Cultural and media studies Books

In the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century leaders in Western countries worried about a food surplus. The hardships of the Great Depression were intensified by a glut of wheat and consequent low prices on the world market. Yet at...

This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move away from the current...

Professor Dani Wadada Nabudere, a respected academic and educator from Uganda, dedicated his life to applying and spreading the notion of ‘community sites of knowledge’, which simply means using indigenous tools of knowledge to revitalise the...

This book is a concise guide written by two individuals who have been there under the lights and in front of the camera. Its no-nonsense approach offers readers practical advice about on-camera performance, including key aspects of voice, movement,...

Consumers rely on food labels for all kinds of economic, ethical, and lifesaving information. What are the ingredients in this product? Does it conform to kosher or halal standards? Is it organic or free of genetically modified ingredients? Has it been...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and...

GIFT IDEA! | COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS | HUMOROUSCat Butts!Are you searching for the ideal adult coloring book for a Cat Lover? This CatButt coloring book for women has 30 single-sided designs and filled with...

Get some happiness with this stress-relieving coloring book for grownups! Inside you will find the whole motivational alphabet that will take you to your happy place for coloring, relaxation, and introspection. Unleash your inner artist as you color...

Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland - yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this...

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Through epistemological and methodological reflections and...

Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representation-including the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and...

The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy's research in Touching Parchment. Rudy...

This detailed and comprehensive study examines nutrition and health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, presenting the six game-changing food systems actions proposed by the WHO and the progress of their implementation in...

In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of...

This timely collection of essays analyses the crisis of journalism in contemporary South Africa at a period when the media and their role are frequently at the centre of public debate. The transition to digital news has been messy, random and...

Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news mediaThe dominant news media are often accused of reflecting an 'elite bias',...

At the end of 2019, Aron Lee decided to live 2020 without access to the internet. He would interact with the world in what we have already come to think of as the "old-fashioned" way --- taking calls and texting on a flip phone, paying bills by cheque...

The number of people in the world who suffer from lack of nutrition or food as a result of poverty is constantly increasing. This book will guide the reader from the very beginning of creating a food program to the moment the food is placed in front of...

Press Eject and Give Me the Tape: Dialogues, Interviews, and Exchanges 2001–2020 is a collection of two decades of interviews, as well as a collaboration between the painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein and over 35 contemporary painters,...

The first-ever Samaritan Cookbook takes you on an adventure into this little-known world of Israelite food and drink. We journey to both halves of the community: in Holon, outside Tel Aviv, and Kiryat Luza, on Mount Gerizim near Nablus. Most people have...

Os sinos da Vila de S. Sebastião repicaram em muitas horas históricas desta Vila em que se decidiram com batalhas e sangue derramado os destinos da ilha Terceira, dos Açores e de todo o Portugal. Ecoaram esses sinos, sobretudo, no quotidiano da Vila e...

<b>Light Verse with Attitude</b> <p>Ogden O. Henry Op. Ed. is a collection of clever, concise, poetic commentary on Donald Trump and other political and public figures, and reflections, by turns humorous and moving, on current social...

Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race,...

Social scientist and international consultant David Ryback offers an in-depth overview of the fascinating dynamics of The Big Split, focusing on . . .the intense support for former President Trump,the psychological secrets to why QAnon grew so...

Brain Drops is an out-of-the-ordinary story of self-discovery. The journey follows a young woman as she fights her way back to reality. After a physical blow to the head, she was propelled into the warm and comfortable land of fantasy. Every time she...

HATE MUSIC IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE THAT REQUIRES ATTENTION, INVESTIGATION, AND COMPASSIONATE UNDERSTANDING. A music therapist explores the world of hate music, pairing narratives from that industry with stories about music therapists, exploring...

Ernie Pyle ranks with Richard Harding Davis, John Reed and Edward R. Murrow as one of the greatest war correspondents in American history. But he was different from all the correspondents who went before him or followed him in the combat zones of the...

In Map of the Soul – Ego: I Am, Dr. Murray Stein explores the beginnings of consciousness and the concept of the "I," as well as the evocative lyrics from the Korean Pop band BTS’s album, Map of the Soul: 7.  BTS’s album...

For the first time in almost 90 years, we can experience the origins of Jack Benny’s radio comedy genius. Jack Benny’s Lost Radio Broadcasts, brought up from Benny’s subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives, almost as difficult to...

Arthur Frank Wertheim’s groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields’ twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. The author concludes that Fields might never have become one of the prem-ier...

At 31 years old, self-help writer Lisa Cleary experienced a mass layoff, a tumultuous breakup after three years, the subsequent start of a new job, and two unexpected moves in three months. Cleary ditches the cheerleader mantra in this breakup survival...

Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring...

NY City of Kings chronicles the history of graffiti's genesis in New York from its late 1960s origin to the present, as seen through the lens of writers who started the movement. This narrative intends to help elucidate how the unprecedented movement of...

Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military...

Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time" is a guide through the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010 to 2018. Created by visionary artist...

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford Humes, Melanie Hurley, Kara K. Keeling, Maleeha Malik, Claudia Mills, Elena Paruolo, Scott T...

Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, Lena Marander-Eklund, Jennifer Morrison, Willow G...

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford Humes, Melanie Hurley, Kara K. Keeling, Maleeha Malik, Claudia Mills, Elena Paruolo, Scott T...

Outside the world of children's literature studies, children's books by authors of well-known texts "for adults" are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary children's and young adult fiction for pleasure, others...

Hearings Before The Committee On Indian Affairs, United States Senate: On The Bills 2087, And 2963 (1908) is a book that contains transcripts of the hearings conducted by the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The hearings were held to...

""A Collection Of Colloquial Phrases On Every Topic Necessary To Maintain Conversation"" is a book written by Anthony Bolmar and published in 1840. The book is a comprehensive guide to colloquial phrases on a wide range of topics that are necessary for...

Terrorism inspires intense emotions of fear, vulnerability, victimization, and helplessness that breed humiliation and shame and demands for redress by the victims-restoring the wounded honor through revenge and military action.

This incisive analysis presents evidence of deeper and broader corruption of the public sphere, which the author refers to as post-communication. With extensive evidence, Macnamara argues that we are all responsible for the slide towards a post-truth...

Gonzalez shows that this reflects the pessimism and demoralization underlying the Trump phenomenon, and the rise of anti-democratic, virulent nationalism.

A fascinating combination of cultural history, media studies, and oral history, Pin Up! The Subculture is the story about how a subculture is subverting and reviving an historic aesthetic for the twenty-first century.