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This book offers a broad-based critical examination of the consequencesmoral, psychological, sociological, educational, and economicof increasing specialization in today's world. The development of the complete individual has given way to the development of a complete collective, made up of narrowly focused, fragmented individuals.

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The first text to plot the fascinating interdisciplinary history of how haunting, as a mode of analysis and interpretation, has evolved since the early 1990s.

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The first text to plot the fascinating interdisciplinary history of how haunting, as a mode of analysis and interpretation, has evolved since the early 1990s.

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Initially shunned by many in the Christian community when it made its television debut, after four hundred (and counting) episodes, and a feature-length film, few can deny that "The Simpsons" exhibits an astute understanding of Christianity in American culture. This book explores the theological voice of "The Simpsons".

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Profiling 48 classic American foods ranging from junk and fast food to main dishes to desserts, this book reveals what made these dishes iconic in American pop culture.

Americans have increasingly embraced food culture, a fact proven by the rising popularity of celebrity chefs and the prominence of television shows celebrating food themes.

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Deals with abundant, generous, other-regarding love. This book offers an engagement with Helene Cixous' philosophies of love, inviting readers to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open them to something like a divine love of the other.

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The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer--the tan generation--by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.

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"Shrewd... As the effortlessly intelligent Mr. Keizer points out, noise is among the thorniest class issues of our time, and we tend to utterly ignore its meanings."--New York Times

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Takes the reader on a journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. This book explores what cities were, are and will be. It questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive.

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In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense.

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We are used to the term "dreaming" being associated with the spirituality of the Aboriginal people. This work argues that there is also a "Western Dreaming", originating in the 16th century as part of a Third Reformation.

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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. Susan's experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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This volume introduces the philosophy of "quantum aesthetics" - a theoretical framework. The contributors either apply quantum aesthetics philosophy to their respective areas of study or write about their current research within this theoretical framework.

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This book uses soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, business, ethics, leadership, childhood, philosophy, and art. It examines the way soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter includes a selection of players ...

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Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

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This thoroughly engaging encyclopedia considers the rich diversity of unfamiliar foods eaten around the world.

The title They Eat That: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World says it all.