Blame Canada!: South Park And Contemporary Culture
 Now running into its tenth season, South Park has still not "jumped the shark". Satirically edgier than The Simpsons, South Park responds immediately to cultural controversies: four days after Saddam Hussein's capture an episode lampooned it, ... [... more]
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Engaging With Contemporary Culture: Christianity, ...
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China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very ... [... more]
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Solidarity (Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture)
Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age. Until now, the geologists familiar with this landscape - ethicists and moral theorists - have taken it for granted, have circumnavigated it! in any case, ... [... more]
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Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture ...
Out There addresses the theme of cultural marginalization - the process whereby various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It engages fundamental issues raised by attempts to define such concepts as mainstream, ... [... more]
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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics
This text is a methodology book which discusses some fundamental principles of semiotics in a manner that makes the subject accessible to ordinary readers. But it is more than a methodology book because it applies semiotics to a wide range of subjects - ... [... more]
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Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in ...
A powerful debunking of the myths of globalization. What are the implications for culture and politics of the current fashion for talking about globalization? In a powerful study of capitalism in the advanced industrial North, Paul Smith demystifies much ... [... more]
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Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture
Current public policy has patently failed to keep on top of the new trends in both consumption and destruction which make urban centers dangerous and crime-ridden areas. Presenting an original approach, Violent Night uses powerful insider accounts to ... [... more]
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Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics
This text is a methodology book which discusses some fundamental principles of semiotics in a manner that makes the subject accessible to ordinary readers. But it is more than a methodology book because it applies semiotics to a wide range of subjects - ... [... more]
$21.50
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Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people's lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice. David Buckingham is one of the ... [... more]
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Stuck With Virtue (Religion and Contemporary Culture)
Cloning, gene therapy, stem-cell harvesting-are we on the path to a Huxley-like Brave New World? Not really, argues political philosopher and Kass Commission member Peter Augustine Lawler in Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our ... [... more]
$25.00
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Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture
Images by Felix Gonzales-Torres Out There addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is a wide-ranging anthology that juxtaposes ... [... more]
$38.00
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