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The Sociogenesis of a Body Art
Cultural sensibilities about tattooing are discussed within historical context and in relation to broader trends in body modification, such as cosmeti...
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits ...
Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood
Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a ...
For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabal...
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that con...
Dusk Stories is here! In Trade Size! 14 tales to entice and excite! First follow the tale of a samurai on the path of blood! Then watch a brother get ...
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Understanding Physical Cultures
Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or 'problematic'. B...
This series provides an approach to simple scientific topics and experiments which can be performed at school or at home. The author takes a light-hea...
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A Mystery
A witty, literate, and action-filled debut, Hemingway Deadlights catches the famed author in his later years, battling to solve the injustices in a fl...
"The world of sport offers a deep - and often-overlooked - source for the study of deviance and its development. Deviance and Social Control in Sport ...
There were no bullfights in 1937 Madrid, just bombs, freedom fighters, journalists, and plenty of corpses. Ernest Hemingway, covering the Spanish Civi...
A Real Life Survival Adventure
The history of the earth can be traced through the study of rocks. The author describes the rock strata of the planet and shows how different types of...
Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema
Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir to I Married a Monster from Outer Space, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies...are in f...
The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Can...
This book is a practical guide to the design of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings with an emphasis on practical, buildable solution...
Perfect Films for Every Occasion, Holiday, Mood, Ordeal, and Whim
Once upon a time, going to the movies was a special occasion, and you had no control over what was playing at your neighborhood cinema. But today film...
Drawing on extensive field research conducted in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book challenges masculine myth making. Mind...
Frequently Asked Questions about Psychology
The questions in this book pinpoint issues about which many introductory psychology students may be curious, with a view to enhancing their interest i...
This information book introduces children to the idea of transport. There are questions for children to answer and ideas for activities to encourage c...
Mariner shows how mountains come into existence and what happens to them over the years - how rain, ice, trees and people affect them; and how mountai...
What caused the seven continents to drift apart? Are we still moving? Mariner explains, in simple terms, evidence discovered by scientists, the theory...
A light-hearted look at science, using everyday objects from the child's environment to explain basic principles. The book aims to make learning conce...
The Mines of the Granite Mass
Deconstructing Men & Masculinities, part of the Themes in Canadian Sociology Series, is a concise text that takes a contemporary approach to masculine...
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