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by Brian Scott Ary  Publisher Comments This isn't Harvard. This isn't Yale. This is Arizona State University. WARNING: College Unauthorized takes you inside America's #1 party school, where students learn way more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. At ASU, Sun Devils learn how to sell...
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Inventing the Public Enemy : the Gangster in American Culture (96 Edition)
by David E. Ruth Publisher Comments In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the...
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
by Frederick L Schodt Publisher Comments Drawn in styles ranging from the crudely vulgar to the highly refined, and covering every genre from naive romance to high-tech cybervisions, manga (Japanese comics) are a sophisticated narrative art. In Japan, where manga were born, the art is today...
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Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain
by David Sachsman Publisher Comments Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty-five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which...
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Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana
by Alan W Bock Publisher Comments This cutting-edge handbook is essential for the ever-growing number of Americans who are faced with defective construction of their homes. Filled with interesting diagrams, photographs, and checklists, the book includes the most common defects and what...
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Attitude, Featuring #2: Attitude, Featuring: Neil Swaab
by Neil Swaab Publisher Comments Presenting the cartoons of Neil Swaab, including his infamous comic strip "Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles" about a teddy bear you don't want to meet....
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Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
by Gary Valentine Lachman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-422) and index....
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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
by John Strausbaugh Publisher Comments A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race in America reveals our culture as neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s....
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Flavor of the Month (06 Edition)
by Joel Best Publisher Comments Written by the author of "More Damned Lies and Statistics," this work deconstructs the phenomenon of fads through vivid, illuminating and eye-opening examples....
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Big Book of Buds #03: The Big Book of Buds, Volume 3: More Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders
by Ed (edt) Rosenthal Publisher Comments This third volume of everyone's favorite marijuana resource book by Ed Rosenthal offers crucial information to any cannabis grower or weed connoisseur. The Big Book of Buds, Volume 3 brings together a tremendous amount of information on the plant itself...
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Peops: Portraits and Stories
by Fly Publisher Comments A collection of portraits and stories about people the underground artist Fly met while touring the world....
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Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
by Suellen Hoy Publisher Comments Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt...
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Introduction To Theories of Popular Culture (2ND 04 Edition)
by Dominic Strinati Publisher Comments "An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture" is widely recognised as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Dominic Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which theorists...
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The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer
by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments An in-depth look at the corruption of the “American Dream,” the follow-up to the the Overworked American examines the consumer lives of Americans and the pitfalls of “keeping up with the Joneses.” Schor explains how and why the...
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Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader
by Juliet Ash and Elizabeth Wilson Publisher Comments Designed to be as internationally relevant as the fashion it discusses, Chic Thrills extends fashion theory beyond the interpretation of style, and shows how it relates to the economic realities and motivations of those who create the clothing we buy and...
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The naked consumer :how our private lives become public commodities
by Erik Larson Publisher Comments One week after the birth of his second daughter, author Erik Larson stepped out of his front door to find a sample package of Luvs diapers, courtesy of Procter & Gamble. How does a company know the most intimate details of family life? In The Naked...
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Psychedelics Reimagined
by Thomas Little Publisher Comments Kostelanetz slashes and burns his way through the politics of American culture. Crimes of Culture examines the critical conflicts between literary institutions and the cultural apparatuses of the state. It assaults the status quo's assumptions on the...
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Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis
by Albert Ross Parsons Synopsis In the chapter, "What Is Anarchism?" social revolutionary Parsons explained how his strain of anarchist socialism derived its name and purpose from the Greek words for "no" and "government." Albert R. Parsons (1848-1887), former Confederate soldier...
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Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists (Folk Art and Artists)
by Karekin Goekjian Publisher Comments This spectacular volume features photographs and biographies of twenty-one acclaimed self-taught artists from four states in the American South. From Georgia: Howard Finster, Dilmus Hall, Peter Loose, R. A. Miller, Harold Rittenberry, Jr., Rev. John D...
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