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  • Romancing Through Italy
    Robert James Connors
    Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds and ghost towns come to life in visits to the hidden corners of the cradle of mo...
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    22,20 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
    Jesus Nez Romay / Jesus Nunez Romay / Jesus Nzqez Romay
    Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking country has as yet carried out a Marxist-Leninist social revolution a...
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    11,00 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • The Escape Artist
    Ian Jarvis
    If you read his IMDB profile, you see a successful actor-a guy whose face you’ve seen in TV shows, mostly the bad guy. So what?The backstory of Ian Jarvis.A nice Jewish boy from New Jersey quits Georgetown University in his junior year and crosses the country in a Chevy truck. He does some plum work as a drug dealer, escapes half a dozen FBI agents at an airport, and spends the...
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    20,44 €

  • Entre yuyos y buenezas
    Valentina Pereyra
    Este libro ofrece un acercamiento al mundo de las plantas medicinales y el uso que las mujeres rurales les dan en el departamento de Canelones, Uruguay. A lo largo de sus páginas se explora la producción social del conocimiento de estas mujeres en torno al uso de plantas como medicina haciendo hincapié en conocer sus prácticas y experiencias y los significados que les otorgan a...
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    15,08 €

  • Mark Gruenwald
    Paul V Allen
    Mark Gruenwald explores the career and lasting influence of Mark Gruenwald (1953-1996), a pivotal figure in the history of Marvel Comics. Known for his humor, encyclopedic knowledge of superhero lore, and dedication to continuity, Gruenwald played a critical role in shaping Marvel’s universe and storytelling during his nearly two decades at the company. This biography traces Gr...
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    18,13 €

  • Clowns To the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right
    Frank Teller
    America near the breaking point - divided as never before in modern history. The political right abandoned independence and respect for traditional conservative values. The political left drifted away from realistic aspirations and common sense. Extremism and deep division ensue. History has shown that when politicians pledge blind allegiance to an authoritarian leader, the res...
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    10,46 €

  • Australian Dreaming Stories
    Ellen Anderson
    'Ellen Anderson’s Aboriginal Dreaming stories, as recorded by C.W. Peck in the 1920s and 1930s, evidence the rich oral tradition of the Indigenous people of eastern Australia. Dealing with plants and animals, the physical environment, cultural practices and historic events, they open a window into a civilisation distinguished by its close association with Country.'Michael Organ...
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    22,50 €

  • The Vegans Are Coming
    Marcel Gerstel
    The Vegans Are Coming is not a cookbook, a diet manual, or a wellness guide.It is a sharp, darkly humorous audit of modern humanity - a cultural post-mortem disguised as a laugh.With wit, satire, and uncomfortable clarity, the book examines the everyday systems we accept without question: food, tradition, entertainment, progress, and the strange moral gymnastics used to defend ...
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    15,94 €

  • Team Up
    Marie Sartain
    As superhero comics have become increasingly mainstream, so too has the attention given to the creators behind them. Yet, while it is widely known that the majority of superhero comics are produced through collaborative efforts, the ways these partnerships shape creation and reception of such works remain largely unexplored. Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics ad...
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    43,20 €

  • Excitement For Sale
    Stephen Marlowe
    In a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs, the quest for truth becomes an exhilarating race against time. This science fiction novel, once lost to the sands of time, has been resurrected by Alpha Editions after decades out of print. Set against the backdrop of a mid-20th century setting, it invites readers into an alternate reality universe where societal com...
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    15,34 €

  • The Pleasure of Thinking
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In The Pleasure of Thinking, Theodore Dalrymple embarks on an entertaining intellectual journey. With his characteristic wit, Dalrymple navigates the quirky realms of literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, highlighting the satisfaction that comes with reflecting on life’s questions. This book is for anyone who delights in the intricacies of the human mind and ...
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    19,48 €

  • Sexual politics in revolutionary England
    Sam Fullerton
    Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom’s mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civ...
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    43,98 €

  • My Big Friends Theory
    Pamela De Rosa / Annalisa Alberti / Elisabetta Lanzillotti
    Two legendary sitcoms. One shared DNA. A journey through friendship, physics, and the pursuit of love.In the world of television, few shows have shaped culture like Friends and The Big Bang Theory. On the surface, they seem worlds apart-one centered on six fashion-forward New Yorkers in a coffee shop, the other on a group of brilliant scientists in a comic book store. But look ...
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    23,22 €

  • Río de Calaveras
    Ramón Abarca García
    Río de Calaveras reúne relatos ambientados en Zumpango del Río, Guerrero, donde la memoria colectiva, las tradiciones, la religiosidad y la vida cotidiana se entrelazan con la ficción narrativa. A través de historias como La Reina de Tecalco, el autor reconstruye un universo social marcado por el amor a la tierra, la oralidad, la violencia, la fe y la dignidad humana, ofreciend...
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    27,56 €

  • The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings
    Fairies, elves, and other magical beings... they’re so much more than just children’s tales.For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these beings who lived much like humans in their own communities. This ’social supernatural’ world mirrored ours with troll weddings, pixy battles, nereid picnics, dwarf migrations, and the like. Social super...
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    50,51 €

  • Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma
    Tamara Hundorova / Tanya Savchynska
    This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises;...
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    25,81 €

  • Plane Jane
    Frederick C. Davis
    In the shadowy alleys of 1930s New York City, where the hum of propellers mingles with whispered secrets, a mystery unfolds that grips the heart and mind. This aviation mystery, long lost to the annals of time, is now resurrected by Alpha Editions after being out of print for decades. The tale, a seamless blend of detective fiction and crime thriller, invites both mystery enthu...
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    14,29 €

  • The Love Algorithm Is Broken
    Matthew Petchinsky
    Modern romance feels exhausting, confusing, and strangely hollow-and it’s not your fault.The Love Algorithm Is Broken: Hack Romance Before It Hacks You exposes how dating apps, swipe culture, and performative relationship norms have quietly rewired attraction, attachment, and intimacy at the neurological and emotional level. What feels like personal failure is often the result ...
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    9,57 €

  • La République de la bouffe
    Alex Fenot
    Je suis chef de cuisine, français, exilé aux États-Unis depuis vingt ans. Et je n’ai pas dit expatrié pour une bonne raison. Je regarde mon pays de loin et j’en porte le manque comme une blessure à vif, une plaie qui refuse de cicatriser.Ici, je suis aussi un client de restaurant. Je fais mes courses comme tout le monde. Et je vois ce monde changer, rayon après rayon, assiette ...
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    16,39 €

  • Held Over
    John Gaspard
    TWO YEARS, ONE THEATER: THE CULT FILM THAT WOULDN’T DIE(SECOND EDITION - WITH A DOZEN NEW PHOTOS) The studio wanted it buried. Critics dismissed it. But when Harold and Maude arrived at Minneapolis’ Westgate Theater, something magical happened. The quirky dark comedy about a death-obsessed teen and an 80-year-old free spirit found its home. And stayed. And stayed. And stayed so...
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    47,91 €

  • Media and Society
    Amy Dobson / Nicholas Carah / Sungyong Ahn
    An urgent and compelling introduction that explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. ...
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    190,02 €

  • La Hermosa Gente
    Francisco Urondo
    En mayo de 1967, Francisco Urondo trabajó para el ignoto semanario JUAN donde realizó diez entrevistas para la sección titulada >. Esas conversaciones, recuperadas y reunidas por primera vez en este libro, constituyen un documento imprescindible sobre la cultura argentina y sus creadores. 10 ...
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    15,60 €

  • Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots
    Daniel Stein
    Since the publication of The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, more African American creators have used graphic narratives to explore key moments in colonial and US history. These graphic stories address the painful legacies of anti-Black violence and the long history of racial injustice, using the power of comics to both confront the past and offer visio...
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    42,57 €

  • Erotic Comics in Japan
    Kaoru Nagayama / Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto / Patrick Galbraith
    Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga is the most comprehensive introduction in English to erotic comics in Japan, or eromanga. ...
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    82,52 €

  • Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition
    The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. ...
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    82,49 €

  • Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today
    Gil Hizi
    This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, 'self-development. Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party’s prescriptions for 'good' citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to 'improve' themselves. ...
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    82,41 €

  • A Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire
    Matthijs Kuipers
    This volume examines popular imperial culture in the Netherlands around the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    82,79 €


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