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The "Fresh Air" commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America

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Goliath as Gentle Giant cuts through biblical biases and post-biblical images and considers sensitive and more nuanced portrayals of the giant in popular media, offering revisionist retellings of Goliath that challenge readers to humanize the other.

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This absorbing and timely study will be of interest to scholars and professionals in urban studies, urban design and planning, environmental studies, environment psychology, and sociology.

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This absorbing and timely study will be of interest to scholars and professionals in urban studies, urban design and planning, environmental studies, environment psychology, and sociology.

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These pieces reflect the hardships faced by African Americans. Through allegorical stories and fictional encounters, dreams and dialogues, they present new perspectives on issues that concern Blacks. With a theme of Christian love, they offer African Americans hope in a racist world.

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Contains recollections by wealthy individuals about their lives and experiences, demonstrating how financial and religious aspects of their lives unfold and often intertwine. This text develops a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist and status-group theories.

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This book is a critical cultural studies analysis of the CWs hit teen television drama Gossip Girl (20072012). Bindig examines the show in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and she explores the potential ramifications of popular media texts like Gossip Girl.

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Explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. This book shares accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture.

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Explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. This book shares accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture.

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Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. -- .

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Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

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This in-depth exploration of Goth culture invites fresh understandingand a critique of contemporary mainstream culture by comparison.

Goth culture is extremely diverse, touching on visual art, fashion, film, music, and body aesthetics.

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Governing Sexuality explores issues of sexual citizenship and law reform in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe today.

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This book offers a series of analyses of contemporary media texts that illustrate how Antonio Gramscis theory of hegemony can inform approaches to media literacy.

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This study is a rich and readable collection of memoirs, some short, some extensive, of those who worked at Granada Television during the first 30 years of its existence. It captures a climate of creative activity now referred to as the Golden Years of British television.

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This book examines the changing depictions of grandparent culture from old to hip through celebrity grandparents, new forms of communication between grandparents and grandchildren, emerging rituals in grandparenting, the marketing of grandparenting as a new life stage, and the impact of the commodification of grandparenting on our culture.

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This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure. -- .

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This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure. -- .

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THIS BOOK IS A SELF HELP BOOK. IT BASES MOSTLY ON EXPERIENCE FROM LOVER, COUPLE, ALL OVER THE PLANET.