Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness. Bringing together contributions from a variety of academic disciplines, this lively text examines contemporary theoretical debates and analyzes media as diverse as television, cinema, literature, print media and the Internet. Centring around themes of 'virtual' bodies, audiences, representations and public health, it examines discourses of sexuality, gender, race, disability, childhood, medico-moral panics, regulation and governmentality.

Representing Health: Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media

King, Martin

Watson, Katherine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Red Globe Press

Offers an insider's look at the Branch Davidians, describes Koresh's bizarre goals and teachings, and recounts the events that led to the cult's fiery end

Inside the Cult: A Member's Chilling, Exclusive Account of Madness and Depravity in David Koresh's Compound

Biographies & Memoirs

Breault, Mark

True Crime

Signet

A collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society

Strength to Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pocket_Books

The powerful German counteroffensive operation code-named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought from December 1944 through January 1945 is better known as the “Battle of the Bulge.” Almost one million soldiers would eventually take part in the fighting. Different from other histories of the Bulge, this book tells the story of this crucial campaign with first-person stories taken from the authors’ interviews of the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted personnel, who faced the massive German onslaught that threatened to turn the tide of battle in Western Europe and successfully repelled the attack with their courage and blood. Also included are stories from German veterans of the battles, including SS soldiers, who were interviewed by the authors.

Voices of the Bulge: Untold Stories from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

COLLINS, Michael

Leaders & Notable People

Zenith Press

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Bantam]

Men, Masculinity and the Beatles (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Drawing on methodologies and approaches from media and cultural studies, sociology, social history and the study of popular music, this book outlines the development of the study of men and masculinities, and explores the role of cultural texts in bringing about social change. It is against this backdrop that The Beatles, as a cultural phenomenon, are set, and their four live action films, spanning the years 1964-1970, are examined as texts through which to read changing representations of men and masculinity in 'the Sixties'. Dr Martin King considers ideas about a male revolt predating second-wave feminism, The Beatles as inheritors of the possibilities of the 1950s and The Beatles' emergence as men of ideas: a global cultural phenomenon that transgressed boundaries and changed expectations about the role of popular artists in society. King further explores the chosen Beatle texts to examine discourses of masculinity at work within them. What emerges is the discovery of discourses around resistance, non-conformity, feminized appearance, pre-metrosexuality, the male star as object of desire, and the emergence of The Beatles themselves as a text that reflected the radical diversity of a period of rapid social change. King draws valuable conclusions about the legacy of these discourses and their impact in subsequent decades.

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

Martin King has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West. This book is an essential read for everyone interested in World War II and the history of Europe.

Driving Back the Nazis: The Allied Liberation of Western Europe, Autumn 1944 (Sirius Military History)

History

Europe

Sirius

Drawing on methodologies and approaches from media and cultural studies, sociology, social history and the study of popular music, this book outlines the development of the study of men and masculinities, and explores the role of cultural texts in bringing about social change. It is against this backdrop that The Beatles, as a cultural phenomenon, are set, and their four live action films, spanning the years 1964-1970, are examined as texts through which to read changing representations of men and masculinity in 'the Sixties'. Dr Martin King considers ideas about a male revolt predating second-wave feminism, The Beatles as inheritors of the possibilities of the 1950s and The Beatles' emergence as men of ideas: a global cultural phenomenon that transgressed boundaries and changed expectations about the role of popular artists in society. King further explores the chosen Beatle texts to examine discourses of masculinity at work within them. What emerges is the discovery of discourses around resistance, non-conformity, feminized appearance, pre-metrosexuality, the male star as object of desire, and the emergence of The Beatles themselves as a text that reflected the radical diversity of a period of rapid social change. King draws valuable conclusions about the legacy of these discourses and their impact in subsequent decades.

A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth. Untold millions who saw and read Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45. In the television version of Band of Brothers, a passing reference is made to an African nurse assisting in an aid station in Bastogne. When military historian Martin King watched the episode, he had to know who that woman was; thus began a multi-year odyssey that revealed the horror of a town under siege as well as an improbable love story between a white Army medic, Jack Prior, and his black nurse, Augusta Chiwy, as they saved countless lives while under constant bombardment. Based on the recent discovery of Prior's diary as well as an exhaustive and occasionally futile search for Augusta herself, King was at last able to bring belated recognition of Augusta's incredible story by both the U.S. Army and Belgian government shortly before she died. This is not only a little-known story of the Battle of the Bulge, but also the author's own relentless mission to locate Augusta and bestow upon her the honors she so richly deserved.

Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne

Community & Culture

LYONS PRESS+

2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to accept an armistice that was a victory of sorts achieved over the German forces and their allies. There is global renewed interest in World War One. All the protagonists are long dead but many of their relatives are still with us. This volume will draw you into the whole experience from the home front to the hell of the trenches. These are the voices of those who were never heard but their suffering and their involvement was total and uncompromising, and now finally they can breathe again. They are not forgotten.

Lost Voices: The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and Their Families

Americas

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Representing Health: Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media

Inside the Cult: A Member's Chilling, Exclusive Account of Madness and Depravity in David Koresh's Compound

Strength to Love

Voices of the Bulge: Untold Stories from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Men, Masculinity and the Beatles (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Driving Back the Nazis: The Allied Liberation of Western Europe, Autumn 1944 (Sirius Military History)

Men, Masculinity and the Beatles (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne

Lost Voices: The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and Their Families