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Mindful of his footprint, Fred goes in search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry and the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff in an attempt to discover the true story behind our everyday things. This compelling story of his travels moves green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

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The essays in this volume illustrate the findings of a European project on homophobia and fundamental rights in which sociologists and lawyers have analysed the position in four Member States: Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and UK.

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In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.

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In this cautionary tale of girl-meets-boy-then-stuff-happens, a good woman falls under the spell of a charming but abusive man, and a toxic relationship ensues. Told from the heroine's four decades of retrospect, this memoir is one of entanglement, extrication and self-discovery.

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Using a format closely resembling a legislative history, Ronald Garay traces the progress of congressional television from its inception in 1922, when the first resolution seeking approval to broadcast House floor proceedings was introduced, to 1979, when legislation allowing that coverage was finally passed.

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One of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century was Jean Gebser, whose varied writings on the philosophy of culture gave birth to postmodernist thought.

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This book offers a thoughtful analysis of how and why conspiracy thinking has become a popular mode of political discourse in the United States.

How did conspiracy thinking become such a significant and surprisingly widely accepted form of political thinking in the United States

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By the 1990s, it was not unusual to find conspiracies used as explanations for a wide range of political events that would otherwise seem to have quite ordinary explanations.

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Eliots The Waste Land were published, Alfred Hitchcock directed his first feature, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago and made Jazz the defining music of the age, and Hollywood transformed the nature of fame.

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Despite the persistence of the fraternal form of association in guilds, trade unions, and political associations, as well as in fraternal social organizations, scholars have often ignored its importance as a cultural and social theme. This provocative volume helps to redress that neglect. Tracing the development of fraternalism from early modern we

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This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and advertising campaigns provides insight to the nature of Twitters digital culture and its potential to serve as a virtual public sphere.

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This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and advertising campaigns provides insight to the nature of Twitters digital culture and its potential to serve as a virtual public sphere.

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The book concludes that historical concepts of the child television viewer are products of discourse and cannot be taken to reflect objective, scientific truths about the child viewer. Widely disseminated constructs of the passive viewer, the active viewer, the interactive viewer, and the media literate viewer are seen as problematic.

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This study analyzes the practice of national self-imagination and puts forward a structural-functional model of national narratives. It describes the differences and conflicting elements of the national narratives that constitute the contested arena of nation-building in Ukraine.

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Identifies and retains the valuable contributions made by deconstructionism and postmodernism, and shows how postmodern thinking might move into more positive and constructive directions.

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Does what we consume define who we are Harry Wallop takes a fresh look at society and shows you to your place in today's modern consumer world.