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Rebellious Laughter : People's Humor in American Culture (97 Edition)
by Joseph Boskin  Publisher Comments Joseph Boskin changes the way we think about the ordinary joke and its connection to historical forces. Claiming that humor in America is a primary cultural weapon, Boskin surveys and analyzes the multitude of joke cycles that have swept the country...
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Branded for Life : How Americans Are Brainwashed By the Brands We Love (05 Edition)
by Howard J. Blumenthal Publisher Comments Written by a senior marketing and media executive, "Branded for Life" makes sense of a world where Wal-Mart is richer than 85% of the nations on earth; where well-informed, obese consumers continue to drink Coke and eat at McDonalds; where rabbis discuss...
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed England's Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagersas we have come to define themwere not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories...
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Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev
by Adele Marie Barker Publisher Comments "This volume on post-Soviet Russian culture is noteworthy for its range and critical edge. The authors comment on the impact of Western productions and practices, as well as the reformulation of longstanding Russian traditions. Adele Barker is to be...
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Nobrow : the Culture of Marketing + the Marketing of Culture (00 Edition)
by John Seabrook Publisher Comments From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. <BR>In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was...
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The Cannabis Grow Bible
by Greg Green Publisher Comments This guide offers methods for growers who want to maximize the yield and potency of their crop. It explains the "Screen of Green" technique that gives a higher yield using fewer plants, an important development for American growers who, if caught, are...
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OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
by Christine Harold Publisher Comments Culture jamming is so twentieth century! What's next? When reporters asked about the Bush administration's timing in making their case for the Iraq war, then Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded that "from an marketing point of view, you don't...
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. <BR>Frank's target is "market populism"--the...
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White Weddings : Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture (2ND 08 Edition)
by Chrys Ingraham Publisher Comments This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and...
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The Coronado Brief
by Justin Dwinnell Synopsis A young lawyer fights to free an innocent man on death row. A savage prison rape of a young inmate . . . a grisly revenge murder . . . a forced confession results in a conviction and death sentence. Jason Cornell, a young court appointed lawyer fights...
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Blackbook Sessions
by Stylefile Publisher Comments Whether sculpted in steel, scrawled on walls or executed as Sketches graffiti is a huge and growing phenomenon. Represented in this book are not so much the finished pieces of art that ultimately make their way onto walls or other outside surfaces, but...
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Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement
by Bryan Ray Turcotte Publisher Comments Raw, brazen and totally intense, Fucked Up + Photocopied is a collection of frenetic flyers produced for the American punk scene between 1977 and 1985. Many were created by the musicians themselves and demonstrate the emphasis within the punk scene on...
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments "To be up on stage, shoving food in your face, beats everyday existence for most people." — David "Coondog" O'Karma, competitive eater. "Hungry" Charles Hardy. Ed "Cookie" Jarvis. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. Will such...
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Graffiti Planet: The Best Graffiti from Around the World
by Alan Ket Publisher Comments Graffiti or "street art" has been a significant art form for more than 20 years, altering and shaping the urban landscape from Tokyo to Paris, Los Angeles to Sydney, Belfast to Berlin. Ever-changing and evolving, its anonymous, transient nature means it...
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Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
by Charles Hayes Publisher Comments Charles Hayes has gathered 50 narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life. Taking a balanced, objective approach, the book depicts a broad spectrum of altered states, from...
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Saying Yes : in Defense of Drug Use (03 Edition)
by Jacob Sullum Publisher Comments A nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naive national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational...
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Manufacturing Tales : Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends (92 Edition)
by Gary A. Fine Publisher Comments The mouse in the Coke bottle, the promiscuous cheerleader, the exploding Pop Rocks candy, the Kentucky Fried Rat. If the ballad and the fairy tale were the archetypal folklore forms of an earlier age, such contemporary legends constitute the preferred...
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Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (96 Edition)
by Walter Armbrust Publisher Comments Study of popular culture and the representation of modern life in Egypt....
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?...
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Cigarettes Are Sublime
by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein...
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