With the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure.
Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves.
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries.
The story of men who are hurting-and hurting America by their absenceMan Out describes the millions of men on the sidelines of life in the United States.
Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards.
This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses.
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate.
While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades 'nightlife' has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration.
While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades 'nightlife' has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration.
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history.
Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs.
Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs.
Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape.
This volume offers an innovative perspective on the challenges and potentials in the fields of cultural heritage, digitalization, innovative materials, building envelope, comfort, and design.
This book encloses an interdisciplinary examination of Korean music’s evolution, contextual interactions, and global positioning from historical, sociocultural, and aesthetic perspectives.
Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals.
Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals.
This book encloses an interdisciplinary examination of Korean music’s evolution, contextual interactions, and global positioning from historical, sociocultural, and aesthetic perspectives.
This book provides a general summary of the development of digitalization in heritage interpretation and presentation, trying to intend to understand the opportunities and challenges in planning, application, and management of on-site digital interpretation and presentation systems, and to evaluate visitors’ expectations, acceptance, and experience of digital interpretation and presentation technologies.
Von der fruhen Neuzeit bis heute hat sich die Seiltanzer-Metapher als erstaunlich robustes Diskurs- und Reflexionsmedium bewahrt: Mit dem Sinnbild wurden Tugenden und Untugenden propagiert, Konzepte der Selbsterzeugung und des Kunstlertums veranschaulicht sowie Herrschaftskritik und Revolutionsbegehren artikuliert.
BILD-Comic, umstrittenes Spielzeug und popkulturelles Phänomen: Von ihren weniger bekannten Anfängen als sexy Werbepuppe über ihre globale Marktdominanz Mitte des 20.
Donnie has been able to capture his passion on the pages of Share Jesus Fearlessly, which inspires each believer to join in the Apostles' early witness that "e;we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard.
Reune una cuidadosa seleccion de mitos tradicionales de diversas regiones y pueblos indigenas de Mexico, organizada bajo la coordinacion del antropologo Blas Roman Castellon Huerta.
Es un estudio etnolinguistico y etnobiologico que explora como la comunidad totonaca de Papantla (Veracruz) percibe, clasifica y conceptualiza a los animales dentro de su cosmovision cultural.
This volume focuses on international comparison and transfer against the background of the two projects "e;Religious Education in Schools in Europe"e; (RelEdu) and "e;International Knowledge Transfer"e; (IKT).
This groundbreaking anthology presents a century of Russian writing for childrenfrom the Soviet era to the presentbringing together classic and contemporary works, many translated into English for the first time, in a richly curated volume that is both academically informed and fully accessible to children, parents, and adult readers alike.
Gesandtenempfänge, Titulaturen, Rangfolgen, Ordensinvestituren – die zeremoniellen Akte an frühneuzeitlichen Höfen erwecken auf den ersten Blick den Eindruck, von starren Regeln und strengen Formalismen geprägt gewesen zu sein.
From Mainstream to Digital explores the complex landscape of digital participation in a country where both digital and traditional media interact in shaping public life.
This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies.
Entre 1863 y 1983 ocurrieron multiples encuentros y conflictos entre misioneros catolicos, empresas petroleras, antropologos y otros actores, a proposito de la gobernanza sobre la poblacion indigena en Colombia.
