Cultural studies

A riveting account of one inmate's quest to die on death rowand a fearless look at a system of punishment that has failed the public it claims to serve.

Counter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company.

Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes.

This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.

Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.

This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since the early-20th century characterizes modern and contemporary Chinese literature the most.

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did.

To read the PDF of The Sound of Welsh Patagonia: Performance, Subjectivity, and Music in Y Wladfa, Patagonia, Argentina for free, follow the link belowThe Sound of Welsh Patagonia: Performance, Subjectivity, and Music in Y Wladfa, Patagonia, ArgentinaThis book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative.

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.

The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality - and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities.

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood.

This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage - a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artifacts, and cultural spaces.

A concise guide to the creative application of appropriation and remix that offers a set of open-ended guidelines for art and design studio-based projects, this book explores creativity with emerging technology, including artificial intelligence.

"e;This eye-opening book deserves a spot on the bookshelves of anyone who not only enjoys collecting, but also has a great interest in all facets of the history of our hobby.

The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV's The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as 'America's fifth sport', interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence of professional sports culture.

Contributions by Anna Bugajska, Dayna Campbell, Dallas Ducar, Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, Melanie Goss, Joseph Holloway, Jeremy Johnston, Manjushri Karthikeyan, Jenise Katalina, Sarah Layzell, Naomi Lesley, Anna Macdonald, Vanessa E.

The final installment in the critically acclaimed lectionary series that focuses on womens stories.

What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERA step-by-step guide to answering your kids' toughest questions "e;When people die, where do they go?

This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and civic engagement.

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

This book proposes a new notion of "e;ambicoloniality"e; to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territory of obsession, and Russia, in its desire to occupy Ukraine, has in effect subjected itself to Ukraine's symbolic dominance.

Explains what is at stake in calling societies ''ill'' and the meanings and consequences of characterizing social problems as illnesses.

There's a problem with school lunch in America.

This book presents the intersectionality between ethnicity and disability in the peripheral region of Northeast India.

Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging.

This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice.