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Can we put an end to sweatshops? Can we put an end to sweatshops? Archon Fung,Dara O'Rourke,Charles Sabel,Archon Fung "Knowing that information about the conditions of workers around the world can influence what consumers buy and what governments regulate, Dara O'Rourke, Archon Fung, and Charles Sabel argue that mak… OL12227132W
Poems Poems Percy Bysshe Shelley A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full. OL14853463W
Poems Poems Robert Louis Stevenson An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work. OL15403167W
Queering the Color Line Queering the Color Line Siobhan B. Somerville Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a ran… OL17371695W
Producción cultural y prácticas instituyentes Producción cultural y prácticas instituyentes transform Este libro busca revertir el sentido común sobre la producción cultural y los procesos actuales de constitución de la así llamada clase creativa. Su planteamiento de partida arranca de la afirmación … OL17718525W
Queer Theory Queer Theory William J. Spurlin,Stephen Whittle,Carol Queen,Alessandra Tanesini,Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,Peter Hegarty,Marjorie Garber,Larry Kramer,Cheryl Chase,Indra Windh,Del Lagrace Volcano,Patrick Califia-Rice,Hall, Donald E.,Judith Butler,Mark Norris Lance,Suzanna Danuta Walters,Mandy Merck Queer Theory is one of the most contested and intellectually complex movements in contemporary sexual politics. Where did it come from, and what does it do? Is queer theory only for queers? If you ha… OL18420272W
The State of world population 2000 The State of world population 2000 Nafis Sadik,United Nations Population Fund,United Nations Population Fund. 76p. : 30 cm OL18915445W
The meaning of the library The meaning of the library Alice Crawford "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the … OL20005126W
Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet Sheng-mei Ma 1 online resource OL20695430W
Building the Inclusive City Building the Inclusive City Victor Santiago Pineda This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-We… OL20906014W
French Cycling French Cycling Hugh Dauncey French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France. Identifying key… OL20931656W
Fabricating the Absolute Fake - Revised Edition Fabricating the Absolute Fake - Revised Edition Jaap Kooijman When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an imagined America, rather than the nation-state USA, i… OL20932182W
Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans Kerstin Lundström Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans. Inszenierungen rhetorischer Streitkultur in der Reformationszeit? is a study of pamphlets written as a reaction to, and attempt for, expansion of the Luthe… OL20932505W
Making the Black Jacobins Making the Black Jacobins Rachel Douglas C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces t… OL21642554W
By-roads and hidden treasures By-roads and hidden treasures Ross Gibson,Chris Gibson,Paul Ashton What is keeping people strong in isolated and under-populated locales, and how much of that is cultural? In 2008 the Cultural Asset Mapping for Regional Australia (CAMRA) project was born with the ve… OL22323755W
Identitätsräume Identitätsräume Brigitte Hipfl Eine der zentralen Debatten der Cultural Studies beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenspiel von Medien und Identität. Die vorliegende Aufsatzsammlung liefert hier einen neuen Ansatzpunkt, indem ihre Beit… OL23497560W
Cultural studies and critical theory Cultural studies and critical theory Patrick Fuery Cultural Studies and Critical Theory explores questions of culture, representation, gender, power, sexuality, and the postmodern. What is culture? And why is it divided into high, middle, and popular… OL2854434W
Mastering the Infinite Game Mastering the Infinite Game Fons Trompenaars,Charles Hampden-Turner v, 353 p. ; 26 cm OL3627006W
Culturas híbridas Culturas híbridas Néstor García Canclini "El libro es una especie de sociología de la cultura aplicada a América Latina. Aunque los temas son muy concretos, el enfoque del autor tiende a ser filosófico. Tradición y modernidad son los do… OL850558W
Reinventing Collapse Reinventing Collapse Dmitry Orlov In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the … OL9529490W
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