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Culture Ben Highmore 9780415672740
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?Culture offers students a workable understanding of the category 'culture'... -
The Design Culture Reader by Ben Highmore
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.82Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us... -
The Everyday Life Reader by Ben Highmore 9780415230254
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24The Everyday Life Reader brings together thinkers ranging from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources. It thus provides a complete and comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life.Ben... -
Playgrounds: The Experimental Years Ben Highmore 9781789149470
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In the decades following 1945 a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings and roundabouts, the new playgrounds encouraged children to build... -
A Passion for Cultural Studies by Ben Highmore 9781403997180
Booksplease Price: £37.81The culture that infiltrates our lives can provoke a range of feelings and afflictions - culture can move you, get under your skin and stir up your emotions. Ben Highmore uses these feelings, or... -
Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics by Ben Highmore
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond... -
Michel De Certeau: Analysing Culture by Ben Highmore 9780826460738
Booksplease Price: £40.79Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of... -
Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City by Ben Highmore 9780333929353
Booksplease Price: £41.78The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as well... -
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain by Ben Highmore
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.84In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned... -
Performance Art: Education and Practice by Angeliki Avgitidou
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the... -
Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct by Megan Watkins
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Pedagogy is often glossed as the 'art and science of teaching' but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on 'public pedagogies',... -
Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate Stephen Ross (University of Victoria, Canada) 9780415461573
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Modernism and Theory boldly asks what - if any - role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays... -
Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed by Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9780230201231
Booksplease Price: £46.05Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society - it's where we live most... -
What is the Meaning of Life?: Making and Breaking the Rules We Live By Tania Moore 9781836360438
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Taking the most existential question, 'What is the Meaning of Life?', this publication dissects creative expression, considers the place for frivolity, and unpacks the rhythms and rules of the... -
The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography Jane Simon 9780367544058
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies... -
Culture and the Unconscious by Caroline Bainbridge 9781403986221
Booksplease Price: £90.56This collection sheds light on how cultural questions can be addressed through a dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical and academic traditions. With accessible introductions to its central themes,... -
A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value by S. Stewart 9781349477906
Booksplease Price: £48.68This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people... -
A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value by S. Stewart 9781137377074
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people... -
Food and Multiculture: A Sensory Ethnography of East London Alex Rhys-Taylor 9781472581150
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he... -
Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism Jonathan Hughes 9780750640831
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and... -
Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain by Zoë Thompson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the... -
Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life by Francisco Cruces 9781793633231
Booksplease Price: £33.49In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich... -
Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life by Francisco Cruces
Booksplease Price: £86.43In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich... -
The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass-Observation: 1930s to the Present Lucy D. Curzon 9781350215757
Booksplease Price: £85.65The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation embraces new approaches and themes that highlight Mass Observation's long history as an innovative research organization, a social... -
The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption Louise Purbrick 9781138276574
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their... -
Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail by Anca I. Lasc
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Through an international range of case studies from the 1870s to the present, this volume analyzes strategies of display in department stores and modern retail spaces. Established scholars and... -
Real Lives, Celebrity Stories: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media by Bronwen Thomas 9781501308635
Booksplease Price: £40.79From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our existence and that of others. Multiple academic... -
Changing Media, Homes and Households: Cultures, Technologies and Meanings Deborah Chambers 9781138791602
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Media technologies have played a central role in shaping ideas about home life over the last two centuries. Changing Media, Homes and Households explores the complex relationship between home,... -
Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City by Aurora Wallace
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and... -
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist by Jon Wood
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.75William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and... -
Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris in the Archive by Matthew Harle 9781501365515
Booksplease Price: £35.46Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from... -
The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation: 1930s to the Present Lucy D. Curzon 9781350215795
Booksplease Price: £30.54The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation embraces new approaches and themes that highlight Mass Observation's long history as an innovative research organization, a social... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166348
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is... -
Street Furniture Design: Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain by Eleanor Herring 9781474245616
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which are now familiar parts of our urban environment were designed to populate public spaces. Herring... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows... -
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin... -
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin 9780822361367
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin... -
National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political by Angharad Closs Stephens 9780755641437
Booksplease Price: £96.35Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg 9780822347583
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces...