Cultural studies

'A classic that will help you face the demands of 21st century living' Stylist'Revolutionary' The Times------Susie Orbach's seminal work, now established as a worldwide classic, shows how fat is not about food, but rather about politics, defiance, protection, sex, strength, assertion, anger, love.

The Harlot by the Side of the Road is the first book to shed light on strange biblical passages which have largely been ignored by ministers, priests and rabbies because they semed too awkward to examine.

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian.

21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man.

DANNY WALLACE IS A MAN.

For thousands of years we have grown, cooked and traded food, and over that time much has changed.

In this fascinating book, Chris Abbott, a leading political analyst, takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world today.

The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology.

The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view.

Is anything bothering you?

The indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before modern life got in the way.

Keep Calm and Carry On was a World War 2 government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago.

Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation.

Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere.

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America.

In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it.

Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement, glamour and emotional twists and turns show no signs of slowing down.

There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity.

The hilarious new collection of stories and observations from Jeremy Clarkson - setting our off-kilter world to rights with thigh-slapping wit once again.

Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school .

Celebrate Little Mix's first UK number-one album - Glory Days - by reading the full story of the girls' astonishing rise to pop super stardom.

For gentlemen leading sedentary lives, Donald Walker has just the pep talk you need.

Morgan Spurlock's terrifying yet hilarious expose on the fast food industry, Don't Eat This Book.

BREAK YOUR ADDICTION TO SUGAR IN 2020 ___________David Gillespie was 6 stone overweight, lethargic and desperate to lose weight fast, but he'd failed every diet out there.

Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change.

The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture.

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Citing recent examples including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom, Permission to Steal explores what went wrong and advocates a universal reassessment of what is considered good in corporate America.

This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.

John Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture.

This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to the twenty-first century.

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism.

This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity.

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Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.

Re-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today.

This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.

Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication.

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years.

This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture.

Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is one of the first books to give an overview of the key issues and methods in this field of study.

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture.

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness.

Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition.

A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themes and debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the end of the century.