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Culture wars and enduring American dilemmas
Thomson, Irene Taviss

The idea of a culture war, or wars, has existed in America since the 1960s---an underlying ideological schism in our country that is responsible for the polarizing debates on everything from the separation of church and state, to abortion, to gay marriage, to affirmative action. Irene Taviss Thomson explores this notion by analyzing hundreds of articles addressing hot-button issues over two dec…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780472070886
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270 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Title
Contemporary political and social issues
Call Number
303.60973 THO c
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Facing forward: art & theory from a future perspective
Folkerts, HendrikLindner, ChristophSchavemaker, Margriet

This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments. Focusing on seven themes - Future Tech, Future Image, Future Museum, Future City, Future Freedom, Future History, and Fut…

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ISBN/ISSN
9789089647993
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179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Title
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Call Number
701 FOL f
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History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
Mitchell, Kate

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …

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ISBN/ISSN
978023022858
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ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Title
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Call Number
823.809358 MIT h
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Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam: a rising dra…
Tarp, Finn

Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of agriculture and modern industrial and service sectors. Broad structural transformation and wid…

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First edition.
ISBN/ISSN
9780198796961
Collation
xxviii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Title
Studies in development economics
Call Number
330 TAR g
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High-tech trash: glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure
Kane, Carolyn L

High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure maps an archaeology of failure in a culture seemingly ill-equipped to deal with it. To better understand failure, Kane argues, we must abstract from our subjective, personal disappointments and see them as meaningful symbols of a broader human struggle. By connecting twenty-first century digital aesthetics to critical issues in the history o…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780520974494
Collation
253p.: ill.
Series Title
Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique; 1
Call Number
700.105 KAN h
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