The Jewish Phenomenon

The Jewish Phenomenon

Author: Steve Silbiger

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2000-05-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1563525666

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With truly startling statistics and a wealth of anecdotes, Silbiger reveals the cultural principles that form the bedrock of Jewish success in America.


St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Author: Tom Pendergast

Publisher: Saint James Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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The millenium-inspired fascination with 20th-century studies cannot be fully satisfied without a comprehensive and scholarly look at popular culture. With its emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.


Anagram Solver

Anagram Solver

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1408102579

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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.


Crossword Solver

Crossword Solver

Author: Anne Stibbs

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 9780747550754

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An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.


Signs of Music

Signs of Music

Author: Eero Tarasti

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3110899876

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Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.


The Promised Land

The Promised Land

Author: Grace Ogot

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 1991-06-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9966566112

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A young farmer and his wife who have migrated to Tanzania from Kenya become embroiled in issues of personal jealousy and materialism, and a melodramatic tale of tribal hatreds ensues. The novel explores Ogot's concept of the ideal African wife: obedient and submissive to her husband; family and community orientated; and committed to non-materialist goals. The style is distinctively ironic giving the story power and relevance. Grace Ogot has been employed in diverse occupations as a novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, politician, and representative to the UN. Some of her other works include The Island of Tears (1980), the short story collection Land Without Thunder (1988), The Strange Bride (1989) and The Other Woman (1992). The Promised Land was originally published in 1966, and has since been reprinted five times.


A Dictionary of Media and Communication

A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Author: Daniel Chandler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 019105755X

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The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.


Letters at 3am

Letters at 3am

Author: Michael Ventura

Publisher: Spring Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas Moore


The Acid Archives - the Second Edition

The Acid Archives - the Second Edition

Author: Mike Ascherman

Publisher:

Published: 2010-08-17

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781520636160

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The ultimate guide to underground sounds 1965-1982. The book features release details and in-depth reviews for more than 5,000 obscure LPs from the USA and Canada, 1965-1982, including reissue data and value ratings. The main genres are psychedelia, garage, folk & folkrock, hippie rock, progressive rock, and hard-rock. There is also a wide selection of interesting and rare singer-songwriter, harmony pop, soft rock, lounge-rock, avant-garde, vanity-pressings and "outsider" albums. This is the first ever comprehensive guide to the vintage musical underground of North America, and opens up a gigantic field of outstanding music that has earlier been exclusive and hard to grasp. There's also a buyer's guide, a glossary, a historical background, fun Top 10 lists, and much more. The massive book is loaded with color images of obscure and trippy album sleeves, posters and band photos, many of which have never been published before, and a foreword by Mike Stax of Ugly Things magazine. Highlights:- The largest selection ever presented of underground albums from North America 1965-1982.- Original release data and in-depth commentary from world-leading rare record experts.- Ratings of LP market value, detailed reissue data, and full color images of rare and trippy albums sleeves.- Special feature essays about rare Exotica, Lounge, '70s Funk & Soul, Southern Rock and New Age albums, written by leading field collectors.- A brand new round of informative and hilarious Top 10 Lists that were a popular part in the first book.