Since its first publication in 1981 AMERICA RELIGIONS & RELIGION has become the standard introduction to the study of American religious traditions Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field of American religions this textbook has introduced thousands of students to the rich religious diversity that has always been a hallmark of the American religious experience Beginning with native American religious traditions & following the course of America's religious history up to the present day this text gives students the benefit of the author's extensive influential scholarship in a clear manner that has proven to be readily accessible for today's undergraduates This long-awaited new edition explores a variety recent events & developments including increasing religious pluralism recent religious change among Native Americans the development of Islam in America Jewish renewal & "post-ethnic" Judaism the "emergent church" movement among liberal evangelicals the expanded role of women in Catholic communities & the growth of "new spirituality" ...

In which year was Close Encounters first in theaters? Which state gets the most snow each year? How many albums has Madonna sold? It&s likely that you don&t know any of these facts but you might have a rough idea & that&s good enough because America is a party game in which being close counts & what if you have absolutely no idea what the answer is? Take advantage of your friends who do know & if you realize that no one (including you) seems to know what the answer is you can bet against everyone! In America each player uses their knowledge of pop culture food products games sports & United States history to score more points than their opponents If your opponents know something that you don&t you can leverage their knowledge to your advantage scoring more than them with clever play The cards have full color clues to help you as well as interesting factoids for every question in the game With almost one thousand questions covering more than three hundred topics America will be a favorite for family & friends for a long time! Players 2-6 Playing time 30-45 Ages 10 ...

America on Film Representing Race Class Gender & Sexuality in the Movies 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial socio-cultural & aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race class gender & sexuality

Includes:: over 100 illustrations glossary of key terms questions for discussion & lists for further readingviewing

Includes:: new case studies of a number of films including Crash Brokeback Mountain & Quinceanera



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This comprehensive survey of major league baseball covers the beginning of the twentieth century up to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947 It examines key figures in baseball-such as Babe Ruth John Mc Graw Kenesaw Mountain Landis & Joe Di Maggio-and major developments in the game's structure rules & strategies 504 pages 25 Halftones black & white Soderholm-Difatte Bryan ...

Eartha Kitt was a skinny mixed-race woman with an odd angular face who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was in the words of Orson Welles 'the most exciting woman in the world' She could count Marilyn Monroe TS Eliot Prince Philip & Albert Einstein among her friends & admirers & was almost able to forget she had once been a poor black girl from the Deep South But her new persona was also a prison from which she found it impossible to escape John L Williams' moving & unsettling biography shows a star adrift in a bewildering new America torn apart by the Civil Rights movement Shunned by many of her former friends shocked by her country's insidious racism & with a perilously fragile sense of her own identity Eartha Kitt would pay the price that came from trying to be America's mistress ...

How is it that the United States-the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world-has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing question Randall K Wilson traces the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America's public land system The result is a fresh & probing account of the most pressing policy & management challenges facing national parks forests rangelands & wildlife refuges today The author explores the dramatic story of the origins of the public domain including the century-long push toward privatization & the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands Including chapters on national parks national forests wildlife refuges Bureau of Land Management lands & wilderness areas Wilson examines key turning points & major policy debates for each land type He considers questions of bison & elk management & recent disputes over fire policy roadless areas mining claims & grazing fees This comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America's public lands including what it says about the way we relate to & value nature in the United States ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) & Eddie (John Cusack) are America&s Sweethearts two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on & off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy A messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center & Gwen into the arms of her current affair a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria) When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status & the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film&s press junket Julia Roberts costars as Kiki Gwen&s personal assistant & sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister Once overweight & severely self-conscious Kiki&s life revolves around her sister&s ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo) maniacal studio heads & gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story Actors Julia Roberts Billy Crystal Catherine Zeta-Jones John Cusack Hank Azaria Stanley Tucci Christopher Walken & Seth Green Director Joe Roth Certificate 12 years & over Year 2001 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired ; Hindi ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)
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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three regimes each of which lasts many many decades allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics government & law The three regimes which mark longer periods of continuity than traditional eras reflect are Deferential & Republican from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party & Democratic from the 1830s to the 1930s; & Populist & Bureaucratic from the 1930s to the present Praised by The Economist as a feast to enjoy & by Foreign Affairs as a masterful & fresh account of US politics here is a major contribution to the history of the United States-an entirely new way to look at our past our present & our future-packed with provocative & original observations about American public life ...

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty' In the first new one-volume history in two decades David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America
- helping unlock both its grandeur & its paradoxes He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen how the country that offered liberty & opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of black slaves & the dispossession of the Native Americans He explains how these tensions between empire & liberty have often been resolved by faith
- both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized US politics since the foundation of the nation & the larger faith in American righteousness that has impelled the country's expansion Reynolds' account is driven by a compelling argument which illuminates our contemporary world

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When a tiny US town becomes an independent country its clueless citizens decide to model their new nation after America
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