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How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death.

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Through feedback-oriented communication, this book explores advertising from the perspective of information flows, rather than the more common approach of symbolic representation. It explores the relatively recent phenomenon of online behavioural advertising (OBA).

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A study of the moral state of the nation the acid test of this being how we treat the weakest among us. Rabbi Julia Neuberger assesses the situation in the UK from her own unique viewpoint and draws some challenging and thought-provoking conclusions.

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An updated and revised edition of the much-requested global cookbook designed to introduce students to worldwide foodways.

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The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the regions irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries.

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An examination of the area of ethnicity and black identity in America. This work aims to reveal the importance of the myth of black ethnicity, and explores its creation and evolution. The author seeks to de-bunk this myth and highlight the individual differences that blacks have always had.

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An examination of the area of ethnicity and black identity in America. This work aims to reveal the importance of the myth of black ethnicity, and explores its creation and evolution. The author seeks to de-bunk this myth and highlight the individual differences that blacks have always had.

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"An engaging account of the controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children."--

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Provides a study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations. This book explores the relation of dreams to myth, and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.

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This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture.

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This unique collection brings together various scholars of sociology and political science to explore the status and activities of the intellectuals and the intelligentsia past, present and future.

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Through an examination of iconic fashion companies Paul Smith and Mulberry, 'The National Fabric' provides telling insights into the culture of contemporary fashion and the dilemmas of 'going global'. Goodrum argues that 'Britishness' is characterized less through a particular look than through its ambiguities.

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Through an examination of iconic fashion companies Paul Smith and Mulberry, 'The National Fabric' provides telling insights into the culture of contemporary fashion and the dilemmas of 'going global'. Goodrum argues that 'Britishness' is characterized less through a particular look than through its ambiguities.

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This book examines the contest powwow to better understand what it means to participants and how it carries on the beauty of Native American culture. The authors assess how competitive dancing aligns with and differs from traditional sports while introducing their concept of Cultural Tethering Theory to understand its importance.

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A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.

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Undertakes a coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. This book focuses on the examination of the films which seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema.

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The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism).

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The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism).

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