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  • Conversations with George Saunders
    Michael O’Connell
    Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December provides detailed insight into his own writing process...
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    21,00 €

  • Society-on-Demand
    Tim Johnston
    A combative, energetic and visceral analysis of the digital entertainment industry and its impact on political change; from the smartphone to social media, pornography to football, streaming to NFTs and more: the realm of the Online has placed us on a path of imminent social collapse. Making his debut, Tim Johnston guides us through a political and social minefield as he dissec...
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    13,70 €

  • The social significance of dining out
    Alan Warde / Jennifer Whillans / Jessica Paddock
    The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Making Sense of Ultra-Realism
    Anthony Lloyd / Justin Kotzé
    Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology, drawing upon popular films and television series to contextualise and clarify the ultra-realist school of thought and providing a theoretically rich yet accessible introduction to the topic. ...
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    87,91 €

  • The Peanut Factory
    Deborah Price
    ’A window into a time of raw energy and rough edges, Deb Price paints a vivid picture of life in the squats of South London. By turns amusing and alarming, but always engaging, we accompany a teenager as she navigates her way to womanhood in a sub-culture on the margins.’ - Allie Rogers, author of Little Gold and Tale of a ToothA coming-of-age memoir about a young woman living ...
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    14,05 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat Press
    Detailed, step-by-step rolling instructions for the world’s most infamous jointsDozens of professional tips, tricks, and techniquesOver 250 illustrations, diagrams and cartoonsFull health and legal guidesThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648371620). ...
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    21,11 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat
    Get back to basics and roll the perfect joint.Bobcat is back with his blunted bunnies to coach us on the art and joy of rolling.• Easy-to-follow instructions• Detailed step-by-step illustrationsFrom Saturday Night Special to the complex Crossroads and even the decadent Cannabis Cigar, find tips and tricks on making spliffs that will amaze your friends and win rolling contests.T...
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    19,72 €

  • The Joint Rolling Handbook
    Bobcat Press
    Detailed, step-by-step rolling instructions for the world’s most infamous jointsDozens of professional tips, tricks, and techniquesOver 250 illustrations, diagrams and cartoonsFull health and legal guidesThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648371620). ...
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    31,18 €

  • The Recyclables
    Kalma Downe
    Too much angst for you? Me too. This is an attempt to show how silly and dangerous the ’my way or the highway’ attitudes have become. The allegory takes place in a zero sort recycling bin with national left and right wing newspapers arguing over contemporary topics like healthcare, gun control and more. There are lovers triangles and hacked cars to lighten some of the heavier d...
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    15,59 €

  • Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction
    María Isabel González-Cruz
    Despreciado por la crítica por su condición de literatura popular y femenina, el género romántico no solo continúa imbatible en el mercado editorial con su elevado índice de ventas, sino que en las últimas décadas está siendo objeto de interesantes estudios académicos. 'Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica' se suma a esta corriente, al abordar el análisis interdiscip...
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    78,03 €

  • The Faces and Stakes of Brand Insertion
    With traditional forms of advertisement facing increasing challenges, brand placement - the integration of a product or brand in a work of art - has exploded. It has become a lucrative phenomenon whose goal is to produce a reaction of purchase in the mind of the receiver (reader, viewer or listener). This volume seeks to complement extant studies of product placement strategies...
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    71,39 €

  • China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific
    Elaine J. Zhao / Haiqing Yu / Michael Keane
    This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China’s commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside China and can disseminate Chinese culture more effectively than government-supported me...
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    57,58 €

  • Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
    David Scott
    Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colo...
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    58,92 €

  • Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-media Products
    Carmen Spano
    The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insights into the culturally specific similarities and differences that distinct audiences...
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    57,79 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    21,04 €

  • The quiet contemporary American novel
    Rachel Sykes
    This book explores the concept of ’quiet’ - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. ...
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    35,76 €

  • AI and Popular Culture
    Lee Barron
    AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next. ...
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    33,46 €

  • Music Management, Marketing and PR
    Chris Anderton / James Hannam / Johnny Hopkins
    A guide to the study and practice of the music industries in the 21st century. Tying academic research to industry insight, it helps students understand the range of roles and institutions they need to know in order to manage artists and to promote and sell music. ...
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    56,71 €

  • Music Management, Marketing and PR
    Chris Anderton / James Hannam / Johnny Hopkins
    A guide to the study and practice of the music industries in the 21st century. Tying academic research to industry insight, it helps students understand the range of roles and institutions they need to know in order to manage artists and to promote and sell music. ...
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    162,33 €

  • Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2
    Derek Padula
    ¡La aventura de Son Gokū comienza! Únete a mí en Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2, pues viajaremos junto a Gokū en un viaje épico en busca de una fuerza mayor.Con cada paso que da Gokū, descubrirás mucho más sobre la espiritualidad oculta y el simbolismo que encontramos en Dragon Ball, algo que hace de la serie un gran éxito. Verás cómo el autor, Akira Toriyama, sintetiza la cultu...
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    26,35 €

  • Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2
    Derek Padula
    ¡La aventura de Son Gokū comienza! Únete a mí en Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2, pues viajaremos junto a Gokū en un viaje épico en busca de una fuerza mayor.Con cada paso que da Gokū, descubrirás mucho más sobre la espiritualidad oculta y el simbolismo que encontramos en Dragon Ball, algo que hace de la serie un gran éxito. Verás cómo el autor, Akira Toriyama, sintetiza la cultu...
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    20,79 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    158,32 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    50,16 €

  • Searching For My Identity (Volume 2)
    Edward Winterhalder
    Volume 2 of Searching For My Identity is a chronological autobiography of an outlaw biker that covers his life from prominent leader of a notorious international motorcycle club in January 2001 to his redemption in December 2020. Intended for the general public and those in the academic community that find the outlaw biker aspects of anthropology, criminology, sociology, psycho...
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    28,91 €

  • Searching For My Identity (Volume 1)
    Edward Winterhalder
    Volume 1 of Searching For My Identity is a chronological autobiography of an outlaw biker that covers his life from troubled adolescent in the sixties to prominent leader of a notorious international motorcycle club in January 2001. Intended for the general public and those in the academic community that find the outlaw biker aspects of anthropology, criminology, sociology, psy...
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    28,91 €

  • space/self/world
    Blair Miller
    Using perhaps the most famous science fiction film ever made, what does it mean that we are determined by space? That the human individual was created by controlling its spatial environment(s)? Complicating matters further, that same control that defines us limits our understanding and the spaces themselves, to the extent that the individual itself is under command. space/self/...
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    22,29 €

  • Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
    For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media. ...
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    142,77 €

  • Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
    Mary J Magoulick
    Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in cont...
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    50,08 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    50,09 €

  • Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
    Mary J Magoulick
    Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in cont...
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    158,24 €


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