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Blacks HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Language and the Internet LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General Nineteen seventy, A.D Interviews Nineteen seventy-four, A.D Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D Interviews Popular culture SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CultureAbrams, Jonathan P. D.
Summary: "The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal justice system to systemic bias in law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 ABRJones, Brian Jay.
Summary: "For the first time ever--a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters he created: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENSON, JIM JONThomsen, Michael
Summary: "A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting"-more violence than sport-to a global pop culture phenomenon.Senator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as "human cockfighting," while the New York Times despaired that the sport offered a "pay-per-view prism" onto the decline of western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.815 THOSummary: "Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 DRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 DREPetras, Kathryn
Summary: "An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.1 PETDitum, Sarah
Summary: A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 DITStadiem, William.
Summary: "In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of ordinary Americans who longed to emulate the "jet set"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.742 STAMcCulloch, Gretchen
Summary: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word McCullochBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016