A interdisciplinary introduction to American culture, American Cultural Studies examines the tensions that exist within the multifaceted and multicultural mix of American life ...

Ten essays by British, US, and Canadian academics explore popular books, films, and television shows for clues to the meanings of youth representation in American culture ...

Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how—indeed ...

One of the most profound philosophical problems is the nature of mind and its relationship to the body. A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind provides an introduction ...

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Taking the title from an American studies course at the University of Derby, scholars and writers there and in North America enter the debate over the meanings of youth ...

This collection introduces the central views and issues involved in the philosophical problem of free will. While the selections represent some of the most important works in ...

Is the American West in Sergio Leone?s ?spaghetti westerns? the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland?s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch?s movies? In Calexico?s music? Or ...

How do mental events such as choices and decisions lead to physical action? The problem of mental causation is one of the most important and intriguing philosophical issues of ...