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100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches ...

Bernard Alger Drew

Provides alphabetically-arranged biographical entries of popular writers of nonfiction, including Richard Dawkins, Joan Didion, and Paul Theroux, and presents insights on the creative process for each individual.

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Jennifer Robertson

The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans.

Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of ...

John Brand

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey

Peter Manuel

Definitions Much has been written about the distinctions between folk, classical, and more recently, popular musics. It is often easy to regard such discussions, whether justifiably or not, as gratuitous exercises in abstract taxonomy, and it is ...

Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction

Harold E. Hinds

UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE John Fiske Popular culture, from John Fiske' s neo-Marxist, post-structuralist, and British cultural studies perspectives, is not composed of the products of the mass culture industries in patriarchal ...

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

Katie Couric

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this inspiring book, Katie Couric distills the ingenious, hard-won insights of such leaders and visionaries as Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Michael J. Fox, and Ken Burns, who offer advice about life, success, and ...

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Jessica Burkhart

Pressure threatens Lauren’s popularity as she shines in the spotlight of the Canterwood Crest series. Popular is Lauren’s status, at last.

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course ...

Jason Cole

This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better.

MCAT (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the Medical College ...

Joseph A. Alvarez

Master the MCAT!

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting ...

John Pinkerton

Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in ...

Janine Anderson Sawada

This book also suggests the need for an approach to the history of Japanese education that accounts for the informal transmission of ideas as well as institutional schooling.

Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity and Power

Carolyn S. Stevens

This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture.

A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, ...

Stephen Sharot

Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for ...

In Full View

Joseph Fath

She now handled that task more often, in view of the fact that Carola was no longer available at midday during her working ... She first tucked it into her pocket because helping Esther up the stairs was a full—time effort on which she had to ...