Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

This fascinating quantity offers an intensive exam of the old roots of worldwide weather switch as a box of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the overdue 20th century. in response to basic and archival resources, the e-book is stuffed with fascinating views on what humans have understood, skilled, and feared in regards to the weather and its adjustments long ago.

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 outdoors the consensus -- and if you happen to 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. here is Thomas Frank at the upward-falling cult of craftsmanship 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 usually accused of being misogynous and glorifying violence, drug intake and crime. during this e-book Andreas Jakob makes an attempt to color a extra differentiated photo of Hip Hop tradition. In doing so, he touches upon diversified elements of this multi-faceted phenomenon: Readers find out about the economic luck of Hip Hop in addition to approximately its origins within the ny boroughs of Brooklyn and the Bronx within the Seventies.