American Culture

At 1: 27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a h...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

Reducere. This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of...

Reducere. This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of...

Life in America. An introduction to the study of contemporary american culture. Editia a 2-a - Ovidiu Leonte

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Catherine Ceniza ChoyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 27Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the definin...

Offers an original theoretical paradigm for thinking through race and nature by showing that diverse constructions of nature are deployed as a mean...

Reducere. Originally released in 1933, "The Mis-Education of the Negro" continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answe...

*Includes pictures. *Explains the origins, religion, and social structure of the Inuit. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "We are told ...

Reducere. After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what trib...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Doug GilesPUSS-I-FI-CA-TION: The act, or process, of a man being shamed, taught, lead, pastored, drugged or otherwise coerc...

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the larg...

Reducere. In its heyday Motown Records was a household word, one of the most famous and successful black-owned businesses in American history, and, arguably,...

Reducere. *Includes pictures depicting important Iroquois leaders and art. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Hopi *Includes ...

Reducere. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.

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In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

Publisher: American Occupational TherapyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 282 x 218 x 34Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...

Reducere. *Includes pictures. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Neither the Choctaws nor Chicksaws ever engaged in war against the American peop...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

*Includes pictures. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Neither the Choctaws nor Chicksaws ever engaged in war against the American peop...

Reducere. Whet Your Appetites for A Fascinating History of American Food Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A g...

Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cathy J. Schlund-VialsEditor: K. Scott WongEditor: Linda Trinh VoBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation mo...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Deanna M. KennedyEditor: Charles F. HarringtonEditor: Amy Klemm VerbosAmerican Indian business is booming. The number of Am...

From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have b...

Reducere. In 1952, Jack Faragasso, a young art student, hired a model for a photo shoot. The model was Bettie Page before her career took off to the heights ...

DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures of Anasazi art, artifacts, and ruins. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Anasazi *...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

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The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this mus...

Reducere. A rich potpourri of articles and paintings on Gullah art, history, fiction, recipes, and language along with social commentary which clarifies the ...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

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The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

*Includes pictures depicting important Iroquois leaders and art. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded...

This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the Un...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karen (University of Southern California, USA) SternheimerIllustration(s): Last edn with tweaks; 65 Halft...

Reducere. American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids a...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew BallNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions in Religion and LiteraturePublication date...

Reducere. This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been do...

Reducere. No, it doesn't get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, t...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

Reducere. "An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity" (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face ...

Reducere. Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with t...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America's original holistic medicine, a powerf...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dennis TedlockEditor: Barbara TedlockThis collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to m...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRSA new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and...

DescriptionAmerican Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged...

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

Reducere. The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter TurchinWE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker t...

Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cu...