Desire and Craving

Desire and CravingThis book is an ethnographic analysis of alcoholism, focusing on the importance of cultural explanations of heavy drinking in modern society. As a starting point, Alasuutari uses a cognitive concept of frames in order to study the social and cultural boundedness of alcohol related problems. The ethnographic narratives concentrate on specific cases, but stress the theoretical level of analysis, and reveal the ways in which the alcoholism frame is

Andrew Trigg traces the heterodox tradition in economics from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of the first half of the nineteeth century

" The experiment of the book is not only to offer an entirely different perspective on Nietzche's "madness" but to offer and perform new and challenging forms of affirmative discourse

once echoed across Iron Age Europe

Including analyses of Bond as a lifestyle icon

to the final letters written in his madness to his mother

Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism

and greater ownership through revision-focused instruction designed for multilingual and university writers

and political reform

scenes that were cut from the final releases

Drawing on the political economy of the media

The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region

Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers