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Social Sciences

The social sciences are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology.

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  1. Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America

    Started by rosalia, 01-25-2014 01:23 AM
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    As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the...

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  2. A Short History of the World

    Started by Kah, 01-23-2014 07:04 AM
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    There is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history-and how it all fits together-is far from perfect. A Short History of the World...

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  3. BBC History Magazine - August 2011

    Started by englishcology, 07-22-2011 04:05 PM
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    Re-uploaded Jan. 22, 2014 (K) In this Tudor special, Professor Eric Ives considers the lasting appeal of England’s most celebrated Royal...

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    • Views: 1,962
  4. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

    Started by Kah, 01-21-2014 07:55 AM
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    Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the...

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    • Views: 1,221
  5. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 08:14 AM
    account, active, basic, code, contemporary, cultural, culture, guides, life, media, michel, popular, processes, program, programs, questions, resources, social, stereotypes, stories, strategies, test, textual, theory, william

    "Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its...

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    • Views: 1,254
  6. Culture in the Communication Age

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 07:43 AM
    academic, code, communication, context, cultural, culture, formation, global, hey, implications, individual, key, king, life, live, media, modern, popular, star, tech, technology, the mind, today, visual, world

    What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today?...

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    • Views: 1,574
  7. Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 07:19 AM
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    This highly original, thought-provoking book – written by a pioneer of communication studies – is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms...

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    • Views: 1,082
  8. Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society, Revised Edition

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 07:04 AM
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    In this classic text, James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link...

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    • Views: 1,266
  9. Explorations in Communication and History

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 06:39 AM
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    When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know? Explorations in Communication...

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    • Views: 1,023
  10. Face-to-Face Communication over the Internet: Emotions in a Web of Culture, Language, and Technology

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 06:30 AM
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    Social platforms such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have rekindled the initial excitement of cyberspace. Text based computer-mediated...

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    • Views: 1,453
  11. Online Communication Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture, 2nd Edition

    Started by Kah, 01-15-2014 06:16 AM
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    Online Communication provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timely...

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    • Views: 1,358
  12. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

    Started by Kah, 01-09-2014 01:26 PM
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    The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How...

    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,272
  13. 1000 Things You Should Know About Modern History

    Started by Kah, 01-05-2014 03:39 PM
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    Grade 5-8- Since this is a British import, the modern world begins with 1066, the year of the Norman conquest. The book's scope, however, tries to be...

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    • Views: 1,447
  14. Growing Up in 13th Century England

    Started by Kah, 12-30-2013 04:06 PM
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    Growing Up in the Thirteenth Century is a history book, written by Alfred Duggan and illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. It was later published as...

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    • Views: 1,104
  15. Post The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453

    Started by miaow, 12-27-2013 02:40 AM
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    The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world. They withstood numerous...

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    • Views: 1,217
  16. Post Crossroads and Cultures, Combined Volume - A History of the World's Peoples

    Started by miaow, 12-02-2012 07:56 PM
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    Re-uploaded Dec. 08, 2013 (K) Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples incorporates the best current cultural history into a...

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    • Views: 1,505
  17. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

    Started by Kah, 12-02-2013 11:30 AM
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    Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial challenge to Western dominance....

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    • Views: 1,175
  18. Post Castle and Knight (Eye Wonder)

    Started by miaow, 10-07-2011 01:31 AM
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    Re-uploaded Dec. 02, 2013 (K) This book helps you raise the drawbridge, man the battlements, and see what life inside a castle was really like....

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    • Views: 1,431
  19. Culture Matters - The Peace Corps Cross Cultural Workbook

    Started by Kah, 11-26-2013 10:36 AM
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    This workbook serves as a map to guide Peace Corps trainees through their cross-cultural experience and as a record of thoughts and feelings as they...

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    • Views: 1,304
  20. Post Myths & Legends Explained

    Started by miaow, 08-06-2012 12:19 PM
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    Taking an original photographic approach to look in detail at certain topics, these four fascinating books provide deeper understanding and richer...

    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,485

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