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In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.

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A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole.

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Focusing on the general content of mass entertainment, with a particular emphasis on the cinema, this volume describes developments in the United States during the decade of the Great Depression. After a couple of introductory chapters that give a general overview of American life and discuss the "d

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magazine, Mood rings, Studio 54, Stephen King horror novels, and granola, it was also the decade in which over 25 million video game systems made their way into our homes, allowing Asteroids and Pac-Man games to be played out on televisions in living rooms throughout the country.

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Meanwhile, corporate America pressed onward in its never-ending search for high ratings, giant profits, and more bang for its buck.

The twelve narrative chapters in this book depict the United States as brought to you by Generation Xa culture busting out in new and unforeseen ways.

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A collection of the best entries in the inaugural Voiceless Writing Prize, designed to recognise the best Australian short fiction and non-fiction that has at its heart the place of animals in the world we have made.

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The 37th Parallel tells the true story of a computer programmer whose investigations into alien activity lead him deep into a vast conspiracy stretching 3000 miles across America.

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A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values.

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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases before and since.

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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases before and since.

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During the 1950s and 1960s increasing numbers of American citizens were stationed in foreign countries, and a generation of American children grew up abroad. This book examines the impact of overseas living on Americans who spent at least some of their formative years outside the USA.

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Tommy is a new tooth fairy, trying to find his place among the other fairies. He's not very good at his job. It's not until he meets a special little boy named Jimmy that he understands what it truly means to be a tooth fairy. Through his new friend Jimmy; Tommy learns what empathy means and being kind to others is truly about.

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Examines how aesthetic products are defined, distributed and valued. This book focuses on the work of some of the market agents, particularly model agents or 'bookers' and fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic marketplaces.

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Examines how aesthetic products are defined, distributed and valued. This book focuses on the work of some of the market agents, particularly model agents or 'bookers' and fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic marketplaces.

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Uses studies for the empirical audience reception data, together with discussions of the different representations of violence to look at violence in the media as an art form in of itself. By looking at "The Simpsons", "Bowling for Columbine" and Norma Khouri's "Forbidden Love", just to name a few, it cross-analyzes violence in multiple media.

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The plight of the Black male in American society has been well-documented by scholars and practitioners. the number of Black males in prison and jail exceeds the number of Black males in higher education. The homicide rates for Black males were 72.5 percent per 100,000, nearly eight times higher than for White males.

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This volume of essays on the African-German experience seeks to establish the position culturally, politically and socially, of African-Germans in the larger context of the historic changes that have taken place in German society.