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  • Punk Beyond the Music

    Tracing Mutations and Manifestations of the Punk Virus

    by Iain Ellis ...
    Punk Beyond the Music: Tracing Mutations and Manifestations of the Punk Virus expands the conversation about punk from a focus on the musical genre to its surrounding cultural manifestations. Focusing on some of the most recurring practices and characteristics of punk culture -DIY, attitude, outsider identities, symbols, and politics-Iain Ellis engages many illustrative examples to investigate ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Brit Wits

    A History of British Rock Humor

    by Iain Ellis ...
    Humour, as much as any other trait, defines British cultural identity. It is 'crucial in the English sense of nation,' argues humour scholar Andy Medhurst; 'To be properly English you must have a sense of humour,' opines historian Antony Easthope. Author Zadie Smith perceives British humour as a national coping mechanism, stating, 'You don’t have to be funny to live here, but it helps.' Sex ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Humorists vs. Religion

    Critical Voices from Mark Twain to Neil DeGrasse Tyson

    by Iain Ellis ...
    Critical humorists and religion are steeped in a long-standing cultural antagonism. This book recounts the dramatic skirmishes between religion--its dogma and edicts, political manifestations, and the nature of faith--and the satire, parody, jokes and hyperbole of popular wits. The writings of Twain, Vonnegut, Mencken and Hitchens are included, along with the films of Monty Python, the cartoons of ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Rebels Wit Attitude

    Subversive Rock Humorists

    by Iain Ellis ...
    Rock music has been the principal outlet of youth rebellion for more than half a century, and though rock rebels have been idolized and profiled extensively, their humor has not been at the center of attention. In Rebels Wit Attitude, music writer Iain Ellis throws a spotlight on the history of humor in rock music, and its use as a weapon of anti-establishment rebellion. The performers who are the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 25 Love Poems for the NSA

    by Iain Thomas, Jon Ellis ...
    Warning. Every poem in this book has one or more words in it that have been taken from the NSA's watch list. A full list of the words appears at the back of this book. By transmitting this book via email or other means, you are liable to be tracked by the NSA as a potential terrorist threat. This book is dedicated to how ridiculous that is. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Kind of Clean

    by Iain Reid, Ellie Foumbi ...
    This surreal, hypnotic, and haunting work of “liminal space” horror—about what one aspiring actress is willing to surrender in exchange for making her dreams come true—is a groundbreaking collaboration from the author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things and the filmmaker of Our Father, the Devil.For years, Missy Djalo has been running from audition to audition, no closer to her dream of playing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics

    Edited by Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan, Iain Moffatt ...
    The Tutte Polynomial touches on nearly every area of combinatorics as well as many other fields, including statistical mechanics, coding theory, and DNA sequencing. It is one of the most studied graph polynomials.Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics is the first handbook published on the Tutte Polynomial. It consists of thirty-four chapters written by experts in the field, which ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Graphs on Surfaces

    Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots

    by Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan, Iain Moffatt ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Graphs on Surfaces: Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots offers an accessible and comprehensive treatment of recent developments on generalized duals of graphs on surfaces, and their applications. The authors illustrate the interdependency between duality, medial graphs and knots; how this interdependency is reflected in algebraic invariants of graphs and knots; and how it can be exploited to solve ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Building Better Societies

    Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

    by Michael Orton, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sam Burgum, Alan Walker, Steve Corbett, Paul Ward, Kate Pahl, Richard Williams, Gretel Taylor, Deborah Joy-Warr, Martin Coward, Anthony Ellis, Keith Jacobs, Iain Wilkinson ...
    What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema

    Sidesplitting sLaughter

    by John A. Dowell, Moritz Fink, William Quiterio, Ben Betka, Colin Yeo, Don Tresca, David Misch, Thomas Britt, Iain J.W. Ellis0, Ann Larabee1, Ben Urish2, Cynthia J. Miller3 ...
    When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and hide our eyes, or shriek “What??! Play that again!!”? What about those instances when these seemingly opposite reactions happen at once? This is the phenomenon known as sLaughter.Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

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