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This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China.

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The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.

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Written from a variety of perspectives and on a variety of topics representing the widespread increase of soft-core porn in our culture, Pop-Porn offers a detailed and complex approach to the porn industry in America.

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This comprehensive biography of Pope Benedict XVI emphasizes his theological positions and contributions as a theologian.

Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography is an incisive exploration of the life and career of the current head of the Roman Catholic Church, with an emphasis on his theological positions and contributions as a theologian.

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Looking at what is inherited and who is responsible, award-winning writer Charlotte Josephines new play Pops follows a father and daughter caught in a vicious cycle of addiction, and theself-inflicted shame around mental health.

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This volume explores the search for meaning among people in China today. The subjects of these essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars, with the issues ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption.

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In this brilliantly conceived and clearly argued discussion of the relationship between high and popular culture, Herbert Gans, outspoken advocate of cultural pluralism, questions the universality of high culture standards.

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Makes available a difficult-to-find folkloric scholarship classic and illuminates it with contemporary commentary from a preeminent authority on Egyptian folktales.

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More than just food carts and microbrews, Portland has a story to tell. Its culinary history sings the song of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting land between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home. Portland: ...

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This book will inform and empower a wide range of readers including those considering careers in teaching, those who have children in school, who vote and pay taxes, work in schools, influence policy, or those who are business leaders.

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Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in China. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and other groups as "primitives". This book explores how Han in Kunming, regard ethnic minorities and by extension themselves.

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In countries affected by war, the cessation of hostilities inevitably produces a large number of demobilised combatants. The failure to respond to the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of such former combatants can cause high levels of insecurity. This book provides the comparative analysis of DDR.

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A study of post-communist transformation. It offers theoretical and empirical analyses of fundamental economic, cultural and political problems of systemic change in Central and Eastern Europe, developing a set of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary and sociologically informed.

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Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.

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Postmodern American Sociology views the modern, the postmodern, and the relationship between the two in terms of the three paradigms of knowledge: science, morality and aesthetics. According to author Jongryul Choi, postmodernism maintains that ontology, epistemology and ethics/politics in the postmodern era have been aestheticized.

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Ettore Gnocchi, the famed postmodern theorist, has been murdered at his own dinner party. To find out who killed Gnocchi, the detective Solomon Hunter must first explore postmodernism itself. What is it Who are Baudrillard, Foucault, and Habermas, and what do they think Why does any of this matter, anyway

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In this title, Canbrera argues for the inclusion of language in a new model of social history that challenges traditional historiographical theory.

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Features A-Z entries and primary document excerpts that explore the turbulent history of poverty in America.

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