Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Télécharger le livre : Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
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Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
Marcus K. Harmes , Richard Scully
This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television.This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's ‘Unseen...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-07-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
Sümeyra Buran , Sherryl Vint
Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
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(Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
Bianca C. Frazer , Heather R. Walker
While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking volume (Un)doing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Evolution on British Television and Radio
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Evolution on British Television and Radio
Alexander Hall
This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 2009. Going beyond science...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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105,49 €
Télécharger le livre : The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin
Sarah Bouttier , Pierre-Louis Patoine , Christopher L. Robinson
The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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73,84 €
Télécharger le livre : Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
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Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
Christian Kassung , Laurens Schlicht , Carla Seemann
This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-04-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Posthuman Biopolitics
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Posthuman Biopolitics
Bruce Clarke
This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough
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BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain. It revolves around the role of David Attenborough, whose career as a broadcaster and natural history filmmaker has shaped British wildlife television. The book discusses aspects of Attenborough’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-13
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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28,47 €
Télécharger le livre : Television and the Genetic Imaginary
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Television and the Genetic Imaginary
Sofia Bull
This book examines the complex ways in which television articulates ideas about DNA in the early 21st century. Considering television’s distinct aesthetic and narrative forms, as well as its specific cultural roles, it identifies TV as a key site for the genetic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
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Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
Lulu Le Vay
This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies’ ability to flex contours of family, the shows’ narratives work to uphold the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-23
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
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Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
Heike Klippel , Bettina Wahrig , Anke Zechner
This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and  hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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84,39 €