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Product Description: There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist artæoften seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive oneæis no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimageæone of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields for more than twenty-five yearsæGrant H...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Grant H. Kester (editor)

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9780822320814, titled "Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from "Afterimage" | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist artæoften seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive oneæis no longer in fashion.

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9780822320951 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.95

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9780915400621 | Americans for the Arts, September 1, 1987, cover price $12.95

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Narrates the story in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were instruments of America's secret service, many as unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, while others as willing collaborators.

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9781565845961 | New Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Narrates the story in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were instruments of America's secret service, many as unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, while others as willing collaborators.

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9781595589149 | Reprint edition (New Pr, November 5, 2013), cover price $21.95
9781565846647 | New Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $27.95
9780062734792, titled "How to Invest: $50-$5,000" | 6th edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | also contains How to Invest $50-$5,000 | About this edition: Provides guidance on the selection of investments and savings plans that will be the most profitable for a small investor

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Product Description: In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before. Politicians, bureaucrats, and scholars have credited these endeavors with the capacity to influence matters ranging from public morality to national productivity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780897892568 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1992, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before.

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9780897892575 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1992, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before.

Product Description: Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791438015 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.

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9780791438022 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.

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An updated and revised investment classic offers comprehensive coverage of every level of personal finance and investment, organized by the dollar amount invested, and presents invaluable advice both for beginners and for the more experienced, including specific stock recommendations. Original.

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9780062736567 | 7 edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A guide to investments and saving plans that will be most profitable for the small investor includes the latest information on on-line trading, 401K investments, and savings plans for college
9780062734792, titled "How to Invest: $50-$5,000" | 6th edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | also contains The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters | About this edition: Provides guidance on the selection of investments and savings plans that will be the most profitable for a small investor
9780062733290 | 5th edition (Perennial, April 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | also contains Webster''s New World Pocket Thesaurus, Webster's New World Pocket Thesaurus | About this edition: Provides guidance on the selection of investments and savings plans that will be the most profitable for a small investor

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Product Description: During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics...read more
By Lisa Gail Collins (editor) and Margo Natalie Crawford (editor)

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9780813536941 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 2, 2006, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art.

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9780813536958 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 25, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art.

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Product Description: In the late 1990s Angels in America,Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but not others? Not Here, Not Now, Not That! examines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest...read more

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9780226792866 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2011, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: In the late 1990s Angels in America,Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly.

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9780226792873 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2011, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In the late 1990s Angels in America,Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly.

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