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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732798076Author Jasper WongFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Paragon PressPublisher Paragon Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732221949Author Bradley RubensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Meridian Art PressPublisher Meridian Art PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964469Author Anita KunzFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648052484Author Twisha RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited...

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us...

First published in 2000. This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. They were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century Black women educators. The study...

Author's previous titles include Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (Routledge 1990)20 photographs include 11 specially commissionedCurrent interest in patterns of consumption in daily lifeAbout the AuthorSusan WillisBook...

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorStanley AronowitzBook InformationISBN 9781138179967Author Stanley AronowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087946979Author Anissa BoudjaouiFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkSeries Vol.6Weight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781080119370Author Len BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978771355Author Jason, C. KuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

In Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that...

The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544636347Author J. R. R. TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the...

"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore VidalAbout the AuthorDirector of the Humanities Center at...

Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural...

While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum...

Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and...

Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web; The Economy of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web,...

What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are...

Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty? Academic...

Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty? Academic...

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the...

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...

From fetuses scanned ultrasonically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. As we are faced with reproductive choices connected directly with technologies, we often have...

Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its...

These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses...

Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology to address masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. Masturbation today enjoys a highly equivocal and contradictory status among cultural discourses relating to...

PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan Wallach Scott,...

In Telling Flesh, Vicki Kirby addresses a major theoretical issue at the intersection of the social sciences and feminist theory -- the separation of nature from culture. Kirby focuses particularly on postmodern approaches to corporeality, and explores...

The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.About the AuthorMichael Berube and Cary Nelson both teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael Berube's most recent books include...

Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America.About the...

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science.About the AuthorEvelyn Fox KellerBook InformationISBN 9780415905251Author...

Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that...

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)About the...

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great...

Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humour, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to...