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This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comp...

This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comp...

At one time the American Dream was the ideal and envy of the world. But today, at the dawn of the new Millennium, Europe is pointing a new way to t...

Founded in 2007 to fund basic research, the European Research Council (ERC) has become the most revered instrument in European science policy and o...

How is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first...

How is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first...

In The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social change implicit in the writi...

In The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social change implicit in the writi...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the cas...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the cas...

In the new paperback edition of this classic text, Liebes and Katz examine how television viewers around the world respond differently to popular t...

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, conc...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as ...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as ...

Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the...

Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the...

In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This o...

In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This o...

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of ...

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of ...

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of t...

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of t...

The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once f...

The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once f...