This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food-how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health.
The late Albert Elsen was the first American scholar to study seriously the work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the person most responsible for a revival of interest in the artist as a modern innovator--after years during which the sculpture had been dismissed as so much Victorian bathos.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
"e;Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we're talking about when we're talking about cat videos.
The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
Baking is one of life's great pleasures and in this beautiful new National Trustcookery book Sybil Kapoor brings together an inspiring collection of bakingrecipes, both sweet and savoury.
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context.
An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge.
Este libro constituye la primera monografía sistemática y exhaustiva de la road movie latinoamericana, uno de los géneros más productivos y populares en el cine latinoamericano de hoy.
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "e;monism"e; - the concept of a unity of matter and spirit - emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "e;monism"e; - the concept of a unity of matter and spirit - emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.
The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the PoetBorn to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George has always been an ambitious storyteller.
Unlike most books on wine nowadays, Tales from the Wine Floor is geared toward true beginnersthose who enjoy wine but lack the most basic understanding of it.
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.
Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.
Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.
This book explores the creative women of the "e;Lost Generation"e; including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I.
This book explores the creative women of the "e;Lost Generation"e; including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I.
Unlike most books on wine nowadays, Tales from the Wine Floor is geared toward true beginnersthose who enjoy wine but lack the most basic understanding of it.
The cuisine of China is widely considered to be one of the best because it meets the requirements of geographic variety, inclusion of all types of foods, and a long-established and well-developed culinary tradition.
This text aims to introduce students to culture around the world through simple art activities, while building creativity and critical-thinking skills.
The extreme diversity of Indian food culture-including the dizzying array of ingredients and dishes-is made manageable in this groundbreaking reference.
Winner, 2024 RUSA Outstanding Reference AwardThrough an interdisciplinary approach that shows how food can reflect a culture and time, this book whets the appetite of students for further research into history, anthropology, geography, sociology, and literature.
Mit DeConceptualize – Zur Dekonstruktion des Konzeptuellen in Kunst, Film, Musik legt Stefan Römer nach Strategien des Fake (2001) und Inter-esse (2014) sein drittes Theoriebuch vor, das durch das Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung ermöglicht wurde.
Mit DeConceptualize – Zur Dekonstruktion des Konzeptuellen in Kunst, Film, Musik legt Stefan Römer nach Strategien des Fake (2001) und Inter-esse (2014) sein drittes Theoriebuch vor, das durch das Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung ermöglicht wurde.
