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Product Description: This book contains all the necessary information on basic tools and materials that the do-it-yourself enthusiast will need. It gives advice on how to choose and use the right tools for the job effectively and safely, and how to develop practical skills.

Product Description: Holloway discusses representations of 9/11 and the war on terror in Hollywood film, novels, mass media, visual art and photography, political discourse, and revisionist historical accounts of the American empire created between the 11 September attacks and the Congressional midterm elections in 2006...read more

Product Description: A major new textbook for students of contemporary American art and media, and modern American history. American Visual Cultures analyses the role of painting, photography, film, television, advertising, journalism and other visual media in the historical development of the United States from the Civil War to the present day...read more

An exploration of the representation of youth in American culture, focusing on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory.

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Product Description: Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Holloway, David, Lawrence, Mike, McGowan, John, Wilkins, Tony

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Product Description: David Holloway looks at key areas of public concern to see where the church can and must take a lead, despite its failings of recent years. Arguing that morality has been privatized in the Western world, he states that the monarchy must give a moral lead, based on the Christian frame of reference that Western democracies are built on; but how does this take shape in a world of supra-nationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Looks at the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and political leaders and the development of Soviet nuclear technology (view table of contents)

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