{"product_id":"cooking-the-books-anna-kassulke-9780275970475","title":"Cooking the Books: Mythologies of Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnna Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money. Dr. Kassulke has gathered together a rich selection of money stories and characters, and shows how they function in terms of both our social relations as well as our psychological and cognitive makeup. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoney was invented when human beings minted coins. Then we printed paper money, and now we have e-cash. Or so the fiction of money's origins would have it. Dr. Kassulke unveils the purely mythological status money has in contemporary Western societies. She presents a wide range of concepts attached to money in its various forms, from coins to paper to e-cash. Examples are drawn from children's literature, popular novels, films, advertising, biographies, financial journalism, political-economic theory, and sociology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith considerable sensitivity to both textual analysis and historical context, Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money. She pinpoints how money's mythologies determine social relations as well as subjectivity. Perceptive, lucid, and elegant, \u003ci\u003eCooking the Books\u003c\/i\u003e exposes an important area of cultural activity that will be of great interest to scholars and students in cultural studies, communications studies, and comparative literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Kassulke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0275970477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780275970475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 6.32w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 114","brand":"Anna Kassulke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001121194239,"sku":"9780275970475","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66fd34b9-e1bd-4b01-bd3e-af4b811fb933.jpg?v=1751600126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cooking-the-books-anna-kassulke-9780275970475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}