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ISBN: 9781780762869 - Cultural Passions Cultural Passions
Elizabeth Wilson

ISBN10: 1780762860  ISBN13: 9781780762869
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2013
Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, the author investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the... More
ISBN: 9781780760865 - Becoming Visible in Iran Becoming Visible in Iran
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday

ISBN10: 1780760868  ISBN13: 9781780760865
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2013
The state of women in Islamic societies is the subject of much interest and heated debate, even as representations in the media rely on inadequate information and misperceptions. This title disputes the widespread stereotypes about Muslim women... More
ISBN: 9780814782781 - Caring Democracy Caring Democracy
Joan C Tronto

ISBN10: 0814782787  ISBN13: 9780814782781
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for them to care adequately for their children... More
ISBN: 9780814717417 - Tomorrow's Parties Tomorrow's Parties
Peter M Coviello

ISBN10: 0814717411  ISBN13: 9780814717417
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know In nineteenth-century America - before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public... More
ISBN: 9780253008404 - Loyal Unto Death Loyal Unto Death
Keith Brown

ISBN10: 0253008409  ISBN13: 9780253008404
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror in Ottoman Macedonia The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the... More
ISBN: 9781780932248 - Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture
Rupa Huq

ISBN10: 1780932243  ISBN13: 9781780932248
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective... More
ISBN: 9781780932231 - Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture
Rupa Huq

ISBN10: 1780932235  ISBN13: 9781780932231
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective... More
ISBN: 9780393347647 - Across the Pond Across the Pond
Terry Eagleton

ISBN10: 0393347648  ISBN13: 9780393347647
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Jun 2013
ISBN: 9780822353614 - Imperial Debris Imperial Debris
Ann Laura Stoler

ISBN10: 082235361X  ISBN13: 9780822353614
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Jun 2013
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to... More
ISBN: 9780226030302 - A Place That Matters Yet A Place That Matters Yet
Sara Byala

ISBN10: 022603030X  ISBN13: 9780226030302
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Tells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. More