Creator: Jorge Frascara
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 306.47
List Price: $129.95
Price: $108.13
Review Design and the Social Sciences: Making Connections (Contemporary Trends Institute Series, 2) / CRC:The social sciences have a distinctive contribution to make to the understanding and handling of design issues, both in product and systems design and in the design of the built environment. The role of cognitive psychology, particularly ergonomics, to the design process has traditionally been well appreciated. Because it provides important insights into the way people process information cognitively, it is a powerful tool for the design of usable products, buildings and systems. This book explores the disciplines of social psychology, sociology and anthropology, which provide techniques for investigating the relationships between people and design, in assessing the role that products and the built environment play in peoples lives and in setting product requirements based on this understanding. These include ergonomic user requirements, such as usability and accessibility, and also functional and aesthetic issues which will determine the overall quality of a design in terms of how it is experienced. This means looking at the functional and ergonomic properties of a design and going beyond to issues relating to the fit of the design to the lifestyle and aspirations of those who experience it. Written by specialists working at the front line in the consumer product industries - as well as by designers and applied theorists - the book describes new ways of understanding product development, innovation and design. Methods for the incorporation of user population in the design process are discussed and notions of use and experience, instead of forms and materials, serve as a basis to present the design of consumer products under a totally new light.
Publication date: 2007-01-24
Dewey code: 069
List Price: $105.00
Price: $101.00
Review New Museums and the Making of Culture / Berg Publishers:In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicisation of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit"all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public culture. Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-10-11
Dewey code: 305.906642
List Price: $110.00
Price: $116.40
Review The Queening of America / Routledge:The host of Hollywood Squares asks Paul Lynde, ``Why do bikers wear leather?'' ``Because chiffon wrinkles so easily,'' Lynde quips. Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humor, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of reading that aim to identify what he calls the ``queening'' of America, a process by which ``rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral. '' In his recinsiderations of the all-American Damn Yankees or the gay adult classics of Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame, Little Me), Van Leer overturns simplistic notions of camp as merely a humorous exaggeration of straight culture. The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more optimistically on the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses.
Publication date: 2002-06-30
Dewey code: 782.42164092
List Price: $102.95
Price: $102.95
Review A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) / Greenwood Press:Frank Sinatra forever altered American art and culture. His life and work is mythified in countless books and essays. This book offers a much-needed fresh approach to The Chairman of the Board. Artists from all varieties of media have used Sinatra to create their own works and, in many cases, their own Sinatras. Sinatra's legacy is not confined to the music he created-his shadow, his aura, and his mere existence helped to inform the lives and works of generations. Gigliotti examines how genre and literary fiction, lyric and satiric poetry, rock and folk music, and even domestic drama have conjured and symbolically employed the legendary singer. Each of the eleven chapters of A Storied Singer details a different use of Sinatra. Subjects include the lyrics of Sammy Cahn, recent novels such as The Death of Frank Sinatra, and the many songs that are about or mention Old Blue Eyes. Gigliotti also examines Sinatra as seen through international eyes, from British songwriters and Spanish novelists to American expatriates and Israeli filmmakers, providing an unusual and fascinating look at a major American figure.
Publication date: 2007-01-24
Dewey code: 069
List Price: $105.00
Price: $101.00
Review New Museums and the Making of Culture / Berg Publishers:In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicisation of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit"all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public culture. Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution.
Publication date: 1993-12
Price: $14.99
Review Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric and Knowing of the Third Kind / Taylor & Francis Group:
Creator: Michele K. Donnelly
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-08
Dewey code: 306.483
List Price: $125.00
Price: $103.00
Review Youth Cultures & Sport: Identity, Power, and Politics (Critical Youth Studies) / Routledge:Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture’s war on kids, this exciting new volume marks the first anthology to critically examine the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sport studies, and related fields, chapters range in scope from 'action' sport subcultures and community redevelopment programs to the cultural politics of white masculinity and Nike advertising. It is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the role sport plays in the construction of experiences, identities, practices, and social differences of contemporary youth culture.
Edition: 1
List Price: $103.00
Price: $103.00
Review Marxismus-Leninismus in der CSR: Die tschechoslowakische Philosophie seit 1945 (Sovietica) / Springer:
Creator: Paul Charosh
Publication date: 1995-05-30
Dewey code: 016.780266
List Price: $102.95
Price: $102.95
Review Berliner Gramophone Records: American Issues, 1892-1900 (Discographies) / Greenwood Press:Just over 100 years ago, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and disc record. This is the first discography assembled of the first disc recordings in the United States. It documents over 3,000 discs, which were sold to the American public from 1892 to 1900. Listings are arranged by catalogue number and cross-indexed by title, performer, and recording date. The gramophone discs are valuable research tools in the study of popular culture, providing objective data about what was offered to the public, and how it was performed. Since this information has never been published, scholars may well find new materials. Berliner's successor was the Victor Talking Machine Company (an ongoing Greenwood discography series). An introductory essay discusses the earliest years of the invention and the repertoire appearing on the discs. Their physical properties are noted and illustrated with photographs of the records. A descriptive bibliography guides readers to other books and articles of interest. [+]Another section lists Berliner Gramophone records that have been reissued on long-playing and compact discs. This volume will be of interest to gramophone record collectors, record archives, and music libraries, as well as to scholars, music students, and buffs.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-10-11
Dewey code: 305.906642
List Price: $110.00
Price: $116.40
Review The Queening of America / Routledge:The host of Hollywood Squares asks Paul Lynde, ``Why do bikers wear leather?'' ``Because chiffon wrinkles so easily,'' Lynde quips. Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humor, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of reading that aim to identify what he calls the ``queening'' of America, a process by which ``rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral. '' In his recinsiderations of the all-American Damn Yankees or the gay adult classics of Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame, Little Me), Van Leer overturns simplistic notions of camp as merely a humorous exaggeration of straight culture. The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more optimistically on the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses.
Creator: Jorge Frascara
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 306.47
List Price: $129.95
Price: $108.13
Review Design and the Social Sciences: Making Connections (Contemporary Trends Institute Series, 2) / CRC:The social sciences have a distinctive contribution to make to the understanding and handling of design issues, both in product and systems design and in the design of the built environment. The role of cognitive psychology, particularly ergonomics, to the design process has traditionally been well appreciated. Because it provides important insights into the way people process information cognitively, it is a powerful tool for the design of usable products, buildings and systems. This book explores the disciplines of social psychology, sociology and anthropology, which provide techniques for investigating the relationships between people and design, in assessing the role that products and the built environment play in peoples lives and in setting product requirements based on this understanding. These include ergonomic user requirements, such as usability and accessibility, and also functional and aesthetic issues which will determine the overall quality of a design in terms of how it is experienced. This means looking at the functional and ergonomic properties of a design and going beyond to issues relating to the fit of the design to the lifestyle and aspirations of those who experience it. Written by specialists working at the front line in the consumer product industries - as well as by designers and applied theorists - the book describes new ways of understanding product development, innovation and design. Methods for the incorporation of user population in the design process are discussed and notions of use and experience, instead of forms and materials, serve as a basis to present the design of consumer products under a totally new light.
Edition: 1
List Price: $103.00
Price: $103.00
Review Marxismus-Leninismus in der CSR: Die tschechoslowakische Philosophie seit 1945 (Sovietica) / Springer:
Creator: Michele K. Donnelly
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-08
Dewey code: 306.483
List Price: $125.00
Price: $103.00
Review Youth Cultures & Sport: Identity, Power, and Politics (Critical Youth Studies) / Routledge:Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture’s war on kids, this exciting new volume marks the first anthology to critically examine the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sport studies, and related fields, chapters range in scope from 'action' sport subcultures and community redevelopment programs to the cultural politics of white masculinity and Nike advertising. It is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the role sport plays in the construction of experiences, identities, practices, and social differences of contemporary youth culture.
Creator: Paul Charosh
Publication date: 1995-05-30
Dewey code: 016.780266
List Price: $102.95
Price: $102.95
Review Berliner Gramophone Records: American Issues, 1892-1900 (Discographies) / Greenwood Press:Just over 100 years ago, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and disc record. This is the first discography assembled of the first disc recordings in the United States. It documents over 3,000 discs, which were sold to the American public from 1892 to 1900. Listings are arranged by catalogue number and cross-indexed by title, performer, and recording date. The gramophone discs are valuable research tools in the study of popular culture, providing objective data about what was offered to the public, and how it was performed. Since this information has never been published, scholars may well find new materials. Berliner's successor was the Victor Talking Machine Company (an ongoing Greenwood discography series). An introductory essay discusses the earliest years of the invention and the repertoire appearing on the discs. Their physical properties are noted and illustrated with photographs of the records. A descriptive bibliography guides readers to other books and articles of interest. [+]Another section lists Berliner Gramophone records that have been reissued on long-playing and compact discs. This volume will be of interest to gramophone record collectors, record archives, and music libraries, as well as to scholars, music students, and buffs.
Publication date: 1995
Review Orientierung zwischen Schutt und Asche: Strategische Kommunikation in den Jugendzeitschriften der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit, 1945-1948 (Sociologica) / Braumuller:
Publication date: 2002-06-30
Dewey code: 782.42164092
List Price: $102.95
Price: $102.95
Review A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) / Greenwood Press:Frank Sinatra forever altered American art and culture. His life and work is mythified in countless books and essays. This book offers a much-needed fresh approach to The Chairman of the Board. Artists from all varieties of media have used Sinatra to create their own works and, in many cases, their own Sinatras. Sinatra's legacy is not confined to the music he created-his shadow, his aura, and his mere existence helped to inform the lives and works of generations. Gigliotti examines how genre and literary fiction, lyric and satiric poetry, rock and folk music, and even domestic drama have conjured and symbolically employed the legendary singer. Each of the eleven chapters of A Storied Singer details a different use of Sinatra. Subjects include the lyrics of Sammy Cahn, recent novels such as The Death of Frank Sinatra, and the many songs that are about or mention Old Blue Eyes. Gigliotti also examines Sinatra as seen through international eyes, from British songwriters and Spanish novelists to American expatriates and Israeli filmmakers, providing an unusual and fascinating look at a major American figure.
Publication date: 1995
Review Orientierung zwischen Schutt und Asche: Strategische Kommunikation in den Jugendzeitschriften der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit, 1945-1948 (Sociologica) / Braumuller:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-03-11
Dewey code: 301.01
List Price: $160.00
Price: $110.82
Review Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist / Routledge:Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens but rather the ominous potential for new forms of totalitarian control.
Publication date: 1993-12
Price: $14.99
Review Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric and Knowing of the Third Kind / Taylor & Francis Group:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-03-11
Dewey code: 301.01
List Price: $160.00
Price: $110.82
Review Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist / Routledge:Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens but rather the ominous potential for new forms of totalitarian control.
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