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Serving students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia addresses the myriad and profound ways foods have shaped the world we inhabit, from prehistory to the present.

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Expert contributors provide alphabetically arranged entries for some 60 fools and jesters ranging from Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, and the Marx Brothers to Falstaff, Hephaestus, and Loki.

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A new study of the creation of French history, experience and identity since the Revolution.

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The cinema is France's major cultural institution and a key expression of national identity at home and abroad. This volume brings together the work of leading visual culture scholars from the UK, France and the US who examine the sources and expressions of French national identity in film.

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The cinema is France's major cultural institution and a key expression of national identity at home and abroad. This volume brings together the work of leading visual culture scholars from the UK, France and the US who examine the sources and expressions of French national identity in film.

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For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work. She falls into a hidden community who teach her how to build a life using the things that others throw away, and finds that life on the margins amounts to so much more than you might think.

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This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .

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This volume focuses on Appalachians as a case study of internal migration in developed countries. While earlier works have concentrated on the migration process, jobs, housing, and ethnic group formation in urban settings, this volume addresses the important issues of health, environment, and education in the urban Appalachian context.

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This one-volume reference provides a comprehensive overview of gambling in the Americas, examining the history, morality, market growth, and economics of the gaming industry.

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This book explores how after 20 years of existence, virtual world games have evolved: the social landscapes within digital worlds have become rigid and commodified, and "play" and "fun" have become rational and mechanical products.

Twenty million people worldwide play Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs).

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In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that current controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of videogames are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's unique and paradoxical aesthetic form: a form critical to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species. -- .

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"Garlic and Oil" is a comprehensive history of food habits in modern Italy. Chronicling the period from the mid-19th century to the present day, the author argues that politics dramatically affected the nature of Italian cuisine and food habits.

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Offers an introduction to the themes central to the thought of one of the world's most provocative and original theorists - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice, with deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and issues of postcoloniality and globalization.

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An eye-opening look at teenagers today, GENERATION S.L.U.T. is a report from the front lines and a first-hand fictional account - in the form of a novel - of the sexual lives of teenagers by one of their own.

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Aimed at an international readership of undergraduate students of food, this comprehensive textbook uses a range of lively learning features and global case studies to provide an introduction to contemporary food geographies.

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Explores five institutions - mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums - that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. This book shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during the Romantic period.

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