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The Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.
In this book, Anderson...
The Quest for Gentility in China
Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...
by John Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course is one of the most-loved and best-selling piano methods in the world. John Thompson’s timeless approach to teaching has been trusted by generations of teachers to start millions of students on their musical journey.
This book includes 50 repertoire pieces...
by H. B. Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
However strange it seems, it is quite worthy of observation, that the actors in that tragedy, the ‘afflicted children,’ and other witnesses, in their various statements and operations, embraced about the whole circle of popular superstition. How those young country girls, some of them mere children,...
Vending Machines
An American Social History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero—a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century...
Global Convergence Cultures
Transmedia Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Today’s convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more. This transmedia phenomenon may be a common...
Textual Travels
Theory and Practice of Translation in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation...
The Dan Brown Enigma
The Biography of the World's Greatest Thriller Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A biography of the enigmatic writer reveals how, with a heady mix of science, religion, fact, and fiction, he became a household name and secured his place in the history of the popular thriller
The success of his titles Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The...
by Frank Hoffmann, Beulah B Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Fads by nature and by definition are hard to capture, yet Hoffmann and Bailey have captured over one hundred of the passing fashion fancies and merchandising miracles during America’s short history in their latest collection of fads, Fashion & Merchandising Fads.
Life devoid of fads is...
The Occult Arts of Music
An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine—nowhere more so,...
Leslie Fiedler
Critic, Provocateur, Pop Culture Guru
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917–2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory. This book traces the evolution of this larger-than-life figure through an extensive examination of his works. Beginning with his homoerotic reading of the relationship...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Beyond The Chinese Connection, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael...
African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings
Race-ing for Ratings
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation.