The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture, Hardcover - Michael Serazio

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the pla...

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Charlotte. The True Story of Scandal and Spectacle in Georgian London - Kathryn Shevelow

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Sarah Anne (Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy, Assistant Professor of Commu...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

An ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC, a coal-mining town transforming in...

Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in popula...

Reducere. In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were...

In Live Sports Media: The What, How and Why of Sports Broadcasting, Dennis Deninger provides an all-encompassing view of the sports television indu...

Straightforward advice for navigating the challenges facing professionals who are underrepresented in the leadership of today's organizations Micha...

Reducere. Part theory, part op-ed, The Game is Not a Game, is an affecting, sobering and unflinching examination of the good and evil of the sports industry....

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook rec...

DescriptionLiz Skilton's innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wid...

Reducere. Cultivate Hydrangeas to Add Elegance and Serenity to Your GardenOriginating in East Asia and then spreading to Europe, most gardening books in Engl...

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the firs...

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of reference for those in...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Reducere. Untamed. Unsupervised. Uncontrolled. Boyhood in the 1960s and '70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jennifer McClearenNumber of pages: 256Collection: Studies in Sports MediaPublication date: 2021Di...

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A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Pulitzer prize-winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic an...

Reducere. More than 150 drivers, fans, celebrities and others share their personal stories and remembrances of the world's most famous auto race. Twenty diff...

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop ...

Reducere. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By t...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Doing Church in a Media-Drenched Culture It has been said, "the future is now." From cell phones to mp3 players to the Internet, no previous age ha...

An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual viol...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rafael (University of St Andrews, UK) TorrubiaNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. "You talk about destiny, well, you can't rule that out. We were hard-nosed and that showed up in 1957." -- Braves catcher Del Crandall to editor Gr...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

Reducere. DescriptionLongtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the "why" of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the "how...

Reducere. Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and oth...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Reducere. From 13th century Franciscan monks to Beyoncé in Black is King, Making a Spectacle charts the fascinating ascension of eyeglasses--from an unsightl...

Reducere. Description"Love is the way. Love is the only way. Those who follow in my way follow in the way of unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love. And ...