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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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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.

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Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through Kawaii.

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Watch LEGO bricks transform into everyday objects, turning the humdrum into a delightful surprise.

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At a moment in history when the status of minorities, particularly ethno-racial minorities, is the subject of intense, often acrimonious debate, this book offers a timely and relevant discussion of the core themes of assimilation, interculturation, and identity in the oeuvre of three independent American filmmakers: Scorsese, Allen, and Lee.

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Establishing a critical break with the way we usually experience media as given, this text takes a step back and asks challenging questions about what underpins that experience, and sets out the full range of academic perspectives available to begin to answer those questions.

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This book debunks the post-racial myth among millennial media consumers and producers. Contributors examine the complex ways in which millennial media representations provide audiences with inauthentic understandings of race and how millennials are using social media to combat such misrepresentations.

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Investigates the social and political impact of the Japanese mass-media during war, defeat and Japan's postwar rise as a superpower.

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Meet the amazing monster customers and sample the foul-food served up daily at Fuzzbys diner the brilliant setting for this innovative series from debut author and illustrator, David OConnell.

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The creation, history and near destruction of Notre-Dame and the reconstruction controversy

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The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences. Washington Post Book World

In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will.

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"Originally published as Ooit aten we dieren in Holland in 2019 by Uitgeverij Podium."

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Bringing together the best insights from over 60 of the most inspiring people Huck has spoken to over the yearsalong with exclusive photography and art that has come to embody Huck's distinct aestheticthis book presents a diverse range of truths, creative wisdom and life lessons from those who paddle against the flow.

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This gorgeous and giant volume collects every single nude centrefold ever featured in Playboy.

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'Plus Ca Change', like any good story, tells of spectacular failures and unexpected success. This is the story of the French language second only to English for the number of countries where it is officially spoken a language that is the official tongue of two G-7 countries and three European nations.

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This book examines the changing representation of race and ethnicity in the visual culture of the first decade of the 21st century - a period market by the traumas of 9/11, the 'war on terror', and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism.

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Embodying a chic casualness and ease that is uniquely American, the iconic Polo shirt has become a cool cultural symbol, worn by everyone from movie stars and presidents to athletes and artists.

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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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This book explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how Frances cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the French Resistance. Though an examination of the lenses through which France has regarded its recent past, the book offers a key to understanding Frances national psyche.

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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.