Böcker av State University of New York

Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries. This work shows how the methods of popular culture scholarship can be merged with those of marketing and consumer research.

"Archigram", published in London between 1961 and 1970, featured wired environments which formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology. This book presents the study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on this magazine.

The disagreements about Early Formative society that have raged over the past thirty years focus on the nature of inter-regional interaction. Rosenswig evaluates these debates from a fresh theoretical perspective, integrating new data into an assessment of Soconusco society before, during, and after the apogee of the San Lorenzo polity.

This is a book about a gambling system that works. The author tells the story of how he used computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully - increasing his initial stake by over 500% in one year!

Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing European regions and cities from the 12th to the 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among elites made the winners become capitalists to defend their privileges from rivals.

This is a full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended in 1976. It traces the successful assault on capital punishment during the 1960s, and the struggle of abolitionists against the backlash since the mid-1970s.

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