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The Sign and the Seal
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Graham Hancock |
A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details behind the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant.
The ***Lost Ark of the Covenant*** is one of the great historical mysteri… |
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Media nations
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Sabina Mihelj |
"In today's fragmented media landscapes, national media cultures and national audiences seem elusive. Can we understand media without reference to a theory of nationalism and mass communication? This… |
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Hand of fire
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Charles Hatfield |
"Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics… |
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New femininities
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Rosalind Gill |
"This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debate… |
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Blue collar pop culture
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M. Keith Booker |
"This book is about Blue Collar Pop Culture - From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore"-- |
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American folk art
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Kristin G. Congdon |
"Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this c… |
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Gods like us
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Ty Burr |
"How--and why--do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over th… |
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Body Style
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Theresa M. Winge |
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … |
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Gameplay mode
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Patrick Crogan |
"From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for… |
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Time, media and modernity
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Emily Keightley |
" A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is con… |
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The Psychopath Test
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Jon Ronson |
"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey th… |
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UNCHARTED
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Erez Aiden |
By teaming with Google, they were able to analyse the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer. Charts trends in human history … |
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New Korean wave
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Dal Yong Jin |
"The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation. Dal Yon… |
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Brown boys and rice queens
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Eng-Beng Lim |
"A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unp… |
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A new leaf
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Alyson Martin |
"In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world. … |
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Tokyo geek's guide
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Gianni Simone |
Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive guide to Tokyo's geeky underworld ever produced. It p… |
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Planet Funny
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Ken Jennings |
Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter memes, that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world. |
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Pen & ink
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Isaac Fitzgerald |
"Why did you get that tattoo? Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or … |
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Sharing our lives online
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David Brake |
"Most of us know someone who has inadvertently revealed something shameful or embarrassing online about themselves or someone else. With the growth of social media like Facebook and Twitter, we are h… |
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Why I am not a feminist
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Jessa Crispin |
Do you believe women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist ... or so the feminists keep insisting. Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contem… |
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