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The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology ...

The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology ...

Barbie Zelizer

The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ ...
Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

John Godber

Barbie Ithought you wentto Penelope's? Scott We did, gotstood up and all, went down to Lennon's and they were there. Barbie It'sthe luckofthe draw. Scott He's going inthe pool thatone. Barbie Great. A beat. Are you going to Aqualand?
About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

Barbie Zelizer

... “The Impact of the Challenger Accident on Public Attitudes Toward the Space Program,” Report to the National Science Foundation (Public Opinion Lab, Northern Illinois University, 1987). 115. Martin Merzer, “Space's Age of Innocence Ends ...
Barbie

Barbie

Frédéric Beigbeder

Presents specially designed Barbie fashions by some of the world top designers, including, Armani, Gaultier, Gucci, Klein, and Versace.
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

Viviana A. Zelizer

This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists.
The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library

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Viviana Zelizer has traced the transition from a value system that considered such things as "death, life, human organs ... 36 Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (New York  ...
A NEGOCIAÇAO DA INTIMIDADE

A NEGOCIAÇAO DA INTIMIDADE

VIVIANA A. ZELIZER

Na vida pessoal, as pessoas podem considerar essencial separar a economia da intimidade. A autora se utiliza do exemplo dos relacionamentos amorosos no local de trabalho. Neste livro, Viviana Zelizer propõe um desafio a essa visão.
The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families

The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families

Naomi R. Cahn

See Viviana Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (1994); Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985). See, e. g., Ieanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of  ...
Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism

Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism

Mary Ann Clawson

The obstacles to the practice of insuring human life, Viviana A. Zelizer has argued, were primarily cultural, located in “a value ... 17 Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (New ...
The Social Meaning of Money

The Social Meaning of Money

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, ...
Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992–2011

Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992–2011

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... along your every breath. Taylor Mali Undivided Attention A grand piano wrapped in quilted. Victoria. Chen. Barbie. Gone. Conservative. out an eighth- floor window on 62nd street. After seeing the. 209 Victoria Chen: Barbie Gone Conservative.
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Viviana A. Rotm Zelizer

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets.
The Purchase of Intimacy

The Purchase of Intimacy

Viviana A. Zelizer

In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view.
La signification sociale de l'argent

La signification sociale de l'argent

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

L'argent, un intermédiaire impersonnel qui vient standardiser et désincarner les rapports sociaux, voire les corrompre ? À l'encontre de ces idées communément répandues chez les économistes, Viviana Zelizer montre combien les ...
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets.
Bellwether

Bellwether

Connie Willis

Sandra Foster studies fads - from Barbie dolls o the grunge look - how they start and what they mean.
Plastics: Collecting and Conserving

Plastics: Collecting and Conserving

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The authoritative guide to the identification & care of plastics, including classic collectibles from Bakelite radios to Barbie dolls.
Le contrat -

Le contrat -

Tara Jones

Barbie et Lancaster s'apprêtent à couler des jours heureux maintenant qu'ils sont mariés mais le chemin, pour eux, sera encore long.
Makeovers by Marcia

Makeovers by Marcia

Claudia Mills

Mr. Morrison doesn't like her work anyway: disdainfully, he calls her drawing of a beautiful girl "Barbie." Worse than art is social studies. This is the year that kids have to choose their community service project.
Australian Language and Culture

Australian Language and Culture

Paul Smitz

Toss another shrimp on the barbie, crack open a tinny or pour yourself a chardy while you traverse Australia's vast expanse of true blue, fair dinkum Aussie lingo - from cosmopolitan communique to surf slang, outback jargon and some of the ...
Warman's Americana & Collectibles

Warman's Americana & Collectibles

Ellen Schroy

A Trip Down Memory Lane This new edition of a proven bestseller gives you current prices and information on 25,000 of the most desired collectibles from the 1930s to today, from Barbie dolls, Coca Cola, Disney and monsters to postcards, ...
Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief ...

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief ...

Meg Jacobs

In this collection, Jacobs and Zelizer explore the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution and chronicle its legacy through subsequent presidencies up to Barack Obama's election in 2008.
Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and ...

Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and ...

G. Wayne Miller

Sindy: Colette Mansell's TheHistory ofSindy. Comments from the lawsuits beginning in 1989are takenfrom affidavits filed in theHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division, London; and the District Courtat Breda, The Netherlands. For further ...
Warman's Barbie Doll Field Guide: Values and Identification

Warman's Barbie Doll Field Guide: Values and Identification

Sharon Verbeten

Author Dawn Herlocher delivers an authoritative, captivating and comprehensive resource in this compact book. Softcover • 5 x 8 • 272 pages 550+ color photos Item# Z2378 • $17.99 Order directly from the publisher at www.krausebooks.com  ...
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Kim Phillips-Fein

On SIFE: Bethany Moreton, “Make Payroll, Not War,” in Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 52–70. On changing  ...
Plain Jayne

Plain Jayne

Laura Drewry

At first glance, it seemed to be mostly children's stuff, but Jayne moved closer just incase shewas missing anykids' books. “Nick! Great to seeyou.” Marathon Barbie. Jayne didn't have to look upto know Nick was grinning from earto freaking ear.
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon

2 (2010): 11–24. 000 Boston-based Ethiopian: Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies (New York: Basic Books, 1994). Six percent of the US: Asli Demirgüç- Kunt and ...
Speaker and Gavel

Speaker and Gavel

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The "Vichy Syndrome" and Legal Decision-Making in French Holocaust Trials Marouf Hasian, Jr. Abstract This essay unpacks some of the communicative dimensions of French Holocaust Trials. By looking at the controversial Barbie and  ...

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