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Contemporary Japanese pop culture such as anime and manga (Japanese animation and comic books) is Asia's equivalent of the Harry Potter phenomenon-an overseas export that has taken America by storm. While Hollywood struggles to fill seats, Japanese anime releases are increasingly outpacing American movies in number and, more importantly, in the devotion they inspire in their fans. But, just as Harry Potter is both "universal" and very English, anime...
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As the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential business leaders and newsmakers. His great talent is to get beneath the issues, connecting people to the events that define them and changing the way that Americans think about their money. Ending each show with a provocative, insightful commentary, Cavuto stirs people to see the world in a new light, calling on them...
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Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength" while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think...
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"New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped...
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Grey House Publishing, Inc
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[2015]
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English
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A companion to the 1970 Census, this book presents 28 profiles of individuals and families -- their lives at home, on the job, and in their neighborhood -- with lots of photos and historical images. These stories portray both struggling, and successful Americans, and capture a wide range of thoughts and emotions. From the many government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries and letters, and newspaper and magazine features,...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990
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English
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Interviews with Bharati Mukherjee, Maxine Hong Kingston, Peter Sellars, Leo Braudy, Patricia Smith Churchland, Jeannette Haien, Toni Morrison, Sam Keen, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rodriguez, M.F.K. Fisher, Cornel West, Tu Wei-ming, Joanne Ciulla, Ruth Macklin, Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., Michael Sandel, Jacob Needleman, Steven Rockefeller, Oren Lyons, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert Lucky, Louis Kelso, Mike Rose, Lester Brown, Jonas Salk, William L. Shirer,...
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Grey House Publishing
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[2016]
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English
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This companion book to the 1980 Census provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America from 1980 to 1989. Readers will uncover how American life was affected by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Computer Age, and Reagan-era prosperity and decadence. Collecting information from government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine features, this book assembles...
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"But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past"--
"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed...
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Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A companion to the 1990 Census, this book presents 28 profiles of individuals and families -- their lives at home, on the job, and in their neighborhood -- with lots of photos and historical images. These stories portray both struggling, and successful Americans, and capture a wide range of thoughts and emotions. With government surveys, economic data, family diaries and letters, and newspaper and magazine features, this references assembles a personal...
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