ReadingsBest Books of 2024, Non-FictionNominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and direct US government policy.
A poverty expert reveals how truly random the world isincluding how economic inequality is experiencedand how we can learn to acknowledge chance and appreciate it.
"e;Chronicles of Border Warfare"e; describes events during the four decades between the French and Indian War (1754) and the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794).
In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe.
Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.
Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft.
This book introduces the concept of the Picnic Society - a society which we all belong to today because social media has given us unlimited opportunities to create or destroy our own and our circle's (our bubble's) realities, possibilities, and reputations.
Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in South Asia, providing a new reader-centric model that engages with romance readers as genre experts.
"e;In early '79 I was already engaged in what eventually turned out to be a lengthy photographic study of the New Romantics (though back then they were not known as such).
Literature and Computation presents some of the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory, and criticism as driven by computation and situated in digital environments.
The world has been shocked by the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades, as seen in widely disseminated videos depicting events such as the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films.
The notes that Ludger Kuhnhardt wrote in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.
This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives.
Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system.
Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.
Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism.
Focusing on the unique story of the "e;recolonisation"e; of Hong Kong since 2019, this book describes the environment of news gathering and publishing during this period and studies how this has connected to wider political, economic, and social changes.
This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies.
Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.
Wearable technology, including smartwatches, biometric trackers, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues.
Advertising Disability invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiquitous forms of popular culture, shapes attitudes towards disability.
Erkennen, was stimmt und was nicht- 25 % der Deutschen geben an, sehr große Angst vor der Verbreitung von Desinformationen zu haben (Statista)- Richtige Meinungsbildung ermöglicht fundierte Entscheidungen, fördert Verständnis und verbessert die Zusammenarbeit- Mit zahlreichen Quizfragen zur SelbstkontrolleDieses Buch vermittelt eine Fähigkeit, die trotz Aufklärung und Bildung nach wie vor in der Gesellschaft unterrepräsentiert ist: sich anhand gesicherter Erkenntnisse eine fundierte Meinung zu bilden.
The present Tuscarora Indians, the once powerful and gifted nation, after their expulsion from the South, came North, and were initiated in the confederacy of the Iroquois.
The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Communication offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world.
On February 27, 1973, a group of roughly 300 armed Indigenous men, women, and children seized the tiny hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, at gunpoint, took hostages, barricaded themselves in the hilltop church, and raised an upside-down American flag.
Prepararnos durante treinta y tres días para al fin consagrarnos, significa dejarnos transformar durante ese tiempo por el amor de Dios y de María, ponernos totalmente a su servicio y disposición, y dejarnos guiar sin condiciones, confiando en que el Espíritu Santo sabe lo que más nos conviene y nos indicará, cada día, el camino correcto.
TV-Journalismus ist beliebt: Dreiviertel aller Bundesbürger informieren sich auf diese Weise über das aktuelle (Welt)Geschehen: sei es Politik, Kultur oder Sport.
Der Sammelband gibt einen breiten Überblicküber Serious Games und gamifizierte Lernelemente in der schulischen Bildung sowie über die Erfahrungen und den nachhaltigen Lernerfolg dieser Formate.
