Product Description: Stately oaks, ivy-covered walls, the opposite sex — these are the things that likely come to mind for most Americans when they think about the "nature" of college. But the real nature of college is hidden in plain sight: it’s flowing out of the keg, it’s woven into the mascots on our T-shirts...read more

Product Description: Loved and hated, visited and avoided, seemingly everywhere yet endlessly the same, malls occupy a special place in American life. What, then, is this invention that evokes such strong and contradictory emotions in Americans? In many ways malls represent the apotheosis of American consumerism, and this synthetic and wide-ranging investigation is an eye-popping tour of American culture's values and beliefs...read more

Presents a close-up look at malls and their strong role in American culture, from their architectural design and alluring displays to the hidden security cameras and the illusions created to attract shoppers, in an instructive, historical view of American values, consumerism, and the myth surrounding the obsession with consumption. 15,000 first printing. (Business & Finance)

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Product Description: The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Farrell, James J.