Society & Culture: General

We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electr...

In Pop Culture, Politics, and the News, Joel Penney explores how pop culture news has taken on an important role in contemporary political discours...

This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Childrens Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to chil...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. T...

When does epidemic disease disrupt society to the point where it becomes a political crisis? In the early 1980s, almost unnoticed in the larger dra...

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of I...

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historia...

This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears p...

The Demographic Yearbook 2021 is the seventy-second issue in a series published by the United Nations since 1948. It contains tables on a wide rang...

Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a ...

People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was expor...

How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a...

The importance of spirituality in shaping contemporary visual culture has mostly been disregarded. Mentioning art and spirit in the same sentence w...

In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican an...

Filme analysieren und verstehen. Film- und Fernsehproduktionen fesseln den Zuschauer durch Bilder, Dialoge oder Musik. Das Buch bietet das nötige H...

Wichtiges Forschungsfeld und vielschichtige Problematik. Das Handbuch beschreibt die zentralen Phänomene und die gegenwärtigen Kontroversen der Glo...

As the world's population continues to grow, there is an ever increasing need for huge investment in basic infrastructure: water and sewage, energy...

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools ...

Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspapers longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case s...

This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral econom...