Cultural studies

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***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better.

Britain is experiencing a sudden reckless rush of liberalisation, from 24 hour licensing to gay marriages.

Rather than explaining our origins, A Brief History of Tim addresses our history and culture at the levelwe most deeply desire - the trivial.

This no-holds-barred account of Kelly Obsourne's upbringing is as shocking as it is disarmingly funny.

A critical history of the social media influencer's rise to global prominenceBefore there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked.

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'A compelling, prescient tale of an alternate world with far too many scary similarities to our own.

'Part memoir and part manifesto, Valentine's book lifts the lid on daily life in the mortuary .

Esta compilación está organizada por capítulos que contienen resultados de investigaciones etnográficas sobre temas y problemas diversos, desarrolladas por equipos integrados por investigadores académicos y no académicos.

Discover the fascinating and cutting-edge science behind the greatest question of all: is there life beyond Earth?

**THE DEFINITIVE, UP-TO-DATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY**'An outstanding biography.

How does culture shape our thinking?

Paparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape.

Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world.

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services.

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives.

This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self.

Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world.

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus.

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno.

Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W.

Europe is Europe s last remaining realistic political utopia.

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States.

This volume brings together Habermas's key writings on language and communication.

"e;Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey.

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption.

Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch.

Who exactly are the intellectuals ?

What is intellectual history?

We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age.

In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies.

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race.

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time.

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture.

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life.

Americans are obsessed with celebrities.

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists.

Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways.

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life .

Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics.

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years.