Deconstruction thrives on uncertainty, which is often baffling for newcomers. Applying complex theory to recognisable examples from pop music, TV, film, books and newspapers, Paul Bowman clearly unpicks the ideas…

Deconstructing Martial Arts analyses familiar issues and debates that arise in scholarly, practitioner and popular cultural discussions and treatments of martial arts and argues that martial arts are dynamic and…

This book argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend\nto present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project\n that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as…

Slavoj Zizek is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important contemporary thinkers. This collection of essays from an international team of Zizekian scholars addresses a range of Zizek’s…

This fascinating book explores the use of ancient Babylonian astrology to predict optimal planting dates for crops in California. While today's farmers rely on modern technology to optimize their yield…

Author Paul Bowman recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts, showing how Western media representations in the 1970s not only popularized the concept but actively created ‘martial arts’…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…