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Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship Into the ...

Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship Into the ...

Ray Broadus Browne

Popular Culture Scholarship Into the Twenty-first Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne Ray Broadus Browne, Marilyn Ferris Motz. Epilogue Ronald J. Ambrosetti In September 1967, on a crisp autumn evening in northwest Ohio, while much of ...
Icons of America

Icons of America

Ray Broadus Browne

Included in this examination of icons are essays by such scholars as Michael T. Marsden, Earl F. Bargainnier, Edith Mayo, Valerie Carnes, David Skaggs, Fred E. H. Schroeder, Ray Browne, and others.
The Civil War and Reconstruction

The Civil War and Reconstruction

Ray Broadus Browne

In this vivid look at the popular culture of the era, Browne and Kreiser examine how Americans coped with this cataclysmic period.
Murder on the Reservation: American Indian Crime Fiction

Murder on the Reservation: American Indian Crime Fiction

Ray B. Browne

In Murder on the Reservation, Ray B. Browne surveys the work of several of the best-known writers of crime fiction involving Indian characters and references virtually every book that qualifies as an Indian-related mystery.
The Hero in Transition

The Hero in Transition

Ray Broadus Browne

These essays turn the pantheon of heroes around before our eyes and reveal the many complicated aspects of hero worship.
Rejuvenating the Humanities

Rejuvenating the Humanities

Ray Broadus Browne

The twenty essays in this effort to bring new vitality to the humanities range through fields familiar in life but unfamiliar in the humanities canon.
The Guide to United States Popular Culture

The Guide to United States Popular Culture

Ray Broadus Browne

To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations.
Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies

Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies

Ray Broadus Browne

This is a record of the goals and accomplishments of the pioneers in this field. The essays recall the barriers that the first pop culture scholars faced and tracks their achievements.
The Defective Detective in the Pulps

The Defective Detective in the Pulps

Ray B. Browne

Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.
The Mammy

The Mammy

Brendan O'Carroll

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office.
Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Charles Darwin: Voyaging

E. Janet Browne

It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography opens.
Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

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"Updates fundamentals and applications of all modes of x-ray spectrometry, including total reflection and polarized beam x-ray fluorescence analysis, and synchrotron radiation induced x-ray emission.
Agnes Browne

Agnes Browne

Brendan O'Carroll

Agnes Browne faces the hardships and rewards of raising seven children on her own in a 1960s working-class Dublin neighborhood
Symbiosis: Popular Culture and Other Fields

Symbiosis: Popular Culture and Other Fields

Ray Broadus Browne

These essays, written by experts in their fields, demonstrate how necessary it is in the study of the humanities and social sciences to realize the interdependency of the fields and how rich the resulting study can be."
Digging Into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in ...

Digging Into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in ...

Ray Broadus Browne

This volume presents archeological studies in conjunction with cultural anthropological studies as a means to enhance popular culture studies.
Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Shaina C. Indovino

IN BOOKS Abrams, Dennis. Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. Keedle, Jayne. Rachael Ray: People We Should Know. New York: Gareth Stevens, 2009. Ray, Rachael. Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30Minute ...
Laws of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution

Laws of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution

Ray Broadus Browne

The essays in this book trace many of the multitudinous forces at work on the Constitution and in the popular culture and show how the forces control and benefit each other.
Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture

Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture

Ray Broadus Browne

This book demonstrates the importance of the study of fetishes and fetishism in the study of popular culture.
Popular Culture in a New Age

Popular Culture in a New Age

Marshall Fishwick

Arthur Berger points this out in his article on “Soft Drinks and Hard Icons,” in Marshall Fishwick and Ray Browne's Icons of ... The best place to start might be with bibliographies, of which Kathy M. Jakson's Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography has ...
Heroes and Humanities: Detective Fiction and Culture

Heroes and Humanities: Detective Fiction and Culture

Ray Broadus Browne

The present study of American, Australian, and Canadian detective fiction concerns literature which speaks in the ways of heroes and humanities about the human condition.
Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture

Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture

Ray Broadus Browne

This collection of essays examines various rituals and ceremonies in American popular culture, including architecture, religion, television viewing, humor, eating, and dancing.
The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield

The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield

Ray Broadus Browne

In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants.
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health ...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health ...

Alan M. Schwitzer

As the above quote from Ray Browne, cofounder, along with Marshall Fishwick of the Popular Culture Association, suggests popular culture is a lingua franca—a primary voice of the people, by the people, and for the people. Its study comes ...
Charles Darwin: The power of place

Charles Darwin: The power of place

E. Janet Browne

Traces the life of the great British scientist, describes his travels as a naturalist, and traces the development of his theories It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography opens.
Market Research Handbook

Market Research Handbook

ESOMAR

Ray Poynter e-mail: [email protected] Ray Poynter is Director of Virtual Surveys (a UK based market research agency specialising in the Internet) and principal of The Future Place. Ray has spent the last 25 years at the interface  ...
Mission Underway: The History of the Popular Culture ...

Mission Underway: The History of the Popular Culture ...

Ray Broadus Browne

... Patrick, U Az, 1981 Oebling, Richard, Assumption C, Mass, 1977,82,84 Oestereicher, Emile, New Sch Soc Research, 1975 Ogden, Karen, 1984 Ogden, Malouf, Susan, Bethel C, 1982 Ogilvia, Charles F., U Tn, 1978 Ogles, Robert M., Purdue, ...
Childhood Days: A Memoir

Childhood Days: A Memoir

Satyajit Ray

Frank and funny, these stories written originally for the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh, are an essential read for all Ray enthusiasts as well as those who want to know Ray, the writer and film-maker, better.

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