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by David Brooks  
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by William H. Beezley Publisher Comments Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments and dance, among others. The introduction... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Frantz Publisher Comments What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or a subdivision, but a town, intended to be a self-supporting community that combines the best of the new technological innovations and the most cherished nostalgic elements of American towns? In... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John B. Thompson Publisher Comments In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive and new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet B. (ed.) 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 $32.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.' - "... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George O. (ed.) Carney Publisher Comments The only anthology of its kind, this collection brings together classic and recent essays by thirteen leading geographers exploring American popular culture. The essays examine music, food, sports, politics, architecture, clothing, and religion within... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Lieberson Publisher Comments What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children's names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carole Kismaric Publisher Comments They're back! Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look! It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Watts Publisher Comments The Magic Kingdom is a full-length investigation of the life of Walt Disney, arguably the principal architect of mass culture in our time. By mid-century, Uncle Walt had become an American icon and was universally acknowledged as the spokesman for the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by perry Link Publisher Comments Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments Here is a convincing, often exhilarating vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles from San Salvador to L.A. and that embraces cumbia and hip-hop, anarchists and Catholic priests. The Other Side describes a future that--for some of us--has already... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Stites Publisher Comments This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, the stage, radio and television, Richard Stites... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen M. Fjellman Publisher Comments Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. It’s a pedestrian’s world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $70.25 Your price $47.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William D. Romanowski Publisher Comments Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed, fascinating approach to popular culture. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analyses of familiar, well-loved movies, television characters, musicians, and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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