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This book presents comprehensive summaries and clearly focused analyses of virtually all U.S. Supreme Court decisions on libel and privacy since 1964. He presents each case in a broad based yet comprehensive summary allowing the reader to review and understand not just isolated and disjunctive points of law, but the case in its entirety.

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The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer--the tan generation--by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.

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The Television Studies Book is a stimulating and challenging collection which analyses how the study of television has developed and points to new approaches dealing with rapidly changing technologies and formats.

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A prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting on the fault lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America.

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This text analyses the stereotypes and misconceptions that Americans have of Arabs and Arab-Americans and discusses the far-reaching impact that the United States has had on the Middle East. Specialists provide perspectives about cross-cultural and political communication.

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Takes the reader on a journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. This book explores what cities were, are and will be. It questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive.

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This insightful analysis argues that the media should have done a better job of performing its traditional role of skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong.

There are, of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.

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In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense.

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We are used to the term "dreaming" being associated with the spirituality of the Aboriginal people. This work argues that there is also a "Western Dreaming", originating in the 16th century as part of a Third Reformation.

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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. Susan's experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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How memetic mediaaggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformedbecome a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.

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This volume introduces the philosophy of "quantum aesthetics" - a theoretical framework. The contributors either apply quantum aesthetics philosophy to their respective areas of study or write about their current research within this theoretical framework.

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Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. -- .

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This thoroughly engaging encyclopedia considers the rich diversity of unfamiliar foods eaten around the world.

The title They Eat That: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World says it all.

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Written by a distinguished group of Third World and American scholars, this book investigates the political, economic, cultural, and religious dynamics of the Third World.

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This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking middle ways through what has been called the age of extremes, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewal in the years surrounding the Second World War.

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Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the '70s and '80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of portraits and dialogues. As a whole, Through Parisian Eyes creates a seamless and revealing depiction of French culture.

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Tim Fischer and Peter Rees tell the tales of some real outback heroes, their communities and their success in bouncing back from hardship to success. Full of canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up, these truly inspiring stories come from every corner of Australia.