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The Joint Rolling Handbook - Back to Basics (Hardcover): "Bobcat" The Joint Rolling Handbook - Back to Basics (Hardcover)
"Bobcat"
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa (Hardcover): Alfred O. Akwala, Joel K. Ngetich, Agnes... Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa (Hardcover)
Alfred O. Akwala, Joel K. Ngetich, Agnes Wanjiku Muchura Theuri
R5,117 Discovery Miles 51 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Communication plays a critical role in enhancing social, cultural, and business relations. Research on media, language, and cultural studies is fundamental in a globalized world because it illuminates the experiences of various populations. There is a need to develop effective communication strategies that will be able to address both health and cultural issues globally. Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa is a collection of innovative research on the impact of media and especially new media on health and culture. While highlighting topics including civic engagement, gender stereotypes, and interpersonal communication, this book is ideally designed for university students, multinational organizations, diplomats, expatriates, and academicians seeking current research on how media, health, and culture can be appropriated to overcome the challenges that plague the world today.

New Poems (Hardcover): Thomas Trzyna New Poems (Hardcover)
Thomas Trzyna
R576 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Works of Gilles Deleuze I - 1953-1969 (Hardcover): Jon Roffe The Works of Gilles Deleuze I - 1953-1969 (Hardcover)
Jon Roffe
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
K-Pop - The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon (Hardcover): Wooseok Ki K-Pop - The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon (Hardcover)
Wooseok Ki
R705 R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
R. Crumb - Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self (Hardcover): David Stephen Calonne R. Crumb - Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self (Hardcover)
David Stephen Calonne
R2,945 Discovery Miles 29 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. Crumb's genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal his personal search for the meaning of life. R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his authentic self.

The Conquest of Bread (Hardcover): Peter Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread (Hardcover)
Peter Kropotkin; Contributions by Victor Robinson
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Mark! My Words (How to Discover the Joy of Music, the Delight of Language, and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash... Mark! My Words (How to Discover the Joy of Music, the Delight of Language, and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash Talk and MTV) (Hardcover)
Mark Evans
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Welcome to Our Real Matrix - One With No Escape (Hardcover): Tom Arant Welcome to Our Real Matrix - One With No Escape (Hardcover)
Tom Arant
R619 R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development (Hardcover): Icarbord Tshabangu Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development (Hardcover)
Icarbord Tshabangu
R5,333 Discovery Miles 53 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book seeks to address critical issues and challenges in Africa and the emerging trends for the future. Authors from varied disciplines will examine and offer insight into what knowledge already exists in a specific topic area and what that may mean for the future of Africa. Despite several idealistic efforts towards a united Africa, the term remains a hypothetical concept symbolizing a desired federal state on the continent. This book plays an important role in shaping policies on the future of Africa through a deconstructive interrogation of present trends. It provides a valuable resource in varied fields of study and is highly relevant to the emerging contexts in Africa. The audience of this book includes students and policymakers, key players in Africa, political parties, trade unions, NGO's, and general audiences looking to examine and understand the future trends in Africa.

The Evolution of Consciousness - Representing the Present Moment (Hardcover): Paula Droege The Evolution of Consciousness - Representing the Present Moment (Hardcover)
Paula Droege
R3,175 Discovery Miles 31 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science to explain consciousness in terms of the biological function that grounds it in the physical world. Drawing on the novel analogy of a house of cards, Paula Droege pieces together various conceptual questions and shows how they rest on each other to form a coherent, structured argument. She asserts that the mind is composed of unconscious sensory and cognitive representations, which become conscious when they are selected and coordinated into a representation of the present moment. This temporal representation theory deftly bridges the gap between mind and body by highlighting that physical systems are conscious when they can respond flexibly to actions in the present. With examples from evolution, animal cognition, introspection and the free will debate, this is a compelling and animated account of the possible explanations of consciousness, offering answers to the conceptual question of how consciousness can be considered a cognitive process.

Offering Hospitality - Questioning Christian Approaches to War (Hardcover): Caron E. Gentry Offering Hospitality - Questioning Christian Approaches to War (Hardcover)
Caron E. Gentry
R2,654 Discovery Miles 26 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War, Caron E. Gentry reflects on the predominant strands of American political theology-Christian realism, pacifism, and the just war tradition-and argues that Christian political theologies on war remain, for the most part, inward-looking and resistant to criticism from opposing viewpoints. In light of the new problems that require choices about the use of force-genocide, terrorism, and failed states, to name just a few-a rethinking of the conventional arguments about just war and pacifism is timely and important. Gentry's insightful perspective marries contemporary feminist and critical thought to prevailing theories, such as Christian realism represented in the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and the pacifist tradition of Stanley Hauerwas. She draws out the connection between hospitality in postmodern literature and hospitality as derived from the Christian conception of agape, and relates the literature on hospitality to the Christian ethics of war. She contends that the practice of hospitality, incorporated into the jus ad bellum criterion of last resort, would lead to a "better peace." Gentry's critique of Christian realism, pacifism, and the just war tradition through an engagement with feminism is unique, and her treatment of failed states as a concrete security issue is practical. By asking multiple audiences-theologians, feminists, postmodern scholars, and International Relations experts-to grant legitimacy and credibility to each other's perspectives, she contributes to a reinvigorated dialogue.

What Russians Think (Hardcover): Olga Childs What Russians Think (Hardcover)
Olga Childs
R709 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (Hardcover): Roshni Sengupta Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (Hardcover)
Roshni Sengupta
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation (Hardcover): Luciano Maiani,... International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation (Hardcover)
Luciano Maiani, Raymond Jeanloz, Micah Lowenthal
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Bullies of Woke and their Assault on Mental Health (Hardcover): Diane Weber Bederman Bullies of Woke and their Assault on Mental Health (Hardcover)
Diane Weber Bederman
R782 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R96 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Love, Loss and Endurance - A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety (Hardcover): Bill Tammeus Love, Loss and Endurance - A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety (Hardcover)
Bill Tammeus; Foreword by Adam Hamilton; Afterword by Mindy Corporon
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stoicism - How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness (Hardcover): Jason Hemlock Stoicism - How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness (Hardcover)
Jason Hemlock
R854 R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Save R121 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Maths That Made Us - how numbers created civilisation (Paperback): Michael Brooks The Maths That Made Us - how numbers created civilisation (Paperback)
Michael Brooks
R316 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi - you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help. In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of numbers: how they enabled explorers to travel far across the seas and astronomers to map the heavens; how they won wars and halted the HIV epidemic; how they are responsible for the design of your home and almost everything in it, down to the smartphone in your pocket. His clear explanations of the maths that built our world, along with stories about where it came from and how it shaped human history, will engage and delight. From ancient Egyptian priests to the Apollo astronauts, and Babylonian tax collectors to juggling robots, join Brooks and his extraordinarily eccentric cast of characters in discovering how maths made us who we are today.

One Grand Noise - Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Hardcover): Jerrilyn McGregory One Grand Noise - Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Hardcover)
Jerrilyn McGregory
R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world's most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda's Gombey Dancers, Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga's Jankunu and Charikanari, St. Croix's Christmas Carnival Festival, and St. Kitts's Sugar Mas. One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as ""one grand noise,"" ""foreday morning,"" and from ""back-o-town."" In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space. Based on ethnographic study undertaken by McGregory, One Grand Noise explores Boxing Day as part of a creolization process from slavery into the twenty-first century. McGregory traces the holiday from its Egyptian origins to today and includes chapters on the Gombey Dancers of Bermuda, the evolution of Junkanoo/Jankunu in the Bahamas and Belize, and J'ouvert traditions in St. Croix and St. Kitts. Through her exploration of the holiday, McGregory negotiates the ways in which Boxing Day has expanded from small communal traditions into a common history of colonialism that keeps alive a collective spirit of resistance.

Stuart Gordon - Interviews (Hardcover): Michael Doyle Stuart Gordon - Interviews (Hardcover)
Michael Doyle
R2,953 Discovery Miles 29 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947-2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit. Provocative gems such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Dagon consolidated his fearsome reputation as one of the masters of the contemporary horror film, bringing an unfamiliar archness, political complexity, and critical respect to a genre so often bereft of these virtues. A versatile filmmaker, one who resolutely refused to mellow with age, Gordon proved equally adept at crafting pointed science fiction (Robot Jox, Fortress, Space Truckers), sweet-tempered fantasy (The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit), and nihilistic thrillers (King of the Ants, Edmond, Stuck), customarily scrubbing the sharply drawn lines between exploitation and arthouse cinema. The first collection of interviews ever to be published on the director, Stuart Gordon: Interviews contains thirty-six articles spanning a period of fifty years. Bountiful in anecdote and information, these candid conversations chronicle the trajectory of a fascinating career-one that courted controversy from its very beginning. Among the topics Gordon discusses are his youth and early influences, his founding of Chicago's legendary Organic Theatre (where he collaborated with such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Mamet), and his transition into filmmaking where he created a body of work that injected fresh blood into several ailing staples of American cinema. He also reveals details of his working methods, his steadfast relationships with frequent collaborators, his great love for the works of Lovecraft and Poe, and how horror stories can masquerade as sociopolitical commentaries.

The Middle Ages in Modern Culture - History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism (Hardcover): Karl Alvestad, Robert... The Middle Ages in Modern Culture - History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism (Hardcover)
Karl Alvestad, Robert Houghton
R3,345 Discovery Miles 33 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book brings together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media - ranging from television and film to architecture - and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study addresses three connected themes. Firstly, how does historical accuracy relate to authenticity, and whose version of authenticity is accepted? Secondly, how are the middle ages presented in modern media and why do inaccuracies emerge and persist in these works? Thirdly, how do creators of modern content attempt to produce authentic medieval environments, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of accurate portrayals? The result is nuanced study of medieval culture which sheds new light on the use (and misuse) of medieval history in modern media. This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy - Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory (Hardcover): Nicholas... News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy - Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory (Hardcover)
Nicholas Richardson
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Richardson’s research spans a decade and two cities - Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada - focusing on three metro-style rail infrastructure case study projects: one ongoing, one failed and one upgraded after reaching fifty years of age – to build an irrefutable case that the news media is highly influential to policy, and that these influences are complex, messy and changing. News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy offers scholars and industry practitioners in the arenas of policy analysis, politics and media communications a method for astutely guiding large-scale projects through the complex and changing landscape of 24/7 news media. It is underpinned by empirical research that identifies and endeavors to close a considerable gap in current understanding and practice. This gap represents a failure to recognise and respect mediatization – the many powerful influences impacting a policy arena that has drawn the ire of the news media. The result of this failure is ineffective communication that does little to advance the policy piece and, in the worst instances, leads to policy immobilisation or poor policy decision-making. Drawing significantly on Actor­–Network Theory, Richardson identifies the influential actors and alliances at play when policy is subjected to media discourse, and he proposes a framework for tracing and managing them. In doing so, he demonstrates that such a framework is not only vital for the successful negotiation of policy and projects in the media, but also to an (r)evolutionary recasting of public, expert and media actors in the development and decision-making process.

Awaiting the Impossible (Hardcover): See Seng Tan Awaiting the Impossible (Hardcover)
See Seng Tan; Foreword by Gordon Wong
R833 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R112 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Handbook of Research on Institutional, Economic, and Social Impacts of Globalization and Liberalization, VOL 2 (Hardcover):... Handbook of Research on Institutional, Economic, and Social Impacts of Globalization and Liberalization, VOL 2 (Hardcover)
Yilmaz Bayar
R7,368 Discovery Miles 73 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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