This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, ...
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthrop ...
Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin c ...
In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books.First of ...
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original ...
RNA interference (RNAi) is a mechanism that inhibits gene expression at the stage of translation or by hindering the transcription of specific genes. ...
Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.Th ...
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
For people suffering with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive ...
In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national ant ...
Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, ...
There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no ex ...
By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turn ...
The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith ...
Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding color every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color? How ...
Beginning with the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and moving forward through time, Art and Architecture of the World's Religio ...
In Hollywood Bloodshed, James Kendrick presents a fascinating look into the political and ideological instabilities of the 1980s as studied through th ...
Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film's re ...
French Queer Cinema reads queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video. While advances have been made in the research ...
It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return post-war to traditional gender roles and that popular cinema represented this era o ...
