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Culture Studies

Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture

Erbacher Eric C., Maruo-Schroder Nicole, Sedlmeier Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm

This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...

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History

Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Media Studies

It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Boyd Danah

ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...

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Media Studies

Culture Studies

Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

Marwick Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....

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Culture Studies

Media Studies

Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

Tkacz Nathaniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...

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History of Art

Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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Music

Culture Studies

Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

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Culture Studies

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut

Amann Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226187259, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraug...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Brittany A Cultural History

Mewes Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781909930063, Signal Books, November 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing D...

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