Cultural studies

For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.

YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video.

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new disease , that of obesity .

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book.

This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.

In this new book, Slavoj i ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of i ek s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity.

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use.

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression.

What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations?

This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to the most recent developments in the media industries.

The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture.

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses.

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption.

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action.

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today?

Things make us just as much as we make things.

The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world.

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control.

How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others?

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site.

One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.

Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia.

In its original formulation, culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them.

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.

An invigorating and inspiring take on the new ways American women are changing and improving our culture and the way we live from Kellyanne Conway, counselor to president Donald Trump, and Celinda Lake, a leading political strategist for the Democratic party.

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An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone.

Be inspired and amazed by these incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander icons!

Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals.

How is hate shaping our society?

Why does identity demand a choice between black and white?

ON RAGE is Germaine Greer's timeless essay about Aboriginal dispossession.

'In the kitchen, via the garden, I am often torn between theory and praxis, when surely the latter is all that matters here.

'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking.

A born storyteller, Troy Cassar-Daley has at last turned his talent to sharing his own inspiring life.

Many years ago, Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia that analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening to our society.

**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women What She Said is an inspiring collection of speeches from passionate and persuasive women from around the world and throughout history.

**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women What She Said is an inspiring collection of speeches from passionate and persuasive women from around the world and throughout history.

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

Bridge the gap between the china you know and the real china of today In the last 30 years, China has transformed itself into one of the world s leaders in political, economic and social relations.

Bridge the gap between the china you know and the real china of today In the last 30 years, China has transformed itself into one of the world s leaders in political, economic and social relations.

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War.

After the enormous success of The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman is back with a completely new collection of beautiful images of the men and women who have caught his attention.

Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly insider-y exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby'sWhen you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1) Do I like it?

A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIRA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.