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  • The Global Citizen
    Warren Brown
    This is the age of the digital nomad. There are professionals travelling and working all around the globe, far away from their homes. These freelancers are comfortable in the countries that they visit. These entrepreneurs adapt to the land they live in as digital nomads. How are they able to live and work in an entirely new country?Every country is so different and diverse from...
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    12,99 €

  • Recollecting Collecting
    Lucy Fischer
    This intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer’s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between materi...
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    52,83 €

  • Recollecting Collecting
    Lucy Fischer
    This intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer’s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between materi...
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    136,17 €

  • Chinese TV in the Netflix Era
    Xiaying Xu
    This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix. ...
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    158,92 €

  • Lords of the Manor 2023 (2nd edition)
    The Manorial So... Of England and Wales / The Manorial Socie of England and Wales
    The 2023 second edition of the full register of The Manorial Society of England and Wales ...
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    67,03 €

  • Dear Beatle People
    Sara Schmidt
    The story about the Beatles Fan Club in North America has never been told in over 50 years.  This book tells the story of The Beatles fan clubs in the United States and Canada from 1963-1972.  The Beatles had a lot of love and respect for their fan club members and frequently met them while they were touring North America. The stories of fan club members who met The Beatles are...
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    55,22 €

  • Dear Beatle People
    Sara Schmidt
    The story about the Beatles Fan Club in North America has never been told in over 50 years.  This book tells the story of The Beatles fan clubs in the United States and Canada from 1963-1972.  The Beatles had a lot of love and respect for their fan club members and frequently met them while they were touring North America. The stories of fan club members who met The Beatles are...
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    73,83 €

  • Courage, Confidence and Competence
    Pearce Deacon
    This is a collection of essays I have written over the years that are only related by the underlying subject matter of stupidity and social decline. Most of the essays deal in some way with stupidity, whether to describe or evaluate these issues, or try to counteract them. I hope you enjoy! ...
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    9,62 €

  • Zo gaat dat in Rusland
    Maria Konjoekova / Els de Roon Hertoge / Ineke Zijlstra
    Maria Konjoekova’s Zo gaat dat in Rusland, of hoe te leven tussen Russen is een grappige, vol zelfspot geschreven handleiding voor het dagelijks leven in Rusland. Het is daarnaast een praktische gids voor het doorgronden van een land en zijn mensen, die we vandaag de dag overal ter wereld kunnen tegenkomen. Waar komen onze meningen en vooroordelen eigenlijk vandaan?De schrijfst...
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    33,00 €

  • Bush League, Big City
    Michael Sokolow
    The saga of New York’s push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams. ...
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    26,18 €

  • The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
    Allan Lazar / Dan Karlan / Jeremy Salter
    From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived offers fascinating histories of our most beloved, hated, feared, and revered invented icons...
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    14,34 €

  • Flipbook of Myself
    Luke Durling
    'Flipbook of Myself', attempts to explore the culture the author holds most dear as well as the struggles of not just being human, but of one who uses a wheelchair. From games and spaceman to family struggles and physical feats; Nothing is safe from his wit, candor, and ultimately passion. In the end, 'Flipbook' strives to highlight that though we all may struggle in our own w...
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    20,77 €

  • Nietzsche in Hollywood
    Matthew Rukgaber
    Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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    41,90 €

  • Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail
    Jeffrey John Dixon
    In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a 'grail.' Left unfinished, the poem inspired other writers of prose and verse, until the story was completely rewritten into the Arthurian romances, in which the vessel becomes a relic of the Last Supper, the Holy Grail. For hund...
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    46,57 €

  • A woman’s place?
    Ciara Meehan
    This book uncovers the contribution that homegrown women’s magazines made to shaping complex debates about the position of women in society in 1960s Ireland. Woman’s Way is explored alongside the lesser-known titles Woman’s View, Woman’s Choice, and Young Woman. ...
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    156,97 €

  • Stranger Things Psychology
    Travis Langley
    Acclaimed author and 'superherologist' Dr. Travis Langley pulls together some of the greatest psychological minds of our time to explore the psychology of real human nature through the lens of the cultural phenomenon Netflix TV series Stranger Things. ...
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    19,23 €

  • Culture and Creativity
    John Astley
    John Astley’s Collected Essays seek to examine aspects of the sociology of culture - whether in music, design or literature, etc - and the core values transmitted (or not) by these various agencies. Culture and Creativity forms the second of three volumes; the two companion volumes are Liberation & Domestication (which looks at youth policy in the UK) and Professionalism & Pr...
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    12,88 €

  • Politics, performance and popular culture
    Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. ...
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    44,11 €

  • Howard Cruse
    Janine Utell
    Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher’s kid from Alabama who became 'the godfather of queer comics,' Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+ activist, and a mentor to a vast network of queer comics artists. His comic strip Wendel, published in The Advocate throughou...
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    16,38 €

  • Fashioning Italian youth
    Cecilia Brioni
    Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 1960-1970s Italian society. ...
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    145,06 €

  • Sierra and Desert Rails
    Fred Matthews
    A survey in black and white photos and text of the railroads of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and the old minng lines in the desert just beyond the mountains, in the last steam era, from 1947 to 1959.  The two main-line routes, Donner Pass and the Feather River Route, were enjoying an Indian Summer of activity after World War II, with the postwar construction boom bringi...
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    23,25 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    29,42 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    40,98 €

  • Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture
    Dewar MacLeod
    The cultural history of one of rock’s greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator. ...
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    17,97 €

  • Bronx Epitaph
    Steven K. Wagner
    The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig’s famous 'Luckiest Man' speech. ...
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    24,81 €

  • Ensayo sobre el gusto
    Montesquieu
    El alma ama la variedad; pero, ya lo hemos dicho, tan sólo la ama porque está hecha para conocer y para ver: por tanto es preciso que pueda ver, y que la variedad se lo permita; vale decir: es preciso que una cosa sea lo bastante simple para ser percibida y lo bastante variada para ser percibida con placer.En este pequeño tratado sobre el gusto escrito en 1717 y destinado a un ...
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    13,52 €

  • A Question of RESPECT
    Celinda Lake / Ed Goeas
    A Question of Respect speaks to voters who are tired of a political environment that ends in immovable stalemate, grounded by a political party’s voter base without addressing solutions or attempting to understand the opposing side. ...
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    16,57 €

  • Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
    Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    142,77 €

  • Gender and Action Films
    Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
    Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    136,10 €