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Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport

Victoria Robinson

• Paperback | Engels
• Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and cultu... Lees meer

Visibly Muslim

Emma Tarlo

• Paperback | Engels
• Muslims in Britain and cosmopolitan cities throughout the West are increasingly choosing to express their identity and faith through dress, whether by... Lees meer

Veil

Fadwa El Guindi

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000. In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young ... Lees meer

The Meaning of Europe

• Paperback | Engels
• Mention the word Europe in today's society and you are greeted with a range of responses, from impassioned debate, to scepticism and outright hostilit... Lees meer

Fashion Zeitgeist

Barbara Vinken

• Hardcover | Engels
• Although it is appealing to think that fashion has taken a sharp turn away from conventions established in the industry over the past century and more... Lees meer

Europe and German Unification

R Fritsch-Bournazel

• Paperback | Engels
• An assessment of the situation of Europe and German unification at the beginning of the 1990s. The author identifies fundamental issues and documents,... Lees meer

Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks

• Paperback | Engels | Business, Culture and Change
• Diasporas large-scale ethnic migrations have been a source of growing concern as we try to understand the nature of community, identity and nationalis... Lees meer

Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Sport Commerce and Culture
• Sports studies is becoming an increasingly popular discipline, but the most effective research methods used to investigate the multi-faceted nature of... Lees meer

Materializing Art History

Gen Doy

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Quite a number of studies have assessed the value of Marxism to literary criticism, but there has been no recent and systematic study of what Marxism ... Lees meer

War Experiences in Rural Germany

Benjamin Ziemann

• Paperback | Engels | Legacy of the Great War
• World War I was a uniquely devastating total war that surpassed all previous conflicts for its destruction. But what was the reality like on the groun... Lees meer

The Milltown Boys Revisited

Howard Williamson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left... Lees meer

Hitting the Jackpot

Pasi Falk, Pasi Maenpaa

• Paperback | Engels
• What happens to a person when she or he wins an enormous amount of money? One widespread belief is that hitting the jackpot kick-starts a downward spi... Lees meer

Fashion and Music

Janice Miller

• Hardcover | Engels
• The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicia... Lees meer

Techno Fashion

Bradley Quinn

• Paperback | Engels
• From digital-display dresses to remote control couture, this book exposes the revolutionary interface between contemporary fashion and technology. As ... Lees meer

Art Rules

Michael Grenfell, Cheryl Hardy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the vis... Lees meer

S/He

Claudine Griggs

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in powerful, complex an... Lees meer

Slow Living

Geoffrey Craig, Wendy Parkins

• Hardcover | Engels
• Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today'... Lees meer

Shadows of the Shoah

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler

• Hardcover | Engels
• "How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed s... Lees meer

The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | German Historical Perspectives | nr. 14
• Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of historians who are enga... Lees meer

Representing East Germany Since Unification

Paul Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels
• When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, ... Lees meer

Sobibor

Jules Schelvis

• Paperback | Engels
• Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors pe... Lees meer

Sentenced to Everyday Life

Lesley Johnson, Justine Lloyd

• Hardcover | Engels
• The history of the housewife is a complicated and uneasy narrative, rife with contradictions, tensions, and unanswered questions. In response to this,... Lees meer

Nazi 'Chic'?

Irene Guenther

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the ... Lees meer

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

• Hardcover | Engels
• This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university... Lees meer