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“m rajguru”

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  • The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design

    Material Culture and Social Agency

    Edited by Sandy Ng, Megha Rajguru ...
    Focusing on the late 20th century onward, this book brings to light the ways in which design as a material form has underscored cultural, social and economic changes across Asia.The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design provides a deeper and more enhanced understanding of material culture in Asia through analysis of examples of ceramics, electronic items, fashion, furniture, interior design, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Healing the Ailing Medical System

    Homeopathy Leads the Way

    by Ashok RajGuru ...
    Our healthcare system is broken it is expensive, complicated, and dysfunctional. It seems to be benefiting the industry more than the patient. This book shows how it lost its way and how our doctors can steer it back to its noble path. Presently the focus is on disease, specialty care, technology, insurance, pharmaceutical hegemony, and hospital profits. Instead, the focus should be on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Design and Modernity in Asia

    National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990

    Edited by Yunah Lee, Megha Rajguru ...
    This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs for modern living. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies, each essay illuminates commonalities and particularities of the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • Modern Fashion Traditions

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    Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies and analyses their similarities and differences as legitimate fashion systems, contesting Eurocentric ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Seoul

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  • Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

    Spectacle, Politics and History

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  • The Global Contemporary Art World

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  • Rethinking Fashion Globalization

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    Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse.This edited collection draws together original, diverse, and richly reflective critiques of the fashion system ... Read more

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