New books over the threshold (in no particular order):
Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim (2006). Globalization and Empire: The US Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy. U. of Alabama Press.
Phaedra C. Pezzullo (2007) Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. U. of Alabama Press.
Helene A. Shugart and Catherine Egley Waggoner (2008) Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in US Popular Culture. U. of Alabama Press
Paul Alkebulan (2007) Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. U. of Alabama Press
Carroll Pursell (ed) (2005/8) A Companion to American Technology. Blackwell
Sharon Marie Ross (2008) Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet. Blackwell
Paul Hopper (2007) Understanding Cultural Globalization. Blackwell. [Checking out the competition :) ].
Angharad N. Valdivia (ed) (2003/6) A Companion to Media Studies. Blackwell.
Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk (eds) (2002) The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Blackwell. [Ever since reading Horst and Miller's book on the cell phone in Jamaica I've been interested in how anthropologists deal with media; I'm really liking this work]
Neil Gaiman (2009) Blueberry Girl. Illustrations by Charles Vess. HarperCollins. [This is an absolutely beautiful children's book, a prayer for a new daughter, with all ones wishes for her life. I highly recommend it].
Cancer and Concussion Crawl, 24 April 2024
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I'm glad to read that Gaiman's latest doesn't have the mean, nasty edge that I found in Coraline (I bought the book, thinking I might share it with C&B, but gave it away because I didn't want to share that level of negativity with them).
Lots of reading on globalisation ... hmm, wonder why? :). Actually, I've been reading a lot recently about early globalisation aka the British Empire. --T
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