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Meyer David N.

    Tento autor skúma prienik hudby, filmu a subkultúry s jedinečnou perspektívou, ktorá často odhaľuje neočakávané súvislosti medzi zdanlivo nesúrodými témami. Jeho práce sa vyznačujú hlbokým porozumením populárnej kultúry a schopnosťou podať zložité myšlienky prístupnou a pútavou formou. Využíva rôznorodé žánre, od životopisov hudobných ikon po analýzy filmových žánrov, vždy však s cieľom osvetliť hlbšie kultúrne a spoločenské fenomény. Autorov štýl je charakterizovaný ako precíznym výskumom, tak osobitým rozprávačským prístupom, ktorý čitateľa vtiahne do víru skúmaných tém.

    Early Tahitian Poetics
    Crinoid Feeding Strategies: New Insights From Subsea Video And Time-Lapse
    The Bee Gees
    Twenty Thousand Roads
    The Total Dog Manual
    How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter
    • 2021
    • 2021

      People protest to try to change the world, because they think they can help change the world, and sometimes they do. But not by themselves, and generally not just how and when they want.This incisive book explains how groups of ordinary individuals can affect the world, what makes it possible when it works, and why it sometimes doesn't go to plan. Digging into previous scholarship on social movements, David S. Meyer looks at the origins of social movements, how they contrast with revolutionary campaigns, and assesses the periodic influence of activists on politics, policy, culture, and the way people live their lives. He concludes by stressing the narratives about political change that activists construct and the power that lies in these stories.With sharp insight and a wealth of intriguing cases, this book offers a fuller understanding of the politics and potential payoffs of protest politics.​

      How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter
    • 2016

      The Total Cat Manual

      • 218 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      "Meet, love, and care for your new best friend"--Cover.

      The Total Cat Manual
    • 2016

      The Total Dog Manual has been written to help you find a dog to share your life and home with, and to help you have the best possible relationship with your dog throughout their life.

      The Total Dog Manual
    • 2013

      Early Tahitian Poetics

      • 446 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries.

      Early Tahitian Poetics
    • 2012

      The Bee Gees

      • 389 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
      3,4(128)Ohodnotiť

      The long overdue, definitive narrative biography of The Bee Gees, by the acclaimed author of the award-winning Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and his Cosmic American Music.

      The Bee Gees
    • 2009