Law and Popular Culture

Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Popular culture constructs our perceptions of law and changes the way that players in the legal sys...

Reducere. Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Movies and television shape our perception of law and change how players in the legal system behave...

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as...

Practice writing your Hangul with a delicious introduction to popular foods in Korean culture. Let's Learn Korean Words About Food is a collection ...

Reducere. How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal prac...

Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book re...

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy an...

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Wh...

Reducere. The book explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the...

Reducere. Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year In his first book, Darwin on Trial, Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson took on the ...

A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolitio...

An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life What would happen if an average Joe tried out...

Reducere. DescriptionCheers to Michigan is a toast to cocktail culture in the Mitten and the state's flourishing craft cocktail and distillery movements. Bas...

Reducere. DescriptionSherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination...

A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book --named the #2 essential home library reference book...

The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinari...

Reducere. Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, an...

DescriptionAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics...

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. T...

An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is ti...

Reducere. The "Strong Black Woman" has been a part of mainstream culture for centuries, as a myth, a goddess, a positive role model, a stereotype, and as a b...

Despite growing recognition of the diversity of family forms and structures, discourses among family scholars and practitioners as well as in popul...

Reducere. Today's public schools are increasingly characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity. Studies show that about 4.4 million students nationwide...

Reducere. How have the media, government, technology, and history deceived us? Have fake and real become indistinguishable? Were we ever unburdened of disinf...

Reducere. Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, based on articles originally published in L'Histoire by Jean Bott ro, Andr Finet, Bertrand Lafont, and George...

Reducere. DescriptionWith compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warri...

Reducere. Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books ...

Reducere. A rich account of 1920s to 1950s New York City, starring an eclectic mix of icons like James Joyce, Margaret Sanger, and Alfred Kinsey--all led by ...

Reducere. All of western religion springs from the veneration of a bi-gender entity, known to the ancient world as the Gynomorph. The first western god was b...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Reducere. A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity--because it impacts everything we think ...

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-befo...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The purposes of the corporation are to promote, th...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Assyrian EmpireLocated in modern-day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the great Tigris and Euphra...

Reducere. First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...

Reducere. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her...

Guns can be very effective tools, but they are each of limited utility. There is no one weapon that is perfect for every purpose. Private persons m...

Reducere. The "zombie apocalypse, " once on the fringes of horror, has become one of the most buzzworthy genres in popular culture. Now, in Plague of the Dea...

DescriptionThe Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story ...