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  • Collecting in Contemporary Practice
    Susan Pearce
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    311,19 €

  • Food Preference and Taste
    Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives a...
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    184,35 €

  • Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action
    Michael Lynch
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    67,82 €

  • Barmaids
    Diane Kirkby
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    47,16 €

  • The ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America
    Neil A. Hamilton / Neil AHamilton
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    104,55 €

  • Dumbing Down
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    18,93 €

  • Sexual Orientation
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    121,59 €

  • The Exploding Eye
    Wheeler Winston Dixon
    Explores the work of lesser-known American experimental filmmakers whose films, though well-received and influential, have been excluded from the dominant film canon. ...
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    43,32 €

  • Great American Stuff
    R.L. Jones / Ray Jones / RLJones
    One of the most compelling and delightful popular culture anthologies published in decades, this volume tells the story of Ivory Soap and the Model-T Ford, probes the intricate glories of Navajo rugs and Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, and celebrates the genius of Benny Goodman and Humphrey Bogart. Uniquely organized, it romps in a whimsical stream-of-consciousness manner thro...
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    26,90 €

  • Narratives And Spaces
    David E. Nye / David ENye / David E. Nye
    This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye’s previous books, is written to be accessible to a wide audience. ...
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    113,29 €

  • Great American Stuff
    R.L. Jones / Ray Jones / RLJones
    One of the most compelling and delightful anthologies of popular culture published in years, Great American Stuff tells the story of more than 250 of our country’s finest products, richest traditions, and most inspiring people. ...
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    15,35 €

  • The Abbott & Costello Story
    Stephen Cox
    Heyyyyy Aaaaaabbott! Who’s on first? It’s Abbott & Costello, of course! Although it has been nearly 60 years since Bud Abbot and Lou Costello began filling American movie houses, their work has proven timeless.The Abbott & Costello Story is a fond, authoritative tribute to the duo who made "Who," "What," and "I Don’t Know" the most hilarious names ever batted around on the silv...
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    23,56 €

  • The Good Life and Its Discontents
    Robert J. Samuelson / Robert Samuelson
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    14,52 €

  • Signs of the Zodiac
    Mary Snodgrass
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    92,82 €

  • Pythagoras’s Trousers
    Margaret Wertheim
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    18,99 €

  • Choosing To Lead
    Constance H. Buchanan / Constance HBuchanan
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    19,55 €

  • Cognition and Tool Use
    Charles M. Keller / Charles MKeller / Janet D. Keller / Janet DKeller / Keller Charles M.
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    145,43 €

  • Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U)
    Alex Cheung
    From Yeah to Yo! our language bears traces of American influence. We can do little to escape the experience of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them, see America as still at cultural Cold War? Is our desire for them a sympt...
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    175,51 €

  • The Total Package
    Thomas Hine
    In this fascinating excursion through popular culture and marketing history, design critic Thomas Hine decodes the secret language of packaging -- and explains the many subtle ways that boxes, bottles, and cans persuade us to spend our hard-earned money. Tracing the art and science of package design from its emergence late last century to today’s most instantly recognizable bra...
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    24,52 €

  • Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
    Sidney W. Mintz / Sidney Wilfred Mintz / Sidney WMintz
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    17,25 €

  • Christmas in Old Santa Fe
    Pedro Ribera Ortega
    The special customs and traditions of the Christmas season in Santa Fe, New Mexico are carefully and clearly explained in this book that has become a classic. Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light farolitos, the warm adobe architecture, the peace and quiet that settles over the land on Christmas Eve, ...
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    14,39 €

  • Stee-Rike Four! What’s Wrong with the Business of Baseball?
    Daniel Marburger
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    121,72 €

  • Joystick Nation
    J. C. Herz / JCHerz
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    32,14 €

  • The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960
    Lena McPhatter Gore
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    105,56 €

  • What’s Really Said in the Teachers’ Lounge
    Jeffrey A. Kottler
    Jeffrey A Kottler states that multiculturalism has become so politically correct that authentic feelings and honest opinions are reserved and limited to the teachers’ lounge. What is described as sensitivity to diversity is often transformed into a degree of caution in which people no longer say what they really think. In this book, Kottler presents an honest, intimate, and pro...
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    48,21 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture
    Mark Schilling
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    41,49 €

  • Dracula
    Leonard Wolf
    On the eve of his 100th birthday, Dracula remains a cultural icon of mythic proportions--the quintessential embodiment of evil and forbidden sexuality. Leonard Wolf, himself a native son of Transylvania, celebrates the legend in style with this authoritative guide to Dracula’s origins, incarnations, and impact on civilization. 30 photos. ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Axemaker’s Gift
    James Burke
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    22,53 €

  • Songs At The River’s Edge
    Katy Gardner
    Katy Gardner's account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author's role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she make...
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    45,12 €

  • Umberto Eco and the Open Text
    Peter Bondanella
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    132,30 €