The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940

The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 Review

Anthony Badger’s notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What Mr. Badger does so well is to consider important aspects of New Deal activity agriculture, welfare, and politics, interpreting the history of each.

Profit From Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals

Profit From Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals Review

Packed with practical, effective licensing strategies, Profit From Your Idea tells inventors everything they need to know to enter into a good written agreement with the manufacturer, marketer or distributor who will handle the details of merchandising an invention. The book shows step by step how to draft a license that will be fair to all parties and addresses: ownership rights, applicable patent, copyright and trademark laws, license scope, dispute resolution, finances.

American Popular Music

American Popular Music Review

This text provides an overview of the four major areas of American contemporary music: jazz, rock, country, and musical theater. Each genre is approached chronologically with the emphasis on the socio-cultural aspects of the music. Readers will appreciate Joyner's engaging writing style and come away with the fundamental skills needed to listen critically to a variety of popular music styles.

Popular Culture: Production and Consumption (Blackwell Readers in Sociology)

Popular Culture: Production and Consumption (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) Review

This is a rich collection of contemporary perspectives on how culture is produced and commodified using current examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Incorporating a variety of theoretical frameworks, the book addresses, in addition, issues of social and cultural diversity in readings by key scholars that are accessible and provocative for both students and academics.

Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You

Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You Review

Does this sound like someone you know? Always needs to be right; Tells you who you are and what you think; Implies that you're wrong or inadequate when you don't agree; Is threatened by people different from him- or herself; Feels attacked when questioned; Doesn't seem to really hear or see you. If any of the traits above sound familiar, help is on the way! In Controlling People, bestselling author Patricia Evans (The Verbally Abusive Relationship) tackles the "controlling personality," and reveals why and how these people try to run other people's lives. She also explains the compulsion that makes them continue this behavior-even as they alienate others and often lose those they love. Patricia Evans is the founder of the Evans Interpersonal Communications Institute in Alamo, CA. She conducts workshops across the country, and has made numerous media appearances. Her first book, The Verbally Abusive Relationship, was praised by Newsweek as "groundbreaking."

Law and Popular Culture (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture)

Law and Popular Culture (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture) Review

This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.

Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans

Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans Review

The perfect tonic for anyone who's sick of inspiring tales of triumph over adversity, Raw Deal chronicles the lives of 22 of America's most wretched victims--who did nothing wrong but nonetheless suffered horrible fates. 22 full page portraits.

Reading the Vampire (Popular Fictions Series)

Reading the Vampire (Popular Fictions Series) Review

Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.
Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's `lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, `post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the `queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS.

Popular Culture: A Reader

Popular Culture: A Reader Review

Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as a product of industry, an intellectual object of inquiry, and an integral component of all our lives.

The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow. The book contains classic writings from all the 'big names;'  plenty of contemporary cultural references that will appeal to students, including skateboarding, hip hop, fashion (Tommy Hilfiger, vintage) websites, Star Trek, Disney, etc; material organized in a skills-focused and learning-focused way; strong pedagogic features throughout, making this an excellent classroom text; pieces drawing on diverse national, disciplinary and subdisciplinary contexts; and sensitivity to issues of gender, race and sexuality.

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (American Crossroads)

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (American Crossroads) Review

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with provocative discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right.
Avila examines disparate manifestations of popular culture in architecture, art, music, and more to illustrate the unfolding urban dynamics of postwar Los Angeles. He also synthesizes important currents of new research in urban history, cultural studies, and critical race theory, weaving a textured narrative about the interplay of space, cultural representation, and identity amid the westward shift of capital and culture in postwar America.

Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth

Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth Review

Everyone is a theologian of sorts. Theology simply means thinking about God and expressing those thoughts in some way. But sloppy theology is a problem. As Christians, our thoughts about God need to coincide with what He has said about Himself in the Bible. With his clear understanding of the Scriptures and unpretentious writing style, Charles Ryrie has written Basic Theology for every student of God's Word, from the devotional student to the seminary student. Ryrie's name has become synonymous with dispensational theology and his texts on the subject invaluable to the Bible scholar. Featuring charts, definitions, and Scripture and subject indices, Basic Theology will give you a clear and comprehensive picture of Ryrie's approach to systematic theology. Its 94 chapters are arranged in outline style for easy reference. Considerable emphasis is given to explaining the dispensational view of the end times.

New Deal, The: A 75th Anniversary Celebration

New Deal, The: A 75th Anniversary Celebration Review

2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration gave hope, support, and encouragement to millions of Americans. Several New Deal programs, including Social Security, continue to help Americans today. Did you know? The Federal Music Program created or nurtured over 30 symphonic orchestras, including those in San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The Federal Writers Project offered support and encouragement to such writers as John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Studs Terkel, John Cheever, and Eudora Welty. Under the Civilian Conservation Corps, American workers planted 3 billion trees, constructed over 46,000 bridges, and restored 360 Civil War battlefields Kathy Flynn is executive director of the National New Deal Preservation Association. She lives in Santa Fe. M a r k e t i n g H i g h l i g h t s Comemorative Activities Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will sponsor a traveling FSA photo exhibit: "This Great Nation Will Endure." This exhibit will be available at several national archive facilities around the country. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, opens a new exhibit "The FirstHundred days" on March 4, 2008. Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, will share its treasures. National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has an exhibit planned. The center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago is underway with plans to include some of the community programs. Explore the contributions of one of America's most influential eras.