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Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (592 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This compelling encyclopedic reference includes hundreds of individuals, organizations, and events where official claims and standard explanations of actions and events remain shrouded in mystery. It examines the most common subjects among conspiracy theorists, from historical topics such as the true relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the Roswell UFO crash, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to more current...
Author
Publisher
Belly Song Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (312 pages)
Language
English
Description
Many forms of activism live within the margins of conventional strategies such as marching, speaking out, and fighting for one's political representatives. This book of essays highlights, celebrates, and broadens the vision of activism to include the intersection between people and the social and political world, while encouraging dialogue across diverse viewpoints and exhorting psychology to become a social-change agent. The author deconstructs racism...
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (192 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The millions of "Sweet Potato Queens" and "Ya-Ya" sisters speak to a growing hunger to talk about, read about, and ponder the ineffable nature of women's relationships. It's a Chick Thing is a collection of forty spirited stories about the special and unique times that strengthen the bonds of women's friendships and create shared history. It takes a look at women's friendship at its wildest, adventurous best -- the antics, the escapades, the risk...
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This book sheds light on those things that people in power-government, religious leaders, corporations, the rich and well connected-would just as soon wish you didn't know. To them secrets are power. And they'll do whatever it takes to keep them that way-suppressing the truth and covering up facts that might make the rest of us angry enough to challenge the powerful or at least to have a good laugh at their expense. Using careful research and impeccable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious,...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Lydia Lunch's second book will provoke rage, awe, and infectious desire. No Wave founder Lydia Lunch's first book, Paradoxia proved that her presence is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection. Whether crafting personal essays, short fiction, or interviews with fellow antiheroes Hubert Selby Jr. and Nick Tosches, Lunch dazzles in her ability...
67) Paradoxia
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 p.)
Language
English
Description
"The unspeakable sexual confessions of underground legend Lydia Lunch. Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions. Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman's assault on the male of the species."--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 58 min.)
Language
English
Description
In MEF's powerful new release, The Bro Code, filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms that are saturated with sexism -- movies and music videos that glamorize misogyny; pornography that trades in the brutalization of women; comedy routines that make fun of sexual assault; and a slate of men's magazines and cable...
69) Family of Fear
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary shares the story of a group of people brought together by their love of haunted houses. Some come from broken homes, are bullied in school, have depression, loneliness and other concerns. But in the Arx Mortis haunted house they found a family. FAMILY OF FEAR is about finding inclusion and community in one of the scariest places in the USA.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At any given moment, 1.7 million users world-wide are streaming pornography. It is estimated that one-third of all Internet content is pornographic and that 1 in 4 Internet searches are porn-related. However, few media programs investigate pornography's impact beyond the simplistic cause-and-effect question of whether it is linked to sexual assault or sex addiction. Dr. Chyng Sun, the director of The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
An informative look at the history of eating that's a tasty combo of fact and fun
We enjoy watching celebrity chefs on TV, but so few of us choose to cook at home. The gourmet health food industry is soaring, yet a longtime love affair with fast food endures. Food and eating habits - good and bad - have shaped cultures, accounted for behaviors, and created a sense of individual as well as cultural identity... but how? And why?
Social psychology professor...
72) Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (257 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Is it possible to drive coast-to-coast without stopping at a single gas pump? Journalist Greg Melville is determined to try. With his college buddy Iggy riding shotgun, this green-thinking guywho's in love with the idea of free fuelsets out on an enlightening road trip. The quest: to be the first people to drive cross-country in a french-fry car. Will they make it from Vermont to California in a beat-up 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon powered...
Author
Publisher
Axios Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (485 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The "New Age," contrary to its stereotype of crystals, incense, and Tarot cards, describes important cultural movements of the 18th through 20th centuries which share a preoccupation with political change, experimental art, sex, new ideas about medicine, primitivism, and the familiar axis of love/nature/peace/spirituality. Green analyzes the influence of Gandhi, Tolstoy, Jung, William Blake, Gary Snyder, Rachel Carson, and many others, presenting...
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 pages)
Language
English
Description
"With a widely eclectic variety of protest art in mediums such as relief, lithography, collagraph, and photography, this major collection of contemporary politically engaged printmaking showcases art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in conversation. Based on an art exhibition that has traveled to more than a dozen cities in North America and including many do-it-yourself samples, this eye opening book...
Author
Series
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles, this unique resource serves as an active discussion of the role of art in revolution. Introducing the artists and cultural workers who have been at the center of upheavals and revolts, this work expands beyond graphic arts and includes political posters, comics, murals, zines, and features works from both present...
Author
Series
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This installment of the Signal series features artwork inspired by anarchist movements in Japan, U.S. promotional posters from the 1910s, Mexican street art, revolutionary murals from 1970s Portugal, and much more. The series is dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Readers will be inspired by not only fine and graphic arts but also political posters,...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Records Collecting Dust II focuses on the East Coast cities of Boston, New York and Washington DC and includes in depth interviews with twenty eight highly influential people from the 1980's hardcore punk rock music scene. Talking about the music, the bands and the records that forever changed their lives. Including Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, John Joseph of Cro-Mags, Dave Smalley of DYS, Roger Miret of Agnostic Front and Clif Croce of The Freeze....
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A journey of discovery into how an American artist and a Canadian artist with a father and son generation gap team up to revive the ancient Japanese woodcut printing by juxtaposing traditional art with pop culture icons such as Super Mario and Pokémon. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs International Documentary Festival**. *"UKIYO-E HEROES is a beautiful film about people who strive to make beautiful things, and that lesson resonates regardless...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (134 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The wickedly mesmerizing story of the ten grueling years before Twisted Sister broke out of gigs at suburban clubs and became the biggest glam rock band of the 1980s, recounted by the band themselves, their managers and their biggest fans. “*Fascinating...A comprehensive and sometimes harrowing portrayal of the grind a working bar band in the 1970s had to endure to get by.*” - Gleen Kenny, ***The New York Times***
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA’s now famed exhibition, “High & Low: High Art and Popular Culture”. Opening in the fall of 1990, the show placed a spotlight on the rapid merging of consumerism and the artistic avant-garde. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik and featuring work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, “High & Low” ignites conversations of...
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