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Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in response.

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Food and Crime looks at how theft, fraud, and organized crime dwell at every level of the food world.

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In an age where most everything is mass-produced and technology has become the filter through which we experience much of life, there is a growing appreciation of the handmade.

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Today, weed is en vogue and has evolved into a good-looking book business. High on Design showcases the new brands, designs and creators behind this revolution.

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Written by a self-confessed quizaholic, How To Win Your Pub Quiz is a glorious celebration of a great British institution the pub quiz and will help turn your team, however bad it is, into a winning machine!

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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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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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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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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.