Militainment, Inc. offers insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment -or militainment- in contemporary American popular culture, including video games, sports, movies, television, and toy merchandising. Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of mil…
Offers insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment - or 'militainment' - in contemporary American popular culture. This book argues that an interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers.
Living in the U.S.A., has for many years provided the sojourner with just the information and advice needed to deal with the expected and the unexpected. Now, under Davies' skilled editorship, this sixth edition continues in that tradition. Living in the U.S.A. Living in the U.S…
From the Publisher: As William Gay, distinguished adviser to the last edition of Living in the U.S.A., so aptly noted, the United States is a country that is never what you think it is. Since that edition was introduced nearly ten years ago, the country has been struggling with …
Bangladesh, the eastern half of earth's largest delta, Bengal, is today an independent country of 163 million people. Among the 98% ethnic Bengali population, above 90 percent practice Islam. Surprisingly, Buddhism was the predominant religion of the region until the beginning o…
