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The bestselling modern classic and unofficial guidebook to the English national character, by anthropologist Kate Fox.

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An interdisciplinary guide to the value of teaching and learning with Disney

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An empowering look at one of pop culture's most enduring feminist icons, The Wicked Witch of the West.

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YouTube World Records 2026 showcases the greatest feats ever uploaded to the internt, and includes on-the-page QR code links to more than 250 videos.

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Linking the cosmic with the everyday, he expresses the essence of each myth in ten sequential images. This book takes you from the germinal moment to the turnaround point, where death once again transits into renewal.

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This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.

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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

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This extensive, quantitative study illuminates how newspaper practices and priorities developed, and how the nature of news changed in the half century after the introduction of television.

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This book explores the relationship between dissent and social media to understand the role both play in enacting cultural change.

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Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity.

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The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.

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Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North.

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This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.

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This book explores the cultural politics of food in the South African context, bringing together a range of disciplinary perspectives on the links between media, nourishment, and inequality. The book critically explores the multiple ways in which food is never just food, and is always linked to complex and shifting modalities of meaning and knowledge in the South African context.

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The book introduces the concept of the "gig public" to reimagine the public's role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches-particularly its habitual and contractual roots-that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories.

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The book introduces the concept of the "gig public" to reimagine the public's role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches-particularly its habitual and contractual roots-that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories.

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Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Lionel Robbins' lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume features these lectures. It covers a broad chronological range, including Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Marx, and Alfred Marshall.

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What began in the late 1980s as an underground community of science fantasy aficionados with a fetish for Victoriana now pervades almost every aspect of popular culture from music and movies to comics and computer games. Steampunk is much more than a retro-futuristic fashion statement or a subgenre of science fiction. Author and...

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A colourful history of Italian food, Al Dente showcases the dazzling assortment of wines, cheeses, breads, vegetables and salamis that have pushed Italy's cuisine to the forefront of global popularity, from ice-cream parlour and pizza shop to Michelin-starred restaurants today.