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  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    72,22 €

  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    193,82 €

  • Bob Dylan’s New York
    Dick Weissman
    A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock. ...
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    18,38 €

  • Silent but Deadly
    Kirsten Bell
    An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by their teeth? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cu...
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    22,34 €

  • The art of Aubrey Beardsley
    Arthur Symons
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    34,70 €

  • The art of Aubrey Beardsley
    Arthur Symons
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    21,07 €

  • THE HOLY BARBARIANS
    LAWRENCE LIPTON
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    37,41 €

  • THE HOLY BARBARIANS
    LAWRENCE LIPTON
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    26,08 €

  • Wellness Culture
    Stephanie Alice Baker
    Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised knowledge and culture. ...
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    34,95 €

  • The Corruption of Play
    Christopher McMahon
    The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play. ...
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    136,19 €

  • Brave New Weed
    Joe Dolce
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    13,62 €

  • Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism
    Arthur Edward Waite
    This early work by Arthur Edward Waite was originally published in the early 20th Century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism’ is one of Waite’s writings on secret societies. Arthur Edward Waite was born on the 2nd of October, 1857 in America. After the death of his father, Waite and his mother return...
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    18,12 €

  • WHY BRITAIN ROCKED
    Elizabeth Sharkey
    Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of ’Beatlemania’ by travelling deep into Britain’s history to trace the events that led to Britain’s twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframe...
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    55,22 €

  • Dystopian States of America
    Matthew Hill
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    141,11 €

  • The 1960s Cultural Revolution
    Joel Rhodes
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    82,33 €

  • 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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    9,94 €

  • Encountering Pennywise
    Whitney S May
    Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen King’s novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part...
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    42,99 €

  • LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader
    Alison Halsall
    Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina Rauchenbacher, Katharina Serles, ...
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    42,14 €

  • 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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    121,61 €

  • Picturegoers
    Luke McKernan
    This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone, rich or poor, educated or not, could share in it. ...
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    113,28 €

  • Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index
    Allen H Redmon
    Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality t...
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    42,98 €

  • 偷走心智的贼:阿尔茨海默病的故事
    于涵
    编辑推荐从被发现到前沿研究,从致病因素到治疗手段,全面了解阿尔茨海默病本书从阿尔茨海默病被首次发现开始讲起,沿着医学界探索人们究竟为何会患上这种疾病的道路,细数遗传学、细胞学、免疫学以及制药行业的相关研究历程,在讲述疾病研究故事的同时,让读者全面了解该病的方方面面。在充满曲折与悬念的科研故事中,求解历时百年的医学谜题本书带着读者层层拨开围绕在阿尔茨海默病周围的迷雾,从最初人们的一无所知,到今天的众说纷纭。在这个过程中,充满扣人心弦的悬念和出人意料的转折。它虽然是一本科普书,但读起来丝毫不逊色于侦探小说。借助基础的生物学知识就可以轻松读懂的科普佳作作者在解释阿尔茨海默病的致病或治疗原理时,会从基因、细胞、试验方法等最基础的层面耐心讲起,还能用通俗、形象的语言与直观的图表拆解其中的科学逻辑,降低了本书在专业层面的阅读门槛,任何读者都可以轻松读懂。秉承求真...
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    40,37 €

  • The Children’s Media Yearbook 2021
    Diana Hinshelwood
    The Children’s Media Yearbook is an annual snapshot of the creative, business, strategic and policy issues facing the children’s media industry in the UK and the UK children’s and youth media audience. It contains articles by academic, commercial and institutional researchers, media practitioners, activists and audience advocates, commentators and senior figures in the children...
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    29,32 €

  • The Children’s Media Yearbook 2020
    Diana Hinshelwood
    The Children’s Media Yearbook is an annual snapshot of the creative, business, strategic and policy issues facing the children’s media industry in the UK and the UK children’s and youth media audience. It contains articles by academic, commercial and institutional researchers, media practitioners, activists and audience advocates, commentators and senior figures in the childre...
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    29,42 €

  • Learning Social Or Orgnizational Culture
    John Lok
    This book research any countries culture improvement can assist themselves economic growth. I shall follow three aspects to research this question. The first aspect researchs whether the country researchs talent human experiment which can help any businessmen to raise productivities or efficiencies. The second aspect researchs whether the country encourages employers apply high...
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    17,94 €

  • Happy Daze
    Tom Jagtenberg
    Happy Daze exposes optimism as a mind altering cultural fix. Too much optimism has stimulated climate change denial and all manner of excessive human behaviours. Optimism may be life enhancing, but too much optimism has a corrupting influence. This book explains why and how optimism can lead to very bad outcomes. Tom Jagtenberg’s last book, Beyond the Limits: A Planet in Crisis...
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    17,00 €

  • 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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    121,79 €

  • 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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    121,99 €

  • The Afterlife in Popular Culture
    Kevin O’Neill
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    141,09 €

  • The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities
    Where human communication and development is possible, folklore is developed. With the rise of digital communications and media in past decades, humans have adopted a new form of folklore within this online landscape. Digital folklore has been developed into a culture that impacts the ways in which communities are formed, media is created, and communications are carried out. It...
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    216,33 €