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  • Localizing the Internetby John Postill

    Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 40.00

    At a critical time of democratic reform across many parts of Southeast Asia, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysia’s electronic governance laboratory. The focus of the study is Subang Jaya’s field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents... more...

  • The World Until Yesterdayby Jared Diamond

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse . Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday , Diamond reveals how... more...

  • Philosophical Tools for Technological Cultureby Larry A. Hickman

    Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95

    "Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed."... more...

  • Language in the USAby Edward Finegan; John R. Rickford

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00

    This textbook provides a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the USA, exploring the nature of language variation and its social, historical and political significance. It is divided into three sections: Part I, American English; Part II, Other Language Varieties; and Part III, The Sociolinguistic Situation in the USA. more...

  • Lost World of the Kimberleyby Ian Wilson

    Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 31.81

    Explores one of the world's least known mysteries: who were the first-ever human beings to find their way to Australia, where did they come from and how and when did they arrive? more...

  • Catching Fireby Richard Wrangham

    Profile 2009; US$ 20.41

    In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow,... more...

  • Why Voice Mattersby Nick Couldry

    SAGE Publications 2010; US$ 48.00

    An impassioned manifesto for how 'voice' might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, communication and cultural studies more...

  • Worship and Conflict under Colonial Ruleby Arjun Appadurai

    Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 32.00

    This study interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. more...

  • China Abroadby Elaine Yee Lin Ho; Julia Kuehn

    Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 50.00

    The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations. more...

  • The Future of the Raceby Henry Louis Jr Gates; Cornel West

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95

    Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship... more...