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In   The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media since 1950, leading scholars analyze the emergence of youth culture in music and powerful trends in gender and ethnic-racial representation, sexuality, substance use, violence, and suicide portrayal in the media. This book illuminates the evolution of teen portrayal, the potential consequences...

Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold WarWinston Churchill popularized the phrase "e;Iron Curtain"e; in a famous 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, and that speech, according to Fraser J. Harbutt, set forth the basic ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of,...

Half of all known languages have disappeared in the last five hundred years and 90% of all languages are in danger of becoming extinct during the next century. The loss of both linguistic and biological diversity is part of a much larger and more serious problem - the near-total collapse of our worldwide ecosystem. Romaine and Nettle describe the...

This book explores the characterization of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 11-14, tracing the        rise and fall of this notorious figure. Close analysis of the Hebrew text reveals a        literary achievement of great subtlety and suggests the arrival of Jeroboam's        kingship can be read as a direct response to scandalous activity within...

Kenney examines the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound--from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry became more complex and less powerful....