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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Subculture : the Meaning of Style (79 - Old Edition) by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments 'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige ...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Remix: Reading and Composing Culture (2ND 10 Edition) by Catherine G. Latterell Publisher Comments With a mix of humor and analysis, a collection of fresh readings, lively assignments, and an enticing design, ReMix is not your ordinary textbook. It asks students to re-examine everyday concepts (such as identity, entertainment, and technology); to... (read more) List Price $78.50 Your price: $51.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller, With a New Afterword “Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicano Popular Culture : Que Hable El Pueblo (01 Edition) by Charles M. Tatum Publisher Comments Over the past several decades, Mexican Americans have made an indelible mark on American culture through the music of bands such as Santana and Los Lobos, films such as Zoot Suit, and a wide range of literature, such as Sandra Cisneros's The House on... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Practices of Looking : an Introduction To Visual Culture (2ND 09 Edition) by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher... (read more) List Price $105.95 Your price: $66.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Cars, Cool Rides (06 Edition) by Amy L. Best Publisher Comments Jane Ransom's Bye-Bye is a darkly comic first novel, both sexy and profoundly philosophical. The protagonist/narrator is a bisexual divorcee in Manhattan who assumes a false identity in an effort to escape the past and to spy on her own life. While... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gunfighter Nation (98 Edition) by Richard Slotkin Publisher Comments Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkins trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Consumer Society Reader by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments A unique and definitive read on our "national passion"--buying stuff--and its consequences for American society, this landmark work of social criticism is sure to become the standard book on the subject.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L Park Publisher Comments In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Uses of Television (99 Edition) by John Hartley Publisher Comments How does television function within society? Why have both its programs and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study "The Uses of Literacy," John Hartley's new book is a lucid defence of the... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (97 Edition) by Steven Watts Publisher Comments The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Day, Everywhere by Stuart Hirschberg Publisher Comments With a thematic focus on global popular culture, this unique multi-genre reader offers students the opportunity to read, talk, and write about familiar topics of modern life.... (read more) List Price $70.35 Your price: $48.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cul by Chandra Mukerji Publisher Comments Rethinking Popular Culture selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unpredictable Past : Explorations in American Cultural History (93 Edition) by Lawrence W. Levine Publisher Comments The book should have appeal to college courses in black history, American culture, and American history from 1900 to 1945.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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