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Cover for 9789027211248 Cover for 9780345295507 Cover for 9781137387257 Cover for 9781137387264 Cover for 9781611475036 Cover for 9781439902721 Cover for 9781439902738 Cover for 9780394473451 Cover for 9780345295507 Cover for 9780679755043
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9789027211248 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 24, 2014, cover price $149.00

Paperback:

9780345295507, titled "Beard on Bread" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | also contains Beard on Bread

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Product Description: Movies, television, and American culture permeates even the most remote reaches of the globe in unprecedented levels. What affect does the spread of the American zeitgeist have on global perceptions of the US? This book analyzes the complex role entertainment plays in foreign policy - weighing its benefits and setbacks to national interests abroad...read more

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9781137387257 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 13, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Movies, television, and American culture permeates even the most remote reaches of the globe in unprecedented levels.

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9781137387264 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 13, 2014, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Movies, television, and American culture permeates even the most remote reaches of the globe in unprecedented levels.

Public expression in the United States has become increasingly coarse. Whether it’s stupid, rude, base, or anti-intellectual talk, it surrounds us. Popular television, film, music, art, and even some elements of religion have become as coarse, we argue, as our often-disparaged political dialogue. This book’s contention is that the U.S. semantic environment is governed by tactics, not tact. We craft messages that work—that perform their desired function. We are instrumental, strategic communicators. As such, entertainment and journalism that draw an audience, for instance, are “good.” This follows the logic that the marketplace, an aggregate of hedonically motivated individuals, decides what’s good. Market logic, when unencumbered by what some characterize as quaint human sentimentalities, liberates us to cynically communicate whatever and however we want. Whatever improves ratings, web traffic, ticket sales, concession sales, repeat purchases, and earnings is good. Embracing this communicative paradigm more fully necessitates the culture’s abandonment of collective notions of both taste and veracity, thus weakening the forces that keep individual desires in check. Our present communication environment is one that invites the hypertrophic expression of the ego, enabling elites to erode public communication standards and repeal laws and regulations resulting in immeasurable individual fortunes. Meanwhile, perpetual plutocratic rule is made even more certain by the cacophonous public noise the rest of us are busy making, leaving us incapable, disinterested, and unwilling to listen to one another.

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9781611475036 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, August 31, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Public expression in the United States has become increasingly coarse.

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9781611476941 | Reprint edition (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, March 6, 2015), cover price $32.99

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Product Description: Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically active

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9781439902721 | Temple Univ Pr, December 28, 2010, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: Does talking about civic issues encourage civic participation?

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9781439902738 | Temple Univ Pr, October 7, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically active

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A guide to mastering the art of making bread contains both simple and complex recipes, all prepared by the renowned late chef. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780394473451 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1973, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A guide to mastering the art of making bread that contains both simple and complex recipes prepared by the renowned chef

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9780679755043 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1995), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A guide to mastering the art of making bread that contains both simple and complex recipes prepared by the renowned chef
9780345295507 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | also contains Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and Contemporary Studies

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