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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
[Edited version].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 90 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing...
22) Inside Pee-Wee's playhouse: the untold, unauthorized, and unpredictable story of a pop phenomenon
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the 25th anniversary of the show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," the behind-the-scenes story is being told for the first time by those who experienced it. Complete with an episode guide, biographical information about the cast and key members of the show's creative team, never-before-told anecdotes, and previously unpublished photos.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xli, 231 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century--including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner--first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period. Classic novels such as The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Elmer Gantry, and The Sound and the Fury not only mark prodigious advances in American fiction,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 179 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Toward the end of the twentieth century, science fiction television took a dark turn. Series like The X-Files, Millennium, and Dark Skies wove menacing technologies, paranormal forces, and shadowy government agencies into complex tales of corruption and cover-ups. Mind control, alien abductions, secret government laboratories, and implacable "men in black" moved from the fringes to the mainstream of American culture, making weekly appearances in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped...
26) What the dog saw
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (ca. 13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and...
27) J-14 2023
Publisher
Bauer Creative Services
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at the 1960s, which had the Vietnam War, a sexual revolution, a feminist revolution, the Kennedy era, scientific advancements, exploding ghettos, freedom riders, and other important changes in music, art, literature, science, politics, and civil rights.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This new collection, which Krauthammer composed before his death in June 2018, features the columns, speeches and unpublished writings that showcase the best of his original thought and his last, enduring words on the state of American politics, the nature of liberal democracy and the course of world history."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--
Author
Series
Gonzo papers volume 2
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
39) The fifties
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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