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Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run organization whose leaders built sisterhood across class lines and achieved many benefits for married working-class women.

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This approach to studying culture has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion.

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Separates the nonsense from the fabulous and shows that falling in love with an It bag doesn't mean you have the IQ of an It girl. This book shows how to wear shorts without looking like an extra in "Hamlet", what to spend money on, and what not to, and why only harpists should wear velvet.

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Al-Huzaimi offers insight into the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising of 1979

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Al-Huzaimi offers insight into the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising of 1979

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These candid conversations capture the difficulties of reporting during crisis and war, particularly the tension between government and the press. The participants include distinguished journalists American and foreign, print and broadcast and prominent public officials, past and present.

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This completely revised and timely second edition explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Carruthers analyses the forces that shape the production of news and images of war.

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In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them

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The world of communication scholarship can be divided into two main schools, the empirical school and the critical school.

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This book is an introduction to the key debates and dimensions in media studies. Posing questions about the nature of culture in modern society, it looks at the historical development of the various media, their relationship with modernity and the critical commentaries that have evolved as a result of their public and private presence.

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Our media tend to deal in prefabricated versions of reality - false assumptions of habitual values rather than open-minded observation. This work is about the major entities of the Australian media, their roles and influence in our lives, and the issues of journalistic practice that shape their content.

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Simple and practical strategies for overcoming forgetfulness and learning how to 'keep your marbles'. This book is based on a survey of people's concerns that shows if you forget names and things you meant to do, you're in good company! It examines how memory works and why it sometimes lets us down...

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Australia's leading men's issues expert looks at experiences of masculinity at different ages, in different social groups and in the context of globalisation.

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Presents key writings in the history, culture and identity of men's fashion. This book contains thematic sections that cover topics such as history, theory, subculture, iconic items of clothing, consumption and the media.

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In this broad condemnation of multiculturalism, the author works to uncover pernicious errors in the arguments of diversity's proponents and to sound a warning against the dire consequences for American culture if the tenets of political correctness are incorporated into our social structure.

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The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated manner, given a mutual awareness.

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"Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"--

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Mexican Americans are the fastest growing immigrant population in the U.S. and will continue to be significant contributors to the diverse social fabric of the country. This book examines the Mexican American cultural traditions, families, demographics, political participation, and societal impact.