Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-05-01
Dewey code: 306.483
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Review Sport, Racism and Ethnicity / Routledge:The contributors to this volume consider not only the racism experienced by various ethnic minority athletes in Britain, but also the way in which various racisms have been articulated in South Africa, the Caribbean, Canada and the USA. They examine many of the voluntarist racist cherished beliefs surrounding sport. The topics discussed include the way in which cricket in the Caribbean has stimulated nationalist and racial self-consciousness, whether young Afro-Caribbean athletes are agents of racialized social control in Britain, the contribution of sport to popular struggles in South Africa, how young South Asian children experience sport in Britain and how far native American women are accommodated within sport in Canada.
Creator: Jeff McLaughlin
Publication date: 2007-07-06
Dewey code: 741.5092
List Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00
Review Stan Lee: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists Series) / University Press of Mississippi:Stan Lee (b. 1922), cocreator of the Amazing Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, and the Uncanny X-Men, is one of the most successful writers and publishers of comics. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote superhero adventures for Marvel Comics. His storylines imbued the genre with angst and contemporary politics and focused as much on the personal lives of his characters as on heroics. His work, in collaboration with cartoonists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, remains deeply influential. His role as a spokesperson and impresario for Marvel paved the way for the superhero genre to be taken seriously by the critical establishment and for the penetration of Marvel Comics into mainstream American culture. Stan Lee: Conversations collects interviews ranging from 1968 to 2005. Lee's charm, good humor, and keen business sense are on display. He has spirited conversations with cartoonists Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, and Roy Thomas, talk show host Dick Cavett, and Jenette Kahn (head of DC Comics, Marvel's rival), among others. He talks with candor about his creative process, publishing, film and television adaptations of his comic books, and the evolution of the comics industry. [+]The volume concludes with a new interview conducted by the editor.
Publication date: 2002-02-11
Dewey code: 306.484
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Review Jukeboxes: An American Social History / McFarland & Company:This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to its relative obscurity in the year 2000. The jukebox's first twenty years were essentially experimental because of the low technical quality and other limitations. It then practically disappeared for a quarter-century, beaten out by the player piano as the coin-operated music machine of choice. But then, new and improved, it reemerged and quickly spread in popularity across America, largely as a result of the repeal of Prohibition and the increased number of bars around the nation. Other socially important elements of the jukebox's development are also covered: it played patriotic tunes during wartime and, located in youth centers, entertained young people and kept them out of "trouble. " The industry's one last fling due to a healthy export trade is also covered, and the book rounds out with the decline in the 1950s and the fadeout into obscurity. Richly illustrated.
Publication date: 2004-05-30
Dewey code: 781.65092
List Price: $71.95
Price: $38.95
Review Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia / Greenwood Press:When pressed to name the most influential musician of the 20th century, many music historians will name Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Born in New Orleans in 1901 and recording into the 1970s, Armstrong is known as the father of jazz, the one figure most credited with moving the Western world from the age of classical music and Tin Pan Alley pop standards into an exciting new era of swing and hot jazz. Michael Meckna's book is the authoritative reference on Armstrong. Alphabetically arranged entries give detailed information on the many aspects of Armstrong's life and music. An appendix of CD releases includes entries that detail the record company, date of issue, song list, and performer list. Other appendices include a chronology, a list of movies, and a resource guide to "Satchmo on the Web"; a bibliography offers yet another useful tool for fans and students of Armstrong's life and music. A selection of historic black-and-white photos completes the volume.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-06-05
Dewey code: 791.433
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Price: $38.58
Review Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age:In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon favorites. Beginning with black-and-white silent cartoons such as Winsor McCay's "Gertie the Dinosaur," Barrier offers an insightful account of animation's first flowering, taking us inside early New York studios and such Hollywood giants as Disney, Warner Bros. , and MGM. Barrier excels at illuminating the creative side of animation-revealing how stories are put together, how animators develop a character, how technical innovations enhance the "realism" of cartoons. Here too are colorful portraits of the giants of the field, from Walt and Roy Disney and their animators (including Ub Iwerks, Bill Tytla, and Ward Kimball), to Dave and Max Fleischer, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. And along the way, Barrier gives us an inside look at the making of such groundbreaking cartoons as "Out of the Inkwell" (with KoKo the Clown), "Steamboat Willie" (the first successful sound cartoon), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and "Bambi. " The years from the Depression through World War Two witnessed a golden age of American animation. Based on hundreds of interviews with veteran animators, Hollywood Cartoons gives us the definitive inside look at this colorful era and at the creative process behind these marvelous cartoons.
Creator: Charles Altieri
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 791.0973
List Price: $54.95
Price: $38.69
Review Ceremonies and Spectacles: Performing American Culture (European Contributions to American Studies, 44) / Vu University Press:
Creator: Experience Music Project
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-10-04
Dewey code: 782.421649
List Price: $38.95
Price: $38.95
Review Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project : Oral History of Hip-hop's First Decade:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-01-28
Dewey code: 306.7662
List Price: $95.00
Price: $79.07
Review It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) / Routledge:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-05-17
Dewey code: 306.43
List Price: $44.95
Price: $38.78
Review A Class Act: Changing Teachers Work, the State, and Globalisation (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, V. 1465.) / RoutledgeFalmer:This volume discusses changes in views and attitudes about the work of teachers and how these sociological views and attitudes have asserted themselves in the last decade. The book is organized in three sections. The first lays a theoretical framework by addressing the notion of class and how it affects views of teachers' work. The second section puts the first section's theory into practice through an illustrative analysis of teachers' lives in America and in England. The final section focuses on the changes that have affected teachers' work in the 1990's and world over.
Authors
- Andrzej Radziewicz-Winnicki
Dewey code: 306.4309438
List Price: $38.95
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Review Tradition And Reality In Educational Ethnography Of Post-communist Poland: Essays In Sociology Of Education And Social Pedagogy / Peter Lang Publishing:The educational and cultural determinants of the tempo and direction of transformation of the democratic and the normative order in post-totalitarian society are analysed. The author's analyses presented in this book attempt to answer the following question: How does one pass from normative order to normative integration? Which properties of the new systemic educational identity are conductive to the active creation of social normative order in Poland? What is the religious adaptation to the new state formation? Is it possible in a short time to build in Poland a new pragmatic and progressive educational system based on the unified school which is democratic with unified education and the freedom of choice?.
Publication date: 2006-02-05
Dewey code: 791.43655
List Price: $74.95
Price: $38.85
Review Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives / Palgrave Macmillan:What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been Hollywood's most profitable global exports for most of its history, their male heroes the subject of much fascination and derision. Bestselling literary thrillers, from The Hunt for Red October to Into Thin Air, have also contributed markedly to popular understandings of male activity. Action Figures takes stock of action narratives' many appeals and recognizes how contemporary crises of gender identity manifest themselves in popular commercial texts.
Creator: Stefan Fuhrer
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-05-02
List Price: $49.95
Price: $38.61
Review Graue Donau, Schwarzes Meer: Wien Sulina Odessa Jalta Istanbul (Edition Transfer) (German Edition) / Springer:Die Donau und das Schwarze Meer – Sulina, Odessa, Jalta, Istanbul – repräsentieren in diesem Essaybuch die Osterweiterung der EU und deren ebenso problematisiertes Vorfeld. Als vielfältig zusammenhängender Raum aufgefasst, kommen Sichtweisen zur Sprache, die einen Austausch von Einschätzungen zu Geschichte, Kultur und aktuellen Positionen konkretisieren. Wolfgang Petritsch, Chefverhandler der EU im Jugoslawienkonflikt, und Dragan Velikic, Schriftsteller und serbischer Botschafter in Wien, nehmen Stellung. Der Fotograf Erich Lessing berichtet vom Ungarnaufstand, von Tito und von Chruschtschow. Friedrich Achleitner beschreibt Bogdan Bogdanovichs subtile Beiträge zur Erinnerungskultur. Jacques Le Rider resümiert Spätfolgen der Balkangeschichte. Burghart Schmidt und Anatoli Achutin diskutieren über Verschiebungen von Links-Rechts-Relationen. Die Situation der Krimtataren beschreibt ihr Repräsentant Mustapha Djamiljow. Zahlreiche weiterer Stimmen – und die Visualisierungen mitwirkender Künstler und Künstlerinnen – machen das Werk zu einem Kompendium für überraschende Zugänge zum europäischen Südosten.
Publication date: 1987-01-01
Dewey code: 306.4
List Price: $126.95
Price: $126.95
Review Power Through Discourse: / Ablex Publishing:This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as less formal communicative interaction settings. Its central theme is that language use plays a crucial role in the attainment and/or exercise of power. The notion of power, in this context, is seen as the measure of one's ability or inability to obtain or maintain personal objectives through discourse. The contributions focus specifically upon interaction between individual discourse strategies and the exercise of power.
Publication date: 2008-04
Dewey code: 306.4819095209034
List Price: $57.00
Price: $38.86
Review Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan / University of Hawaii Press:In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page of the diary offered a precious opportunity to create personal hierarchies defined less by gender and more by culture and refinement. After the mid-eighteenth century - which saw the popularization of culture and the rise of commercial printing - textbooks, guides, comical fiction, and woodblock prints allowed not a few commoners to acquaint themselves with the historical, lyrical, or artistic pedigree of Japan's famous sites. By identifying themselves with famous literary and historical icons of the past, some among these erudite commoners saw an opportunity to rewrite their lives and re-create their identities in the pages of their travel diaries. The chapters in Part One, "Re-creating Spaces," introduce the notion that the spaces of travel were malleable, accommodating reconceptualization across interpretive frames. Laura Nenzi shows that, far from being static backgrounds, these travelscapes proliferated in a myriad of loci where one person's center was another's periphery. In Part Two, "Re-creating Identities," we see how, in the course of the Edo period, educated persons used travel to, or through, revered lyrical sites to assert and enhance their roles and identities. Finally, in Part Three, "Purchasing Re-creation," Nenzi looks at the intersection between recreational travel and the rising commercial economy, which allowed visitors to appropriate landscapes through new means: monetary transactions, acquisition of tangible icons, or other forms of physical interaction.
Creator: Helge Kragh
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-11-27
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $45.00
Price: $38.84
Review The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914 / Cambridge University Press:Modern chemistry, so alarming, so necessary, so ubiquitous, became a mature science in nineteenth-century Europe. As it developed, often from a lowly position in medicine or in industry, so chemists established themselves as professional men; but differently in different countries. In 1820 chemistry was an autonomous science of great prestige but chemists had no corporate identity. It was 1840 before national chemical societies were first formed; and many countries lagged fifty years behind. Chemists are the largest of scientific groups; and in this book we observe the social history of chemistry in fifteen countries, ranging from the British Isles to Lithuania and Greece. There are regularities and similarities; and by describing how national chemical professions emerged under particular economic and social circumstances, the book contributes significantly to European history of science.
Creator: Linda Webb
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-05-22
Dewey code: 782.421660922
List Price: $38.95
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Review Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four:Beatles Art is a compilation of art from professional artists from all regions of the globe all offering their unique interpretations on the Beatles and their music. Everything from traditional paintings and sculptures to digital work and caricatures are included. In addition, there are statements and comments from select artists on how the Beatles impacted their art, their lives, and the world.
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Dewey code: 731.46209494
List Price: $59.50
Price: $38.66
Review Swiss Carvings: The Art of the 'Black Forest' 1820-1940 / Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C:- A comprehensive explanation of Swiss wood carving, known as Black Forest, from 1820-1940 - Written by experts on the subject For many years "Black Forest" carvings were thought to have been produced in the Bavarian Black Forest, in Germany, but it has now been established beyond all doubt that they were the sole province of the Swiss. The wood carving industry of Switzerland originated in the picturesque town of Brienz. From humble beginnings as a cottage industry in the early 1800s it grew by the turn of the twentieth century to become the industrial driving force of a whole community. By 1910 there were some thirteen hundred carvers plying their trade in the locality of Brienz. The carving industry was driven by the tourist industry; Brienz, Luzern, Interlaken and other such picturesque resorts were in vogue with the wealthy Victorians. Bears were particularly popular, being the symbol for the city of Berne, but musical boxes, musical chalets, furniture large and small, all figured in Swiss carving. The variety was immense, ranging from the religious, faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper to the amusing and whimsical. Swiss "Black Forest" carvings were exhibited at the London Great Exhibition of 1851, Chicago 1893, Paris 1900 and at many of the other great international exhibitions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Carved wooden bears, stags and other furniture and works of art from the Swiss "Black Forest" carvers stood alongside such great exhibitors of the time as Tiffany, Gallé and Linke. ‘Black Forest’ carvings were appreciated as truly great works of art at the time of their creation and indeed enjoyed royal patronage. [+]Today there has been a tremendous revival in interest for them and the best pieces are highly sought after.
Authors
- Darin Rowland
- Ian Sattler
- Roger Gastman
Publication date: 2008-05-22
Dewey code: 751.730973
List Price: $38.95
Price: $38.95
Review Freight Train Graffiti:Like Graffiti World, Freight Train Graffiti is the definitive history of a vibrant art form. Until now there was almost no written insight into this vast subculture, which inspires fascination across America and around the world. As dazzling as the art it celebrates, the book is packed with 1,000 full-color illustrations and features in-depth interviews with more than 125 train artists and "writers. " Hundreds of never-before-seen photographs span the style's evolution, while the authoritative text from an all-star team of authors provides unprecedented perspective, including the first-ever written history of "monikers," the precursors of graffiti, developed by hobos and rail workers to communicate en route. Bound to surprise graffiti artists, graphic designers, and urban culture buffs alike, this book will inspire anyone who has ever been interested in graffiti.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-04-18
Dewey code: 201.70973
List Price: $50.00
Price: $42.35
Review Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture / University of California Press:Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery-in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations-plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination. Moving beyond American borders, Chidester considers the religion of McDonald's and Disney, the discourse of W. E. B. Du Bois and the American movement in Southern Africa, the messianic promise of Nelson Mandela's 1990 tour to America, and more. He also looks at the creative possibilities of the Internet in such phenomena as Discordianism, the Holy Order of the Cheeseburger, and a range of similar inventions. Arguing throughout that religious fakes can do authentic religious work, and that American popular culture is the space of that creative labor, Chidester looks toward a future "pregnant with the possibilities of new kinds of authenticity. ".
Publication date: 1987-09
Dewey code: 749.6309034
List Price: $59.95
Price: $43.81
Review Nineteenth Century Lighting: Candle-Powered Devices : 1783-1883 / Schiffer Publishing:Nineteenth Century Lighting, surveys the candle powered lighting devices used in Northern Europe, the British Isles, as well as those made in America. The examples illustrated are those used in primarily domestic situations, however some are also from the public sector. Over 394 photographs are each acompanied by a detailed, physical and historical description, painstakingly researched by Mr. Bacot. In addition he has further enriched these fine examples with informative and interesting text on the changes and innovations of the period. Nineteenth Century Lighting is an excellent and thorough source book for the collector, historian and all those interested in these revolutionary candle powered designs of the years from 1783-1883.
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Sport, Racism and Ethnicity, Stan Lee: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists Series), Jukeboxes: An American Social History, Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Ceremonies and Spectacles: Performing American Culture (European Contributions to American Studies, 44), Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project : Oral History of Hip-hop's First Decade, It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies), A Class Act: Changing Teachers Work, the State, and Globalisation (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, V. 1465.), Tradition And Reality In Educational Ethnography Of Post-communist Poland: Essays In Sociology Of Education And Social Pedagogy, Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives, Graue Donau, Schwarzes Meer: Wien Sulina Odessa Jalta Istanbul (Edition Transfer) (German Edition), Power Through Discourse:, Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan, The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914, Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four, Swiss Carvings: The Art of the 'Black Forest' 1820-1940, Freight Train Graffiti, Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century Lighting: Candle-Powered Devices : 1783-1883Top headlines: Gangster films take revenge on our behalf: The films represent the dreams of filmgoers to beat the system,says George De Stefano, journalist and critic. ›00:31 29 Jun, Mon Web retailers and states wrestle over tax rules: In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. ›20:01 2 Jul, Thu Obama delays release of CIA report: The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public. ›22:40 2 Jul, Thu Car guys retrain but downshift to lower pay: Big, burly and a "car guy" since high school, Tom Persinger worked for years at General Motors. 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