Kulturstudier

?En väl sammanhållen idéernas historia genomsyrad av inspirerande associationer och djärva sammankopplingar mellan olika tiders idévärldar.? Helsingborgs Dagblad ?Ett läsvärt och enkelt smakprov på vilka vyer som kan öppnas av idéhistoriska studie...

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"Det är en sen lördagseftermiddag i mars. Under en promenad får jag ett telefonsamtal; Har du hört om Benny? Att han är död? Hur är det möjligt? Så sent som igår pratade jag med honom. Men det är sant. Benny Fredriksson har tagit sitt liv i e...

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In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is c...

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'Cities cover just 2% of the world s surface, but consume 75% of the world s resources .The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside th...

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  Hur skapas mästerverk? Hur skapas någonting alls? Hur kommer man vidare? Vilka är idéerna som inte fungerar i teorin men fungerar i praktiken? Det här är en guide till att stimulera sig själv till nytänkande. En bok om att skapa någonting u...

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A new edition of a popular introduction to all aspects of life in Britain. This version reflects on the ongoing fallout from the global financial and eurozone crises; the May 2015 General Election; the September 2014 referendum on Scottish indepen...

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This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street, and developing fabric technology from silk to fleece. From Coco Chanel to Armani and Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phen...

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Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your gu...

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In this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of ...

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This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading sch...

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Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this boo...

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Nor...

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A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. A core book.

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A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of everything that passes for knowledge in society . It focuses...

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Det här är en bok om kulturpolitisk förändring i Sverige under senare år. Det är samtidigt en bok om idéer och om idéernas makt att forma vår verklighet. Kulturpolitik har traditionellt utgått från idéer om kulturens roll för demokrati och allas r...

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A master of the genre' THE TIMES 'A gripping read, full of intelligence and perspective' JAMES DYSON 'Will change the way you think about success and even about life' JUDY MURRAY 'On a vital and still-overlooke...

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Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? Waiting is about the senses. If you do...

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Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing togeth...

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What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "e;in fashion"e; universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change?...

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Gudomliga komedier är både en humorns idéhistoria och en kritisk reflektion om huruvida vi med humor blir oss själva genom att överskrida oss själva. I detta trebandsverk undersöker Ola Sigurdson filosofer, författare och teologer som sedan antike...

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With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens by which many of us apprehend and communicate our experience. But our thinkin...

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Sverige på 1960- och 70-talet var fyllt av sex och pornografi: inom film, musik, teater, konst, idrott, politik, religion ... Frigjorda tider borrar på djupet i denna märkliga epok. Flera av dagens mest tillknäppta och pryda kulturpersonligheter o...

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Taking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style. Covering all the essential topics, from immigration to intercultural ...

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» Vikingen är påfallande lättläst, skriven med gott humör och med roande utvikningar om allt från historiserande arkitektur till vikingar som gayikoner.« Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet »Boken är välskriven. Den är kort, koncentrerad och lättläst...

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Demokratin har aldrig varit en självklarhet. Ständigt har den omtolkats och omprövats. Som den här boken visar är dess historia full av nystarter och krisstämningar, heroiska insatser och kompakt motstånd. Under största delen av historien har orde...

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The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life. One h...

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"Blytungt, rappt och roligt om kvinnlig styrketräning" Dagens Nyheter "Rör sig mellan gymgolv och tanketradition, med en personlig, påläst och stilistiskt säkert ton. / / Så lyckas Martinsson fördjupa och komplicera den samtida disk...

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Little Book of Prada is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of the legendary fashion house. Understated elegance and luxury, technologically advanced fabrics and sublime originality of design are all hallmarks of the House of Prada....

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_______________ One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts. (The Times) You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more ...

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Visual communication shapes our perceptions and experiences of the world. This is not only a question of photographs or video, but also the design of websites, the use of data visualization software, the branding of packaging, and even the design ...

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