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Capitalism And Christianity Am...Considers the relationship between capitalism and Christianity and its effects... Considers the relationship between capitalism and Christianity and its effects on contemporary US politics This book argues that the vision of the Second Coming that motivates a segment of the evangelical right resonates with the ethos of greed... more
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Sainted Women Of The Dark Ages...Presents lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries a... Presents lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries all of whom became saints This title covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire and the conversion of the invading Franks to the rise of Charlemagne's family more
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Robert Bellah Reader By Robert...Robert Bellah is perhaps best known for his co-authored bestselling books Habi... Robert Bellah is perhaps best known for his co-authored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society This reader spanning five decades of writings by Bellah covers his work as a scholar public intellectual critic and minister more
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitt...In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hel... In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalizatio more
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Everyday Utopias: The Conceptu...Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dre... Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, more
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Transnational America: Feminis...In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of peop... In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame more
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Channeling the State: Communit...Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launch... Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launched in 2000 by activists from the barrios of Caracas. Run on the principle that state resources should serve as a weapon of the poor to advance revolutionary social chang more
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The Brink of Freedom: Improvis...In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions... In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early nat more
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Reattachment Theory: Queer Cin...In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality-far from being th... In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality-far from being the threat to "traditional" marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted-is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing o more
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Becoming: The Photographs of C...Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822-1865) produced over eight hundred photo... Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822-1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper- more
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Visual Pedagogy: Media Culture...In classrooms, museums, health clinics and beyond, the educational uses of vis... In classrooms, museums, health clinics and beyond, the educational uses of visual media have proliferated over the past fifty years. Film, video, television, and digital media have been integral to the development of new pedagogical theories and p more
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Louise Thompson Patterson: A L...Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figur... Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In thi more
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How Immigrants Impact Their Ho...How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, ... How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become age more
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Buy It Now: Lessons from eBayIn Buy It Now, Michele White examines e Bay and its emphasis on community and ... In Buy It Now, Michele White examines e Bay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, ru more
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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, ...Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the pe... Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typi more
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The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie...The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, sh... The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one woman. Above all, it is a multileveled interpretation of the Mexican revolution and the ultima more
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Recentering Globalization: Pop...Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western-particu... Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western-particularly American-popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, tele more
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Protection of Global Biodivers...The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time... The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time in the last 65 million years. Some predict that if this rate continues, two-thirds of all living species will disappear during the next century. Because reaching consen more
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Matters of Gravity: Special Ef...The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roll... The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster-Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading m more
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Creative License: The Law and ...How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwr... How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z's song "Takeover"? Why doesn't Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as "Funky Drummer" and "C more
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