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    Gender and Advertising

    de Diane Barthel ...
    Series series Women In The Political Economy
    In this lively critical analysis, Diane Barthel reveals the previously overlooked and underestimated depth of cultural meaning behind contemporary American advertising. Focusing mainly on ads for beauty products directed at women, she demonstrates how stereotypical gender identities are emphasized and how advertising itself creates a gendered relationship with the consumer. She explores ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability

    For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, and from social and economic contradictions as heritage developed ... Leer más

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  • Extreme Cities

    The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

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  • Bobos in Paradise

    The New Upper Class and How They Got There

    de David Brooks ...
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  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Leer más

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  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Leer más

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    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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