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Media Studies

Culture Studies

Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

Marwick Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....

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Travel

Culture Studies

Brittany A Cultural History

Mewes Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781909930063, Signal Books, November 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing D...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

Miss Lou Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture

Morris Mervyn

ISBN: PB: 9781908493972, Signal Books, April 2014
144 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The career of Louise Bennett ("Miss Lou") is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards natio...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Miami A Cultural History

Maingot Anthony P.

ISBN: PB: 9781908493743, Signal Books, July 2013
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Miami, or "Sweet Water" in the Creek Indian language, is one of the newest cities in the United States. While northern Florida was fought over by European powers and finally taken by the Americans as part of the slave-worked pl...

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Culture Studies

Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

Melnick Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194630, Yale University Press, January 2013
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tel...

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Culture Studies

Europe

How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying

Mead Shepherd

ISBN: HB: 9781851242795, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying", came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of Brit...

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Culture Studies

Reproduction by Design Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

McLaren Angus

ISBN: HB: 9780226560694, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a...

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Culture Studies

Under a Bad Sign Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture

Munby Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226550367, ISBN: HB: 9780226550350, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, "U...

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Culture Studies

Ghetto at the Center of the World Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Mathews Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226510200, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 30 halftones

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani p...

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