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The history of the housewife is a complicated and uneasy narrative, rife with contradictions, tensions, and unanswered questions. What is the relationship between women and the home? And why are women reluctant to call themselves housewives? Starting with an exploration of why 1940s housewives became associated with drudgery, this book examines how magazines and advertising articulated connected women with the domestic sphere, while 1950s film...

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years. The author traces this tradition through the writings of various English intellectuals, using Matthew Arnold, F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams to elucidate the concept.

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Images of the golden age of wireless and family life before the age of television have widespread currency. Their dominance raises fundamental questions about the extent to which people¿s memories of early radio and everyday pre-war life are shaped and mediated by these public histories. For geographical reasons radio has played an unusually important part in twentieth-century Australian life and culture. Australian radio must therefore stand ...

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Lesley L. Johnson's research has been enthusiastically received both in the United States and abroad as a unique discourse focused on the application of reader-response theory, intermodal expressive therapy models, and technology within contemporary media education paradigms, as they influence educational change. Johnson demonstrates how change in self-concept and teaching and learning practices occurs when teachers and students become involve...

This book looks at how molecules react, and how the feasibility and outcome of chemical reactions can be predicted. Beginning with an introduction to the concept of an activity series of metals, "Metals and Chemical Change" then introduces chemical thermodynamics (enthalpy, entropy and free energy) and applies the concept to both inorganic and organic elements. A Case Study on batteries and fuel cells is also included. The accompanying CD-ROM ...

Lesley Johnson's AMOUR, LOVE, KESALUEMK, AMOR, LIEBE was published in 2003 by Bouton d'or Acadie. Since then, she's completed the stories Susan Had a Chicken on Her Butt, There's No One Home, and The Banana Story of Agony, all of which have been collected here. This book straddles the line between graphic novel, art book, and children's book and fits perfectly into conundrum's mandate of publishing cross-genre work.