Comic Book Culture
By:"Ron Goulart"
Published on 2000 by Collectors Press, Inc.
Provides a concise history of the comic book business from its shaky beginnings in the early 1930s to its multimillion-dollar success during World War II, and includes cover illustrations from the middle 1930s to the late 1940s.
This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword comic.
Context and Culture in Language Teaching
By:"Claire Kramsch"
Published on 1993-06-17 by Oxford University Press
This book focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right-as an end, as well as a means, of language learning.
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword teaching.
Japan: Its History and Culture
By:"Scott Morton"
Published on 2004-09-21 by McGraw Hill Professional
Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of the popular work, Japan: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition, documents and explains these changes. Seamlessly blending current events, politics, and cultural elements, the authors provide a riveting account of a nation often misunderstood by the West.
This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword history.
The Automobile in American History and Culture
By:"Michael L. Berger"
Published on 2001 by Greenwood Publishing Group
Presents a collection of bibliographic essays that describe the history, culture, and impact of the automobile and automobile industry in the United States.
This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword Reference.
Law, Legal Culture and Politics in the Twenty First Century
By:"Guenther Doeker-Mach","Klaus A. Ziegert"
Published on 2004 by Franz Steiner Verlag
This is a collection of essays on general and specific topics of comparative private and comparative public law by distinguished legal scholars from every part of the world in honour to the work of Alice Ehr-Soon Tay. The essays demonstrate the changing approach to common law in legal culture and present a body of texts on comparative law problems arching from Asia to Europe to Australia. The volume furthermore indicates that there is no area where comparative law has proved more dominant and useful than in regard to human rights and comparative constitutional analysis. Finally, this book is an outstanding cross-cultural contribution to comparative private law and comparative constitutional law in terms of understanding legal culture and law. It will be invaluable to all those who practise, teach or judge law. Articles by Kim Santow, Saul Fridman, W. M. C. Gummow, J. A. Jolowicz, Hiroshi Matsuo, Ivan Shearer, Christopher Birch, Tom Campbell, Roland Drago, Jennifer Hill, Michael Kirby, Karin Lemercier, Aleksander Peczenik, Robert S. Summers, Albert H.Y. Chen, Jianfu Chen, Edward McWhinney, Eric Smithburn, Klaus A. Ziegert, Margaret Allars, Han Depei, Guenther Doeker-Mach, Hoang Van Hao, Tommy Koh, Adam Lopatka, Gabriel A. Moens, Cao Duc Thai, Wang Gungwu, Peter Wesley-Smith, Murray Gleeson, Julia Horne List of Publications of Alice Erh-Soon-Tay .
This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword law.
Unpopular Culture
By:"Bart Beaty"
Published on 2007 by University of Toronto Press
Artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War, seeking instead to instill the medium with experimental and avant-garde tendencies commonly associated with the visual arts. This book addresses this transformation.
This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword comic.
