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  • Depth of Shallow Culture

    The High Art of Shoes, Movies, Novels, Monsters, and Toys

    by Albert J. Bergesen ...
    Come take a closer look at ordinary footwear, like sneakers, or children's toys and Saturday cartoon TV shows, or make a comparison between Don Quixote and John Rambo of the Sylvester Stallone movie. Although some regard popular culture as "shallow," this book reveals that it is more often complex, deep, meaningful and subject to the style changes we associate with high art. Bergesen shows how ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A World-Systems Reader

    New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology

    by Tim Bartley, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Wilma A. Dunaway, Stephen W. K. Chiu, Colin Flint, Peter Grimes, Leslie S. Laczko, Peter N. Peregrine, Fred M. Shelley, David A. Smith0, Alvin Y. So1, Yodit Solomon2, Elon Stander3, Debra Straussfogel4, Carol Ward5, Albert Bergesen6, Thomas D. Hall7, Joya Misra9, William R. Thompson0 ...
    This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Cultural Analysis

    The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas

    by Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert J. Bergesen, Edith Kurzweil ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault
    First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    by Rebecca Solnit ...
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  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

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  • Travels in Hyperreality

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    by Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Red Skin, White Masks

    Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

    by Glen Sean Coulthard ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    WINNER OF:Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationCanadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson PrizeStudies in Political Economy Book PrizeOver the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Art Is Life

    Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent timesJerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted ... Read more

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  • Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

    The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

    by Frances Widdowson, Albert Howard ...
    By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention ... Read more

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  • All Art is Ecological

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series Green Ideas
    In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered ... Read more

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