Presents 100 contentious public and private controversies of the sports world. This book illustrates how sports controversies reflect the historically enduring and changing nature of our broader cultures, and the social battles we engage on a day-to-day basis surrounding the struggles for equality, and debates about social violence.

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The members of the Cafe Society enjoyed a sophisticated, avant-garde lifestyle. Some of the century's most original talents - from Cole Porter to Yves Saint Laurent - stepped into the limelight via the Cafe Society. This volume recounts in historical detail the intrigue and impact generated around the world by this stylish jet-set.

The most comprehensive reference resource on Celtic culture; an encyclopedia written by and for scholars, yet accessible to all.

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The October 2008 issue focuses on cultures of panic, particularlyrecent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality.

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This edition brings together a diverse set of essays and new writing that identify particular national tendencies, notions of family, epistemological worries about postmodernity's represented purpose and queries about cultural studies as it is taught and as it could be understood.

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A fun and inspiring book about the community of Disney-bounders across the globe!

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This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a variety of media and genre. Adopting a feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body.

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This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.

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(Hardback)

The much-anticipated first book by photographer Kevin Amato, a leading influencer in fashion today

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Ernst Gombrich pays tribute to a varied selection of scholars and critics.

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An account of how commercial culture in Britain and America has been viewed, since its inception during the Industrial Revolution, as a force likely to undermine national morals.

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Climate plays a considerable role in the society and culture of Australia. This text is an interdisciplinary 'weather report' that draws together perspectives from the social sciences, the humanities, science and engineering to deepen our understanding of the relationship between climate and culture in Australia.

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A courageous and passionately argued treatise on how we harness the power of the new era to create a stronger, fairer society.

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From the author of "The Bombshell Manual of Style" comes a playful exploration of the spirit, creativity, and originality of the Bohemian lifestyle.

(Hardback, 40th Anniversary e.)

(Hardback, Illustrated edition)

A study of fashions in Chinese history and a history of China in the last half millennium told as the story of Chinese fashions. From retro hats in the sixteenth century through to the 1950's Lenin suit, it uses garments and accessories as described by people of those times to shed light on the historical meaning of fashion and fashions in China.