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Annotation In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultur…
"Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates about representation and the status of scientific claims, epistemological issues central to the so-called Science Wars. The book offers a stimulating…
"Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates about representation and the status of scientific claims, epistemological issues central to the so-called Science Wars. The book offers a stimulating…
This book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizen…
The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create se…