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  • Queens
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Charts the historical development of Queens from the 1920s to today, focusing on its profound diversity.Queens charts the history of residential development of the New York City borough from the 1920s to today. The work focuses on the borough’s most remarkable aspect: its profound diversity as a multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious place. The narrative traces the evolut...
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    26,87 €

  • American Private School
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    The American Private School: A Cultural History is a history of private or independent schools in the United States over the past century. Told chronologically, the book sheds light on the important role that the K-12 private school has played in this country, filling a niche in the history of education, sociology, and the United States as a whole. ...
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    47,48 €

  • American Teacher
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today. ...
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    42,08 €

  • Literacy in America
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Literacy in America shows that literacy has been used as a means of social control with authority figures dictating which reading material is acceptable and which is not. Literacy has also operated as a vehicle of citizenship for Americans and as a symbol of democracy. With its ambitious scope, the book is a seminal guide to literacy in America. ...
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    42,34 €

  • Diversity in the United States
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past one hundred years. ...
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    75,07 €

  • Diversity in the United States
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past one hundred years. ...
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    268,50 €

  • Age Friendly
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America is a rallying call to make the United States a more equitable and just nation in terms of age. 'Age friendliness' means being inclusive towards older people as workers, consumers, and citizens, something that can’t be said to exist today. The United States and, especially, Big Business, are notoriously age-unfriendly places, a result of ou...
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    57,47 €

  • Age Friendly
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America is a rallying call to make the United States a more equitable and just nation in terms of age. 'Age friendliness' means being inclusive towards older people as workers, consumers, and citizens, something that can’t be said to exist today. The United States and, especially, Big Business, are notoriously age-unfriendly places, a result of ou...
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    254,97 €

  • Love in America
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel
     Widely considered the most complex of human emotions, romantic love both shapes and reflects core societal values, its expression offering a window into the cultural zeitgeist. In popular culture, romantic love has long been a mainstay of film, television and music. The gap between fictitious narratives of love and real-life ones is, however, usually wide--American’s expect...
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    57,68 €

  • American Way of Life
    Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    The American Way of Life is a cultural history of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way). The book argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American Way has served as the primary guiding mythology or national ethos of the United States. ...
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    60,74 €

  • Happiness in America
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Happiness in America: A Cultural History is a cultural history of happiness in the United States. The book charts the role of happiness in everyday life over the past century and concludes that Americans have never been a particularly happy people. Samuel suggests readers abandon their pursuit of happiness and instead seek out greater joy in life. ...
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    42,15 €

  • Future Trends
    Lawrence A Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business links decision-making and leadership to trends pointing to the future. By identifying sixty global, long-term trends and detailing how businesspeople can leverage them in both the short- and long-term, the book offers a powerful body of knowledge unavailable anywhere else. ...
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    44,86 €

  • The American Writer
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    The American writer--both real and fictitious, famous and obscure--has traditionally been situated on the margins of society, an outsider looking in. From The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway to the millions of bloggers today, writers are generally seen as onlookers documenting the human condition. Yet their own collective story has largely gone untold. Tracing the role of the...
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    57,68 €

  • American Way of Life
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    The American Way of Life is a cultural history of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way). The book argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American Way has served as the primary guiding mythology or national ethos of the United States. ...
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    143,01 €

  • New York City 1964
    Lawrence R. Samuel
    Five seminal events occurred in New York City in the pivotal year 1964: the 'British Invasion,' the arrival of the Beatles in February; the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; the World’s Fair that ran in Queens between April and October; the 'race riots' in Brooklyn and Harlem in July; and the World Series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis...
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    42,90 €

  • The American Middle Class
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence Samuel
    The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is increasingly seen as under threat. In The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, ...
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    268,34 €

  • The American Middle Class
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence Samuel
    The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is increasingly seen as under threat. In The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, ...
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    74,91 €

  • Sexidemic
    Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. For a people who supposedly love sex, the book argues, Americans have had no shortage of problems with it. Since the end of World War II, in fact, we’ve had a contentious relationship with sexuality, the subject a source of considerable tension and controversy on both a...
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    65,83 €

  • Future
    Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future-particularly that of America-in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, ...
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    33,58 €

  • Brought to You By
    Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    This book is a history of how television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture in the two decades after World War II. ...
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    40,16 €