Автор: Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble Название: Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations About Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It ISBN: 1609388593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609388591 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20330.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In this collection, the hosts of Dragon Talk, the official D&D podcast, recount some of the most inspiring stories from their guests. All use the core tenets of the game in their everyday life.
Автор: Malik Shabazz, Shabazz Название: How to draw black people ISBN: 0578610469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578610467 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 32190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A drawing instruction book on the topic of Black people and Black culture
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit--from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez--to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure. Mears spent eighteen months in this world of models and bottles to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative. She describes how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues in order to attract men and get them to spend huge sums in the ritual of bottle service. These girls enhance the status of the men and enrich club owners, exchanging their bodily capital for as little as free drinks and a chance to party with men who are rich or aspire to be. Though they are priceless assets in the party circuit, these women are regarded as worthless as long-term relationship prospects, and their bodies are constantly assessed against men's money. A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity.
Автор: Klock Geoff Название: Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal ISBN: 1498548504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498548502 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 35640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art`s sake movement in today`s popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller`s Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.
Автор: Sanders Bill Название: Drugs, Clubs and Young People: Sociological and Public Health Perspectives ISBN: 0367604019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367604011 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 42870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, this volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations surrounding young people who attend clubs and/or use club drugs. The volume provides theoretical observations on illicit club drug use and supply, helping to challenge current orthodoxies on the role of drug use within young people
What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become "American," and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more.
America is more than just a fast food nation.Food Americana is the inside story of how generations of Americans have formed a national cuisine with tastes from all over the world. Fried chicken was a distinctly southern dish--now it's the Sunday night special at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. A Utah restaurant won Maine's annual Best Lobster Roll competition. And perhaps the ultimate all-American dish, pizza, is served up in thirty different styles, a total of three billion pies a year, an average of twenty-three pounds for each of us.
Food Americana is an engaging and entertaining combination of food culture and pop culture, nostalgia and the newest food obsessions. Creating Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and hands-on producing its first eleven seasons gave food journalist David Page an appetite for the world of American food. It is that experience, the discoveries of little-known stories and facts, that led him to dig even deeper and tie the strands together now. In this riveting book, learn more about:
How American food has grown and changed over time, such as how lobster and caviar evolved from a plentiful offering in bars to an expensive luxury
A growing authenticity movement of people searching for the antecedents of the dishes that have become American staples, from genuine Mexican favorites to Chinese foods that are actually eaten in China
The incredible history of American food and culture, drawn almost entirely from the world around us and transformed into something new
If you enjoyed captivating food history books like A History of the World in 6 Glasses, On Food and Cooking, or the classic Salt by Mark Kurlansky, you'll love Food Americana.
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American.
Meanwhile, one in six Americans have stopped talking to close friends and family members over politics. Millions are organizing their social lives and curating their news and information to avoid hearing viewpoints differing from their own. Ideological polarization is at higher levels than at any time since the Civil War.
America has developed a "culture of contempt"--a habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. Maybe you dislike it--more than nine out of ten Americans say they are tired of how divided we have become as a country. But hey, either you play along, or you'll be left behind, right?
Wrong.
In Love Your Enemies, New York Times bestselling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success. Blending cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of America's top policy think tanks, Love Your Enemies offers a new way to lead based not on attacking others, but on bridging national divides and mending personal relationships.
Brooks' prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, he argues, we shouldn't try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn't be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act.
Love Your Enemies is not just a guide to being a better person. It offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. And most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.
Автор: Preston Jeffrey Название: The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture ISBN: 1472467965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472467966 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 158230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large?
The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such as Degrassi: The Next Generation and Glee, fantasize about what life with a physical disability must be like, while at the same time exerting tremendous pressure on disabled individuals to conform their identity and behaviour to fit within the margins of these societally perpetuated archetypes. Rather than merely engaging with how disability is represented, though, this text investigates how representations of disability reveal their nondisabled producers to be perpetually anxious subjects, doomed to fear not just the disabled subject but the very reality of disability lurking within.
Situated at the nexus of disability studies, media studies and psychology, this text presents an innovative way of analyzing representations of disability in popular culture, inverting the psychoanalytic gaze back upon the nondisabled to investigate how disability can become a lens through which to interrogate the normate subject.
Автор: Bhowmik Miron Kumar, Kennedy Kerry John Название: `out of School` Ethnic Minority Young People in Hong Kong ISBN: 981109134X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811091346 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This book offers a comprehensive overview of `out of school` ethnic minority young people in Hong Kong.
Автор: Ackerman Judith M. Название: Do You Think She`s a Witch ISBN: 0998043982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998043982 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 11950.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: There was an old woman all dressed in black, she had a mole on her nose and a bump on her back! A beautifully illustrated, poetic story that keeps your children guessing. Is she a witch? Could it possibly be true? She looks just like one, OR DID SHE FOOL YOU? I could tell you more, but I do not want to give it away! Let your children keep guessing! Please let me know their reaction! I would love for you to give me a review and tell me your children's reaction to my story. I am a new author and would appreciate it! Thank you so much!
Автор: Klock, Geoff Название: Aestheticism, evil, homosexuality, and hannibal ISBN: 1498548482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498548489 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 84150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art`s sake movement in today`s popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller`s Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.
'STOP! HEY, WHAT'S THAT SOUND?' The 1960's Revolution and Birth of the Jesus People is a Historical and Spiritual Adventure! It rides the waves of Societal Change, Just Causes, Social Experimentation, Peaceful Movements and a God Visit.
Twenty-seven eyewitness contributors have joined to preserve an accurate record of these times with 390+ photos and art from the era. The facts, personal and national failures are left intact.
A fierce battle between the forces of Darkness and Light electrify the pages of this Epic True Story. As fragile World Peace and the threat of nuclear war looms, who to trust or believe in, is an unspoken question on the minds of countless millions the world over.
In the USA, amidst social hopes and dreams rising and falling, the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., thrust America and various parts of the globe into complicated grief.
Freedom, justice and equality for all remain elusive as prejudice and the horrors of the Vietnam War rage on. A generation seeking 'Peace and Love' swells, until falling prey to dangerous and addictive drugs, hedonism and demonic practices which drive a spike into the coffin of this fledgling movement.
When hope was at its lowest, a remnant of hippies arise from the ashes, claiming redemption through Jesus Christ. Society as a whole is shocked to see Nomadic long-haired Christ-followers carrying Bibles and speaking about God with conviction! This peaceful group would be called 'The Jesus Movement.'
On the road in the USA, the UK and beyond-'Stop Hey' documentstheir birth, travels, challenges they faced and ensuing victories and defeats. It also exposes dangerous cults and offers help for cult victims.
The musicals Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Lonesome Stone contributed to an awareness of this spiritual phenomenon. This is an 800 page book available in hardback through Ingram Spark at $34. and in soft cover at Amazon.com for $28. An eBook is in production.
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