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Michel Foucault
Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self.
On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where…
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Marcel Rosa-Salas,Isabel Attyah Flower
Documenting the Nameplate is a photographic celebration and deep-dive into the history and cultural significance of nameplate jewelry from the creators of the Documenting the Nameplate project –
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The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich's concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry…
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Andras Koerner
Andras Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural history of Hungarian Jews and Jewish cuisine. This volume continues that tradition…
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on…
Simone Wesner
Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Starting a research journey can be daunting in such a diverse field. This…
Karen Clegg, Gillian Houston, Owen Gower
Drawing on original survey data, reflective accounts, and case studies of supervisory practice in different disciplines, Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture explores the supervisor experience and demonstrates the craft, compassion…
Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.
Nicholas P Money
A witty, beautifully illustrated overview of the weird world of mycology.
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A history of Tribal Streetwear and its reflection of Southern California fashion.
Tribal Streetwear is a lifestyle streetwear brand that is inspired by a variety of southern California subcultures, including…
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Suzanna Ivanic
This richly illustrated book provides the visual keys for any art lover to decode and understand the iconography, tenets, sites, and rituals of the Catholic faith through accessible analysis of…
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Shahina A. Ghazanfar
This book is the first to explore and highlight the history of the plants mentioned in the Qur’?n, many of which are part of our everyday life, from pomegranates and…
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This special issue revisits and reconsider the concept of domestication, as mobile and digital media become integral to home life.
The capacity to accumulate, analyze and utilize data is seen as a key factor for leveraging the potentials of digital innovation.
The contributors to this book analyze digital society and its relationship to war, violence, genocide, witnessing practices and cultural appropriation in a critical and reflective manner.
Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, this book explores ageing masculinities
Sarah Kessler
Sarah Kessler shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered.
Renata Czekalska
This book examines the enduring cross-cultural discourse between India and Korea over the centuries. It will be of interest to researchers in intercultural communication, Cultural Studies, Cultural History and Asian…
Bernd Brunner
An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking.
James Hall
A revealing chronicle and visual history of the artist’s studio, examining the myth and reality of the creative space from early times to the present day.
Lauren Kirshner
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women's experiences of gender, power, and labour.
Ran Spiegler
"One economist's reflections on the professional culture of economic theory"--
Kathryn Lukas,Shane Peterson
Providing the history, health information, and safest methods for preserving, this resource offers 115 recipes for krauts, pickles, kimchi, fermented vegetables, hot sauces, preserved fruits and jams, yogurt, kombucha, and…
Elizabeth Semmelhack,Jacques Slade
A celebration of the great sneaker collaborations that have reimagined the shoe, elevating this most practical of footwear into the realm of wearable-art.
Kathryn Mathers
This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvation in the 21st century.
Deanna D. Sellnow, Thomas G. Endres
Can television shows like Stranger Things, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products like Samuel Adams beer, and films such as The Hunger Games help us understand…
Race in Irish Literature and Culture provides an in-depth understanding of intersections between Irish literature, culture, and questions of race, racialization, and racism. Covering a vast historical terrain from the…
Birgit Haberpeuntner
Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text about translation, "The Task…
Vox
This book includes 72 themed, 15x15 crosswords, some easy, some tricky, by Vox.com's all-star crew of crossword constructors: Patrick Blindauer, Adesina Koiki, Will Nediger, and Andrew J. Ries. The puzzles…
Cheryl Obal
From a distance, Saudi Arabia may seem a subdued, or even dull place; but for those who take a closer look it emerges as a fascinating country, not necessarily because…
What happens when we begin treating multi-stable, ambivalent and adaptive behaviors of active matter as a formative principle? The contributions of this volume investigate the potential of the processual and…
Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein
"Shows how visual culture in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already gaining in force, but helped to bring into being our modern "psychoanalytic imagination.""--
Gavin Blair
The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture!
The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting…
National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands), Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon)
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location…
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This engaging series introduces readers to the diverse and vibrant flavors of different cultures, inviting them to savor the rich tapestry of global cuisines. Each volume explores the enticing aromas…
Anonymous
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Rayan Musk
The figurative term "Social Kaleidoscope" distinctively catches the embodiment of a general public enhanced by variety and driven by inclusivity. Similarly as a kaleidoscope changes a horde of bright pieces…
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Mary C Murphy
From the prot?g? of Carol Dweck, the bestselling author of Mindset, award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy offers a definitive reconsideration of teamwork--showing how to better achieve a growth mindset together…
Dr Steven Brooks
If you want a short-order look at the perspectives of Cancel Culture, this is the book for you. The counterintuitive nature of erasing historic events per "woke philosophy" is beyond…
In the spring 2024 issue, we look at the vote-from the groundbreaking Voting Rights Act of 1965 to portraits of contemporary poll workers in North Carolina, from the battles we've…
Pooja Bhalla
This volume captures the essence of schooling in a structural manner and explores the classroom life in the larger schooling context. The emphasis is to uncover the necessary framework of…
John Blair
Drawing on intel from experts and global collectors, this book provides the ultimate guide to classic football-shirt collecting. What elevates a shirt's status? Who is buying? Are shirts an investment…
John Gage
A groundbreaking, award-winning analysis of color in Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the late-twentieth century by one of the most foremost authors on the subject.