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Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735299860Author N D JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kuumba PublishingPublisher Kuumba PublishingSeries Fantasy in BlackWeight(grams)...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on...

'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area...

This special issue looks at the increasing presence of Cultural Studies as a discipline within academia. The debate about it's relevance still rages and is commented on in these pages. Also includes tips on publishing for academics and a guide to...

A collection of essays on the topical and familiar : the future of reggae and the legend of Bob Marley; community and the public body in breast cancer media activism, and the redefinition of the Louvre are among the subjects discussed.About the...

Contributors: Alan Mckee, Line Grenier, Jocelyne Guilbault, Kevin Foster, Megan Boler, Cameron McCarthy, Sandhya Shukla, John Hartigan,Jr.Articles:The Aboriginal Version of Ken Done... Banal Aboriginal Identities in AustraliaCreolite and Francophonie in...

Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by...

Considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender. The contributors explore the complex territory between the lust for, and the fear of, technology, commenting on the ambivalence...