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  • Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin

    Relations of Power and Resistance

    by Berit Åström, Jenny Bonnevier, Jennifer Ash, Marinette Grimbeek, Megan Lynn Isaac, Emily Lange, Regina Yung Lee, Mark Soderstrom, Alexandra Stamson0, Lisa Swanstrom1, Michael Pitts2 ...
    Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of critical kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effects of climate change, currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, and where anti-democratic, racist, and misogynist movements are gaining ground in many societies, there is an urgent need to re-imagine ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Masculinities in Contemporary Science-Fiction Television

    Edited by Sara Martín, Michael Pitts ...
    Series series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
    Through a comprehensive analysis of popular contemporary science fiction television series, this book underscores the genre's unique potential to both reflect and shape cultural perceptions of masculinity.Each of its essays, written by a host of international contributors, analyse key series ranging from Firefly (2002) to Star Trek: Picard (2020-23). Employing anti-patriarchal and pro-feminist ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Hengeworld

    by Michael Pitts ...
    In November 1997 English Heritage announced the discovery of a vast prehistoric temple in Somerset. The extraordinary wooden rings at Stanton Drew are the most recent and biggest of a series of remarkable discoveries that have transformed the way archaeologists think of the great monuments in the region, including Avebury and Stonehenge; one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments, top ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction

    A New Man

    by Michael Pitts ...
    Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man traces efforts within American feminist utopias to imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis illuminates, feminist works envisioning the improved society and its attending masculinities constitute an overlooked site for mining new masculinities. During the years in which such utopias gained popularity —the early ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Rise of the Crooners

    Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee

    by Michael Pitts, Frank Hoffmann, Dick Carty, Jim Bedoian ...
    Series series Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment
    Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee-these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition.Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth century, intermingling with jazz and fronting the big band craze of the thirties and forties. Crooners spurred ... Read more

    $72.09 USD

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    Weird Crimes (Unabridged)

    by SEABURY QUINN ...
    Narrated by Michael Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 49 min

    Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throughout history. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Ancestors

    A prehistory of Britain in seven burials

    by Alice Roberts ...
    An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.‘This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Stonehenge - A New Understanding

    Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument

    by The Stonehenge Riverside Project, Mike Parker Pearson ...
    “The most authoritative, important book on Stonehenge to date.”—Kirkus, starred reviewStonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation—about Stonehenge’s celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fan Fiction Studies Reader

    Edited by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined some of its enduring questions. Editors Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse provide cogent ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Britain BC

    Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Text Only)

    by Francis Pryor ...
    An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD