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining Why Fiske Still Matters for today s stude... |
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332,57 zł |
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations: On the Transformation of Social Knowledge
ISBN: 9780415885065 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense knowledge called social representations, the theory of which was developed almost a half-century ago by Serge Moscovici. Scholars from various research institutions in Brazil, France and Sweden, spanning a wide variety of disciplines within the social sciences, have contributed chapters that are grouped...
This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and pr...
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716,40 zł |
Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power
ISBN: 9780472034277 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Playing Doctor is an engaging and highly perceptive history of the medical TV series from its inception to the present day. Turow offers an inside look at the creation of iconic doctor shows as well as a detailed history of the programs, an analysis of changing public perceptions of doctors and medicine, and an insightful commentary on how medical dramas have both exploited and shaped these perceptions.
Drawing on extensive interviews with creators, directors, and producers, Playing Doctor is a classic in the field of communications studies. This expanded edition includes a... Playing Doctor is an engaging and highly perceptive history of the medical TV series from its inception to the present day. Turow offers an ins...
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182,87 zł |
Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock Postsuburban California
ISBN: 9780806140414 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captures the excitement and creativity of a neglected episode in youth culture and rock history Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notorious as that of New York City, emerged full-throated in 1977 and boasted bands like The Germs, X, and Black Flag. This book explores how, in the land of the Beach Boys, punk rock took hold. As a teenager, Dewar MacLeod witnessed firsthand the emergence of the punk subculture in Southern California. As a scholar, he here reveals the origins of an...
Captures the excitement and creativity of a neglected episode in youth culture and rock history Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf m...
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108,48 zł |
Through Common Things: Philosophical Reflections on Global Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781936294060 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,92 zł |
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
ISBN: 9780060554767 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wonderful.... A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa's book is a good place to begin to find an answer." "A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research ... this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner." A... "Wonderful.... A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa's book is a good place to begin to find an answer." |
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64,69 zł |
Images of the Body in India: South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
ISBN: 9780415602303 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often conflicting variations in body images and body concepts. In Part One the contributors focus on the representation of the body in religious and philosophical texts; representations that emerged from...
This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood...
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665,24 zł |
Route 66 in Arizona
ISBN: 9780738579429 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Route 66 in Arizona is a ribbon tying together spectacular natural attractions such as the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, and the Meteor Crater. There were plenty of man-made diversions along the way, too. Roadside businesses used Native American and Western imagery to lure travelers to fill up their gas tank, grab a meal, or spend the night. Roadside signs featured shapely cowgirls and big black jackrabbits, or warned of killer snakes and prehistoric monsters. Between wails of Are we there yet? children pleaded to stay at motels shaped like wigwams, explore the...
Route 66 in Arizona is a ribbon tying together spectacular natural attractions such as the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, and...
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103,53 zł |
What Love Is: And What It Could Be
ISBN: 9780465098859 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions
What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety- inducing heart palpitations); we must recognize... A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions<...
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217,76 zł |
Genus Envy: Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work
ISBN: 9781604976823 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning across playwrights, performers, critics, and theatrical commemorations, this book raises controversy about familiar figures and brings attention to neglected ones. Thomas F. Connolly opens his book with a provocative essay subtitled "Notional Culture." The first sentence: "Postmodernism makes others of us all," introduces Connolly's confrontational approach to the study of culture. The introduction takes readers from Montaigne's "Cannibals" to Madison Avenue "gangsta" wannabes, while explicating the impulses behind formal classification that have driven intellectual pursuits from the...
Spanning across playwrights, performers, critics, and theatrical commemorations, this book raises controversy about familiar figures and brings attent...
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483,28 zł |
Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780739129319 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. The book rereads disparaged and vilified cultural objects ranging from gangsta rap and death metal to violent video games, using cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and the tragic as the interpretive lens.
This is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. The book rereads disparaged and vilified cultural objects ...
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474,01 zł |
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780748640515 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organised around a series of case studies, each chapter focuses on a different media form and presents a critical overview of the methodology for the actual study of popular culture. Individual chapters cover...
A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessibl...
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409,37 zł |
Cultures of Memory in Football Fanzines. A Content Analysis.
ISBN: 9783656381075 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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271,43 zł |
Effekte des Trampolinspringens im Behindertensport. Das Trampolinspringen für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung
ISBN: 9783656481010 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Universitat Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Beim Trampolinspringen mit behinderten Menschen stellt sich naturlich zunachst die Frage, ob man ausnahmslos mit allen "Gruppen" von Behinderten diesen Sport betreiben kann oder ob gewisse Behinderungen zu einschrankend fur den Trampolinsport sein konnten. Grundsatzlich gilt, dass im Grunde alle behinderten Menschen das Trampolin nutzen konnen, auch wenn es gewisse Gruppen gibt, bei denen besondere Vorsicht geboten ist. So sollte zum Beispiel Menschen mit...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Universitat Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Beim Trampolinsp...
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171,74 zł |
The Element Encyclopedia of 20,000 Dreams: The Ultimate A-Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams
ISBN: 9780007361861 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlock the secrets of your dreamlife with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. This is the most comprehensive A-Z reference book on dream interpretation you'll ever find.
Unlock the secrets of your dreamlife with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. This is the most comprehensive A-Z refer...
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94,90 zł |
Diego Rivera: A Biography
ISBN: 9780313354069 / Angielski / Twarda / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Diego Rivera: A Biography" presents a concise but substantial biography of the famous and controversial Mexican artist. Chronologically arranged, the book examines Rivera's childhood and artistic formation (1886-1906), his European period (1907-1921), and his murals of the 1920s. It looks at the work he did in the United States (1930-1933) and follows his career from his subsequent return to Mexico through his death in 1957. Drawing from primary source materials, the book reveals facts about Rivera's life that are not well known or have not been widely discussed before. It explores his... "Diego Rivera: A Biography" presents a concise but substantial biography of the famous and controversial Mexican artist. Chronologically arranged, ... |
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278,18 zł |