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Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses
Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses transports the reader into a mind-altering trip through the colors, scandals, nihilism, and mythology that make Guns N’ Roses so much more than another “hair metal” band. A valentine and a breakup letter to one of rock’s most controversial bands. Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America’s most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N’ Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle — this book is a deconstruction of myth, one that blends high and low art sketches to examine how Guns N’ Roses impacted popular culture. Unlike those who have pe...
Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific
“The great value of [this work] is the uniformly high quality of papers and their revelation of contemporary trends in Oceanic art research.” —Ethnoarts
Constructing Crisis
Crises aren't real objective events. Instead, Spector demonstrates they are claims of urgency imposed by leaders to assert power and exert control.
Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010–2015
This book uses a micro-narrative structure to explore the assault on the collective memory of Mexican Americans in the Southwest United States from 2010–2016. These communities’ survival depends on their histories and identities, which are being quickly erased by gentrification and dispersal, neoliberalism and privatization. This issue is most apparent in the education system, where Mexican American students receive inferior educations and lack access to higher education. Avoiding the overly-theoretical macro-narrative, this book uses case studies and micro-narratives to suggest possible changes and actions to address this issue. It also explores how the erasure of Mexican Americans’ history and identity mirrors society as a whole.
Last of the Giants
'Last Of the Giants is the mad, funny, dark and often painful story of a lost band from a now-distant time' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE INCLUDES BRAND NEW CHAPTER COVERING GUNS N' ROSES EPIC WORLD TOUR 'Any story about Guns is worth reading. But when the author is Mick Wall it's absolutely essential' KERRANG Many millions of words have already been written about Guns N' Roses, the old line-up, the new line-up. But none of them have ever really gotten to the truth. Which is this: Guns N' Roses has always been a band out of time, the Last of the Giants. They are what every rock band since the Rolling Stones has tried and nearly always failed to be: dangerous. At a time when smiling, MTV-friendly, sa...
The Plot to Change America
The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book reveals what has really happened, explains why it is urgent to change course, and offers a strategy to do so. Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking that it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups and then on giving people incentives to adhere to them. If we eliminate group making and the enticements, we can get rid of identity politics. The first myth that this book exposes is that identity politics is a grassroots movement, when from the beginning it has been, and continues to be, an elit...
White
THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Candid, fearless and provocative – the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world’s most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society – the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the...
The Servant Class City
San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying service work as the cost of living in San Diego has soared. The Servant Class City documents how, over a period of three decades, San Diego’s urban transformation actually eroded the economic standing of the city’s working poor. Karjanen demonstrates that urban policy in San Diego, which has been devoted to increasing tourism, has fostered the creation of jobs that do not actually provide either...
Toplumsal Cinsiyetin Sonu
Cinsiyet, toplumsal bir kurgu mu? Kadın ve erkek beyinleri biyolojik olarak aynı mı? Toplumsal cinsiyet (gender) ve hatta biyolojik cinsiyet (sex) bir spektrum mu? Transseksüellik, trans çocuklar, cinsiyetsiz ebeveynlik, cinsiyet hoşnutsuzlukları, son zamanlarda ortaya çıkan sınırsız sayıda cinsiyet kimliği... Şüphesiz “cinsiyet”, günümüzün en tartışmalı konusu! Cinsiyet adına birçok efsane, arkadaş grupları arasında, medyada ve hatta akademide kulağımıza çarpıyor; dahası, bu efsaneler artık bize dayatılıyor. Reddetmenin dahi yaptırımları olduğu bir noktada, doğru bilgi hepimiz için gereksinim. Peki bilim, cinsiyet konusunda neler söylüyor? Ev...
Die Madonna-Frau
Die Sängerin, Performerin und Schauspielerin Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone wurde am 16. August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, als Sohn von Silvio "Tony" Ciccone und Madonna Fortin geboren. Tony, der Sohn italienischer Einwanderer, war der erste in seiner Familie, der an der Universität studierte, wo er einen Abschluss als Ingenieur erwarb. Madonnas Mutter, eine Röntgentechnikerin und ehemalige Tänzerin, war französisch-kanadischen Ursprungs. Nach ihrer Heirat 1955 zog das Paar nach Pontiac, Michigan, um Tonys Arbeit als Verteidigungsingenieur näher zu bringen. Madonna wurde drei Jahre später geboren, während eines Familienbesuchs in Bay City. Als dritte in einer Familie mit sechs Kind...
