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Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change chronicles the rise of the body positive movement and body positivity through pop culture reviews and personal reflections. This essay collection illustrates the insidiousness of fatphobia through analyses of film, television, books, and how they affect our perceptions and treatment of others.

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The unspoken impact of the last taboo care of the internet's well-travelled website.

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Explores the dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression and their relationships with political authority.

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A collection of essays that uses questions, hypotheses and concepts drawn from postcolonial theory to understand the culture and politics of post-devolution Wales.

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To remain unconsumed by consumer society was the goal of the first volume. Delving even deeper, this volume develops a social history of "making do" based on microhistories that move from the private sphere of dwelling, cooking and homemaking to the public experience of living in a neighbourhood).

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Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unrivalled in its depth and detail. -- .

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Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories - nationalist or colonial. This work moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, and includes many essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented.

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The story of tea is extraordinary - it caused wars, boosted the trade in slaves and hard drugs, and its no exaggeration to say it was one of the great engines that drove the globalisation of the world economy. In this book award-winning author Les Wilson tells the dramatic and colourful story of how Scots brought tea to Britain and made it our national drink.

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Featuring 30 stories of real-life zombie encounters, this title presents a study that dispels common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesh-eating automatons made popular by movies and books.

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A provocative polemic arguing that Muslim women across the world should refuse the veil.

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As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. In this volume, the author provides such a voice.

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Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term retro' has become the buzz word for describing such trends, but what does it mean This title explores the ambiguous cultural meanings of the term and reveals why some trends just never seem to stay dead.

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This volume covers a range of subjects drawn from Italy and abroad to study the historical and contemporary formations of Italian national identity. In doing so, the work illuminates Italy past and present as well as the local and global dimensions of national identity in general.

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Barilli traces rhetoric from its Greek origins to today's media technologies, emphasizing its changing status as it impinges on ethics, politics, art, and philosophy within the larger history of Western culture.

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Sacred Mushrooms and the Law is the only book covering the legal landscape underlying psychedelic mushrooms. All federal and state laws concerning mushrooms are covered, and charts outline potential punishments.

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Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience.