We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders. Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions,...
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Auteur:Marsh, Charity, Campbell, Mark V., Forman, MurraySommaire: -
Auteur:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSommaire:Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
- Auteur:Deer, BrianSommaire:
Controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And an "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. Investigative reporter Brian Deer...
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Auteur:Lovink, GeertSommaire:Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness ' we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and...
- Auteur:Tolokonnikova, NadezhdaSommaire:
Nadya was arrested in 2012 for performing an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church. After eighteen months in a Russian prison, she emerged as an international symbol of radical resistance. Now the face of modern protest is wearing...
- Auteur:Schreier, JasonSommaire:
The business of video games is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark games and on to the shocking closures of the studios that made them, Jason...
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Auteur:Knizhnik, Shana, Carmon, IrinSommaire:Offers an unprecedented look at the Supreme Court Justice and how she changed the world. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come...
- Hype : how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're followingAuteur:Bluestone, GabrielleSommaire:
Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem and pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season.
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Auteur:Zha, JianyingSommaire:China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once-a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence....
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Auteur:Nordhaus, HannahSommaire:The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas...
