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The second edition combines fully revised chapters with fresh insights into the most pressing developments and controversies in cyberspace. It provides a comprehensive overview of web-based culture and the arts, the theories and methodology of cyber culture studies and the international context in which online activism continues to be debated.

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Wedding clothes are not only distinctive forms of dress, but are also steeped in years of cultural tradition. This book, drawing on case studies from around the world, considers how wedding attire is both a statement of tradition and a vehicle for challenging social norms.

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Examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Drawing on examples, this book focuses particularly on student uniforms, which are key socializing objects in Japan's politico-economic order, but also examines 'office ladies', 'salary men', service personnel, and housewives.

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Welfare Reform presents the contemporary debate about welfare reform in the United States with an unbiased, objective point of view.

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Seeking answers to questions about crime and violence in America, the author of this text examines the country's fascination with violence, and why Jekyll and Hyde and the werewolf myth have such appeal in North American culture. He concludes that on-screen violence reflects deep insecurities.

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Seeking answers to questions about crime and violence in America, the author of this text examines the country's fascination with violence, and why Jekyll and Hyde and the werewolf myth have such appeal in North American culture. He concludes that on-screen violence reflects deep insecurities.

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Few, if any phenomena affecting Western Europe as a whole since 1945 have been more far-reaching in their immediate effects to politics and society over the long term than the experience of immigration. This work discusses effects of postwar migration.

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This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain.

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Through their own experience, and through personal interviews conducted with many of the key media and political figures, the authors construct a vivid picture of how political communication is managed and the direction in which it is going.

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Through their own experience, and through personal interviews conducted with many of the key media and political figures, the authors construct a vivid picture of how political communication is managed and the direction in which it is going.

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The author of the bestselling "Words That Work" examines what Americans say they want, how their actions often contradict those claims, and what that means for businesses.

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A collection of pieces on race, culture, politics, and Black survival confron the realities of African-American life, from the Rodney King beating to the challenges of multiculturalism.

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A riveting expos of child abuse in America and how the newest breed of pediatricians determines what happened, why, and at whose hands.

Although more than one million children are abused each year in the United States, child abuse often remains a secret to family members, professionals, and politicians who neither see nor understand it.

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This book is designed as a pedagogic resource which offers a variety of answers to the question it poses. It brings together some major writers in the international field, and introduces the student to debates about the evolution of cultural studies, discusses various different strands within the subject, and considers future directions.

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"Bold, counterintuitive, and cathartic... Alterman is ready for a bar fight, and he comes out swinging."New York Times Book Review

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The author of Showing Mary draws on the inspirational wisdom of the Old Testament's Song of Solomon to share ten important lessons for women on how to discover the role of passion and how to develop meaning and direction in their lives.

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This is an important book for men and women, aiming to bring us closer to understanding the experiences of men from birth to death, covering a lifetime of emotion, physicality and desire. It brings together a wide range of research and personal interviews with boys and men, moving past the assumptions and stereotypes.

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This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industrys content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.

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This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industrys content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.