Cultural and media studies

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways.

Demonstrates how media information interacts with emotion in shaping a wide range of political opinions about government and political leaders.

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

This book considers the challenges related to the effective implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to the cultural heritage digitization process.

The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment.

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.

What has philosophy to do with the poor?

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies.

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies.

Where is sociology in contemporary media studies?

Anarchist Socialism in Early 20th Century Spain is the first English translation of and critical introduction to Ideario, a collection of newspaper and journal articles written by Spanish anarchist Ricardo Mella.

How Molyneux''s Question shaped the conflict between empiricism and idealism in nineteenth-century British, American and Australian landscape painting and criticism.

First published in 1985.

This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community.

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture.

A rich intellectual history of the reinvention of France''s colonial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of international cultural heritage law and policy since 1945.

Using facet theory and Hackett's pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.

For anyone whos ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation.

A bold reassessment of "e;smart cities"e; that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity.

This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body.

This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.

In Data Sketches, Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively.

The Peruvian Nobel laureate presents a collection of essays on the decline of intellectual life in the age of media spectacle.

Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "e;unruly"e; communication practices in a quest for change.

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia.

A comprehensive, authoritative, innovative and accessible account of Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West.

As well as regular Sunday and weekday celebrations and the observance of saints' days, many churches and cathedrals also hold Eucharists for special occasions or intentions.

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challenged.

This book provides theoretical and empirical discussion of migration, identity and Europeanisation.

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families.

Are children today growing up too soon?

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.