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China Pop
How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once--a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence." From her constant contact (and, in many cases, friendships)...
You Don't Own Me
The Life and Times of Lesley Gore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
1963 – tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president., That summer, sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, “It's My Party ” propelling her to Number One on the charts., For the next several years, the crowned Princess of Pop dominated...
by Russ Kick
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Can you name five military leaders who were transgendered?
Twelve cases of involuntary human experimentation by the U.S. government?
How about the four porn novels written by famous authors, 11 books left out of the Bible and over 50 side effects of NutraSweet that have been reported to the FDA?
In...
by Judith Roof
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment,...
Untruth
Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians...
Free Ride
John McCain and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But one politician manages to escape this treatment, getting the benefit of the doubt and a positive spin for nearly everything he does: John McCain. Indeed, even during his temporary decline...
(Not that You Asked)
Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised by a pack of wolves? Frankly, we haven’t got a clue. What we do know is that Almond has a knack for converting his dustups into essays that are both...
Decade of Nightmares
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues...
Symbols (Routledge Revivals)
Public and Private
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.
The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons...
Mauritius - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Mauritius is a conundrum. A small, exotic, multiethnic island nation in the Indian Ocean, to some it is a multicultural "rainbow," a haven of peace, love, and understanding. Others see it as ethnically divided, cultivating only "sugarcane and prejudice." Opinions differ as to whether...
Cowboy
The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The ultimate guide to living like a great American icon, Cowboy by Rocco Wachman—celebrity host of CMT’s popular “Cowboy U”—is an essential manual of cowboy culture, cowboy living, and cowboy lore, ideal for the city slicker who’s enamored by all things wild and western.
Symbols
A Universal Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Symbols: A Universal Language looks at the story behind the world's most famous symbols, from the peace sign to the smiley. It shows just how much importance has been attached to the smallest and simplest of ideas and features over 40 of the most significant symbols from religion, politics and popular...
I'm Only Here for the WiFi
A Complete Guide to Reluctant Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Chelsea Fagan has felt the pressures and expectations of young adult life firsthand. Building on the success of her popular articles on Thought Catalog, her book I’m Only Here for the WiFi presents an honest, refreshing, and hilarious perspective on the life of a misplaced twentysomething, desperate...
Help I'm a FACEBOOKAHOLIC
Inside the Crazy World of Social Networking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Whether it's a means of staying in touch with old friends or of making new enemies, Facebook -- which celebrates its 7th birthday in 2011 -- is impossible to ignore... In June an Irish MEP called for Facebook to be regulated as a health hazard, in the same way as alcohol and drugs. It's not hard to...