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Index to Rap, Hip Hop & The New World Order. Planned Chaos in Youth Music Culture. The Conscious Rasta Report, Vol. 4, Issue 3, June 1997.

By: Awadu, Keidi Obi.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Conscious Rasta Press, (1997).:

Seller ID: 50648bd

Quarto, stiff illustrated cream wrappers, 69 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Each decade produces a youth cultural movement distinct from those before it which is criticized by older generations; the more revolutionary the movement, the louder the criticism. Because of electronic mass media, youth movements of recent have centered around music, which gives voice to their new ideas. For the 90s, the most effective expression has been rap and hip hop. Through hip hop, urban youth not only get their vital message to the world but strive to create financial independence also. Hip hop is a vehic...
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What is My Share of the Cost of the War?

By: Bankers Trust Company.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Bankers Trust Company, (1918). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 60764bd

Octavo, printed self-wrappers, stapled, [12] pp. Near-Fine.
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Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties.

By: Belfrage, Sally.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: HarperCollins, [1994]. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 70196s

Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 263 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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The Secret of Major Thompson: A Frenchman's Discovery of America and England. Translated from the French by W. Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. Illustrated by Walter Goetz.

By: Daninos, Pierre.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 3182qs

Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, illustrated boards (hardcover), 272 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear; in a Good dust jacket with sunning to spine and edgewear.
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The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril.

By: Downie, Leonard, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 61384bd

Inscribed to Gene Patterson, Pulitzer Prize winning editorialist, with the greatest of respect, and signed by both authors. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), [x], 292 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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Immigrants in Industrial America, 1850-1920.

By: Ehrlich, Richard L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, Published for the Eleutherian Mills - Hagley Foundation and the Balch Institute, 1977.:

Seller ID: 3229qsl

First Edition. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 218 pp. Near-Fine, in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling. From dust jacket: The papers included in this volume are part of a growing body of scholarship that focuses on interaction between immigrants and American society. They illustrate an emerging consensus among a sizable group of historians that ethnic backgrounds molded the responses of immigrant groups to American society. Transplanted European cultures were, according to these analyses, sufficiently flexible and resilient not only t...
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A Patriotic Primer for the Little Citizen: An Auxiliary in Teaching the Youth of Our Country the True Principles of American Citizenship.

By: Foster, Wallace.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Indianapolis: W. D. Pratt, Printer and Binder, 1909. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged.:

Seller ID: 60777bd

Octavo, cloth-backed stiff printed wrappers, 115 pp. Illustrations. Very Good; slight wear.
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Mille: A Cautionary Tale of America's Longest War.

By: Goodman, Nelson G.; M. D., F. A. C. P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, (2013). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51669sc

Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers, vii + 243 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Millie is just one in a long line of wartime victims. She isn't collateral damage from a terrorist strike or a public figure positioned in a sniper's crosshairs. Millie's own country has waged war on her and every other citizen like her. Millie's is a tale of America's longest war -- the war on drugs. Dr. Nelson Goodman's novel has no hidden agenda. Rather, its agenda bursts from the book's preface in clear and powerful language; and whether readers agre...
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Good Morals and Gentle Manners.

By: Gow, Alex M.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cincinnati: Wilson, Hinkle & Company, (1873).:

Seller ID: 50524bd

Octavo, terra cotta cloth (hardcover), [i] - vi, [7] - 252 pp. Good; shelf worn.
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Welcome: A Foreigner's Guide to Successful Living in the Southern United States.

By: Hayward, Irva R., B. A., M.S. and David W. Coombs, Ph.D., MPH.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pelham, Alabama: The Best of Times, Inc., (1994).:

Seller ID: 60671bd

Octavo, paperbound / softbound (slick red wrappers), xxiv + 274 pp. Very Good+. From Introduction: We have written this book to help foreign newcomers: students, business people, professionals, or immigrants. We hope the information herein will help the reader to understand this country and to adjust to everyday living in the United States. Some of the information is only relevant to the South, but most is also applicable to the rest of the United States... This book probably can be considered a mini encyclopedia of everyday living in the United States. It need not be read at one time....
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International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers: Rayonier Incorporated, Fernandina Division, Labor Agreement. This Agreement by and between Rayonier Incorporated, Fernandina Division.

By: International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: 28th day of June, 1941.:

Seller ID: 1932gls

Narrow octavo; paperbound (stapled, printed wrappers), 15 pp. Fine.
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The Song Book of the Y. W. C. A. Compiled by Imogene B. Ireland (and the Music Committee of the National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association).

By: Ireland, Imogene B. (and the Music Committee of the National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: The Women's Press, n.d.:

Seller ID: 2143gls

Narrow quarto, hardcover (green cloth-backed green textured boards), gilt letters, 157 pp. Good+, with light rubbing to edges, cello tape repair to Page 34. Ephemera laid-in.
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The Bright Medusa.

By: Jones, Howard Mumford.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1952.:

Seller ID: 05078scs

Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, yellow illus. cloth (hardcover), 98 pp. Fine, in a chipped & torn dust jacket. In this book, based on lectures delivered especially for the Fifth Annual Festival of Contemporary Arts (1952) at the University of Illinois, Mr. Jones divides the subjects [of the problems of youth, the artist, and the rebel as reflected in AMerican literature of the nineteen-twenties] into three sections: The Artist, The Poet, and The Radical. Here inimitably, with his agile wit, his richly allusive prose, his wide-ranging scholarly grasp, and his down-to-earth att...
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Best Loved American Folk Songs [Folk Song. U.S.A.]. Collected, Adapted and Arranged by John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax. Music Arrangements by Charles Seeger & Ruth Crawford Seeger.

By: Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). Fourth Edition.:

Seller ID: 51714bd

Royal octavo, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), xvi + 407 pp. Very Good+, with slight sunning to edges. From Preface: This is a sampling of America's folk songs -- homemade hand-me-downs in words and music, songs accepted by whole communities, songs voted good by generations of singers and passed on by word of mouth to succeeding generations, a tradition quite distinct from popular song (made to sell and sell quickly) and cultivated art (made, so much of it, to conform to prestige patterns). If these songs had composers at first, they have been largely forgotten, and rightly so, since f...
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Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now.

By: Miller, Richard.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago: Nelson-Hall, [1977].:

Seller ID: 17306scs

Octavo, grey pebbled boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 376 pp. Fine, a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. Here, for the first time we are presented with a historical study which shows the movement of the sixties to be simply one more step in the evolution of a force which has its roots in early nineteenth century France...Miller has included a comprehensive discussion of Paris in the twenties, pre-war Germany, and the American Beats fo the Fifties...
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The Shadow of the Bottle. Published in the Interst of Nation-Wide Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic.

By: n.l.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washinton, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1915. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 170fd

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), illus. paper label, 128 pp. Very Good+, with light rubbing to covers. From Foreword: This book is issued for a definite purpose. It is designed to aid in making the map on the opposite page [The March of Prohibition: Making the Map White] wholly white, by removing the shadow of the bottle from the homes and hearts of men. This map and the statistics in this book, while very enlightening, soon fall behind the truth because of the onward march of the prohibition movement. They do, however, furnish some effective ammunition for the firing line...
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American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience.

By: Roth, John K.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition, Stated.:

Seller ID: 18241scs

Large octavo, boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xviii, 709 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner stamp and a Fine dust jacket. From jacket: The book is organized in thirteen secions, each of which illustrates a particular apect of American diversity -- life in the South, the African American experience, Americans at war, the gay and lesbian experience, Americans living abroad, and others -- and features writers as diverse as Walt Whitman, Louise Erdrich, Emily Dickinson, Philip Roth, William Faulkner, Joan Didion, Eudora Welty, Terry McMillan, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Nathaniel Hawthor...
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Chinatown: Economic Adaptation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropogy: Chinatown. General Editors George and Louise Spindler, Stanford University.

By: Wong, Bernard P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1982).:

Seller ID: 50465bd

Octavo, paperbound/softbound (stiff red, black & white photograph illus. wrappers), 110 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges. From Foreword: The Chinese in the United States, like other nonAnglo-European minorities in this country, have experienced blatant prejudice and serious harassment. When they were no longer needed to build the western railroads in the 1870s, the Chinese were subject to flagrant attacks on their homes and business establishments (then just emerging) as well as on their persons -- in at least one instance in the form of an outright massacre. They have been subje...
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Category: American Culture