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According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles b...

Cool Britannia is alive and well today. British culture is at the top of its game--in fashion, popular music, art and entertainment, science and te...

In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for 'a new kind of public' that wanted more honest pictures. Cassano argues that this new k...

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experi...

For a few decades now, They Might Be Giants album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out...

WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questionsthat is, until she too...

Although mathematics has long been considered an arcane, inaccessible discipline, it has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over...

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival;...

The classic Breath of Fire series stands out as Capcom's most acclaimed foray into the fantasy RPG genre. Now, gamers can revisit the many worlds a...

Darksiders: Genesis is an action/adventure game that tears its way through hordes of demons, angels, and everything in-between on its way to Hell a...

Whether your character is jumping for joy or grappling with an opponent, this book provides all the essential techniques to draw more lifelike acti...

Mythology for centuries has served as humanity's window into understanding its distant past. In our modern world, storytelling creates its own m...

The Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times.net, the Internets favourite music satire site. Often referred to as The O...

In November 1977, Warner Bros. secured the rights to release the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in America. The following...

Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible...

The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecra...

The Independent Group is now the subject of global scholarly interest, and this book, a sequel to The Independent Group: Modernism and mass culture...