Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

This exciting quantity offers a radical exam of the old roots of worldwide weather switch as a box of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the past due 20th century. in response to basic and archival assets, the publication is stuffed with fascinating views on what humans have understood, skilled, and feared concerning the weather and its alterations 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 open air the consensus -- and when 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 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 booklet Andreas Jakob makes an attempt to color a extra differentiated photo of Hip Hop tradition. In doing so, he touches upon diversified facets of this multi-faceted phenomenon: Readers know about the economic luck of Hip Hop in addition to approximately its origins within the manhattan boroughs of Brooklyn and the Bronx within the Seventies.