The 25 Sitcoms That Changed Television: Turning Points in American Culture, Hardcover

All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The face o...

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

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

Reducere. DescriptionFilm expert and author Andrew J. Rausch presents the 32 most pivotal moments in the history of the medium that changed the way movies we...

A book devoted to the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped warfare throughout history and the wo...

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A beautifully presented collection of entries to an international writing competition, The Turning Point contains stories about the loves, tragedie...

From I Love Lucy to Will & Grace, this book looks at the television comedies that have tackled social issues, facilitated discussion, or in some ot...

For Mets fans, here are the stories they want to read and reread, now updated through the 2020 season: the Mets' first win in 1962, Tom Seaver's ne...

Leading historians select and describe the 20 most significant events in British History.

Publisher: Anthroposophic Press IncAuthor(s): Rudolf SteinerIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2007D...

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Robert Douglas-FairhurstNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 25Cover type: Pap...

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Reducere. Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Books that Changed History features 75 of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roger StronstadIn this volume, noted Pentecostal biblical scholar, Roger Stronstad, turns his attention to the construction...

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

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DescriptionLiz Skilton's innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wid...

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DescriptionThe heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Je...

Reducere. Turning Points celebrates the 75th anniversary of Off Campus Writers' Workshop, a member-managed non-profit organization that has helped thousands ...

Reducere. Celebrate the empowering and inspiring women who helped create, shape, and make pop culture great, from the creator of SYFY WIRE's FANGRRLS and the...

Reducere. From Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind She Persisted, comes a new book featuring women athletes w...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

The guide technicians turn to for answers--tuned up to provide an advantage in today's global economy The face of investing has significantly chang...

Reducere. From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the pla...

Reducere. Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, spar...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

Reducere. This new explanation of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking contemporary theory and criminal justice policy....

DescriptionAward-winning author Don Brown explores computers and technology in book two of the Big Ideas series Machines That Think explores machin...

DescriptionAsian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asia...

As the fifties faded away, sixties style swept Chester into the modern age.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapit...

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OCD has the power to destroy lives like a hurricane filled with tornadoes. While OCD turns households and relationships upside down and affects all...

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The Second Continental Congress was an assembly of America's brightest minds. It was formed because of the collective desire to be independent of B...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...