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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

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Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic Stateis futurist. ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century.

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This book examines the causes and consequences of gender gaps in policy preferences in the United States. While explaining the causes of gender gaps requires drawing from a wide array of fields, ranging from biology to economics, understanding their origins and consequences does much to further empirical research in public opinion and mass behavior.

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

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This examination of key CBS broadcasts and the people behind them that helped to establish the network as the prototype for excellence provides a unique perspective on the early era of broadcasting.

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Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC.

Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and Murphy review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy and the Postmodern Alternative as well as neo-conservative critiques of postmodernism.

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This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state.

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This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state.

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A ground-breaking exploration of the women who through their construction of female identities, contest, resist, subvert or embrace the controversial issue of female circumcision in Egypt.

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Is shopping for food really a political act Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry From the BSE outbreak in the 1990s through to cultural taboos and the genetic modification of produce and livestock, this book raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century.

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A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition.

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With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe. Yet the possibilities this world presented, and the costs it exacted, have been experienced differently by men and women. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman explore these differences.