Autor: Joe Moran

In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just an …

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory – the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture. Drawin …

Traces the history and use of the term and tackles such topics as the rise of the disciplines and interdisciplinary English. …

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory – the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture.Drawing …

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory – the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture.Drawing …

Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university. Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second e …

Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university. Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second e …

Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it’s actually remarkably common – we all know what it’s like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue- …

Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers – al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, …

But what does your furniture point at?’ asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It’s a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assum …

In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain’s favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-lik …

The idea for this textbook came from social care students I taught some years ago. Excellent social policy books were available for Irish undergraduates at the time, including the wonderful UCD Press …

A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH – HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING) ‘Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical’ Craig Brown Advanced maths has no prac …

‘There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran’s book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wo …

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