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    Phone & Spear (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: A visually striking intercultural exploration of the use of mobile phones in Aboriginal communities in Australia. Yuta is the Yolngu word for new. Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology is a project inspired by the gloriously cheeky and deeply meaningful audiovisual media made with and circulated by mobile phones by an extended Aboriginal family in northern Australia. Building on a ten-year collaboration by the community-based arts collective Miyarrka Media, the project is an experiment in the anthropology of co-creation. It is a multivoiced portrait of an Indigenous society using mobile phones inventively to affirm connections to kin and country amid the difficult and often devastating circumstances of contemporary remote Aboriginal life. But this is not simply a book about Aboriginal art, mobile phones, and social renewal. If old anthropology understood its task as revealing one world to another, yuta anthropology is concerned with bringing different worlds into relationship. Following Yolngu social aesthetics—or what Miyarrka Media translate as “the law of feeling”—the book is a relational technology in its own right: an object that combines color, pattern, and story to bring once distant worlds into new sensuously mediated connections.
    Keywords: anthropology ; sociology ; cultural anthropology ; evolution ; sociology books ; historical nonfiction ; human evolution ; science books ; anthropology books ; history ; history books ; science ; social engineering ; homosapiens ; human evolution books ; culture ; language ; linguistics ; 21st century ; eastern europe ; how to ; food ; society ; philosophy ; psychology ; england ; race ; design ; cultural studies ; school ; education ; happiness ; social science ; reference ; music ; world history ; languages ; pop culture ; nature ; essays ; identity ; geography ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debates ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
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    World's End (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: A memoir and cultural history the World’s End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.
    Keywords: sociology ; british history ; european history ; world history ; british empire ; gifts for history buffs ; british gifts ; sociology books ; history ; history books ; british ; queen elizabeth ii ; history of england ; historical books ; history gifts ; history teacher gifts ; british monarchy ; britain ; british history books ; history buff gifts ; british royalty ; history lovers gifts ; england ; art ; music ; historical ; mystery ; trains ; architecture ; crime ; biography ; reference ; 21st century ; english history ; photography ; race ; art history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    The Battle at Mamusa (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work is exceptional for at least two reasons: Firstly, for the thoughtful manner in which the intriguing concept of metaphors is applied in this study of historical ethnography cum ethnohistory. Secondly, for the skilful way in which the author relates the battle of Mamusa to how present-day Korana and neo- Khoisan communities, in a new context, are relating to their future in a post-1994 constitutional dispensation. Prof. Henry C (Jatti) Bredekamp University of the Western Cape
    Keywords: history ; social transformation ; social studies ; colonial Korana ; Khoesan ; Cape Colony ; Mamusa ; Batlhaping and Barolong ; historical ethnography ; ethnohistory ; neo-Khoisan communities ; war ; south africa ; Khoisan ; missionaries ; society ; culture ; sicuak sciences ; africa ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history
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    Black Film British Cinema II (2023)
    Goldsmiths Press | Goldsmiths Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.
    Keywords: drama ; film ; art ; movie ; movies ; hollywood ; sociology ; cinema ; art books ; creativity ; artists ; movie books ; sociology books ; art book ; history ; history books ; black history books ; artwork ; character ; gifts for movie lovers ; movie book ; biography ; feminism ; classic ; plays ; anthology ; race ; music ; essays ; poems ; american literature ; crime ; feminist ; short stories ; psychology ; sports ; work ; drugs ; fitness ; historical ; theatre ; diet ; gender ; philosophy ; health ; biographies ; noir ; writing ; self improvement ; self help ; spirituality ; pop culture ; play ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Teklife, Ghetto, Eski (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.
    Keywords: music ; sociology ; civil rights ; sociology books ; music book ; music books ; history books ; history ; african american books ; black history books ; black lives matter ; african american ; african american history ; black history ; united states history ; electronic music ; race relations ; books about music ; books about musicians ; books on music ; gifts for musicians ; gifts for the musician ; history of music ; civil rights books ; art ; philosophy ; psychology ; culture ; business ; architecture ; design ; hip hop ; spirituality ; self help ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Fandom as Methodology (2023)
    Goldsmiths Press | Goldsmiths Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: This highly visual history of women’s cycle wear brings together Victorian engineering, patent studies and radical feminist invention. Underpinned by three years of in-depth archival research and inventive practice, this new book by Kat Jungnickel and Goldsmiths Press brings to life in rich detail the lesser-known stories of six inventors and their unique contributions to cycling’s past which continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.
    Keywords: art ; writing ; art books ; artists ; sociology ; art book ; sociology books ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; artwork ; essays ; how to ; film ; anthology ; photography ; 21st century ; education ; design ; step by step ; short stories ; criticism ; cinema ; psychology ; philosophy ; business ; creativity ; self help ; art history ; mystery ; literary criticism ; cartoons ; work ; arts ; essay ; crime ; law ; activism ; translation ; marketing ; personal development ; legal ; thriller ; anthologies ; school ; crafts ; russian ; halloween ; ideas ; drawing ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
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    Death of Public Knowledge? (2023)
    Goldsmiths Press | Goldsmiths Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: The Death of Public Knowledge? insists upon the value of shared, publicly accessible information, and suggests that the erosion of its most visible forms, including public service broadcasting, education and the network of public libraries, will have worrying outcomes for democracy.
    Keywords: sociology ; political science ; democracy ; government ; political philosophy ; capital ; geopolitics ; sociology books ; political science books ; economic history ; economics books ; world politics ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; political ideologies ; economic development ; international politics ; economics ; capitalism ; culture ; business ; finance ; philosophy ; society ; globalization ; money ; economy ; work ; social ; data ; essays ; social science ; statistics ; technology ; marketing ; journalism ; pop culture ; socialism ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
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    Future for Public Service Television (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: Television is on the edge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty and creative possibilities for producers, distributors and viewers. The proliferation of platforms from Amazon and Netflix to YouTube and the vlogosphere means extreme competition for audiences traditionally dominated by legacy broadcasters.
    Keywords: sociology ; technology ; political science ; ai ; automation ; political philosophy ; government ; sociology books ; geopolitics ; engineering ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; engineer gifts ; engineer ; engineering books ; political science books ; world politics ; international politics ; business ; culture ; internet ; philosophy ; journalism ; writing ; economics ; marketing ; pop culture ; communication ; statistics ; language ; education ; social media ; work ; news ; business books ; computers ; art ; social ; society ; law ; creativity ; music ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Data Practices (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: How EU data practices establish and assign people to categories, and how this matters in enacting--"making up"--Europe as a population and people.
    Keywords: sociology ; sociology books ; history books ; history ; immigration ; anthropology ; economics ; psychology ; culture ; education ; philosophy ; poverty ; globalization ; society ; journalism ; social science ; social justice ; community ; school ; law ; capitalism ; human rights ; social work ; economy ; geography ; feminism ; social ; war ; historical ; ethics ; political theory ; love ; marriage ; business ; gender ; global ; political science ; essays ; technology ; public policy ; classic ; american history ; spirituality ; international relations ; sustainability ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Sonic Agency (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? Sonic Agency highlights sound’s invisible, disruptive and affective qualities, and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation.
    Keywords: sociology ; technology ; political science ; political philosophy ; sociology books ; geopolitics ; government ; engineering ; political science books ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; engineer gifts ; engineer ; world politics ; engineering books ; international politics ; culture ; philosophy ; communication ; internet ; language ; journalism ; essays ; society ; pop culture ; economics ; psychology ; business ; statistics ; critical thinking ; music ; work ; news ; social ; social media ; social science ; writing ; anthologies ; linguistics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTA Acoustic and sound engineering
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    Stuart Hall (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies examines the career of the cultural studies pioneer, interrogating his influence and revealing lesser-known facets of his work. This collection of essays and photographs evaluates the legacies of his particular brand of cultural studies and demonstrates how other scholars and activists have utilised his thinking in their own research.
    Keywords: sociology ; anthropology ; political science ; evolution ; political philosophy ; government ; geopolitics ; human evolution ; world politics ; sociology books ; science books ; cultural anthropology ; political science books ; anthropology books ; history ; history books ; science ; political books ; politics ; social engineering ; homosapiens ; historical nonfiction ; international politics ; human evolution books ; philosophy ; marxism ; economics ; essays ; socialism ; technology ; biography ; classic ; law ; psychology ; death ; political theory ; education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
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    A Foreign Voyage (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: JOHN GRIDER joined the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State as a Research Fellow in November 2015. He recently completed this captivating project, which investigates the complex interplay between gender, class and race sourced from the narratives of men who found themselves working in the transforming Pacific maritime industry during the mid-nineteenth century.
    Keywords: History ; colonialism ; migration ; maps ; Atlantic ; Pacific ; sailing ; maritime ; ships ; sailors ; mariners ; exploration ; labour ; voyage ; perspectives ; justice ; inequality ; colonisation ; industrialisation ; history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history
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    Future Gaming (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. There are sufficient bodies dedicated to those predictions – and this book is about them. It is about the ways in which the past, present and future notion of games are narrated and negotiated by a small group of producers, journalists, and gamers, and about how invested these narrators are in telling the story of tomorrow.
    Keywords: technology ; sociology ; games ; computers ; gaming ; computer ; video game ; gifts for her ; gifts for women ; sociology books ; gifts for men ; gifts for him ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; gifts ; tech ; gamer gifts ; fun gifts ; video game collectibles ; video game books ; fun gifts for adults ; computer books ; video game art ; video game book ; video game gifts ; clever gifts ; game guides ; video game guides ; philosophy ; business ; culture ; pop culture ; internet ; ai ; psychology ; economics ; writing ; future ; social ; innovation ; language ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
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    Passport to Peckham (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living.
    Keywords: sociology ; world history ; european history ; gifts for history buffs ; british history ; sociology books ; british gifts ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; british ; queen elizabeth ii ; british empire ; history gifts ; history teacher gifts ; british monarchy ; britain ; british history books ; historical books ; history buff gifts ; british royalty ; history lovers gifts ; parenting ; family ; language ; reference ; anthropology ; education ; school ; picture books ; psychology ; homeschooling ; writing ; linguistics ; philosophy ; food ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes (2023)
    Brill
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides an in-depth survey of the theory and practice of divination to demonstrate how the hexagram and line statements of the text were produced and how they were understood at the time.
    Keywords: archaeology ; China ; Chinese ; Classic of Poetry ; cosmology ; decision making ; divination ; hexagrams ; history ; I Ching ; milfoil ; omens ; oracle bones ; oracles ; philosophy ; prediction ; Shi jing ; sortilege ; textual ; unearthed manuscripts ; Zhou dynasty ; Zhou Yi ; thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VX Mind, body, spirit::VXF Fortune-telling and divination ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHC East Asian and Indian philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3C BCE period – Protohistory
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    Technoprecarious (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.
    Keywords: sociology ; technology ; political science ; ai ; political philosophy ; government ; automation ; engineering ; geopolitics ; sociology books ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; engineer gifts ; engineer ; engineering books ; political science books ; world politics ; international politics ; philosophy ; culture ; art ; journalism ; business ; essays ; biography ; economics ; music ; internet ; writing ; communication ; language ; pop culture ; school ; arts ; education ; reference ; anthologies ; creativity ; psychology ; statistics ; linguistics ; social ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBW Internet: general works ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFX Social attitudes
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    The Wallachian Gold-Washers (2023)
    Brill | Schöningh
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold.
    Keywords: demography ; family ; Gypsies ; history ; Roma ; Romania ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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    Broadcast 41 (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made and wore radical new forms of cycle wear, they also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to secretly switch ordinary clothing into cycle wear.
    Keywords: feminism ; sociology ; american history ; world history ; us history ; sociology books ; gifts for history buffs ; women in history ; american history books ; historical books ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; american ; united states history ; history gifts ; history teacher gifts ; history buff gifts ; history lovers gifts ; women's history ; gender ; biography ; technology ; culture ; feminist ; essays ; pop culture ; philosophy ; historical ; physics ; music ; psychology ; business ; society ; education ; medicine ; leadership ; economics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    The New Internationalists (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: An account of the mobilization of thousands of volunteers who rescued, supported, and welcomed refugees during the recent European refugee crisis.
    Keywords: sociology ; european history ; world history ; sociology books ; historical books ; history ; history books ; refugee ; political books ; politics ; immigration ; natural disasters ; history gifts ; history teacher gifts ; refugees ; natural disaster ; history buff gifts ; meteorology books ; gifts for history buffs ; history lovers gifts ; hurricane books ; how to ; self help ; step by step ; business ; psychology ; education ; parenting ; school ; crime ; biography ; sports ; mystery ; survival ; entrepreneurship ; management ; adventure ; superheroes ; 21st century ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFG Refugees and political asylum ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFF Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made) ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSR Aid and relief programmes
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    Extreme Fabulations (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change. With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the possibilities and perils of seeking to control it; about the aesthetic and social dimensions of human existence, in relation to the nonhuman; and about the ethical value of human life under conditions of extreme oppression and devastation. Shaviro pursues these questions through the medium of science fiction because this form of storytelling offers us a unique way of grappling with issues that deeply and unavoidably concern us but that are intractable to rational argumentation or to empirical verification. The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy and renders it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience, and respond to, the vagaries of unforeseeable change.
    Keywords: sociology ; fashion ; design ; sociology books ; knitting ; sewing ; coffee table books ; art book ; dress ; coffee table book ; makeup ; history ; history books ; embroidery ; fashion books ; color ; cosplay ; dresses ; costume ; fashion design ; fashion book ; fashion books coffee table books ; design books ; gifts for artists ; fashion coffee table books ; fashion design book ; design book ; artist gifts ; fashion designer books ; gifts for artist ; self help ; feminism ; psychology ; culture ; philosophy ; health ; business ; gender ; music ; self improvement ; love ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FL Science fiction ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Unprecedented? (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
    Keywords: world history ; political science ; political philosophy ; government ; geopolitics ; economic history ; international politics ; gifts for history buffs ; political science books ; history ; history books ; political books ; politics ; economics books ; history gifts ; history teacher gifts ; world politics ; historical books ; history buff gifts ; economic development ; history lovers gifts ; economics ; urban fantasy ; paranormal romance ; urban ; supernatural ; culture ; finance ; philosophy ; sociology ; food ; vampires ; contemporary romance ; vampire ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas (2023)
    Brill
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    Publication Date: 2023-11-16
    Description: Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.
    Keywords: activism ; America ; American ; American West ; behavior ; belief system ; belief systems ; campus carry ; class ; community ; conflict ; contemporary ; cultural ; culture ; culture war ; culture wars ; debate ; education ; Europe ; fetishism ; firearms ; firearm ; firepower ; frontier mythology ; gender ; gun ; guns ; historical ; history ; identities ; identity ; imaginaries ; imaginary ; insecurity ; legislation ; Lone Star State ; lore ; memory ; movement ; movements ; myth ; North America ; Paryz ; Paryż ; performative ; political ; politics ; popular culture ; power ; race ; relations ; religion ; restriction ; rights ; security ; social power ; Texas ; USA ; urban ; youth ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFE Violence in society ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPR Regional government::JPRB Regional government policies ; bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WS Sports & outdoor recreation::WSX Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting::WSXS Small firearms, guns & other equipment
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