Filter by
Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life
Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually universal. Home Truths? represents one of the few academic research studies exploring this everyday, p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472900312
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 778.59 BUC h
Holy hip hop in the City of Angels
In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-ai…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520968790
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.4 ZAN h
Hogwild : A Back-to-the-Land Saga
In Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga, readers learn that the term “Hogwild” was an outrageous ideology—that a loosely organized confederation of like-minded individuals could carve out a simple country lifestyle from an enclave of mountain land, raise their own crops, bring up their children in peace and serenity, and build their own free-spirited houses with logs timbered from the local f…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781469638508
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.72 LAU h
The Hmong of Australia : Culture and Diaspora
The Hmong are among Australia’s newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain, and others live in Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Hmong refugees are now also settled in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and French Guyana. A…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666957
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.895 942 094 HMO
History’s Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in Britis…
As arguably the best-knownexample of eccentricity of his time, Quentin Crisprecaps his experiences before, during and after the Second World War in theau-to-biography The Naked Civil Servant(1968). Heinvites the reader to join him in being amazed, shocked, flabbergasted and in the end enlightened for having glimpsed into a world completely detached from anything…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-8394-4543-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Queer Studies Volume 19
- Call Number
- 823 NOB h
A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship : The Passenger Car I…
Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American scholars or policy makers are familiar with the history of Japanese government-business relations, either generally or for specific industries such as passenger cars. This book hopefully helps in a small way to fill that gap in our knowledge and, thus, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902071
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.476 GEN h
History of Concepts : Comparative Perspectives
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. C…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 905356306 7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HIS
A History of Anthropology
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also conside…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978 1 8496 4919 3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301.09 ERI h
Carbon-Based Smart Materials
Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), self-healing, flexible memories and construction technologies. Novel developments of environmental friendly, cost-effective and scalable production processes are discussed by ex…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110477740
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Histo…
The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from Indonesia and Australia come together to present their research findi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462567
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography