New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 (Ortner Sherry B.)(Paperback)

Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (Ortner Sherry B.)(Paperback)

In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life (Frykman Jonas)(Paperback)

'Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective.'--Robert Nye, Rutgers University ' This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the turn of the century . . . is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too, are once again recognized as

Club Cultures - Music, Media and Subcultural Capital (Thornton Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

aeo A highly innovative contribution towards the study of popular culture which focuses on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. aeo Written in a highly accessible style and illustrated with case studies, the author examines the development of club cultures or 'taste

The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living (Ortner Nick)(Paperback)

In this paperback edition of the New York Times best-selling book The Tapping Solution, Nick Ortner, founder of the Tapping World Summit and best-selling filmmaker of The Tapping Solution, is at the forefront of a new healing movement. In this book, he gives readers everything they need to

Tropic of Orange (Yamashita Karen Tei)(Paperback)

An apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media and the harsh L.A

Night School - The Life-Changing Science of Sleep (Wiseman Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The surprising new science of sleep and dreaming

Baudolino (Eco Umberto)(Paperback / softback)

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading

Theories of Culture (Tanner Kathryn)(Paperback)

Since the 1970s exciting new directions in the study of culture have erupted to critique and displace earlier, largely static notions. These more dynamic models stress the indeterminate, fragmented, even conflictual character of cultural processes and completely alter the framework for thinking

Absolution (Steger Ales)(Paperback / softback)

It's Carnival time 2012, and the Slovenian city of Maribor is European Capital of Culture. In an attempt to maximize profit, local politicians and showman peddle every possible art form. Amidst the hype, dramatist Adam Bely and Cuban-Austrian journalist Rosa Portero pursue a secret mission: to

Cultural Capital - The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain (Hewison Robert)(Paperback / softback)

How money, politics and the Arts turned a golden age for culture into

Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation (Wallace B. Alan)(Paperback)

A detailed guide to lucid dreaming for increased creativity and profound self-knowledgeSome of the greatest of life's adventures can happen while you're sound asleep. That's the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of

Don Juan and the Power of Medicine Dreaming: A Nagual Woman's Journey of Healing (Tunneshende Merilyn)(Paperback)

A journey of healing and transformation through Toltec mysticism, shamanic dreaming, and the teachings of the Mayan prophecies. - The author studied with don Juan Matus and the Nagual sorcerers who taught Carlos Castaneda. - Includes numerous transcripts of Toltec Dreamwork sessions, providing

Culture Class (Rosler Martha)(Paperback)

In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural

Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy (Fleming David)(Paperback)

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through

The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China: Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation (Linehan Paul Michael)(Paperback)

This study examines the culture of leadership--within the government, the Communist Party, and business--in contemporary China. The author analyzes the conflict between traditional Chinese values, communist ideology, and Western

Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation (Koo Hagen)(Paperback)

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the

Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic (Gordon Adam)(Paperback)

Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the

The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars (Campbell Bradley)(Paperback)

Extremely timely topic that has received a lot of press, tends to spark controversy and strong feelings, and has the potential to appeal to both a lay and more scholarly audienceWritten accessibly and engagingly, drawing form current events on college campuses as well as the Trump campaign/election

Women and Socialism (Revised and Updated Edition): Class, Race and Capital (Smith Sharon)(Paperback)

More than forty years after the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women's movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet

The Triratna Story: Behind the Scenes of a New Buddhist Movement (Vajragupta)(Paperback)

This is the story of a circle of friends dreaming a dream, and working to make it a reality. . . . It's the nitty-gritty story of how a community evolves. It's a story of idealism and naivety, growth and growing pains, hard work and burn-out, friendship and fall-out.This book tells the story of an

Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (Bourdieu Pierre)(Paperback)

The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project. In this second edition of this classic text, which includes a new introduction by Pierre

On the New (Groys Boris)(Paperback)

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless,

New Prophets of Capital (Aschoff Nicole)(Paperback / softback)

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has become as central to sustaining our economy as profitmaking

The Culture of the New Capitalism (Sennett Richard)(Paperback)