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  • Romancing Through Italy
    Robert James Connors
    Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds and ghost towns come to life in visits to the hidden corners of the cradle of mo...
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    22,20 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
    Jesus Nez Romay / Jesus Nunez Romay / Jesus Nzqez Romay
    Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking country has as yet carried out a Marxist-Leninist social revolution a...
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    11,00 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • Argentina and Her People of To-day
    Nevin O. Winter
    'The Spaniards who first visited the coast of Argentina, and sailed up the broad and imposing river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean, were so impressed with the outlook and prospects, that they named the country Argentina, which means silvery or silver-like, and bestowed upon the majestic stream the name Rio de La Plata, which means river of silver. When their prospectors f...
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    17,73 €

  • Roots Punk
    David A Ensminger
    Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by longtime music journalist and author David A. Ensminger focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly...
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    52,72 €

  • Scotland’s Christmas
    Murray Cook / Thomas A. Christie
    Winter festivals in Scotland have been going on for a very long time-at least 10,000 years, in fact, which means that they predate traditional Christmas celebrations by some eight millennia! Scots have always loved to party when the days are cold and the nights are long. But what was the basis for all this seasonal merrymaking, and exactly what makes a Scottish Christmas so uni...
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    32,97 €

  • Dear Sister
    Dannielle
    In this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and experiences of Black women. Tackling topics covering their experiences, including identity, beauty standards, relationships, mental health, career challenges, and societal expectati...
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    21,72 €

  • Robert Williams
    Joseph R Givens
    A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of energy evident in his underground comix and action-filled canvases. The public perception of Williams was largely defined by two...
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    42,98 €

  • Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature
    Taylor Driggers
    Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making it uniquely positioned to imaginatively re-envision Christian theology from a position of difference. Having an affinity for the monstrous and the ’other’, and a preoccupation with desires and forms of embodiment that subvert dominant understandings of reality, fa...
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    51,08 €

  • Exploring the Land of Ooo
    Paul A Thomas
    Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network’s 'Adventure Time' is a guide through the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010 to 2018. Created by visionary artist Pendleton Ward, the series was groundbreaking and is credited by many with heralding in a new golden age of animation. Known for...
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    35,18 €

  • Cloverfield
    Steffen Hantke
    Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves’s Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre’s fascination with personal st...
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    35,61 €

  • Being A Little Bit Famous
    Dre Smith
    Everyone knows about the glamour and pitfalls that come along with being super rich & famous. Entire shows are dedicated to revealing these enviable lifestyles. The grateful fans and groping groupies. Huge mansions courtesy of huge paychecks. The power to get sh-t done. The ability to befriend & fall in love with scintillating peers. (And, of course, the potential addictions. C...
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    29,19 €

  • Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
    Lucy Robinson
    Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know. This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a...
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    25,52 €

  • Comunicación, cultura y políticas culturales
    Antonio Albino Canelas Rubim
    El profesor Antonio Albino Canelas Rubim es un intelectual con una extensa y rica trayectoria académica, un comprometido militante político y cultural, y fundamentalmente un generoso maestro de varias generaciones que nos hemos dedicado al estudio de la comunicación y de las políticas culturales. Comunicación, cultura y políticas culturales reúne textos de la producción de los ...
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    15,08 €

  • Ecosistema Cultural
    Gonzalo Carámbula
    Ecosistema cultural. Escritos de Gonzalo Carámbula sobre cultura y política es una obra que busca recuperar su pensamiento y obra desde diferentes facetas que vinculan la política, la comunicación, la economía, el derecho y la cultura. Con edición a cargo de Danilo Urbanavicius, el libro busca transmitir ideas de Gonzalo Carámbula a las nuevas generaciones que comienzan a trans...
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    20,28 €

  • Fashion, Performance, and Performativity
    In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal ’complex space’ - or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western ...
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    51,15 €

  • The Magic Beyond Form
    Silvia Hagen
    This is a book about courage. The courage to look at things in life from different perspectives. To connect spirituality with science. To take a deeper look at and explore the collective consciousness that infuences each individual, as well as companies. At the age of two and a half, the world comes crashing down for Silvia Hagen. Due to a tragic accident, she finds her life in...
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    25,89 €

  • Imperiled Whiteness
    Penelope Ingram
    In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties about whites 'losing ground' and 'being left behind,' media platforms turned whiteness into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. Reading popu...
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    49,31 €

  • Ducktails, Drive-ins, and Broken Hearts
    Hank Davis
    An unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of ’50s rock and roll, from the biggest stars, like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, to those who barely grabbed the spotlight.They all tried, but few singers and musicians from the 1950s became stars. Yet many of them had stories to tell that were far more interesting than the ones you already know. Author Hank Davis was bitten by...
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    25,95 €

  • Toward an American Renewal
    Adam M. Brodsky
    The United States of America is becoming a divided nation and it needs help. Americans need new ways of thinking which will allow them to vigorously advocate for their own deeply held beliefs while at the same time remaining true to a common overarching story. This is deeper than just having civil discourse. This is deeper than just respecting the other side. This is deeper tha...
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    16,05 €

  • Fandom Culture and The Archers
    Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in teaching, learning, research and professional settings, and how the Academic Archers fandom helps shape these real life impacts. ...
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    34,72 €

  • My Costume, Myself
    Thomas G. Endres
    Cosplay. Celebrity impersonation. Historical reenactment. Drag. Ren Fairs. Through research and stories, come discover the transformational and inclusive world of costumes, and how they can be used to uncover, cultivate, and represent aspects of one’s inner self. Thomas Endres presents a much-needed deeper dive into a phenomenon defined by difference. The case study interviews,...
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    30,00 €

  • I Lived the 80s
    B. Harrison Smith
    Gen X is the 'forgotten generation.' We made our own meals after school and Saturday mornings, we got dirty, played miles away from home with no way to reach us, we told offensive jokes, we built and jumped bike ramps, broke bones and drank from garden hoses, we had three network channels, we didn’t 'mediate' with bullies--we kicked their asses, we had land lines, house phones ...
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    47,15 €

  • SEX, DRUGS, ROCK and WAR
    Daniel Muller
    We have all heard the nicknames for the current generations in the news. Besides the ’Silent Generation’ (a.k.a. The Greatest Generation) born before 1946, there are Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (also known as the Millennials), and Generation Z.In the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of coverage and discussion about the growing frustration between...
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    38,17 €

  • Wait Five Minutes
    Shelley Ingram
    Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, Lena Marander-Eklund, Jennifer Morrison, Willow G. Mullins, Anne Pryor, Todd Richardson, and Claire Schmidt The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, deter...
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    49,85 €

  • Velveteen Rabbit at 100
    Lisa Rowe Fraustino
    Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford Humes, Melanie Hurley, Kara K. Keeling, Maleeha Malik, Claudia Mills, Elena Paruolo, Scott T. Pollard, Jiwon Rim, Paige Sammartino, Adrianna Zabrzewska, and Wenduo Zhang First published in 1922 to immediate popularity, The...
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    50,13 €

  • Die Ubernahme
    Edward Winterhalder / Wil De Clercq
    In den frühen 1990er Jahren unterwarfen Maurice „Mom' Boucher und seine Kollegen von Montreal Hells Angels, angeblich die rücksichtslosesten und bösartigsten Biker der Welt, alle Ankömmlinge außer den knallharten Mitgliedern der Rock Machine. Gegründet von Salvatore Cazzetta, einem ex-freund von Boucher, hatte die Rock Machine die Absicht, sich gegen die Hells Angels zu behaupt...
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    17,04 €

  • La Asimilacion
    Edward Winterhalder / Wil De Clercq
    A principios de la década de 1990, Maurice 'Mom' Boucher y sus compañeros Hells Angels de Montreal, supuestamente los motociclistas más despiadados y viciosos del mundo, sometieron a todos los participantes excepto a los miembros duros de Rock Machine. Fundada por Salvatore Cazzetta, un ex amigo de Boucher, Rock Machine tenía toda la intención de enfrentarse a los Hells Angels....
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    17,10 €


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