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A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life...

Author: Tara Button
ISBN: 9780008217716
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically...  Read More >>

Fashioning Professionals: Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries

Fashioning Professionals: Identity and Representation...

Author: Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria) ,  Felice McDowell (London College of Fashion, UK)
ISBN: 9781350001848
Format: Hardback
$180.00

From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, ‘creative’ professional identities can be viewed as social...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object

Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object...

Author: Benjamin Fleming (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Richard Mann (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138546141
Format: Paperback
$96.99

"Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging...  Read More >>

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Author: Edward Kamens
ISBN: 9780300223712
Format: Hardback
$134.95

A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part...  Read More >>

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture,...

Author: Therí Pickens
ISBN: 9781138099814
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set...  Read More >>

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age: Research in Honor of Pamela J. Shoemaker

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age: Research in...

Author: Carol M. Liebler ,  Tim P. Vos
ISBN: 9781433147722
Format: Hardback
$318.38

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Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age: Research in Honor of Pamela J. Shoemaker

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age: Research in...

Author: Carol M. Liebler ,  Tim P. Vos
ISBN: 9781433147777
Format: Paperback
$177.54

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker...  Read More >>

Urban Communication Regulation: Communication Freedoms and Limits

Urban Communication Regulation: Communication Freedoms...

Author: Harvey Jassem ,  Susan J. Drucker
ISBN: 9781433146329
Format: Hardback
$318.38

Thirteen scholars—whose backgrounds range from community organizing, to law, telecommunication, architecture, city...  Read More >>

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

Author: Evanghelia Stead
ISBN: 9783319538310
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point...  Read More >>

James Rosenquist: Painting As Immersion

James Rosenquist: Painting As Immersion

Author: Stephan Diederich ,  Yilmaz Dziewior
ISBN: 9783791357249
Format: Hardback
$105.00

A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large-scale works and...  Read More >>

The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work: From Tabernacle to Eucharist

The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work: From Tabernacle...

Author: Jeremy Kidwell
ISBN: 9780815354680
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Why does it matter that we do work which is meaningful, excellent, and beautiful? Through a close reading of Christian...  Read More >>

Urban Communication Regulation: Communication Freedoms and Limits

Urban Communication Regulation: Communication Freedoms...

Author: Harvey Jassem ,  Susan J. Drucker
ISBN: 9781433146312
Format: Paperback
$187.57

Thirteen scholars—whose backgrounds range from community organizing, to law, telecommunication, architecture, city...  Read More >>

Mobile and Ubiquitous Media: Critical and International Perspectives

Mobile and Ubiquitous Media: Critical and International...

Author: Michael S. Daubs ,  Vincent R. Manzerolle
ISBN: 9781433148415
Format: Hardback
$316.27

This volume provides a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches that are useful to those...  Read More >>

Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia

Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early...

Author: Zoltán Biedermann (University College London) ,  Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781108415507
Format: Hardback
$240.61

Global Gifts examines the ways in which material goods contributed to the growth of political exchanges between...  Read More >>

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the...

Author: Ariel Wilkis
ISBN: 9781503604285
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economâia en el mundo...  Read More >>

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the...

Author: Ariel Wilkis
ISBN: 9781503602861
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economâia en el mundo...  Read More >>

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation...

Author: John Newson ,  Elizabeth Newson
ISBN: 9781138505971
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances

Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household...

Author: Wang Min’an (Capital Normal University, China) ,  Shaobo Xie
ISBN: 9780415784856
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Unconventional, creative, and highly original, this book centres on the assemblage of household machines that create...  Read More >>

Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean...

Author: Natasha Awais-Dean
ISBN: 9780861592098
Format: Paperback
$211.20

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Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

Author: John Armitage ,  Joanne Roberts
ISBN: 9781474425827
Format: Undefined
$56.90

John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially,...  Read More >>

Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery

Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology...

Author: Grace Turner
ISBN: 9781683400202
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them...  Read More >>

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