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Making digital cultures
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Martin Hand |
"Making Digital Cultures tracks intellectual debates about the digitization of culture from the cyberspace of the 1990s to the new technologies known as Web 2.0 arguing that they have cohered around … |
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Songs for fat people
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David MacFadyen |
"David MacFadyen traces the careers of early 20th century Russian singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Sov… |
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Money Has No Smell
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Paul Stoller |
Blending ethnographic description with social analysis, Stoller shows how West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks in New York. Their stories illumi… |
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Into the world without secrets
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Richard Hunter |
The future of computing-the future of business Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are alway… |
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NEGOTIATED REVOLUTIONS: THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH AFRICA AND CHILE
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George Lawson |
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
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Neil Postman,Neil Postman |
Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for rega… |
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Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller
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Jeff Rubin |
An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American--a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically cha… |
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Alfred and Emily
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Doris Lessing |
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without… |
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Competing for the future
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Henry Kressel,Thomas V. Lento |
Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionised our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the technology - the significance of going digital; … |
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Artistic Citizenship
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Mary Schmidt Campbell |
How do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This question is central to anyone involved in arts education and in the creation of public policy for the arts. Celebr… |
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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster
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Chester Hartman |
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… |
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From Millet to Leger
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Herbert, Robert L. |
"A pre-eminent scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art, Robert L. Herbert has written extensively on aspects of this subject during his long career. This book brings together some of … |
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Utopia
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Thomas More |
First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communis… |
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The limits of gendered citizenship
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Jeff Hearn,Elżbieta H. Oleksy,Dorota Golańska |
"<P>The underlying theme of this edited collection is gendered citizenship, as well as the challenges and limits that confront the gendering of citizenship. It critiques the notion of the genderless … |
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Science as psychology
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Lisa M. Osbeck |
"Science as Psychology reveals the complexity and richness of rationality by demonstrating how social relationships, emotion, culture, and identity are implicated in the problem-solving practices of … |
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Tides of change on Grand Manan Island
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Joan Marshall |
Grand Manan Island, a 200-year old fishing village in the Bay of Fundy, has been overwhelmed by globalization, technology, and changing government policies. Changes on the island call into question t… |
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Webs of power
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Starhawk |
"Since her arrest and five-day jail stay during the Seattle anti-WTO protests in November 1999, Starhawk has poured her energy into the global justice movement, participating in direct actions, leadi… |
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Smart mobs
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Howard Rheingold |
From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the wide… |
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Golf and the American country club
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Richard J. Moss |
"In this entertaining cultural history, Richard J. Moss explores the circumstances that led to the firm establishment of the country club as an American social institution and its inextricable connec… |
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Inclusion and exclusion through youth sport
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Symeon Dagkas |
""We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way, sport is more powerful than politics. We have only just started to use its potential… |
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