Publication date: 1994-01-01
Dewey code: 306.42
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Knowledge Societies / Sage Publications Ltd:Knowledge Societies offers both a critical examination of existing social theory, and a new synthesis of social theory with the actual study of knowledge relations in advanced economies. Some of the elements explored are scientization: the penetration not only of production but of most social action by scientific knowledge; the transformation of access to knowledge through higher education; the growth of experts (managers, accountants, advisors, and counselors) and of corresponding institutions based on the deployment of specialized knowledge; and a shift in the nature of societal conflict from struggles about income and property to claims and conflicts about generalized human needs. Nico Stehr's argument amply demonstrates not only that all social theories now need to take into account the changing nature of social relations around knowledge, but also the parameters within which this analysis should take place. This book is essential reading for all those interested in social theory, sociology of knowledge and science, and the general issue of knowledge in the late 20th century.
Publication date: 2005-11-01
Dewey code: 769.952
List Price: $95.00
Price: $62.56
Review Ukiyo-e (Themes) / Phaidon Press:The art of ukiyo-e (the floating world) originated in the city of Edo (1603-1867, now Tokyo), when the political and military power of Japan was in the hands of the shoguns. Comprising six essays, six plate sections and over 600 illustrations this beautiful book provides a perfect introduction to the art of this period. The paintings, scrolls and prints reproduced here demonstrate not only the new urban pleasures of the theatre, restaurants, teahouses and geisha, but also Japan's love of nature and tradition. Professor Calza's accessible style provides a fascinating yet scholarly study of such masters as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro.
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Dewey code: 306.3490968
List Price: $69.00
Price: $57.44
Review Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History (Studies in Environment and History) / Cambridge University Press:This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods-Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s-Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice. Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History. This book explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations, over successive dispensations. [+]But, class, gender and later race, determined the food production individuals practiced. Also, herders and cultivators faced drought, stock disease, bush encroachment, water shortages, and the high labor demands of irrigation. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state, enforcing coercive conservation and segregation, became a partner in black people's relations with the environment. State intervention, as well as an increasing dependence on cash, undermined most food production by blacks. This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice.
Creator: Ilan Stavans
Publication date: 2008-08-30
Dewey code: 973.0468
List Price: $55.00
Price: $55.00
Review Immigration (The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization) / Greenwood Press:Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it is essential to approach it in an informed, balanced fashion, and the material presented in this volume is designed to accomplish the task. To what extent are immigrants from Mexico and Central America different from their predecessors from say Italy, Poland, and Finland? Is the process of assimilation expected to be as successful today as it was a century ago? Has globalization changed the perspective of newcomers, making them remain loyal for a longer period of time to the place once called home? In what way is the Spanish language helping or impeding that assimilation? This volume features the most significant articles-including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews- to bring together the best scholarship on the topic. Ten signed articles, essays, and interviews are included in the volume. Also featured is an introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost authorities on Latino culture, to provide historical background and cultural context; and suggestions for further reading to aid students in their research.
Publication date: 2008-04-10
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $55.00
Price: $51.24
Review How the Gene Got Its Groove: Figurative Language, Science, and the Rhetoric of the Real / State University of New York Press:Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
Publication date: 2001-07-13
Dewey code: 302.23
List Price: $75.00
Price: $63.75
Review The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment / Palgrave Macmillan:Darrell West argues against prevailing wisdom that the media has increased in influence in the past decade. Covering over 200 years of American history, beginning in colonial America and ending with the present day, The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment provides an overview of the media in various key stages of American History, paying particular attention to the rise and fall in influence of the media elite. West organizes the book into five distinct media eras: the Partisan, Commercial, Objective, Interpretive, and Fragmented Media. Each chapter, organized around these media eras, includes case studies that illustrate the theme of that chapter. Ideal for the general reader as well as the academic, The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment offers an accessible, engaging book with a challenging thesis. Darrell West argues against prevailing wisdom that the media has increased in influence in the past decade. Covering over 200 years of American history, beginning in colonial America and ending with the present day, The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment provides an overview of the media in various key stages of American History, paying particular attention to the rise and fall in influence of the media elite. West organizes the book into five distinct media eras: the Partisan, Commercial, Objective, Interpretive, and Fragmented Media. Each chapter, organized around these media eras, includes case studies that illustrate the theme of that chapter. Ideal for the general reader as well as the academic, The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment offers an accessible, engaging book with a challenging thesis.
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 306.42
List Price: $38.00
Price: $55.00
Review Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric and Knowing of the Third Kind / University of Toronto Press:
Creator: Kent Worcester
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $55.00
Price: $55.00
Review A Comics Studies Reader / University Press of Mississippi:A survey of the best scholars writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics
Authors
- C. Harrington
- Jonathan Gray
- Cornel Sandvoss
Dewey code: 306.487
List Price: $75.00
Price: $74.99
Review Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World / NYU Press:One of the best aspects of the text is the way that the contributors do not merely typecast fans as those interested in modern and popular culture, but also examine fans of mediums typically considered high culture. This makes the book much friendlier to pop-culture fans, whose practices are typically considered low-brow and fanatical when compared to someone who holds season tickets to the opera or visits an art gallery every weekend. As a fan, its nice to see that the behavior is not reduced to unnecessary fanaticism and is examined on a more subjective level. —M/C Reviews "Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communities — all presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style. "—Jason Mittell, Middlebury CollegeIf you're an avid news reader, a holder of season's tickets to the symphony, a frequenter of used bookstores, or even if you've been known to scream at referees during televised games, you're a fan. In this exciting collection, we learn about why it is that certain media narratives, images, sounds, and events engage us emotionally, and what that engagement means for us personally and in our relationships with others in the increasingly global marketplace in which we live. —Lynn Schofield Clark, author of From Angels to AliensA rich compendium of theory, argument, and observation of a wide variety of types of fandomfrom fans of cultural theory to fans of the Sopranos and of Chekhov, from presidents who are fans of country music to fans of the news. As the active prosumers of the digital medias niche markets come to be increasingly central to their operation, fan studies shows us the emerging dynamics of how the cultural industries are going to work in the future. —David Morley, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonWe are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, "stalk" our favorite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel-each of us is a fan. [+]Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together leading scholars to examine fans, their practices, and their favorite texts. This unparalleled selection of original essays examines instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to backyard wrestling, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema¸ and nineteenth-century concert halls to computer gaming. Contributors examine fans of high cultural texts and genres, the spaces of fandom, fandom around the globe, the impact of new technologies on fandom, and the legal and historical contexts of fan activity. Fandom is key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world.
Creator: Hector Fernandez-L'Hoeste
Publication date: 2004-04-23
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00
Review Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America (Pitt Illuminations) / University of Pittsburgh Press:Every nation in the Americasâfrom indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cubaâhas been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.
Publication date: 2009-02
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $55.00
Price: $55.00
Review Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, Nafta, and the Politics of Globalization / University Press of Mississippi:A study of how a nation's comics artists grapple with economic upheaval
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 809.37209
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives / Greenwood Press:The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, with an emphasis on contemporary figures. The volume provides coverage of familiar and less familiar detectives; male and female protagonists; gay and lesbian lead characters; and figures from a wide range of historical, cultural, and geographical settings. Included are entries on: Jim Chee Adam Dalgliesh Gregor Demarkian Sister Fidelma Joe Leaphorn Pharoah Love Thomas Lynley Kate Martinelli Sharon McCone Kinsey Millhone Monsieur Pamplemouse Easy Rawlins Ian Rutledge Shan Tao Yun And many more. Entries discuss the various novels in which the detective appears; the character's locale and time period; the detective's associates, adversaries, and significant others; and the character's investigative techniques. The entries direct the reader to similar series for further reading, and to additional sources of information. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index.
Publication date: 1991-04-01
Dewey code: 016.789912
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music / Record Research Inc.:The first documented history of the music America listened to from the Gay Nineties to the Rockin' Fifties, taken from a variety of popular music charts. Artist Section lists each artist's charted recordings in chronological order, with each recording's highest charted position, date first charted, total weeks charted, original label and number, total weeks in the #1 or #2 position, and much more. Includes a wealth of facts and notes about many recordings and artists of pop's early years. Complete Title Section cross-references all titles alphabetically with significant chart data. 6 inch. x 9 inch.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-09-14
Dewey code: 784.188
List Price: $140.00
Price: $102.20
Review Discographies: Dance Music Culture and the Politics of Sound / Routledge:Experiencing Disco, Hip Hop, House, Techno, Drum 'n Bass and Garage, Discographies takes a revealing look at the transatlantic dance scene of the last twenty-five years. Tracing the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture and the ways in which dance music is produced and received, the authors assess the importance and relevance of dance culture in the 1990s and beyond. The book considers both the problems posed by contemporary dance culture for various forms of writing, academic and cultural, and their origins in the long history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure. The authors offer a framework for understanding the bodily nature of musical experience using a range of theorists including Derrida, Irigaray and Judith Butler, and consider the limits placed on contemporary dance culture as exemplary of the modern regulation of social space. Discussing such issues as technology, club space, drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality, and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting are so hostile to this cultural phenomenon. Discographies breaks new ground in considering important cultural phenomena not only in terms of a politics of identity, but a politics of experience.
Publication date: 1998-10-01
Dewey code: 194
Price: $85.00
Review Gilles Deleuze (Modern European Thinkers) / Pluto Press:
Publication date: 2008-10-28
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $55.00
Price: $55.00
Review Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Chang / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:This book is a study of chang, a particular style of music and dance in Guantnamo, Cuba, and the roots of son, the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. The book also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian music and Cuban popular music through chang.
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 306.450973
List Price: $65.00
Price: $55.00
Review Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 / University of North Carolina Press:
Publication date: 1995-12-01
Dewey code: 781.6508996073
Price: $60.00
Review Keep Cool: The Black Activists Who Built the Age Jazz / Pluto Press (UK):
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 306.47
List Price: $55.00
Price: $55.00
Review Made in Mexico: Zapotec Weavers and the Global Ethnic Art Market (Tracking Globalization) / Indiana University Press:Made in Mexico introduces us to the people, places, and ideas that create Zapotec textiles and give them meaning. From Oaxaca, where guides escort tourists to weavers' homes and then to the shops and markets where weavings are sold, to the galleries and stores of the American Southwest, where textiles are displayed and purchased as home decor or ethnic artwork, W. Warner Wood's ethnographic account crosses the border in both directions to describe how the international market for Native American art shapes weavers' design choices. Everyone involved in this enterprise draws on images of rustic authenticity and indigenous tradition connecting the Mexican nation to its pre-Hispanic past, despite the fact that Zapotec textiles are commodities through and through. Wood examines the production and consumption of Zapotec textiles through the social practices that give them value.
Authors
- Francis Wacziarg
- Aman Nath
Dewey code: 704
Price: $45.00
Review Arts and Crafts of Rajasthan / University of Washington Press:
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