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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell  
Powells.com 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...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.)
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our...
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The Twilight of American Culture
by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index....
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Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (94 Edition)
by Marina Warner Publisher Comments Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our...
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (95 Edition)
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...
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Reinventing Comics
by Scott McCloud Publisher Comments < P> In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit < I> Understanding Comics< /I> , a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art...
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture...
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
by Mark Dery
Publisher Comments From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have...
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Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (02 Edition)
by Bakari Kitwana Publisher Comments Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American...
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Mexican Postcards (97 Edition)
by John Monsivais Publisher Comments In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio...
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must
by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions...
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Gunfighter Nation (98 Edition)
by Richard Slotkin Book News Annotation In the third of a three-volume study in the development of the myth of the frontier in US literary, popular, and political culture from the colonial period to the present, Slotkin (English, Wesleyan U.) covers Theodore Roosevelt's and Frederick...
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments 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 subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - "...
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Popular Culture : Reader (05 Edition)
by Raiford A. Guins Publisher Comments </p> <p>A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary writings on popular culture to explain and inspire!</p> <p></p> <p>Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the pervasive role of popular...
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The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture
by Mark Schilling Publisher Comments In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling...
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