Product Description: Henry Berry lives about 20 miles south of Newtown in Fairfield County. A lifelong resident of Connecticut, like many others across the country, he was shocked, alarmed, and confused by the scale and savagery of the shootings of more than 20 children and adults in Newtown on December 14, 2012...read more

Product Description: A series of brief essays ranging from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages cast a light on the origins and effects of the place surfaces have assumed in contemporary, postmodern, culture. Fashion, celebrity, movies, lifestyles, and the other major phenomena of postmodern culture all demonstrate the predominating place and role of surfaces in the culture...read more

Product Description: A cultural study of the sources and nature of Internet religion arising in the early part of the 21st century

Product Description: how-to guide for getting started and operating as an independent dealer in the antiques trade

Product Description: From Revolution to Fads-The Progress of Modernity is an interdisciplinary study of modernism from its origins in Romanticism and the French Revolution to the fads, media, and lifestyles of postmodern, contemporary culture. The predominance of the media, materialism and consumerism, the nihilism of Nietzsche, the resignation of Kierkegaard, the Beats of the 1950s, the counterculture of the 1960s, primitive art, the formation of the middle class, and popular culture are among the many subjects covered...read more

A collection of vivid firsthand accounts of the bombing of Pearl Harbor features the words of the people who were there as they describe the shock, the chaos, and the fear of their experiences. Reprint.

A recreation of USMC operations in the Pacific during World War II, presented through the personal accounts of more than one hundred Marines who fought in the South Pacific

A collection of first-person narratives by and interviews with Marines who took part in the Korean War, from the ordinary recruit to the high-ranking commander

A fiftieth anniversary release commemorates the experiences of the United States Marines in World War II with a collection of writings by the soldiers who fought in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Reissue.

Product Description: Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of World War