Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation (Baker Steve)(Paperback)

Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation (Baker Steve)(Paperback)

From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of 'jackass' as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how

Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (Black Liza)(Pevná vazba)

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union

Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human (Still Judith)(Paperback)

Analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the SovereignWhat is man? This book examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals

Identity Management: Concepts, Technologies, and Systems (Bertino Elisa)(Pevná vazba)

Digital identity can be defined as the digital representation of the information known about a specific individual or organization. Digital identity management technology is an essential function in customizing and enhancing the network user experience, protecting privacy, underpinning

Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Malkowski Jennifer)(Paperback)

Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers

Noah and the Animals: Step by Step with Steve Smallman (Smallman Steve)(Paperback)

Have fun with this fantastic step-by-step guide to drawing Noah and his whole arkful of animals. Based on expert illustrator Steve Smallman's drawing workshops, it is full of witty illustrations with clear instructions to make these drawings fun and easy for children to recreate. Become a top

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: The Beast Within(Paperback / softback)

The Numerati (Baker Stephen)(Paperback)

'Steve Baker puts his finger on perhaps the most important cultural trend today: the explosion of data about every aspect of our world and the rise of applied math gurus who know how to use it.' --Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine (Wired Magazine ) An urgent look at how a global

Identity, Personal Identity and the Self (Perry John)(Paperback / softback)

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002-2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on

Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity (Tinagli Paola)(Paperback)

This richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance

The Boy and the Beast, Vol. 4 (Manga) (Hosoda Mamoru)(Paperback)

Ichirohiko has suffered, caught in the space between human and beast, and has succumbed to the darkness. Kyuta leaves Kumatetsu, on the brink of death, in the care of the others and heads to the human world in pursuit of Ichirohiko. It's the start of a life and death battle in the streets of

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, 1 (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Zamora Lois Parkinson)(Paperback)

Baroque New Worlds traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched

Beauty and the Beast (Gunderson Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Pandemonium - The Wild Beast (Willis Jeanne)(Paperback / softback)

The third of the award-winning Penguin Pandemonium books. Part of the Awesome Animals series - the funniest fiction, starring the wildest wildlife, from prize winning authors. Rory and his pals have got their flippers in a flap! The swimming, singing, snowboarding penguins of City Zoo have got

Beast Quest: Beast Quest Special 26 (Blade Adam)(Paperback)

Free the Beasts. Live the Adventure. Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up In the land of Rion, there's trouble brewing: raiders from the island of Thalassi are invading. King Hugo has launched a peace mission and

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism (Baker Colin)(Paperback)

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. The Q&A format of this book makes it the natural choice for the busy parent or teacher who needs an easy reference guide to

Bookish and the Beast (Posten Ashley)(Paperback / softback)

In the third book in Ashley Poston s Once Upon a Con series, Beauty and the Beast is retold in the beloved Starfield

Hippobottymus (Smallman Steve)(Paperback / softback)

Plinkety-plonk! Tweetily-tweet! The jungle animals are making music to the sound of the bubbling creek! But - goodness me! - what is that naughty hippo up to? A bonkers, musical rhyming story with a laugh-out-loud, farting

Wolves Who Came for Dinner (Smallman Steve)(Paperback / softback)

One little lamb. Four hungry wolves. And a forest full of animals out to save the day. But sometimes things are not always what they

Bookish and the Beast (Poston Ashley)(Paperback)

A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh, geeky retelling of Beauty and the Beast--now with a bonus Starfield story In this third book of the Once Upon a Con series, Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck--on her college application essays, in her small town, and on that mysterious

Supercute Animals and Pets (Hart Christopher)(Paperback)

Focusing on the charming and adorable pets and animals that enrich manga stories, Supercute Animals and Pets teaches readers how to draw animals from a fox, to a cow, to a penguin, all in the style of manga. After an introduction to basic body constructions, faces, tails, legs, and more, readers

Rspb Nature Tracker's Handbook (Baker Nick)(Paperback)

A complete guide to how to interpret the signs that animals leave behind. Every animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is very much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth you will