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Studying Popular Music Culture

That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone...

Economies of Design

How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design? Historically, design has been...

Unmanageable Consumer

'The Unmanageable Consumer has long been one of my favorite books in the sociology of consumption. This long overdue third edition has updated and revised the basic argument in many ways. Most importa...

Shaking the Family Tree

WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions-that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a nam...

A Year on Facebook

A Year on Facebook by Peter Carlaftes (184 pages, Three Rooms Press, 2010) is a comical trajectory through the chronological events of the past year via daily updates from the insightful and irrevere...

Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine

The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a...

From Star Wars to Superman

Aging Social Policies

In Aging Social Policies: An International Perspective the authors consider how policy - domestic and international - affects and will continue to affect the lives of our aging population. Key...

Academic Language Mastery

By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the code that drives school success: academic language. Look no fu...

Global Communication

Comprehensive in its scope and scale, rigorously argued and richly illustrated with wide-ranging examples, this clearly written and user-friendly book from a veteran commentator on international commu...

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies

The strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of ana...