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  • White as the Shroud

    India, Pakistan and War on the Frontiers of Kashmir

    de Myra MacDonald ...
    Between South and Central Asia, in the high mountains and cold deserts, India, Pakistan and China have fought brutal wars over barren, uninhabited territory in a bid for control over their national peripheries, including Xinjiang and Tibet in China, and Jammu and Kashmir on the Indian subcontinent. White as the Shroud explores this broader story through the most surreal of such conflicts: the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Tabloid Tales

    Global Debates over Media Standards

    de Colin Sparks, S Elizabeth Bird, Rod Brookes, Andrew Calabrese, Peter Golding, Jostein Gripsrud, Ágnes Gulyás, Daniel C. Hallin0, Kaori Hayashi1, Ulrike Klein2, Myra Macdonald3, Shelley McLachlan4, Mathieu M. Rhoufari5, Dick Rooney6, Klaus Schönbach7, Janice Peck8 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Defeat is an Orphan

    How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

    de Myra MacDonald ...
    When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan went on to lose decisively to India. It lost any ability to stake a serious claim to Kashmir, a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Longest August

    The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

    de Dilip Hiro ...
    The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes -- primarily in caravans of bullock-carts -- to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • I Am a Bacha Posh

    My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan

    de Ukmina Manoori ...
    Traducido por Peter E. Chianchiano Jr. ...
    A 2015 Amelia Bloomer List Selection"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy.In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Popular Culture and High Culture

    An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    de Herbert J. Gans ...
    Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Stones into Schools

    Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    de Greg Mortenson ...
    From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edición de Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Libro 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Midnight's Furies

    The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

    de Nisid Hajari ...
    A "fast-moving and highly readable account" of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and its lasting legacy in today's geopolitical tensions ( The New York Times).An NPR and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearNobody expected the events of 1947 in Southeast Asia to be so bloody. The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to realize the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled ... Leer más

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  • Heat

    Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth

    de Ranulph Fiennes ...
    Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the hottest conditions on the planet, where temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees and, without water and shelter, death is inevitable. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Carpet Wars

    de Christopher Kremmer ...
    THE CARPET WARS is foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's riveting and timely account of a decade spent living, travelling and reporting from Asia and the Middle East.During his time reporting from Asia and the Middle East he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of the carpet-making trade through the Islamic nations of Pakistan, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Reading Media Theory

    Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts

    de Brett Mills, David M. Barlow ...
    What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now?This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD