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In this highly original study, Susan Palmer explores the healing practices, metaphors, and apocalyptic fantasies of various religious, racial, and sexual minority groups as they respond to the AIDS threat.

This study of capitalism in the industrialized North demystifies much of the cant that surrounds the discourse on the implications for culture and politics when talking about globalization. It offers analyses of a series of cultural phenomena that have emerged in Germany, Britain and the USA.

Long the subject of myth and superstition, bats have been among the most misunderstood of mammals due to their nocturnal habits, capacity for flight, and strange appearance. Seeking to dispel the myths associated with these remarkable creatures and arguing for their key role in a balanced ecosystem, Bats in Question covers all aspects of bat biology in a practical question-and-answer format.Describing where bats live, how they use echolocation...

What are the implications for culture and politics for possible globalization? Paul Smith demystifies much of the controversy and offers searching analyses of a series of cultural phenomena that have emerged in Germany, Britain and the United States during the 1990s.

This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana to Tokyo. It explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures displayed in world music, including: rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, and Puerto Rican Bugalu and Chicano punk.

This study descends into the modern cynical consciousness and emerges with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society. It charts the development of a culture of cynicism in forms, such as an obsession with finality and integrity.

Ein Affe nähert sich London. Auf einem Segelboot übernimmt er plötzlich das Ruder und rast in krachender Fahrt mitten durch die Nobelboote des königlichen Yachtclubs. Erasmus, so der Name des hundertfünfzig Kilo schweren Helden, wird aufgegriffen und Adam Burden, dem Direktor des Londoner Instituts für Verhaltensforschung, übergeben. Dort begegnet er Adams schöner Frau, schaut ihr tief in die Augen und reicht ihr - als Geschenk - einen Pfirsic...

Ein neuer Band mit Aufzeichnungen, ein Buch der Einkehr und des Innehaltens, das die Fortschreibung der reflexiven Arbeit von Botho Strauß ist, der sich selbst als »Schriftfortsetzer« sieht, um Wege zu bahnen inmitten der bedrängenden Verhältnisse unserer Gegenwart. Sein analytischer Blick erfaßt nicht nur den Stand der Kunst und der Kultur, sondern auch Politik und Gesellschaft.

Dorais examines how the Inuit community of Quaqtaq, a small village on Hudson Strait, has managed to preserve its identity in the modern world. He points to three things: kinship, religion, and language.

Erasmus? Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris around 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin.

Interprets aspects in the writing of Aquinas relevant to trinitarian theory and, as in most of Lonergan's work, one of the principal aims is to assist the reader in the search to understand the workings of the human mind.

This book describes the cultural significance of two centuries of recreational paddling in Canada, illustrating through contemporary interviews and published sources what the experience of canoeing has meant to the sport's participants.

This book elucidates the lives and achievements of several Canadian women from different walks of life.

In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio, boleros, and melodrama. Monsivais's chronicles are laconic and satirical, taking as a constant theme the conflicts between Mexican and North American culture and between modern and traditional ...

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continue...