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On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider...
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Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam, and the music scene changed, embracing punk and bands like The Sex Pistols. In Sells Like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how music and youth...
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It's true: the superpower known as the USA is now being run... by Baby Boomers.
They dominate government, control corporations, steer society and culture. Boomers are in power. This is their time.
But who are they, really? What do they think? And most importantly, what have they done? What are they doing?
The Baby Boom generation is certainly well known, but rarely described or even revealed. BUSTED BOOM: THE BUMMER OF BEING A BOOMER takes...
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past, or family heirlooms handed down over generations, and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and media moments. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia built around narrow age groups whose members remain loyal to the toys, television, and music of their youth and return...
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All of our lives we have heard marijuana is bad for us, the first step to drug addiction and life as a slacker, but it just isn't true! Over the last 75 years the Federal government has done its best to discredit a natural medicine that has been used around the world for centuries. In 2009, the American Medical Association officially endorsed the medical value of cannabis and 14 states have legalized medical use with more legislation pending. Medical...
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Development in Unity: A Compendium of Works of Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, Volume1 is a compilation of research works, published articles, speeches, seminar presentations, addresses, and radio broadcasts written by the author over the past 40 years. In these articles, the author, a distinguished statistician, a university don, a UN commissioner, a Vice-Chancellor of the World Academy of Letters, and a traditional ruler, combines his rich...
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As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to...
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The author, obviously a man unafraid of criticism for his outspoken opinions that depart from the politically correct American society of today, speaks unabashedly about both very serious issues of the day as well as everyday annoyances that no doubt plague many people. Each brief chapter reflects the opinions of the author and often does so in ways that most people would be very reticent themselves to "say out loud". The issues discussed range from...
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Quips and quotes from one of Mad Men's sharpest wits.
Multiple Emmy winner Mad Men continues to captivate viewers around the world with its brilliant portrayal of the 1960s and its stylish characters, including the dashing advertising mogul Roger Sterling, who's acquired a reputation for his quips, barbs, and witticisms over the show's many season. This book, presented as Roger's memoir during the fourth season of Mad Men, is an entertaining collection...
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To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take responsibility for that action. This is a book of short, provocative essays. Some are on fun topics in pop culture (hackers, dubstep, cat memes, thinking green, parkour, and the girl next door). Others are takes on technical topics in social theory (sensation, hype, discrimination, imagination, and the typical). This is a book to help...
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"Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written." -Whitley StrieberIn a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, "Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us...
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Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Cornwall, or as it is sometimes obscurely referred to, Merry Jack. Though this isn't the usual side of the county the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Cornwall, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the county's bizarre history—past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to England's gloriously coastal, yet...
93) Magic Mushrooms
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Describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms. There are over 100 "entheogenic" fungi known to stimulate ecstatic states in curious seekers. Stafford recounts the known history of magic mushrooms, also called "sacred" mushrooms, and describes the interesting aspects of this extraordinary class of mind-changers. He tells how they are psychically relaxing and focusing, and act as a catalyst to creative breakthroughs....
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"Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change" chronicles the rise of the body positive movement and body positivity through pop culture reviews and personal reflections. This essay collection illustrates the insidiousness of fatphobia through analyses of film, television, books, and how they affect our perceptions and treatment of others. Altogether, the essays paint a big picture of fatphobia, misogyny, misogynoir, ableism, and...
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Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne's World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon known as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan-all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.
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Ante un Estado que niega la realidad y apela al artificio de un mundo feliz hecho de simulacros y falacias, el ser "chéveres" se advierte como una máscara, el espejo trucado que nos perpetúa en el autoengaño, incapaces de asumir nuestro destino. Frente al colectivismo oficial que uniforma y masifica, urge rescatar la identidad individual y lo múltiple como único contrapeso a la inquisición igualitarista.
En plena urgencia de definiciones,...
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Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics,...
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A waitress discovers an unknown illness infecting the food industry and attempts to spread awareness along with the cure.
If there were ever a time to recommend a special of the day, this book is the red, white, and blue-plate special Americans want to order. This diary reveals the cause, diagnosis, and remedy for "VIP Syndrome," a condition coined by the author as a food server's greatest occupational hazard. Learn the symptoms of VIP Syndrome,...
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This book is a celebration of tactile beauty and a tribute to human ingenuity. In-depth profiles tell the stories of 20 artisans who have devoted their lives to preserving traditional techniques. Gorgeous photographs reveal these craftspeople's studios, from Oaxaca to Kyoto and from Milan to Tennessee. Two essays explore the challenges and rewards of engaging deeply with the past. With an elegant three-piece case and foil stamping, this rich volume...
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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of fabricators while others patiently teach schoolchildren how to finger-knit. All of these artists might well be shown in the same exhibition, the quality of work...
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