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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bob hodges”
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  • Portable Prose

    The Novel and the Everyday

    by Jarrad Cogle, Jedidiah Evans, N. Cyril Fischer, Bob Hodges, John Plotz, Lydia Saleh Rofail, Christopher Rudge, Stephanie Russo0, Hisup Shin1, Vanessa Smith3, Zachary Tavlin4, Jennifer Wilson5, Nicola Evans6 ...
    Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel’s existence, negotiating the boundaries between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies of representation ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Grandkids’ Guide to Atlantis

    by Bob Hodge ...
    WHERE IS ATLANTIS? Plato the greatest Greek philosopher first revealed this ancient lost civilization, but no-one believed him. It’s the world’s most famous mystery. WHO CAN FIND IT? Not Chris, Demi and Alex, surely. They’re too young, with too many problems of their own. But they’re given a mission by their Granddad: ‘Follow my clues and find Atlantis. Which I never could.’ He was a super-Nerd ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Social Semiotics for a Complex World

    Analysing Language and Social Meaning

    by Bob Hodge ...
    Social semiotics reveals language�s social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination.Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Myths of Oz

    Reading Australian Popular Culture

    by John Fiske, Bob Hodge, Graeme Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
    This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Language and Control

    by Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress, Tony Trew ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
    Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just stylistic reflections of social differences; speaking or writing in a certain manner entails ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

    The Art of Reading Dragons

    by Bob Hodge, Kam Louie ...
    Series series Culture and Communication in Asia
    An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • The Birth of the Museum

    History, Theory, Politics

    by Tony Bennett ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Tourist Attractions

    From Object to Narrative

    by Johan R. Edelheim ...
    Series Book 46 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beyond Bruce Lee

    Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture

    by Paul Bowman ...
    In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hobart

    by Peter Timms ...
    Series series The City Series
    A journey through Hobart—Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital—this updated edition reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world. From Hobart's convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture, and climate to crime rates, economic hardship, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

    Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World

    by Edward McDonald ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to their own mother tongue. While the entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language ... Read more

    $65.99 USD