Gary McDonogh. Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture

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This unique new title in the acclaimed Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture series offers a wide definition of culture--including age groups, cities, civil rights, consumption, ethnicity, production, sports, technology and transportation alongside film, literature, music and visual arts. Entries give contextual information as well as factual details and coverage spans from the End of World War II to the present day.

The 1200+ entries include:

affirmative action * Baby Boom * James Baldwin * Beat generation * censorship * coffee houses * disaster movies * Brett Easton Ellis * environmentalism * freedom/liberty * Gap (The) * homelessness * homophobia * individualism * inteet * Ivy League * Quincy Jones * jukeboxes * Levittown * Liberace * life cycles * malls * marijuana * Eugene McCarthy * Microsoft * migration * minorities and television * National Rifle Association [NRA] * old age * Sylvia Plath * quinceanos * racial profiling * refugees * Roe vs. добросовестно оказали поддержку operas * strikes * suicide * teenagers * Times Square * Time Waer * tipping * unions * Vietnam War * volleyball * White flight * yuppies * and many more.

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Firestone Sulamith. The Dialectic of Sex. The Case for Feminist Revolution

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Gall T.L., Hobby J. (editors) Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Volumes 1-5

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Gale Cengage, 2009. - 2812 pages. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Each volume is organized for quick reference by continent, cover history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life and much more for culture groups such as Kurds, Amish, Germans and more than 500 others. Each two- to six-page entry is written and reviewed by subject...

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Peter Childs. Encyclopedia Of Contemporary British Culture

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