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This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's different culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity.

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This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.

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Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation and empowerment.

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Offers a critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. This book addresses an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre.

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This encyclopaedia goes beyond a discussion of the scientific and technical aspects of fire to show how human societies have incorporated images of fire into their philosophies, mythologies, religions, music, art and other areas of human thought and action.

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Gangs are usually discussed in the media in terms of me and violence, and little else. This encyclopedia seeks to illuminate the world of gangs, including gang formation, routine gang activities, aberrations and current developments. It contains one hundred essay entries related to gangs worldwide which provide an overview of the gang phenomenon.

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A comprehensive compilation of entries illuminates the key trends, activities, and themes in organic, sustainable, and local food, covering consumers, organizations, farming, policies, and much more.

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Presents the history of the "Jewish question" to a discussion - one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times. This title identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what the author calls "the exemplary crisis of minority" - Jewishness in Europe.

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Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental issues, and politics and environmental issues, no book has yet focused on the relationship between popular culture and environmental issues.

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By integrating eight contemporary American films to determine the role the use of Voodoo in popular representations in the construction of black female imaginaries, this book evaluates the employment of Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black womens spirituality on screen by engaging with themes such as sexuality, agency, and cultural appropriation.

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By integrating eight contemporary American films to determine the role the use of Voodoo in popular representations in the construction of black female imaginaries, this book evaluates the employment of Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black womens spirituality on screen by engaging with themes such as sexuality, agency, and cultural appropriation.

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A concise and systematic exploration of 150 distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.

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Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsidera fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three.

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A comprehensive sourcebook of mnemonic devices, containing hundreds of anagrams, rhymes and word games to aid memory of a wide range of facts.

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The traditional American hero has disappeared and is unlikely to return. He describes how many of the fields from which Americans once drew their heroes have disappeared, and how the structures of other fields that were once sources of heroes have been altered, thereby obstructing the creation of new heroes.