Cultural studies

Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis.

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way.

A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action.

Over the centuries, scholars have studied how individuals, institutions and groups have used various rhetorical stances to persuade others to pay attention to, believe in, and adopt a course of action.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think about food and how we cook, shop and eat.

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society.

The headscarf issue draws a great deal of public and academic attention in Turkey, yet the debate largely unfolds within the contours of the discussions over modernization, Westernization, and the Islamic / secular divide.

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s.

The Antichrist, though mentioned a mere four times in the Bible, and then only obscurely, has exercised a tight hold on popular imagination throughout history.

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening?

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be.

Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks.

Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more representative of the population you serve.

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China.

The volume "e;The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments"e; responds to the growing interest in the scientific study of the Memory of the World Programme (MoW) and its core concept of documentary heritage, which has received little attention from scholarship so far.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries.

With insights from neuroscience and the satire of Jonathan Swift, Phiddian explores the importance of satire to free political expression.

The first extensive treatment of the mandrill''s reproductive and behavioural biology, focusing on mechanisms of sexual selection and evolution.

This book analyses how and why advertising, PR, and corporate and political communication make use of strategic ambiguity.

'One of the 20 best food books of 2016' The GuardianSymmetryBreakfast is a beautiful cookbook for foodies and feeders who wonder why breakfast has to be out of a box.

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements.

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty.

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture.

The story of the modern research university in Europe and its expansion to other continents, first published in 2004.

Lavishly decorated manhole covers, pink polka-dotted backhoes, toilets with warmable seats, blow dryers (and other bells and whistles).

In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes.

In this groundbreakingbook, Francesca Gino shows us how to spark creativity, excel at work, and become happier: By learning to rebel.

Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H.

Kriege, Pandemien und Naturkatastrophen: Die Welt befindet sich seit Jahren im permanenten Krisenmodus.

What does The Dark Knight have to do with political economy or Lord of the Flies with capitalism?

Both sides in controversies tend to argue they have logic on their side.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Popular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors.

This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debate on the existence of a European public sphere.

The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "e;modernity"e; has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore.

The definitive condiment compendium by expert and TikTok sensation Claire Dinhut aka Condiment Claire' In Condiment Claire I trust!

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them.

This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation.