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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies...

Author: Henry Jenkins ,  Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
ISBN: 9781479847204
Format: Hardback
$215.00

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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds

Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds

Author: Rachelle Bergstein ,  Roksolyana Svyato
ISBN: 9789669763310
Format: Hardback
$25.88

From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's...  Read More >>

Enlightened Consumption

Enlightened Consumption

Author: James Doug Clopton
ISBN: 9781524957407
Format: Paperback
$191.40

This text looks at how organizations and consumers can work together to join forces to ensure that we as consumers...  Read More >>

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and...

Author: Joanne Begiato
ISBN: 9781526128577
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in...  Read More >>

Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s–80s

Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet...

Author: Yulia Karpova
ISBN: 9781526139870
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design. It argues that the 'comradely objects' of Russian...  Read More >>

Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape

Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal...

Author: Wessie Ling ,  Simona Segre-Reinach
ISBN: 9781350148024
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate...  Read More >>

Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural...

Author: Gerald Egan
ISBN: 9783030268978
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies...

Author: Henry Jenkins ,  Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
ISBN: 9781479869503
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Author: Victoria Rosner (Dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198845195
Format: Hardback
$81.95

Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied...  Read More >>

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies...

Author: Henry Jenkins ,  Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
ISBN: 9781479873029
Format: Hardback
$84.48

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Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and...

Author: Lipi Begum (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) ,  Rohit K. Dasgupta (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350154070
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Inside the street-style, sexuality & sartorial codes of today's South Asian youth  Read More >>

Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship...

Author: Jill Robbins
ISBN: 9781487504731
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Civilizing Cities

Civilizing Cities

Author: David Williams
ISBN: 9781911593799
Format: Paperback
$87.09

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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History

The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History...

Author: Marieke Bloembergen ,  Martijn Eickhoff
ISBN: 9781108499026
Format: Hardback
$335.28

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the...  Read More >>

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital...

Author: Johan Redström (Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden) ,  Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350141032
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Explores the changing role and nature of 'things' in the digital age.  Read More >>

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary...

Author: Andy Campbell
ISBN: 9781526142825
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and...  Read More >>

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary...

Author: Andy Campbell
ISBN: 9781526142801
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and...  Read More >>

The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design

The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design

Author: Tristram Hunt
ISBN: 9781851779727
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Published to explore in more depth some of the stories featured in the BBC six-part series Secrets of the Museum....  Read More >>

Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and...

Author: Annie E. Coombes (Birkbeck University of London) ,  Lotte Hughes (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780755601141
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence...  Read More >>

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