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  by aniketjadhav

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Type: business

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Author: http

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Tags: books history war philosophy political culture music educational literature economics sociology on

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Description: Algora publishing is an online provider of wide variety in economics books.

2008-09-22

  by evilonion

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Type: documentary

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Taras Grescoe

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Tags: culture food ocean non-fiction conservation canadian seafood

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Description: Recommended to anyone who loved "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

2008-07-02

  by osamabinrobin

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Type: fiction

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Author: Rachel Cohn

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Tags: sf family love culture ya slang girl 2002 ny eccentric

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Description: The language was top notch, even if the story seemed a little stale.

2008-06-27

  by katie

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lloyd Jones

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Tags: reading culture literature teaching dickens islands storytelling south_pacific

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Description: The story of how the book Great Expectations finds new life in the imaginations of school childrenThe story of how the book Great Expectations finds new life in the imaginations of school children stuck on an island in the South Pacific during an uprising. Brutal in parts (so not for children), but interesting example of how literature can leap cultures and lodge in the minds of others, sustaining them. The power of storytelling.......

2007-12-27

  by bakuvia

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Type: educational

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Author: Andreas Schonle (Editor)

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Tags: culture meaning Lotman contexts

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Description: A collection of articles about Lotman's work and his influence on our understanding ofA collection of articles about Lotman's work and his influence on our understanding of Culture. One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition between Russia and the West to the symbolic construction of space, from cinema to card playing, from the impact of theater on painting to the impact of land-scape design on poetry. His insights have been particularly important in conceptualizing the creation of meaning and understanding the function of art and literature in society, and they have enriched the work of such diverse figures as Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, and Federic Jameson. In this volume edited by Andreas Schonle, contributors extend Lotman's theories to a number of fields. Focusing on his less frequently studied later period, "Lotman and Cultural Studies" engages with such ideas as the "semiosphere," the fluid, dynamic semiotic environment out of which meaning emerges; "auto-communication," the way in which people create narratives about themselves that in turn shape their self-identity; change, as both gradual evolution and an abrupt, unpredictable "explosion;" power; law and mercy; Russia and the West; center and periphery. ...

2007-12-21

  by bakuvia

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Type: educational

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Author: James P. Spradley

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Tags: data culture ethnography research contexts qualitative

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Description: A guide to developing observation skills for research. Useful book for beginners new to research.A guide to developing observation skills for research. Useful book for beginners new to research. Very good overview of enthonography and cultural perspectives....

2007-12-21

  by bakuvia

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Type: educational

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Authors: Michele Knobel Colin Lankshear Ivor F. Goodson J. Marshall Mangan

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Tags: technology culture classroom contexts contestation distuptive

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Description: An interesting overview of the impact of technology in the classroom. An early review datingAn interesting overview of the impact of technology in the classroom. An early review dating from circa 2000-2002. Has a really interesting first chapter on cultural perspectives and classroom contexts....

2007-12-21

  by bakuvia

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Type: educational

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Status: now reading

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Author: David Bell

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Tags: culture narrative cyberspace digital cyberculture

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Description: A collection of short stories about Cyberculture - what it is, what it means with a particularA collection of short stories about Cyberculture - what it is, what it means with a particular focus on narrative, culture and communities in cyberspace....

2007-12-21

  by bakuvia & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Don Tapscott Anthony D. Williams

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Tags: culture knowledge collaboration wikis

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Description: A really interesting book about collaborativeA really interesting book about collaborative culture and the use of wikis to proliferate knowledge....

2007-12-21

  by bakuvia & 1 users

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Author: Clifford Geertz

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Tags: anthropology culture semiotics ethnomethodology Geertz

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Description: A useful introduction to culture and cultural studies - very readable.

2007-12-21