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In the space of a few years, Minecraft has become one of the most astonishing success stories of the internet age, attracting millions of players and proving how a single great idea can topple empires in the digital, post-industrial world.

This is the story of the man behind the game.

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This book is a socially situated exploration of South Asian migrants in Singapore that critically examines migrants negotiations of cultural identity, power, and friendship networks in mediated mobile phone spaces.

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This volume offers perspective on contemporary France, exploring topics ranging from geography to popular culture.

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This thematic encyclopedia presents a broad overview of contemporary Germany, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender roles.

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There's more to Greece than its legacy as the birthplace of democracy and Western Philosophy. Discover what life is like in this contemporary European nation.

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The legacy of Classical Greece is universally revered, but this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever relinquish its ties with the past This title presents an alternative cultural history of Greece, beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation state.

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The legacy of Classical Greece is universally revered, but this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever relinquish its ties with the past This title presents an alternative cultural history of Greece, beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation state.

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This comprehensive thematic encyclopedia focuses on the Philippines, exploring this important island nation from a variety of perspectives.

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Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity - the notion of the "new man". -- .

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Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity - the notion of the "new man". -- .

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While the attempt to understand Americanness in terms of our beliefs and mentality is all too familiar, Blair's approach to the origins of American culture opens up previously unexplored perspectives.

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Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature.

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Through a series of engaging and interlinked case studies on the news magazine, Hollywood film, brand advertising, and movie colorization, this volume examines the resurgence of the black and white image in the 1990s.

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This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of postwar representations of Nazism in popular culture, documenting and critiquing their enormous impact and importance.

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"Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence.

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This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the present and future impact of these modern technologies (including word processors, videotex and video and digital optical discs) on professional, business and scholarly research information, as well as on information to the general public.

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Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ethnic relations, this volume examines the role of ethnicity in modern day society and the impact of government policy on ethnic relations.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Engaging with contemporary scholarship on museums and their interaction with communities, this work features contributions from highly respected scholars from around the world addressing a wide range of key issues. Offering new approaches and foregrounding new curatorial strategies, this is a must read for students and curators alike.

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Focusing on the role of national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary forms, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly.