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  • Love in America
    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 expe...
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    57,68 €

  • The American Way of Life
    Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century reveals key insights that add to our understanding of American culture. Lawrence R. Samuel 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 Unit...
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    50,51 €

  • Happiness in America
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Much interest currently revolves around happiness in America, so much so that one could reasonably argue that there is a 'happiness movement' afoot. The wide range of arenas in which happiness intersects reflects the subject’s centrality in everyday life in America these past one hundred years. Happiness in America charts the course of happiness within American culture over the...
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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 is the first and only book to link a decision-making and leadership platform 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 provides readers with a powerful body of knowledge unavaila...
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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 wr...
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    57,68 €

  • The American Way of Life
    Lawrence R Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century reveals key insights that add to our understanding of American culture. Lawrence R. Samuel 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 Unit...
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    115,58 €

  • 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. Loui...
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    42,90 €

  • 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 author 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...
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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, s...
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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 €