Joe Moran

Joe Moran (social historian)

Joe Moran is a social and cultural historian who has written about everyday life, especially British everyday life from the mid-twentieth century until the present...

An Introduction to Asperger's Syndrome: A journey from diagnosis to discovery, exploring real life stories and practical solutions

While some estimates place the prevalence of Asperger’s Syndrome at 1 in 500, it’s rare when we come across others with Asperger’s and even rarer when we share what our life experience is like. For many there is little or no guidance on the journey of discovering one has Asperger’s to fully dealing ...

On Roads: A Hidden History

In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favorite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, clover-leafs and spaghetti junctions. Using a unique blend of trav...

Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America

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 another result of ‘dumbing down’? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into enterta...

Reading the Everyday

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 on the work of such continental theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Marc Augé and Siegf...

Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime

Exploring the history of common daily activities as they come up during a typical day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime, Joe Moran shows how such tendencies conceal all kinds of hidden histories and meanings. By looking closely at the normally unobserved, he tells a story about social...

Interdisciplinarity (The New Critical Idiom)

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 edition examines the ways in which we have organized knowledge into disciplines, and are now reorganiz...

Wild Weather: Science Adventures with Sonny the Origami Bird (Origami Science Adventures)

Sonny the origami bird is new to the world. He doesnt have any idea what this thing called wind is. Luckily Chuck the duck is there to explain wind, rain, snow, and more. Fly through the sky with Sonny, and learn all about weather.

On Roads: A Hidden History

'A masterpiece' - "Sunday Times", 'Terrific' - "Guardian", 'Sparkling' - "Telegraph", 'Beautiful' - "Mail on Sunday". This work is universally acclaimed across newspapers, TV and radio. In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite c...

Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America

Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America