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The Lonely Crowd
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Reuel Denney,David Riesman,Nathan Glazer |
**The Lonely Crowd** is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark stu… |
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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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Culture matters
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Samuel P. Huntington |
"Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living i… |
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Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk
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Mike Featherstone,Roger Burrows |
How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world?
This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presen… |
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Death Makes a Holiday
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David J. Skal |
"Using a mix of personal anecdotes and perceptive social analysis, Skal examines the amazing phenomenon of Halloween, exploring its dark Celtic history and illuminating why it has evolved - in the co… |
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Literary culture in a world transformed
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William R. Paulson |
"Literary studies are in danger of being left behind in the twenty-first century. Print culture risks becoming a thing of the past in the multimedia age; meanwhile, human life and society are undergo… |
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From Mukogodo to Maasai
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Lee Cronk |
Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s… |
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