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Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement

(Paperback)

By: Tea Krulos

ISBN: 9781613747759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways.

Hot Sauce Nation: America's Burning Obsession

(Paperback)

By: Denver Nicks

ISBN: 9781613731840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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House Of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture

(Paperback)

By: John Bloom

ISBN: 9780816628711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Baseball card collecting has become a pursuit taken seriously by American men of the baby boom generation. This work employs interviews with collectors, dealers, and hobbyists to ask what this hobby tells us about nostalgia, work, play, masculinity, and race and gender relations among collectors.

How to Talk about Videogames

(Paperback)

By: Ian Bogost

ISBN: 9780816699124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

(Paperback, Expanded)

By: Nestor Garcia Canclini

ISBN: 9780816646685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Examines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace - now with a new introduction!

Ice Cream: A Global History

(Hardback)

By: Laura B. Weiss

ISBN: 9781861897923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2011
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In Ice Cream: A Global History, Laura B. Weiss takes us on a vibrant trip through the history of ice cream from ancient China to modern-day Tokyo in order to tell the lively story of how this delicious indulgence became a global sensation.

In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory At The End Of The Century

(Paperback)

By: Nicholas B. Dirks

ISBN: 9780816631230
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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In Praise of Prejudice: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

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By: Theodore Dalrymple

ISBN: 9781594032028
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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The word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. This book shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty.

Interventions

(Paperback)

By: Noam Chomsky

ISBN: 9780872864832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

It's A Sin

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By: Lawrence Grossberg

ISBN: 9780909952150
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1989
Publisher: Power Institute of Fine Arts
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Scrutinises the intellectual and institutional foundations of cultural studies and puts forward the provocative thesis that cultural studies has become part of the academy it has so regularly critised.

Japanthem: Countercultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes

(Paperback)

By: Jillian Marshall

ISBN: 9781953103154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Three Rooms Press
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"Fulbright and mtvU sponsored scholar Jillian Marshall offers honest and often humorous vignettes that delve far beyond Western stereotypes of Japanese culture to portray a society's deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider"--Amazon.com.

Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff

(Hardback)

By: Alison Stewart

ISBN: 9781613730553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff

(Paperback)

By: Alison Stewart

ISBN: 9781641600187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2019
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya

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By: Juan Goytisolo

ISBN: 9780872863736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine

(Hardback)

By: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

ISBN: 9780816643905
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything The ambiguity of being Lara.

Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine

(Paperback)

By: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

ISBN: 9780816643912
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything The ambiguity of being Lara.

Latin Americanism

(Paperback)

By: Roman De La Campa

ISBN: 9780816631179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground

(Paperback)

By: Samir Khalaf

ISBN: 9780863564345
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Saqi Books
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An invaluable investigation into contemporary Lebanese culture and society by the foremost scholar on Lebanese politics and society.

Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination

(Paperback)

By: Susan J. Douglas

ISBN: 9780816644230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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But Listening In is more than a history. It is also a reconsideration of what listening to radio has done to American culture in the twentieth century and how it has brought a completely new auditory dimension to our lives.

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

(Paperback)

By: Chris Gudgeon

ISBN: 9781551520827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale

(Paperback)

By: Kenneth B. Kidd

ISBN: 9780816642960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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A lively look at the cultural history of American boyhood - now in paperback!

May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion

(Paperback)

By: Alison Pearlman

ISBN: 9781572842601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Surrey Books,U.S.
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Art historian and food lover Alison Pearlman visits more than 60 restaurants to take a critical look at the design of physical restaurant menustheir content, size, scope, material, and moreto explore how they influence (or not) our dining experiences and choices.

Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

(Paperback)

By: Mark Kingwell

ISBN: 9781771960465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Biblioasis
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Zizek meets Klein in this riveting collection of philosophic essays on politics, Sex and the City, Plato, Hitchcock and more.

Mechademia 4: War/Time

(Paperback)

By: Frenchy Lunning

ISBN: 9780816667499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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