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What birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without it This book explores the origin of modern cake and its development from sweet bread to architectural flight of fancy, together with the meanings, legends and rituals attached to cake throughout the world.

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Learn how cannabis can help spark your creativity!

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Becky Sue Epstein chronicles champagne, the most ebullient and celebratory of wines, describing its history and the celebrities who made it famous, from Dom Perignon to the widow Veuve Cliquot.

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In laboratories all over the world, life, even the idea of life, is changing - and with these changes, come transformations in our social order. This text offers a look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.

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Beginning with the rise of the machine and the emergence of consumerism as a common way of life, the authors lay a strong foundation for an understanding of 20th-century American media and consumer culture - its universe of commodities, its priorities and its social forms.

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Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought.

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China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives.

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An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.

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Now nearly one hundred years old, Indian cinema is one of that country's most vibrant cultural products as well as being the world's most prolific, at its peak producing an estimated 800 films a year. Cinema India is the first book to concentrate on the visual culture of Indian film.

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Provides an examination of American espionage television programs. The author investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. This book provides a contemporary lens to analyze the nature - and implications - of American nationalism in practice.

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Provides an examination of American espionage television programs. The author investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. This book provides a contemporary lens to analyze the nature - and implications - of American nationalism in practice.

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Citizens media countering armed conflict and rebuilding community in Colombia

(Hardback)

Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. This book examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. It shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre.

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An inside look into the story of why so many coffee drinkers traded in pots for pods!

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Using an examination of theatrical and musical performance in a small Valleys town as a focus, this work puts forward an argued discussion of contemporary Welsh theatre in its cultural context.

(Hardback)

From America's leading media scholar, a controversial critique of media studies.

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A controversial critique of media studies, challenging current scholarly arguments with the developing media reform movement.

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