UDM Libraries Book of the Week

by Kishonna L. Gray, Victor E. Kappeler (Editor) Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within one of the largest virtual gaming communities—Xbox Live. Previous research on video games has focused mostly on violence and examining violent behavior resulting from consuming this medium. This limited scope has skewed criminologists’ understanding of video games and video game culture. Xbox Live has proven to be more than just a gaming...

Ellen Grigsby Brief, accessible, and sophisticated, ANALYZING POLITICS, Sixth Edition, presents a clear outline of the discipline of political science and helps students understand the practical and immediate uses of applying analytical approaches to the study of politics. This text is notable for its early coverage of methods and theory and the use of a case study approach–introduced and used to acquire in-depth information about a particular subject while also pointing to its limitations. While the text covers fundamental concepts...

Johan Hoglund The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ‘imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic...

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek LIVE! features a handpicked selection of jazz standards performed by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga from their critically acclaimed #1 album Cheek To Cheek. Filmed on July 28, 2014, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, the special evening aired as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival 2014 on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances. 1. Anything Goes 2. Cheek to Cheek 3. They All Laughed 4. The Lady’s In Love With...