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By: Tracy Fessenden

ISBN: 9780691049649
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguardin


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By: Tracy Fessenden

ISBN: 9780691049632
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others.


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By: Paul Bowman

ISBN: 9780230277120
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book sets out the range of approaches to Culture and Media in a simple and direct manner that is comprehensible to a wide student readership. It introduces the complexity of culture and shows how theoretical and disciplinary debates over the meaning of the media and culture relate to everyday cultural experience.


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By: Craig Schuftan

ISBN: 9780733315619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: ABC Books
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The story of all the -isms, the movements and the wild, wild people of 20th century Western culture from a hip rock 'n' roll perspective. The Culture Club reveals that all those cultural movers and shakers were much closer than your standard six degrees of separation!


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By: Kenneth Dyson

ISBN: 9781474281966
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Justin O'Connor

ISBN: 9781526178060
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Culture is not and industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.


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By: Lawrence Harrison

ISBN: 9781498503525
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study examines modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and elsewhere, and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions.


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By: Lawrence Harrison

ISBN: 9781498503501
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions.


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By: Lawrence Harrison

ISBN: 9780465031764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Basic Books
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Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression.


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By: Thomas R. Rochon

ISBN: 9780691070339
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. This work addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. It analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas.


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By: Jon Cruz

ISBN: 9780691004747
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures.


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By: Ronald Inglehart

ISBN: 9780691022963
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality.


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By: Glenn H. Utter

ISBN: 9780313350382
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive documentary report on the cultural and political state of the union explores the flashpoints of the debate over American identity and values.


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By: James Hunter

ISBN: 9780465015344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: Basic Books
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A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.


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By: David Walton

ISBN: 9781498521659
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects a series of essays dedicated to critiques of public and private spaces in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Topics such as globalization, city design, nationalism, and others are investigated to examine the public and private spatial configurations of culture in day-to-day life.


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By: Nicholas B. Dirks

ISBN: 9780691021027
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.


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By: Gary Paul Nabhan

ISBN: 9781887178969
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1998
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan provides 26 essays that go beyond mere observations of wildlife but offer theories of links between cultural and biological diversity.


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By: Lauren Rosewarne

ISBN: 9781440834400
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.


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By: PhD Markku Eskelinen

ISBN: 9781441107459
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Uses cybertext theory and ludology to solve several persistent problems in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. This title constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.


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By: PhD Markku Eskelinen

ISBN: 9781441124388
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Uses cybertext theory and ludology to solve several persistent problems in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. This title constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.


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By: Jean Guisnel

ISBN: 9780738202600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A revealing account of how the Internet has become a powerful new tool for spying by governments and private industry.


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By: Steven L. Piott

ISBN: 9781440861659
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jennifer Travis

ISBN: 9781498563413
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in Americas cultural ethos from lauding autonomy and mastery to promoting a sympathetic state and encouraging new forms of cultural recompense.


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By: Gerald Weissmann

ISBN: 9780738205977
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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Reflections on science, culture, and society, by the acclaimed author of The Woods Hole Cantata and The Doctor with Two Heads

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