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Rethinking Cultural Policy
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 214.00Addresses issues concerning culture, economy, and power in the age of liberal globalization. The topics covered in this book include: Branding culture and exploitation; The state, market and civil society; and How visitor attractions such as London's Millennium Dome are used for national aggrandizement and corporate business purposes. more...
Medieval Practices of Space
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 90.00The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world. more...
Medieval Identity Machines
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 70.50In Medieval Identity Machines, Jeffrey J. Cohen examines the messiness, permeability, and perversity of medieval bodies, arguing that human identity always exceeds the limits of the flesh. Combining critical theory with a rigorous reading of medieval texts, Cohen asks if the category ?human? isn?t too small to contain the multiplicity of identities. more...
High Theory/Low Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00In High Theory/Low Culture , Brottman uses the tools of 'high' cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sport, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror movies and pornography. In doing so, she not only demonstrates the practical use of 'high' theory as it relates to our everyday world, but she also investigates... more...
Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 100.00New essays by distinguished scholars on "sacred" and "secular" in medieval and early modern literature and history. more...
Ancient Mysteries
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 23.00What was the Minotaur? Did a Welsh prince discover America? Did Robin Hood really exist? How does the Star of Bethlehem fit into the science of astronomy? Is the Vinland Map a fake? Can archaeologists use spirit messages to guide their work? For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and charlatans have attempted to decipher the baffling mysteries of... more...
A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
Wiley 2008; US$ 59.95This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship. Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Looks at the Renaissance from a world,... more...
Critical Cultural Policy Studies
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a product of policy and economic determinants as it is of creative and consumer impulses. more...
An Introduction to the Ancient World
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.95Integrating the results of scholarly work from the past decade, the authors of An Introduction to the Ancient World , Lukas de Blois and R.J. van der Spek, have fully-updated and revised all sixteen chapters of this best-selling introductory textbook. Covering the history and culture of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome within the framework... more...
Millennium Jahrbuch 2007
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 110.00Millennium pursues a interdisciplinary international approach transcending epochal boundaries to research the First Millennium AD. The editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines contributions from art and literary studies are published alongside historical, theological and philosophical contributions on... more...









