Cultural and media studies

First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics.

The fascinating and insightful biography of one of the most intriguing, thoughtful and controversial figures of the 19th century.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding.

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter.

The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something.

This book features the latest research on translation by a dozen leading scholars of translation studies in China.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

Erstmals wurde eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Studie im Bezug auf österreichische Sportjournalisten durchgeführt.

Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature, development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific.

We've outsourced too much of our thinking.

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others played vital roles in their communities.

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it.

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "e;Caribbeanization"e; of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.

This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America.

Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church.

How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change?

How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected?

In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself.

This book examines the lived reality of 'everyday multiculturalism', and the ways that young people make sense of the diverse world around them.

Geleitwort Einige Jahre habe ich die vorliegende Arbeit von Christian Zabel in ihrem E- stehungsprozess begleitet, ich habe sie wie eine Zwiebel wachsen sehen und oft hatte ich gedacht, die Arbeit sei nun fertig gestellt.

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.

In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.

From Language to Communication focuses on the structure of texts and on the social and psychological aspects of language.

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest?

This book provides simple explanations of advertising media sources and calculations along with real-world examples of source material from advertising and media companies.

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.

Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen.

Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life.

How much do you know about the lives of bisexual men who are married to women?

In der vorliegenden Studie bietet Annika Müller detaillierte Einblicke in die Lebenswelt Digitaler Nomaden.

Dans ce numéro des Cahiers Épistémo-logiques s'élabore une pensée d'écologisation de l'homme visant à revendiquer son enracinement dynamique dans le monde et son unidiversalité comme indices par excellence de sa liberté soumise à la double épreuve par les numériques et l'intelligence artificielle : le devenir-artificiel de l'humanité et le devenir-humain des machines.

Practical Journalism: How to Write News introduces the beginner to the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age.

Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas.

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK.

The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways.

With the methodology of eye-tracking experiments, in-depth interviews, and large-scale questionnaires across cities, this book provides a panoramic vision of digital reading and social interaction among the new generations in China.

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms' effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type.

Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today's youth.