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Contains recollections by wealthy individuals about their lives and experiences, demonstrating how financial and religious aspects of their lives unfold and often intertwine. This text develops a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist and status-group theories.

A remarkable team of expert authors provides firsthand accounts from disaster survivors around the globe, enabling readers to understand the lingering trauma and mental wounds that might otherwise go unrecognized, yet last a lifetime.

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Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women's movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right.

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In this continuation of "Mythos," Stephen Fry recounts the stories of the human heroes found in Greek mythology, with illustrations of classical art inspired by the myths.

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Today, weed is en vogue and has evolved into a good-looking book business. High on Design showcases the new brands, designs and creators behind this revolution.

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When is food addictive, and under what circumstances And what can be done to cope with or, in the case of kids, avoid food addictions

As American-style processed foods transform the culture and habits of eating all over the world, Michael Moss explores food addiction and the obesity epidemic.

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This is essential Margaret Atwood on Twitter She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this Philip Pullman Vibrates with outrage The Times

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Written by a self-confessed quizaholic, How To Win Your Pub Quiz is a glorious celebration of a great British institution the pub quiz and will help turn your team, however bad it is, into a winning machine!

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Politics, academia & corporations now bow to the new orthodoxies around gender, race & identity. How Woke Won explores woke's intellectual roots and how, what poses as radical-left, is embraced by the privileged. In this powerful critique Joanna argues that those interested in a free, egalitarian & democratic society must tackle wokeness head-on.

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Organized into ten broad chapters reflecting types of humor and topics of humor research, it provides extensive bibliographies on forty-five fields of humor study, each introduced by an essay outlining trends and pointing to major findings.

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A visually stunning narrative--told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novels--"I Live Here" bears witness to the lives of refugees and displaced people throughout crisis zones in four corners of the globe.

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This is an ideal gift book for womens history month, Mothers Day, birthdays, and graduations.

Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished.

Biographical essays engagingly tell the story behind the icon, with background including family and education, career trajectory and highlights, and contributions and circumstances that have led to icon status.

Presents the stories of 24 of the most influential and representative Western icons - those that have captured the nation's imagination since the early days of westward exploration. This two-set volume elevates the reader's understanding of oft-romanticized subjects and the conflicts and cultural changes that made them icons.

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Engages with the notion of Australia's lack of a sense of cultural history and the ways in which critical engagement with it do not complement or reinforce each other. It reflects upon Australia's still-neglected film heritage, the achievements of Australian TV in recent decades and engages with the debate on mutli-ethnic society.

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Software drives design in the 21st century. This book by world-renowned software studies expert, Professor Lev Manovich, explains the cultural impact of this new phenomenon.

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Manovich investigates how the movement from industry to information in the global economy has created an ostensibly new aesthetic of sensibility and representation. In proposing software as modernity's new societal force, this book seeks to reclassify software as today's revitalized combustion engine, underpinning the logic of contemporary culture.

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Through its well-researched articles, colour photographs, and line illustrations,Introduction to Japanese Culture provides a compact guide to aspects of Japanthat often puzzle the outside observer.