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Interspersed with fragments from a diary kept by Asha's adoptive mother, here, Asha recordes how she adapted to a strange new world. This tells a deeply affecting story about the powerful bonds between a mother and daughter, and a timely reminder not to lose sight of what really matters in life.

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Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . . . Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. . .

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Offers a glimpse into the world of newspaper journalism. This book shows how a newspaper moves from being empty at the start of the day to being full twelve hours later, puts readers in the shoes of a journalist on the news-gathering trail and, examines the truisms of what drives circulation. It looks at what it is that newspapers consider news.

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Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over the past two decades have let the government itself set the terms and boundaries of foreign policy debate in the news.

(Hardback)

Taking the example of Glenn Beck as a media pundit and propagandist, this timely and provocative book shows how mainstream media fails in its duty-and explains what the American people can do about it.

(Hardback)

This book examines the depiction of Arabs and Muslims in Disney animated films through innovative mixed-methods analyses. The authors provide key insights for scholars and media professionals by demonstrating how biased representations influence public perceptions.

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A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's developmentnot by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated.

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(Paperback)

This book analyzes the schisms throughout the Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, often due to overpowering cultural sensibilities. Williams investigates the pervasive effects of globalization, multiculturalism, economics, and xenophobia on indigenous Caymanian culture.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Looks at the phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. This title traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances.

(Hardback)

A collection of essays considering three major trends in feminist media studies: the liberal feminist perspective; the postmodern perspective; and the more recent attempts to identify and challenge the subtle backlash that threatens to obliterate feminist gains.

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This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.

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An insightful look at the misplaced faith we place in things, and meaningful advice on achieving material and emotional well-being

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(Hardback)

Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio. -- .

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Offers discussions of the ways the 'inner life' is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the 'external' social and economic spheres. This volume features essays focusing on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny.

(Hardback)

This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games.

(Hardback)

Richard Holt draws on his extensive experience in discourse analysis and Web design to present a picture of the Internet as a potentially powerful tool of civic discourse in the third millennium.

(Hardback)

Argues against traditional interpretations and takes a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas. This work investigates the common patterns and practices in the enterprises of diaspora peoples and entrepreneurs.

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Argues against traditional interpretations and takes a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas. This work investigates the common patterns and practices in the enterprises of diaspora peoples and entrepreneurs.

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If cultural theory is a minefield, this book is a route map through that field. Prepared by an international team of scholars, the entries in this book provide accessible introductions to the key cultural theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

(Paperback, 9th edition)