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Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such...
The Empire’s Old Clothes
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s...
Pulphead
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's...
Mirror, Mirror
The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon...
Radical Happiness
Moments of Collective Joy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives
In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular...
by Judith Roof
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment,...
Free Ride
John McCain and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But one politician manages to escape this treatment, getting the benefit of the doubt and a positive spin for nearly everything he does: John McCain. Indeed, even during his temporary decline...
Decade of Nightmares
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues...
Devouring Cultures
Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.
These...
Cowboy
The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The ultimate guide to living like a great American icon, Cowboy by Rocco Wachman—celebrity host of CMT’s popular “Cowboy U”—is an essential manual of cowboy culture, cowboy living, and cowboy lore, ideal for the city slicker who’s enamored by all things wild and western.
Symbols
A Universal Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Symbols: A Universal Language looks at the story behind the world's most famous symbols, from the peace sign to the smiley. It shows just how much importance has been attached to the smallest and simplest of ideas and features over 40 of the most significant symbols from religion, politics and popular...
Heaven
Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
“Wonderful…. A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa’s book is a good place to begin to find an answer.”
— Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion
“A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research … this smart...
by Naeem Harry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
There are millions of Pakistanis living throughout the world, and from time to time they will need medical, spiritual, and psychological care. This can only be successfully given if their culture is understood. My thought is that I begin my book, Understanding Pakistani Culture, with an explanation...
Full Frontal Feminism
A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women
Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages that bestselling author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of...