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A revealing account of how the Internet has become a powerful new tool for spying by governments and private industry.

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This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in Americas cultural ethos from lauding autonomy and mastery to promoting a sympathetic state and encouraging new forms of cultural recompense.

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Reflections on science, culture, and society, by the acclaimed author of The Woods Hole Cantata and The Doctor with Two Heads

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Interspersed with fragments from a diary kept by Asha's adoptive mother, here, Asha recordes how she adapted to a strange new world. This tells a deeply affecting story about the powerful bonds between a mother and daughter, and a timely reminder not to lose sight of what really matters in life.

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Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . . . Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. . .

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This book analyzes the schisms throughout the Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, often due to overpowering cultural sensibilities. Williams investigates the pervasive effects of globalization, multiculturalism, economics, and xenophobia on indigenous Caymanian culture.

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This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.

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An insightful look at the misplaced faith we place in things, and meaningful advice on achieving material and emotional well-being

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Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio. -- .

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Offers discussions of the ways the 'inner life' is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the 'external' social and economic spheres. This volume features essays focusing on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny.

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This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games.

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Argues against traditional interpretations and takes a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas. This work investigates the common patterns and practices in the enterprises of diaspora peoples and entrepreneurs.

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Argues against traditional interpretations and takes a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas. This work investigates the common patterns and practices in the enterprises of diaspora peoples and entrepreneurs.

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If cultural theory is a minefield, this book is a route map through that field. Prepared by an international team of scholars, the entries in this book provide accessible introductions to the key cultural theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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A collection of essays, which examine the genealogy of various fields including English, sociology, economics, psychology, and quantum physics. It challenges the story of disciplinary formation as solely one of consolidation, constraint, and ideological justification.

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This book sheds light on the fascinating untold story behind what is collectively and disputably called "disco dancing," and the incredible effect that the phenomenon had on Americain New York City and beyond.

Disco is a dance and musical style that still influences these art forms today.

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This book looks at the specificities of the exclusion of LGBT refugees, to show how the cultural politics of queer migration help us rethink emancipatory sexual politics. -- .

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Among the most significant features of Sims and Dennehy's book are a focus beyond valuing and managing cultural diversity, and a demonstration of the interdependency that exists between a number of important individual differences (i.e., alienation, receptivity, style, power).

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A guide to the thesis literature on China and Inner Asia written between 1976 and 1990. Includes more than 10,000 entries for dissertations in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, theology, engineering and other disciplines. Entries are grouped in topical chapters and each entry includes bibliographic information and an abstract.

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Tropman writes about American values and two groups that threaten those values.