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Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187142Author Vanessa Angelica VillarrealFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Tiny Reparations BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241536Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 436g

The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon-told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791475669Author Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506481685Author David DarkFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization...

"Bond. James Bond." Since Sean Connery first uttered that iconic phrase in Dr. No, more than one quarter of the world's population has seen a 007 film. Witty and urbane, Bond seduces and kills with equal ease often, it seems, with equal...

In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large...

Proof of a long-forgotten ancient worldwide civilisation. All around the world are mysterious ancient monoliths with strange features—perfectly carved terraces, massive steps, basins, and abstract forms with underground grottos and cave systems. Most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988851610Author Michaela GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint RE: Ward, Inc.Publisher RE: Ward, Inc.Weight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

One of the defining moments of College Rock in the USA, Let It Be (and the Replacments themselves) had an enormous impact on the lives of the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, a daydreaming adolescent in the cultural wilderness of Montana,...

Fun Trivia Questions and Answers for Brainiacs"A fun collection of facts that will leave you full of information you never knew you needed to know!" Sophie Stirling, author of We Did That?#1 Bestseller in Reference, Puzzles, Trivia, Curiosities &...

"Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right CallEvery decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312306960Author Nancy KilpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

This is a revealing look at the events and personalities that defined the Beat Generation, drawing on over three decades of research. Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers past the caricature of the "beatnik" as a goateed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983358930Author R. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this...

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868286083Author Sophie DarmaillacqFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 983g

Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this...

Drawing on rich empirical material, this revealing book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value. When branding lifestyles or value complexes onto their products,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATIONA nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson's Bluets As Daphne B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813251Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited Press

This is the second volume of Vonnegut's autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617754098Author Ian SvenoniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 187g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739484507Author Thomas A. ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing LimitedDimensions(mm)...

On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures - the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950's, the term literally...

In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the...

In No Apologies, Katherine Brodsky argues that it's time for principled individuals to hit the unmute button and resist the authoritarians among us who name, shame, and punish. Recognizing that speaking authentically is easier said than done, she spent...

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define...

More than just a simple journey through the history of Pokemon, Daniel Dockery offers an in-depth look at the franchise's many branches of impact and influence. With dozens of firsthand interviews, Monster Kids covers its beginnings as a Japanese video...

In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football's World Cup demonstrate, sport's social, political, economic and...

A humorous yet practical book of life lessons from the seminal Little House on the Prairie, blending Laura Ingalls Wilder's timeless teachings with her surprisingly timely penchant for homesteading, crafting, and the lifestyle we now call Cottagecore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999864002Author Sarah LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Red RainPublisher Red Rain

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu...

In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission - "To organize the world's information and make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984825438Author Steven L. KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc

A nostalgic romp through modern NBA history as documented by basketball's most iconic and innovative magazine covers.Every magazine cover is the result of a series of intentional decisions. Cover Story shares the behind-the-scenes stories of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387561250Author Dean NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company