This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic objects that appeal to players because they offe[...]

A final installment of the Anne trilogy finds Anne de Bohun, the former mistress of Edward Plantagenet, living on a small farm where she grows medicinal herbs and supports her young son, but when England is threatened by civil war, Anne is summoned to help the king broker a deal with his brother-in-[...]

Walter Benjamin is now widely recognized as one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. This book is a study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience.[...]

Computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Analysing topics such as technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital[...]

This textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theories and the insights they provide for a greater understanding of varieties of English, past and present.[...]

Offers coverage of developments in customer relationship management, business ethics, market-led orientation and resource/asset-based approaches to internal analysis and planning. This book uses an exam focused approach which has been class tested and refined.[...]

'Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural studies today. When his gaze turns to celebrity, the result is a readable and compelling account of this most perplexing and infuriating of modern phenomena. Read on!' - Toby Miller, New York University. We cannot escape celebrity culture: it [...]

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He lives on your street, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you on the highway, waving to let you into the [...]

A noted artist presents an imaginative, whimsical journey through the letters of the alphabet, in a beautifully illustrated book that introduces a menagerie of familiar and exotic creatures.[...]