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Follows "This Week" from its beginnings in the 1950s as a light magazine programme with some serious moments, through the challenging programmes of the 1970s. This book also explores the development of current affairs journalism, and looks at the practice of responsible journalism, while producing attractive programmes.

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This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.

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In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive Women, Molly Brost explores what types of behaviors and characteristics cause female characters to be labeled anti-heroines, how anti-heroines differ from anti-heroes, and how the label reflects society's attitudes toward and beliefs about women.

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This wide-ranging exploration of the apocalypse in Western culture seeks to understand how we have come to be so preoccupied with spectacular visions of our own annihilation-offering abundant examples of the changing nature of our imagined destruction, and predisposing readers to discover many more all around them.

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Americans of Arab heritage have made major contributions to U.S. society, and this is a timely and unique overview of their immigration patterns, settlement, adaptation, and assimilation for a general audience.

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The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation. -- .

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This book explores the exceptional Jewish educational success in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the latter half of the twentieth century. Illuminating the impact of these developments on the local Jewish community in revitalizing Jewish education, the book offers a constructive vision relevant to Jewish education and planning across the United States.

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Looks at the Argentine Right from its roots in 19th-century European political theory through to the collapse of the conservative government in the 1980s. The contributors describe the Right's development, uneasy alliance with Peronists, years of triumph and subsequent retreat to opposition status.

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Leading experts trace the material heritage of Iranian Shi'ism within each of its political, religious and cultural dimensions.

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The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of agingmenopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging parents, and fleeing children. First, women relinquish old ways, untying themselves from the past and mourning the losses of youth and its illusions.

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Based on interviews, theory, and practice, this book guides women through the processes of examining present realities, letting go of outdated behaviors, and refocusing on a spirited future during their midlife years.

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The art of record is an insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day.

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In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. This work examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated.

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[Crouch's] personality, his persona, manifests itself with such force that one is compelled to enter into a kind of active dialogue... Animated and stimulating. -Washington Post

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