The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
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Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and...
Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture
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Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first...
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate
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In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the...
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture
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Disco is the music that America tried to forget. By the end of the 1970s "Saturday Night Fever"...
New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning
Magdolna Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai
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This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five...
AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa
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AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had...
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
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In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and...
The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction
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Christian Lotz argues that Immanuel Kant's idea of a mental schematism, which gives the human mind...
Culture, Development and Petroleum: An Ethnography of the High North
Jan-Oddvar Sornes, Larry Browning and Jan Terje Henriksen
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The discovery, just forty years ago, of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of...