Popular Press

DescriptionA practical, ordinary person's guide to choosing, planting, and caring for the world's most popular plants, Shrubs & Hedges delivers all...

Rank and file soldiers were not 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian cultu...

In The Soldier's Two Bodies, James M. Greene investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature--the Revolutionary War veteran narrative...

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthda...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James YekuIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 202...

Reducere. Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's ...

Invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anch...

DescriptionRoman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape fu...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the Uni...

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

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

Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hal...

Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the lat...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Timothy PetersNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the...

Contributor(s): Author: Nicole RafterAuthor: Michelle BrownFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic an...

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A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chris McGowanAuthor: Ricardo PessanhaThis title includes discussions of developments in samba and other key genres, the ris...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

Reducere. The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival.Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than th...

Reducere. Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (2006) Echo and Reverb ...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions....

Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major p...

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This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

Although The "Malleus" is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Richard KieckheferNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 15Cover typ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Guy P. HarrisonMaybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. O...

Chinese Shadow Theatre documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Fan Pen Li Chen examines the relationship between hi...

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

A lively account of how Nova Scotian literature and popular culture depict a messy and unfinished process of deindustrialization.

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Maria, Ph.D. ThomasIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 160...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

Reducere. From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating ...

An illustrated directory of techniques for painting 40 popular flowers.Illustrations: 128 Illustrations, color

DescriptionPop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the ...

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that hav...

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Dom...

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Reducere. "Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... ...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-orient...

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

Reducere. -There are no definitive histories, - writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, -because the past keeps looki...

Mark Gorman examines the key role played by popular protest in the mid-Victorian campaigns to preserve Epping Forest and other open spaces in and n...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

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

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Reducere. About the AuthorMichael R. Bradley has taught US History at Motlow College in Lynchburg, Tennessee, since 1970. He has hiked and camped in the Grea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles M. TatumChicano Popular Culture, Second Edition provides a fascinating, timely, and accessible introduction to Chic...

"One of the most practical and helpful how-to gardening books I have ever read." --The Oregonian Are you intimidated by pruning? Or tired of paying...

Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

This book gives insight into a particularly grim period during the early 1970s in Northern Ireland using an extremely unusual episode--the black ma...

Want to invest in your business, in assets, shares or property? Making money by investing is never simple but there are rules - just not the same r...

Reducere. This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who die...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

An interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marke...

Reducere. The American people overwhelmingly supported the nation's entry into the Spanish-American War of 1898, which led to U.S. imperial expansion into th...

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came t...

Learn all the East Coast's many lighthouses with the newly updated and expanded The Lighthouse Handbook: New England and Canadian Maritimes, 4th Ed...

Reducere. A unique resource for a generation, the preeminent textbook in its field. Cornelius J. Dyck interacts with the many changes in Anabaptist/Mennonite...

Reducere. Speculative fiction--encompassing both science fiction and fantasy--has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing...

DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

Reducere. In the heart of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, sits the natural wonder of South Mountain Park and Preserve. It is an oasis of mountain terrain and d...

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