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Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market
by Susan Strasser Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-326) and index....
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Made in U.S.A. :the secret histories of the things that made America
by Phil Patton Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-388) and index....
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
by Thomas C Frank Publisher Comments From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads...
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White Mischief (04 Edition)
by Madge Publisher Comments Praised as a wonder drug by doctors throughout Europe and the United States upon its discovery nearly 150 years ago, perceptions of cocaine have now come full circle....
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Psychedelics
by Peter Stafford Publisher Comments In Psychedelics, Peter Stafford offers a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. In addition to the photographs, illustrations, charts, and tables, he writes about the origins, varieties...
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Prom Night : Youth, Schools and Popular Culture (00 Edition)
by Amy L. Best Publisher Comments "As lame as school dances can be, there's always that one moment." "Dawson's Creek" <BR>"It was a crazy night because many of us did things we never expected. Some of us got drunk for the first time and others lost their virginity, like me. I look...
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Modernising Australia's Drug Policy
by Alex Wodak Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99) and index....
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Orgies of the Hemp Eaters: The Ritual and Recreational Uses of Cannabis
by Hakim Bey Publisher Comments In an interview and four additional essays, Hakim Bey explores how the blind panopticon of Capital remains most vulnerable in the realm of [magic'—the manipulation of images to control events, hermetic "action at a distance."...
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Popular Stories and Promised Lands: Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages (Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)
by Roger C Aden Publisher Comments Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on television,...
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Interviews with Icons: Flashing on the 60s
by Lisa Law Publisher Comments Interviews with Icons Flashing on the '60s Lisa Law Twenty-six interviews, many seen in "Flashing on the Sixties</I>, which Dennis Hopper called "the most compelling, moving documentary" of the period, plus new photos and texts, "Interviews with...
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Cyberpunks
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments This timely book, Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto," is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies....
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The Cannabis Grow Bible Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational Athe Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for
by Greg Green Publisher Comments The Cannabis Grow Bible fully explains both the art and science behind growing high-grade pot. Author and aficionado Greg Green blends a thorough understanding of marijuana botany with practical advice on coping with the day-to-day demands of maintaining...
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Primo Plant: Growing Marijuana Outdoors
by Carolyn Garcia Publisher Comments Carolyn Garcia, immortalized as "Mountain Girl" in Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", is the former wife of Jerry Garcia, and was a key player in Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. In this book, Garcia argues that marijuana has medicinal and spiritual...
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The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
by Jim Cullen Publisher Comments "An exceptionally well-written and engrossing introduction to the nonelitist art forms of American popular culture."<BR>"--Library Journal" (starred review)...
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Barry McGee: The Buddy System
by Barry Mcgee Publisher Comments Despite, or perhaps in ironic conjunction with, Mayor Giuliani's efforts to make New York City clean and pristine, graffiti has become a respected staple of the gallery scene. Barry "Twist" McGee's tags and caricatures are no exception, nor were they...
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Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s
by Hilary Radner Publisher Comments Critics and defenders alike connect today's widespread anxieties about sexuality and culture to the political activism of the 1960s and the counterculture's preoccupation with the individual pursuit of pleasure. In contrast, the essays in Swindling...
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Offbeat Marijuana: The Life and Times of the World's Grooviest Plant
by Saul Rubin Book News Annotation This decidedly lowbrow contribution to the literature on the marijuana debate is unimpressive in both textual and visual content; many photographs are printed in too-dark, low-contrast b&w (and, surprise, green), and many of their captions consist of...
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Living Lightly: Travels in Post-Consumer Society
by Walter Schwarz Publisher Comments An enthralling account of the authors' travels across four continents among people 'living lightly' on the earth--more self-reliant, more neighborly, more in tune with their environment, less stressed than the majority who strive for success in the...
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Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives
by Sally Stoecker Publisher Comments Human trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the...
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Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s
by Hilary Radner Publisher Comments Critics and defenders alike connect today's widespread anxieties about sexuality and culture to the political activism of the 1960s and the counterculture's preoccupation with the individual pursuit of pleasure/ In contrast, the essays in Swindling...
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