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  • After the end

    Cold War culture and apocalyptic imaginations in the twenty-first century

    de David L. Pike ...
    After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Corruption Plots

    Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City

    de Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, Sapana Doshi ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Winner of the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology by the American Anthropological AssociationCorruption Plots illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s

    The Bunkered Decades

    de David L. Pike ...
    Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, ... Leer más

    $82.79 USD

  • Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s

    At the Heart of the World

    de David L. Pike ...
    Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between.Along with ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • A Third University Is Possible

    de la paperson ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Stranger Than We Can Imagine

    Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

    de John Higgs ...
    **“An illuminating work of massive insight” on the complex ideas and events that initiated the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries (Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen).“An always-provocative view of an era that many people would just as soon forget . . . an absorbing tour of the 20th century.” —Kirkus Reviews**In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

    de Eve Stoddard, John Collins ...
    Series series Foundations in Global Studies
    From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role globalization. Students ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Seed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Worlding Cities

    Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

    Edición de Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong ...
    Series Libro 42 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital ... Leer más

    $35.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Dangerous Visions and New Worlds

    Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985

    Edición de Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre ...
    Much has been written about the 'long Sixties,' the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD