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You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level-from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud-has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog...
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Un buen almuerzo entre amigos es el mejor lugar para conversar sobre el mundo, la religión, la política, la cultura, el amor y la cocina.
Esta obra es una meditación tan deliciosa como lúcida sobre el valor profundo de la hospitalidad y el significado de ser anfitrión. Vivimos en un mundo donde unos poseen demasiado y a otros les falta lo más indispensable, donde migrantes y refugiados son unas veces acogidos y, otras humillados, y donde la...
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It seems like people are always talking about the end of the world, doesn't it? Y2K, the Mayan Apocalypse, Blood Moon Prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days. Along the way, he meets doomsday preppers-people who stockpile supplies and learn survival skills-as well as religious prognosticators and climate scientists....
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Distributed by Questar
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c2012
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2 videodiscs (167 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Never before has a gallery of cops, robbers, and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection. Using FBI and police film, archival footage, and rare photographs, this story traces the life of Al "Scarface" Capone who, during the prohibition era of the 1920s, built an empire that netted over $100 million in one year. The hard times of the 1920s and 1930s brought forth the romanticized public enemies John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 119 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The...
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Giant Interactive
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2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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When two friends tape record their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally create one of the first viral pop-culture sensations. Blurring the lines between art and exploitation, this "audio misadventure" is a darkly comic modern fable. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*Alternately hilarious and discomfiting, and finally rather poignant.*" - Dennis Harvey, ***Variety***
70) Sneakerheadz
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Gravitas
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An in-depth look into the exploding subculture of sneaker collecting and the widespread influence it has had on popular culture around the world. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"It's the really well-structured, tongue-in-cheek American history as told by brilliant knuckleheads that makes this one a must-see." - Anne Harris, **Austin Chronicle***
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Factory 25
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2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This documentary tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US goes behind the highly...
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In many ways the world has never seen a First Lady like Michelle Obama. From the precedent of her race to the singularity of her style, she has been the object of immense fascination. What she says, what she does, and not least, what she wears, is scrutinized around the world. -- Publisher's website.
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UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald R. Prothero and Tim Callahan explore why such demonstrably false beliefs thrive despite decades of education and scientific debunking. Employing the ground rules...
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Hubo una época, no mucho tiempo atrás, en la que el progresismo era un espacio amplio y heterogéneo una sensibilidad compartida y una alternativa política que podía ser competitiva en las urnas. En aquel entonces –los años noventa–, ser progresista era adherir a la búsqueda de mayor equidad social, a la transparencia institucional, el respeto por los derechos humanos y la crítica de la corrupción. Era, en una palabra, ser antimenemista....
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The United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War-politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes. He traces the disruption, first, to America's first countercultural movement originating in the antebellum South and...
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Este libro encierra todo lo que usted quiere saber sobre el Maligno. La Sociología la Teología y la Magia del Diablo en occidente. ¿Cuándo se originó la idea del Diablo? ¿Qué dicen las escrituras bíblicas, los Rollos del Mar Muerto y los libros apócrifos sobre los ángeles caídos? Salvador Hurtado despeja estas y otras dudas sobre un tema eterno que ha sido el centro de las preocupaciones de toda la humanidad: la relación entre el Bien...
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When Ruth Dickson released her 1967 book Married Men Make the Best Lovers, it went off like a bombshell. Defenders of the "sanctity" of marriage rose up to dismiss her frank, innovative, thoroughly researched book. But why? Why cling to the broken ritual of marriage? What comfort is there in a crumbling institution held together by meaningless tradition and out of touch patriarchy? In this thoughtful follow-up, Dickson examines marriage itself. As...
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This book is a documentation of beautiful Naga culture who live in the hills. Written by the indigenous authors based on authentic information: this book claims to be an original one. It describes about the material cultural aspects of the Nagas associated with festival, ceremony, head hunting practice, song and dances. As an explorative work, we are first publishing this volume before the non-material aspects of Naga culture in the second volume....
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An amusing and erudite anatomy of modern friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of Snobbery. Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far should you go to help a friend in need? And how do you end a friendship that has run its course? In a wickedly entertaining anatomy of friendship in its contemporary guises, Joseph Epstein uncovers the rich and surprising truths about our favored...
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