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American Media and Mass Culture - Left Perspectives

On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, this title brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture.

DKK 578.95

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Revolutionary Diplomacy - Chinese Foreign Policy and the United Front Doctrine - J. D. Armstrong

DKK 573.95

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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Josh Seim

DKK 433.95

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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Josh Seim

DKK 829.95

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Icons of Grief - Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures - Alexander Nemerov

Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.

DKK 417.95

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Everyday Ethics - Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry - Paul Brodwin

Explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.

DKK 259.95

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Everyday Ethics - Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry - Paul Brodwin

Explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.

DKK 737.95

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Double Indemnity - The Complete Screenplay - Billy Wilder

Adapted from the James M Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, this title tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role.

DKK 236.95

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Double-Edged Diplomacy - International Bargaining and Domestic Politics

This examination of the dynamics of international relations attempts to define the impact of both domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights and trade.

DKK 415.95

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The Rice Room - Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll - Ben Fong-Torres

Ben Fong-Torres was torn between an alluring American lifestyle - including Elvis and rock 'n' roll - and the traditional cultural heritage his proud immigrant parents struggled to instill in their five children. This title tells of growing up with a double identity - Chinese and American.

DKK 217.95

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Transpacific Displacement - Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature - Yunte Huang

This text re-reads Imagism through the works of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, relating it to earlier linguistic ethnographies of Asia and to racist representations of Asians in American pop-culture. It shows how writers subject racial stereotyping to double-ventriloqism and counter-mockery.

DKK 280.95

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Gender Trials - Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms - Jennifer L. Pierce

An ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.

DKK 280.95

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Seeing Double - Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria - Susan A. Stephens

When, in the third century BCE, the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. This book offers a fresh understanding of Alexandrian poetry.

DKK 1218.95

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Danger to Self - On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist - Paul Linde

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. This title takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room.

DKK 217.95

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Hellfire from Paradise Ranch - On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare - Joseba Zulaika

\Zulaika has written an ethnographic classic-a story of how drone war by hunting happened, what the consequences are for the innocent, and how it materializes a haunting at home. A must-read.\--Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, author of Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia \Hellfire from Paradise Ranch details how the drone revolution has moved the politics of terror into an entirely new techno-political domain. We should all be..

DKK 257.95

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Second Front - Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War - John R. MacArthur

Examining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm.

DKK 249.95

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Voyage of Rediscovery - A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia - Ben Finney

This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier.

DKK 587.95

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Overtones and Undertones - Reading Film Music - Royal S. Brown

Draws on film, music, and narrative theory to present a comprehensive aesthetics of film music. This book traces the history of film music from its beginnings, covering both American and European cinema. It features readings of several of the best film/score interactions, including \Psycho\, \Laura\, \The Sea Hawk\, and \Double Indemnity\.

DKK 483.95

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Eating Bitterness - Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration - Michelle Loyalka

Follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants - including a vegetable vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped mother - offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underlying China's dramatic national transformation.

DKK 259.95

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The Death of Authentic Primitive Art - And Other Tales of Progress - Shelly Errington

Argues that Primitive Art was invented as a different type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. This book shows how the idea of primitive can be used in the interests of promoting nationalism and economic development.

DKK 311.95

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Ghostlier Demarcations - Michael Davidson

\This groundbreaking and fascinating book has a double value: it provides us with a host of genuinely new readings--of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser and Laurie Anderson--but it also provides us with the theoretical and cultural tools whereby recent verbal experiments--whether graphemic, morphemic, or generic--may be understood. A terrific accomplishment!\--Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder

DKK 737.95

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Ghostlier Demarcations - Michael Davidson

\This groundbreaking and fascinating book has a double value: it provides us with a host of genuinely new readings--of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser and Laurie Anderson--but it also provides us with the theoretical and cultural tools whereby recent verbal experiments--whether graphemic, morphemic, or generic--may be understood. A terrific accomplishment!\--Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder

DKK 323.95

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Engineering Trouble - Biotechnology and Its Discontents

Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of major newspapers. This book examines these issues from the diverse perspectives of sociology, geography, law, environmental studies and political science.

DKK 311.95

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Covert Capital - Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia - Andrew Friedman

The capital of the US Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. This title chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a US imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

DKK 433.95

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Covert Capital - Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia - Andrew Friedman

The capital of the US Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. This title chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a US imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

DKK 561.95

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American Media and Mass Culture - Left Perspectives

Revolutionary Diplomacy - Chinese Foreign Policy and the United Front Doctrine - J. D. Armstrong

Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Josh Seim

Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Josh Seim

Icons of Grief - Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures - Alexander Nemerov

Everyday Ethics - Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry - Paul Brodwin

Everyday Ethics - Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry - Paul Brodwin

Double Indemnity - The Complete Screenplay - Billy Wilder

Double-Edged Diplomacy - International Bargaining and Domestic Politics

The Rice Room - Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll - Ben Fong-Torres

Transpacific Displacement - Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature - Yunte Huang

Gender Trials - Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms - Jennifer L. Pierce

Seeing Double - Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria - Susan A. Stephens

Danger to Self - On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist - Paul Linde

Hellfire from Paradise Ranch - On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare - Joseba Zulaika

Second Front - Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War - John R. MacArthur

Voyage of Rediscovery - A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia - Ben Finney

Overtones and Undertones - Reading Film Music - Royal S. Brown

Eating Bitterness - Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration - Michelle Loyalka

The Death of Authentic Primitive Art - And Other Tales of Progress - Shelly Errington

Ghostlier Demarcations - Michael Davidson

Ghostlier Demarcations - Michael Davidson

Engineering Trouble - Biotechnology and Its Discontents

Covert Capital - Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia - Andrew Friedman

Covert Capital - Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia - Andrew Friedman

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