Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

This fascinating quantity offers a radical exam of the ancient roots of worldwide weather switch as a box of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the past due 20th century. in line with basic and archival assets, the publication is stuffed with attention-grabbing views on what humans have understood, skilled, and feared concerning the weather and its alterations some time past.

Internet als Bühne: Identitätskonstruktionen und Performanz im deutschen weiblichen HipHop: Eine exemplarische Forschung anhand der HipHop Künstlerin Lady Bitch Ray (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, word: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Sozialökonomie), Veranstaltung: Empirisches Praktikum: Jugend- und Musikkulturen, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: 1. Einleitung, 2. Die HipHop Kultur, 2. 1 Geschichte des HipHop, 2. 2 Techniken, „Style“, „Realness“, Mode, 2.

No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler (MIT Press)

There is by no means been a greater time to be outdoor the consensus -- and in case you don't think it, then peer into those genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the journal that is been blunting the leading edge of yank tradition and politics for 1 / 4 of a century. this is Thomas Frank at the upward-falling cult of workmanship in Washington, D.

"To the 5 Boroughs": Hip Hop as Cultural Movement in New York City

Hip Hop and rap track are the objective of ongoing feedback. either are usually accused of being misogynous and glorifying violence, drug intake and crime. during this booklet Andreas Jakob makes an attempt to color a extra differentiated photo of Hip Hop tradition. In doing so, he touches upon assorted facets of this multi-faceted phenomenon: Readers know about the economic luck of Hip Hop in addition to approximately its origins within the long island boroughs of Brooklyn and the Bronx within the Seventies.