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In celebration of the tenth annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, this book collects essays, thoughts, and contributions from the speakers and presenters at 2023's Celebration of Time Travel conference. Please enjoy this retrospective of the relevance of time travel across multiple media, forms, and genres, and the importance of celebrating and critiquing the popular culture that shapes us. All proceeds benefit Global Girl Media

Daniel Bones wächst in einem kleinen Fischerdorf am Rande des englischen Marschlandes auf. Ohne den Schutz seiner Mutter, die unter ungeklärten Umständen verschwand, ist es an Daniel, sich und seinen Bruder Will gegen die Übergriffe ihres trunksüchtigen Vaters zu verteidigen. Bis plötzlich ein Mann in einem aufblasbaren Gummianzug aus dem Meer steigt und Daniel die Chance bietet, seinem trostlosen Leben zu entkommen: Captain Clarke B., Hochsta...

Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultur...

Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultur...

This collection brings together recent research on the influences between first and additional languages. This volume is key reading for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, bilingualism, second language acquisition, and translation studies.

In celebration of the eighth annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, this book collects essays, thoughts, and contributions from speakers at 2021's A Celebration of Superheroes. With great power comes great responsibility -- and great critiques of superhero media.Proceeds from the sale of this volume benefit Global Girl Media!

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies offers scholars and fans an accessible and engaging resource for understanding the rapidly expanding field of fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especially-commissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fast-growing field. Separated into five sections--Histo...

This book is a blast, strong character development alongside lots of fun historical detail. The author finds an excuse to weave in all sorts of interesting period trivia without compromising the story or feeling shoehorned." - Jay Richard's world is in free fall. His introverted nature is no match for the dangers that are emerging all around him. Growing up without a mother, he timidly stands in the long shadow cast by his Vicar father, but so...

Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.

Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home entertainment since the 1960s, Doctor Who helps us understand th...

High Speed 1 (HS1) is the first new railway to be built in Britain for over a century and is the UKs first high speed railway. The publication of this volume celebrates the immense scale and award-winning quality of the archaeological and historic building investigations that resulted from the construction of Section 1 of the rail link in Kent.

Originally published in 1989 this title provided a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the burgeoning discipline of human-computer interaction for students, academics, and those from industry who wished to know more about the subject. Assuming very little knowledge, the book provides an overview of the diverse research areas that were at the time only gradually building into a coherent and well-structured field. It aims to explain ...

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In celebration of the seventh annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, this book collects essays, thoughts, and contributions from speakers at 2019's Celebration of Disney Conference. From our magic kingdom to yours, please enjoy this retrospective of the importance of celebrating (and critiquing) the popular culture that shapes us.

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An area of 6 ha just east of Kempsford was examined in 2000-2001 in advance of gravel extraction. The earliest features belonged to a field system defined by ditches probably dug in the late Iron Age. This was replaced in the early Roman period by a very regular layout of trackways linking field systems to settlements lying just outside the excavated area, all part of a programme of radical landscape reorganisation in the wider region. The nea...

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as celebrities, to finding fan communities within the political spectrum, to joining others online in spreading (mis)information, the true influence in 2016 was the online participant. Poaching Pol...

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as celebrities, to finding fan communities within the political spectrum, to joining others online in spreading (mis)information, the true influence in 2016 was the online participant. Poaching Pol...