Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

This exciting quantity presents a radical exam of the old roots of worldwide weather swap as a box of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the past due 20th century. in response to basic and archival resources, the ebook is stuffed with fascinating views on what humans have understood, skilled, and feared in regards to the weather and its adjustments 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, be aware: 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 outdoors the consensus -- and in the event you do not believe it, then peer into those genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the journal that is been blunting the leading edge of yankee 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 song are the objective of ongoing feedback. either are often accused of being misogynous and glorifying violence, drug intake and crime. during this ebook Andreas Jakob makes an attempt to color a extra differentiated photograph of Hip Hop tradition. In doing so, he touches upon assorted features of this multi-faceted phenomenon: Readers find out 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.