891 books (45 pages) in this category
How to buy less stuff and save the world
by Richard Denniss
<p><em>Affluenza is that strange desire we feel to spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t know . . .</em></p> <p>A truly modern affliction, affluenza is endemic in Western societies, encouraged by those
ISBN: 9781925435771
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eBookby Fanny D. Bergen
<p>It has been a puzzling question to decide just where to draw the line in separating foreign from what we may call current American folk-lore. The traditions and superstitions that a mother as a child or girl heard in a foreign land, she tells
ISBN: 1230001383508
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eBookby Andrew Lang
<p>Since the first publication of Custom and Myth, many other works have appeared, dealing on the same principles with matters of belief, fable and ritual. Were the book to be re-written, numerous fresh pieces of evidence might be adduced in ...
ISBN: 9786051768168
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eBookCyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes
Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes
by Lauren Rosewarne
<p>The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people—individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups—to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple "jocks versus geeks" paradigm of
ISBN: 9781440834417
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eBookCyberbullying and the Wild, Wild Web
What You Need to Know
by J. A. Hitchcock
<p>The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainment, education, shopping, dating and more, ...
ISBN: 9781442251182
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eBookMarkets, Memories, Identities
by Pallabi Chakravorty & Nilanjana Gupta
<p><em>Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities</em> is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative
ISBN: 9781351116169
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eBookMonstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
by Sady Doyle
<p><strong>Women have always been seen as monsters. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.</strong></p> <p>Maybe they are. And maybe that’s a good thing....</p> <p>Sady ...
ISBN: 9781612197937
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eBookChildren's Christmas Letters and Wish Lists, 1870 - 1920
by Mary Harrell-Sesniak & J. Harmon Flagstone
<p>This first-ever collection of children's letters to Santa—written between 1870 and 1920—presents more than 100 charming missives, each one yet more endearing. Along with its vintage charm, timeless sentiments, and non-denominational ...
ISBN: 9781452146423
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eBookChanging Images of Fathers in Popular Culture
by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao, Lynda Goldstein & others
<p>In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the ...
ISBN: 9781498516044
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eBookDeep Conversations In The Shaman’s Den, Volume 1
Deep Conversations In The Shaman's Den, #1
by Frank Moore
<p>Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den streamed live on the internet almost every Sunday night from 1998 until Frank’s death in 2013. The Shaman’s Den was a 2 1/2-hour variety show featuring in-studio concerts by bands from around the world and in-depth ...
ISBN: 9781507080757
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eBookThe Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
by Jason Farman
<p><strong>A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication</strong></p> <p>We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be
ISBN: 9780300240726
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eBookDesperately Seeking Susan Foreman
by Richard Kirby
<p>Desperately Seeking Susan Foreman is a very different Doctor Who book. Richard Kirby's personal look back at fifty years of time travel is built around his quest to obtain a signed photograph from every living female companion-from Carole Ann
ISBN: 9781370121595
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eBookPerspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey
by Cammie M. Sublette & Jennifer Martin
<p><em>Devouring Cultures</em> brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics ...
ISBN: 9781610755771
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eBookDickens and Popular Entertainment
by Paul Schlicke
<p>First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital ...
ISBN: 9781317233367
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eBookDigital Citizenship in a Datafied Society
by Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik & Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
<p>Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of ...
ISBN: 9781509527199
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eBookKnowledge and Critique in a Digital Age
by David M. Berry & Anders Fagerjord
<p>As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities.</p> <p>In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, ...
ISBN: 9780745697697
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eBookBetween Autonomy and Control
by Armen Khatchatourov, Pierre-Antoine Chardel, Gabriel Peries & others
<p>Digital Identities in Tension deals with the ambivalence of universal digitalization. While this transformation opens up new possibilities, it also redistributes the interplay of constraints and incentives, and tends insidiously to create a ...
ISBN: 9781119629627
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eBookDigital Information Ecosystems
Smart Press
by Dominique Augey
<p>Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to ...
ISBN: 9781119579724
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eBookDigital Libraries and Crowdsourcing
by Mathieu Andro
<p>Instead of outsourcing tasks to providers using labor-intensive countries, libraries around the world increasingly appeal to the crowds of Internet users, making their relationship with users more collaborative . These internet users can be ...
ISBN: 9781119489160
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eBookby Charles Ess
<p>The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures.</p> <p>This second edition ...
ISBN: 9780745672410
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