Love Across the Atlantic. Us-Uk Romance in Popular Culture, Hardback - ***

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x ...

An exploration of our love affair with the Victorian vampire.Illustrations: 30 black and white illustrations

By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commerci...

Reducere. What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power int...

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In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place inte...

Now in an updated edition, this insightful book explores the ways U.S. movies, music, TV, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 49 bw illusNumber of pages: 330Collection: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, ConceptsPublication...

DescriptionMary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless f...

This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and fo...

This is a cultural analysis and queer reading of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics providing an important exploration of the ways ...

In this user-friendly dictionary of popular culture, over 800 A-to-Z entries provide historical information, definitions, and brief commentaries ab...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Reducere. Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12, 000 years ag...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

From Parzival to The Da Vinci Code and Assassin's Creed, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences for centuries. This study explor...

Reducere. During the early 1970s, the nation's turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin's kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city's progr...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empat...

Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germany's largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres inc...

The engrossing story of how a nerdy tree climber and the only girl at the science fair grew into an inspiring innovator and international leader.Pu...

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a gender reading of post-millennial popular romance heroes. It suggests that to an e...

In-depth reassessment of the recruitment, training, arming and ethos of the Home Guard.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm AtkinIllu...

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Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Shelley TwinnIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 178Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 145 x 208 x 22...

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with coun...

Bestselling author Holly Seddon turns her attention to family relationships and a marriage in crisis, with Kate unsure as to whether she should rev...

Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Holly SeddonPublication date: 2018Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii ...

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This book brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural, and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our rela...

This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and object...

A beautifully atmospheric story of two women who can never meet, set in a city full of secrets ancient and modern...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What...

Tie-in to the hit Channel 4 show Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi ToksvigPublisher: Quadrille Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Gemma BowesIllustration(s): ...

The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience in Australia, Canada, Germany...

Publisher: deCoubertin BooksAuthor(s): Gavin BucklandIllustration(s): 16Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 240 x 165 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

The author puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. In this title, ...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

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This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of th...

Reducere. The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definit...

Can there ever be a United Kingdom? In the days following the Brexit vote, a team from the National Theatre of Great Britain spoke to people nation...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...