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Gabrielle Jones
This book is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to transform the landscape of substance use treatment and promote equitable, inclusive care.
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If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late nineteenth century in relation to disability, the twentieth…
This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period.
From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic…
Jason Russell
Focusing on these two key decades, this book explores how portrayals of social class and associated work and labor issues including gender and race appeared in specific films, television shows…
Orla Meadhbh Murray
Drawing on an unprecedented institutional ethnography of UK universities, this book uses feminist and gender lenses to critique the power, culture and structure of Higher Education institutions. Challenging the myths…
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In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this Handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication…
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro…
Byung-Chul Han, Daniel Steuer (trans.)
Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred…
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Micah McKay
Examines the ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico. The book looks at the role of waste in cultural texts from the…
Reem Kassis
Celebrating all things Palestinian!
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Daniel Knapper
Daniel Knapper provides the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance. The book examines creative responses to Paul's style across a wide range of mediums and…
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Matthew Arnold
Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England condemned an industrial society in ‘bondage to machinery’ and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture -…
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A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook…
Barry S. Fogel, Xiaoling Jiang
Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the effects of cultural identity on the epidemiology, phenomenology, and…
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Megan Rae Blakely
Focusing on cultural expressions that are most likely to intermingle with copyright law, trademark and IP-adjacent regulations, this book examines contemporary issues in technology, intellectual property law, and culture.
"No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served." -- Earlene Grey
Tea has its very own significance in every consumer's life. However…
James Fox
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the…
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Ivan McClellan
Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, Photographs by Ivan McClellan, offers an inside look at Black cowboy culture across the United States in the 21st century.
In 2015, photographer Ivan McClellan…
Malthe Stavning Erslev
This Element traverses the concept and practice of bot mimicry, defined as the imitation of imitative software, specifically the practice of writing in the style of social bots. It argues…
This book provides transnational insight into cultural property crimes and the cutting-edge work tackling issues ranging from currency crimes to innovative research methods.
Ellen Chase, Laura Hoffman, Matthew Lasnoski
Cultural Heritage Conservation for Early Learners explores how to introduce young audiences to art conservation. Conservators and educators from around the world share their approach to creating engaging, hands-on programs…
The widespread dissemination of videos of the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades have shocked the world. These acts are perhaps the clearest and most…
In this practical resource, teacher researchers from the Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education Professional Learning Group based in New York City provide insights for educators on how to address complex…
Joshua T. Brinkman
Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as…
Lubomira Trojan, Lukasz Wroblewski
This research volume is the first comprehensive study of the application of the design thinking method to cultural management, especially management of the intangible cultural heritage.
James H. Liu
Drawing on psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy, this book presents a new theory of how political cultures ranging from the USA to China are built from representations and interpretations of…
A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome…
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass…
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography…
A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The…
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The…
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored…
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the…
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial…
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need…
William Walker Atkinson
Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
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In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations." This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically…
The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management is a curated, first-line resource for graduate students and scholars that critically and analytically surveys the contemporary research in arts and cultural…
Reed Hastings,Erin Meyer
Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his…
Creativity is emerging as one of the most important sources of economic growth. This book investigates the varied forms of the creative and cultural industries including the arts, culture, film…
Adam Scott-Rowley
Existential Figure silently screams. Everything is wiped clean.
The fabric of reality starts to fall apart.
Grieving Figure finds themself on a hillside. Eyes staring back from the darkness.
A…
Stuart Hall
This volume collects over two dozen of Stuart Hall's essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography, providing rare insights into his engagement with the intellectual…
Nancy Bombaci
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics" - a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in…
Ben Sessa
The Essential Pocket Guide.