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Author
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (664 pages)
Language
English
Description
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching and...
Publisher
SAGE Reference
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 422 pages)
Language
English
Description
With a wide range of contributions from highly respected researchers, this handbook examines historical, current and future research issues in play and learning scholarship, offering clarity and breadth in this dynamic and changing field.--Provided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of mysticism, heresy, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700. This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1593 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (32 p.)
Language
English
Description
A late-night comedy show featuring memorable short skits, hilarious sketches, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band featuring original musical performances, and a pop-cultural guest host each week.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (ca. 1353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 collectible character cards.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the enormous success of the previous two years, the third season of SNL showcased a fearless cast that created some of the most memorable sketches to ever appear on the show. With hilarious breakthrough characters like The Nerds, Coneheads, lounge singer Nick Winters, Samurai Warrior, a singing King Tut and featuring Father Guido Sarducci as well as "The Franken and Davis show," SNL continued to define itself as the pinnacle of irreverent...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Other myths, such as "LGBT...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions and the most popular form of transport in history. Robert Penn has ridden one most days of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedaled around the world. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bikes he currently owns don't even hint at this devotion. Robert needs a new bike, a customized machine that reflects how he feels when he's riding it--like an ordinary man touching the gods. It's All...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (21 cm).
Language
English
Description
These lectures reveal how mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. We study how the model of certainty in Euclid's revolutionary Elements influenced philosophers for centuries, and how the invention of non-Euclidiean geometry further influenced philosophy and changed modern views of the world. As well. we consider how the newer disciplines of probability and statistics gave scientists ways of dealing--with precision--with events that...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe's Jews? Americans and the Holocaust explores these enduring questions by gathering together more than one hundred primary sources that reveal how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. Drawing on groundbreaking research conducted for the United...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxi, 406 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 20 cm
Language
English
Description
By reimagining old tales, Matthews has assembled a new Morte D'Arthur with fresh stories of Merlin, Arthur, and the knights.
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