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The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in …
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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the …
This book investigates the concepts and instruments for managing change in companies striving toward a market orientation in Poland. The …
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists …
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This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural …
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A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The "horn" in the Horn of Africa has for so …
Discusses the background of Nietzsche's work, analyzes its themes and concepts, and describes its critical reception
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Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as …
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into …
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble …
By focusing on forty works from the Metropolitan’s collection, this educator’s resource kit presents the rich and diverse artistic heritage …
In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like …
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How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material …
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied …
This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition …
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From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural …