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LITERARY EXPLORATIONS INTO THE RADICAL, HOPEFUL RACIAL FUTURES IMAGINED BY SCIENCE FICTIONEssays by Marleen S. Barr, Gerry Canavan, Grace L. Dillon, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Matthew Goodwin, Edward James, De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Malisa Kurtz, Robin Anne...

The history of rock and roll music can be seen in a long arc of Western civilization's struggle for both greater individual expression and societal stability. In the 1960s, the West's relationship with authority ruptured, in part due to the rock...

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social...

In the early 1990s, Maurice "Mom" Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an...

Are you looking to learn how you can cash in on the NFT revolution?Did you just find out about NFTs? Do you want to jump in on the craze as an artist, gamer, or musician? Are you finding it difficult to find all the information in the same place or just...

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garnered both praise and criticism. While some consider her an icon of female empowerment, others see her as detrimental to feminism and representing a...

Advertised as "a new standard for living," the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses...

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good...

Tweety Bird was colored yellow because censors felt the original pink made the bird look nude. Betty Boop's dress was lengthened so that her garter didn't show. And in recent years, a segment of Mighty Mouse was dropped after protest groups claimed...

Academic curricula are being strengthened and enriched through the enlightened realization that no discipline is complete unto itself. In the interdisciplinary studies that result, the one theme that remains universal is popular culture. Academia...

For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social relationships and behavior. By 1955, however, Westerns...

This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Much of the focus is rightly on the architects who had the vision to design and build America's skyscrapers,...

This book is about the fastest growing form of electronic game in the world--the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). The evolution of these self-contained three-dimensional virtual worlds, often inhabited by thousands of players,...

Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented...

In early America, most children had only a few toys and parents received advice from family and friends on the best ways to make and use toys. By the early 1900s the Industrial Revolution was producing a new world of toys and giving more parents the...

The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair, ill-fitting outdated clothing, and thick glasses is changed into an almost unrecognizable glamour girl. Makeover scenes such as these are examined beginning with 1942's Now,...

The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the machine, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that...

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of...

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores...

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama.Drawing on case studies...

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the...

An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth livingThere's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is...

Embark on a transformative journey with "Exoconsciousness: Alien Encounters and the Evolution of Human Awareness." This riveting exploration delves into the enigmatic relationship between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligences. From ancient...

Embark on a captivating exploration of the intricate tapestry that weaves the fabric of Indian mentality with the book "A Journey into Indian Mentality". In this enlightening literary voyage, the book unfolds its narrative through seventeen...

Feast your eyes on the latest masterpiece from the creative genius who gave us the playful, Bravo-centric H IS FOR HOUSEWIVES: THE UNOFFICIAL ALPHABET BOOK FOR BRAVO FANS.Now, brace yourself for the second edition, a vibrant tribute to one of the most...

If you are reading this then you landed in the right space and time to have a Nyce & Bryght Vibe. We are all about investing in our community to sew seeds, grow gardens, and beautify pathways to prosperity. The Black Pages directory which...

Blogging is the modern cheapest method of mass communication available to everyone everywhere in the world... no matter which language you speak. There are many platforms that allow people to blog for a very low price or even free, or you can establish...

It could easily be argued that body art is more popular now than at any time in history. In days long gone by, sailors were the most heavily tattooed sector of society, but for decades now, that sector is the youth, which is a larger group than those who...

Feministische Wissenschaftlerinnen haben in den letzten Jahren Wissenswertes zum Thema Vulva publiziert. Aber diese Autorinnenstimme fehlte noch! Als Frauenärztin hat die Autorin viele "Patientinnen" in ihrer Praxis erlebt. Sie stellt fest, dass Mädchen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,15, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Beim Beobachten der Hip-Hop-Videos der letzten Jahre fällt dem Rezipienten immer wieder...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1.3, Fachhochschule Stralsund, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Sport für alle!" ist der Slogan des Deutschen Olympischen Sportbundes (DOSB), dem Dachverband des deutschen Sports...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,7, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „They would still be gladiators, the ones who were envied by everyone else, the ones who knew about the best parties and...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,3, Universität Paderborn (Sportwissenschaft Paderborn), Veranstaltung: Sport und Globisierung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Fußballweltmeisterschaften sind alle 4 Jahre...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Sportkultur und Weiterbildung), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ZusammenfassungEs ist schon so: Auch ältere Menschen...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das System der Wirtschaft ist allumfassend und hat längst auch jenes der Kunst durchdrungen. Anstatt mithilfe der Kunst, soziale Prozesse zu...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Universität Potsdam (Sport- und Gesundheitssoziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Sport hat heute eine große Bedeutung für die Gesellschaft und ist fester Bestandteil...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Minimal Music ist wie wenn man an einem Sommertag auf einer Wiese in der Sonne liegt und den Himmel betrachtet- er verändert sich laufend...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 3,0, Universität Wien (Institut der Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Mein Werk kommt vom Schnappschuss her. Er ist die Form von...

One of the finest screen and television character actors of his generation, Patrick Kilpatrick has played against a broad spectrum of superstars including Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Pam Grier, and Naomi Watts, to name a few. With an...

Suzzan Blac's early years were the stuff of the darkest nightmares: abject poverty and spirit-crushing abuse. Adolescence brought a harrowing coercion into the horrific world of the sex trade where she was held prisoner. She escaped, but spiraled into...

Philosophers and psychologists have explored the Harry Potter stories through the lenses of their disciplines, now it's time for sociologists. In the twenty-two chapters of The Sociology of Harry Potter, social scientists from eight countries cast their...

The mushrooming of human knowledge has given rise in our schools and universities, particularly in our arts faculties, to a post-modern despair of ever finding objective truth, spawning a nebula of petty and unrelated subjects driven by the ephemeral...

For some, Colin Firth emerging from a lake in that clinging wet shirt is one of the most iconic moments in television. What is it about the two-hundred-year-old hero that we so ardently admire and love?Dr Malcolm examines Jane Austen’s...