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Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia's history and geography.

The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia's history and geography.

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdez's exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovator.

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdez's exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovator.

This is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications.

This is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications.

Immigration in American History is a concise examination of the experiences of immigrants from the founding of the British colonies through the present day.

Immigration in American History is a concise examination of the experiences of immigrants from the founding of the British colonies through the present day.

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture.

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture.

Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely regarded as the founder of American anthropology.

Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely regarded as the founder of American anthropology.

This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, and provides insight on topics of political and social significance.

This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, and provides insight on topics of political and social significance.

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash.

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash.

Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face.

For every woman who ever loved a Vampire.

Written in clear, easy-to-understand language for the novice grower, Closet Cultivator is the ultimate secret growing guide.

Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project includes a complete overview of the many different ways to get funds for your film - from preparing the materials you need, such as business plans, private placement memorandums, trailers, sizzle reels, and crowd-funding pitches - to how to make effective presentations to prospective funders, from as family members, friends, and business associates, to angels, private investors, established producers, and film financiers.

An outsider becomes a hero and a boy becomes a man in this classic coming-of-age tale from the heyday of the three-ring circus, by three-time Newbery Honor Book author Eloise Jarvis McGraw.

Upholds "e;a Disney vacation as a religious experience .

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

'Like two wise (and wise-cracking) older sisters.

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation.

Who was Dan Leno?

Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century.

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation.

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France.

Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience.

Bad clowns-those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us-have long been a cultural icon.

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions.

Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like-between 1890 and 1945.

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "e;regulars.

Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art.

Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations.

Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

Tracing paranoia as a defining pattern of modern American literature.

Examines the social and historical significance of women s contributions to American silent film comedy.

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.

Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.

Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "e;chick lit"e; mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women's literature, journalism, and advice manuals.

The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion.