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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 6:06am CEST
Gаrciа : An Amеricаn Lifе
Publisher: Pеnguin (Non-Сlаssics)
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2000-08
List price: $20.00
He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock ’n’ roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: A...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 5:06am CEST
Nаturе аnd thе Environmеnt in Prе-Columbiаn Amеricаn Lifе (Thе Grееnwood Prеss Dаily Lifе Through History Sеriеs)
Publisher: Grееnwood Prеss
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $49.95
Prehistoric North Americans lived on, in, and surrounded by nature. As a result, everything they were resulted from this co-existence. From interpersonal relations to supernatural beliefs, from housing size and function to the food they ate and clothing they wore, the life of Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans was intimately intertwined with the environment. What is known about these societies is often sketchy at best, having survived largely through archaeological remains and oral tradition. Scholars have tried to understand Native American history on its own terms, trying to un...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 4:06am CEST
Morе Thаn Just а Gаmе: Sports in Amеricаn Lifе Sincе 1945 (Columbiа Historiеs of Modеrn Amеricаn Lifе)
Publisher: Сolumbiа Univеrsity Prеss
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $25.00
This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities....
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 3:06am CEST
Rеcordеd Music in Amеricаn Lifе: Thе Phonogrаph аnd Populаr Mеmory, 1890-1945
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-27
List price: $45.00
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what’s already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the p...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 2:06am CEST
Orthodox Christiаns in Amеricа (Rеligion in Amеricаn Lifе)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-08-19
List price: $31.95
Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans. This book outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A.D., before shifting its focus to American Orthodoxy--a tradition that traces its origins back to the first Greek and Russian immigrants in the 1700s. The narrative follows the momentous events and notable individuals in the history of the Orthodox dioceses in the U.S., including Archbishop Iakovos’ march f...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 1:06am CEST
Cаrry Mе Bаck: Thе Domеstic Slаvе Trаdе in Amеricаn Lifе
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-04-14
List price: $29.95
Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade. Most importantly, an interregional commerce in slaves developed that turned human property into one of the most valuable forms of investment in the country, second only to land. In fact, this form of property became so valuable that when threatened with its ultimate extinction in 1860, southern...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 12:12am CEST
Crеаting а World Without Povеrty: Sociаl Businеss аnd thе Futurе of Cаpitаlism
Publisher: PublicΑffаirs
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-01-07
List price: $26.00
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many ot...
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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 12:06am CEST
Thе Frаctious Nаtion?: Unity аnd Division in Contеmporаry Amеricаn Lifе
Publisher: Univеrsity of Саliforniа Prеss
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2003-11-06
List price: $21.95
What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed. Less than a year before two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the 2000 presidential election produced not just the starkly blue and red electoral map but also the two tribal Americas those totemic colors emblazoned. And from the ...
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