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Soundtracks : Popular Music, Identity and Place
Soundtracks : Popular Music, Identity and Place
'This is a really good book, which I enjoyed immensely, and I am confident that it will becomea classic publication in its field. Indeed it contains so much material that it is probably impossible to asorb it all in one reading. It is a book that I look forward to reading again...'
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. Indeed, for all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero and to keep other nations (such as Iran) from developing nuclear capability, it seems that the Bomb is here to stay. In this gripping Very...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World.

About the Author

Neil Postman
(1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of
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Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, it has helped to shape the world we live in.

Civil Resistance
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Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political...

Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume...
Global Tabloid
Global Tabloid
At the risk of tempting fate or even history, we suggest that there is a spectre stalking the global mediasphere. This spectre is the tabloid. Like any good spectre, it is hard to pin down. Critical neglect has played a part in this. It is a tendency we aim to correct. For a time in the 1990s, discussions of the tabloid or the...
Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding...

Investigating Child Exploitation: The Internet, Law and Forensic Science
Investigating Child Exploitation: The Internet, Law and Forensic Science
This work is the culmination of many years of study and work. During my undergraduate
and graduate work, my primary research interests revolved around
domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and child exploitation. Feminism,
the Constitution, freedom of expression and privacy, politics, and the
dynamics of power are
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Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source...

Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics

In writing this textbook, Mankiw has tried to put himself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. The author's conversational writing style is superb for presenting the politics and science of economic theories to tomorrow's decision-makers. Because Mankiw wrote it for the students, the book stands out among...

Greening China’s Urban Governance: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges (ARI - Springer Asia Series (7))
Greening China’s Urban Governance: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges (ARI - Springer Asia Series (7))
This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China – particularly city governments and social actors – tackle China’s urban environmental crisis. The volume’s case studies speak to important interdisciplinary themes such as new tools and instruments of urban green governance, climate change and urban carbon...
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