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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding different world views. A case study of a production using the ICE model shows audiences responding with greater tolerance and acceptance of others.

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The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.

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Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.

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Now they were faced with a new country and a new set of images to deal with just as Germany exerts itself more powerfully than ever on the world economic scene.

How much attention has this new Germany received in the American media, and how accurate are the new portrayals

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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavat

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .

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Nine times out of ten, if someone accuses you of getting your facts wrong, what they're actually saying is that they don't like what you've done with them.


The facts in this book will aim to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world.

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This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies.

In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence.

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A seminal work in international communication, examining news reports, civic discourse, and images of Africa in Russian press. This book is about power and influence, politics and communication across frontiers--a thoroughly challenging analysis of Russia's foray into African and international commu

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Eribo (international communication and African studies, East Carolina U.) examines the news coverage, civic discourse, and images of Africa in the Russian press and society before, during, and after the communist regime in the Kremlin. Specifically, he traces conflicting Russian historical reports i

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'In the Name of Security Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism' investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number of countries.

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The 1983-84 Index documents international opinion on problems such as terrorism, the continuing crisis in the Middle East, global economic imbalances, the conventional and nuclear arms races, and nuclear disarmament.

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This seventh volume of the annual Index to International Public Opinion contains data from public opinion polls conducted primarily from the spring of 1984 through the first half of 1985 in all major regions of the world.