Cultural studies

A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK MAY 2026'This view from the other side of the search box is both charming and insightful, tapping into a deep well of curiosity.

A rallying, celebratory essay about Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift and unbridled female ambition by the beloved author of Bluets and The ArgonautsIn The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge towards wanting hard, working hard and pouring forth and as twinned targets of patriarchy s ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output.

Get Ready to Win Your Spiritual Battles Ever wonder how to be a man of God in the trenches of lifein the day-to-day trials and temptations that hound you?

This 3rd edition of Fundamentals of Fashion Management has been updated throughout to reflect the impact of digital innovation and sustainable practices on every aspect of the industry.

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby 'There's no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JAMES'I love this book' DOLLY ALDERTONHow much of your life do you review?

A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong.

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016.

Describes approaches to understanding cultures in higher education, paying particular attention to cultures and cultural construction at departmental level.

Academics are often tourists-curious, observant, and ethically entangled in the worlds they move through, blurring the lines between research and leisure, between consumption and contemplation in contemporary cultural studies.

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The clothes we wear tell stories about us-and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage.

The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians.

What makes trash trash?

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation.

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.

From apple pie to baklava, cannoli to gulab jamun, sweet treats have universal appeal in countries around the world.

The island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness.

The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese.

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W.

This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community.

Many years before Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve rose to fame, the French cinema produced a host of glamorous female stars designed to rival their Hollywood counterparts.

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art.

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics.

Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history.

Aristotle analyzed the popular art of his time: the tragedies and epics.

This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children.

Just as in his previous volume, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech brings readers into the fascinating world of gematria (the reckoning of numbers) and acronyms to uncover the vast profundity hidden in everyday Hebrew language.

This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action.

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success.

As Long as we Both Shall Eat is a culinary history of wedding feasts.

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970.

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s.

The Sex Pistols exploded onto the music scene in 1976, paving the way for the deluge of punk rock that would change the face of modern rock music forever.

No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like the Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began.

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities.

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history.

What is Hip-Hop?

During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important early modern thinkers.