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Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. This book exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It provides an exploration of industrialized commercial photography, its uses and abuses.

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Explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.

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The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about. Here is the most fascinatingly trivial collection of factoids yet compiled to satisfy idle curiosities.

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A systematic study of China's television system. Hong focuses on changes in television since China's reform to reflect the evolution of the Communist Party's ideology and the society, and the implications, limitations, and future trends of that evolution.

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This is a collection of essays which attempt to push forward a particular view of what culture is, what role it plays in social life and how it ought to be properly studied. What emerges is this book - a treatise in cultural theory developed through a series of concrete analyses.

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A ground-breaking edition of an early modern play exploring of the clash of empire, religion and the battle for wealth and power.

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"Introduces the forms and practices of language across a variety of journalistic genres, and explores how they are being shaped by digital technologies"--

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"Introduces the forms and practices of language across a variety of journalistic genres, and explores how they are being shaped by digital technologies"--

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Presents an assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. This work examines the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals.

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Presents an assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. This work examines the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals.

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The perfect anti-valentine: a whirlwind tour through love's most crushing moments. Featuring anecdotes from history, literature, culture, art and music, "The Little Book of Heartbreak" shares the entertaining, empowering and occasionally absurd things that happen when love is on its last legs.

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Chronicles how counterculture succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke culture wars.

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The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

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The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

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The history of the fitted kitchen in England.

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The history of the fitted kitchen in England.

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How do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention

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"Establishes a new mode of understanding digital subjectivity using maternal philosophy through a shared aesthetics of interruption"--