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Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion.

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Explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity.

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A collection of essays that aims to give a broad view of the way humour operates in Australian culture. There are very few scholarly works that attempt to study humour that we have come to associate with being Australia. This book looks at the humourous culture that Australia does have, within the essays.

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Shit London explores the world of ill-conceived community art, poorly named shops, cheeky graffiti, bad translations, comical signs and the unintentionally funny scenes that surround Londoners everyday.

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Reprising the success of 'Spliffs' and 'Spliffs 2', this book offers yet more information and entertainment for the 'budding' cannabis enthusiast.

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Discover how the designers of womens sporting attire navigated the worlds of fashion, function, and propriety, from the beginning of the 19th century to 1960.

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The tenets of the Jedi Code (peace, knowledge, serenity and harmony) are applicable not just in the STAR WARS Galaxy, but also in our own. Here is an accessible, illustrated collection of quoted wisdom illuminated to shine light on readers own lives, including elements of practice for taking the lessons to heart.

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Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the topic of "taste" with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food. This is a new edition of his classic book, brought into the new millennium by Bayley's critique of modern design.

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The 80's represented cars that were flash, angular and mean. The petrol-heads of the time lusted after Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308; salivated over the Ferrari Daytona and Testarossa from Miami Vice, and watched ''Back to the Future'' in cinemas across the country, mesmerised at the sight of the Doc's De Lorean.

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"My Guy" is one of the foundation stones of today's massive pop culture magazine genre. It defined what it meant to be young in the 1980s and was a template for the hugely successful gossip mags like "Heat", "Closer" and "OK!" that fly off the shelves every week.

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Covering topics ranging from the importance of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, to the influence of foreign fast food and video games, this book provides a wide-ranging glimpse into the Chinese mind. It offers a look at the values, attitudes, and behavior patterns of modern China - and their roots in the history of this ancient nation.

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A colorful and in-depth cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardomThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Airin the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards.

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Former publisher of Griffith Review Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity.

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This edited collection by leaders in the field is divided into three sections providing an overview of the media industries, discussions of the significance of government policy and analyses of media content.

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An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet.

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"A vibrant, visually-driven insider's guide to "the official home of the brick," the famous LEGO House located near LEGO headquarters in Billund, Denmark"--

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A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.

(Paperback, 4th edition)

This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.

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Irresistibly charming, acclaimed legal scholar Sunstein writes partly as a rigorous academic and partly as a helpless fanboy as he explores our fascination with Star Wars and what the series can teach us about the law, behavioral economics, history, and even fatherhood.

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