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American Genesis

The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science
Jeffrey P. Moran
$29.95
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195183498ISBN10: 0195183495 Moran explores how social forces such as gender, regionalism, and race have intersected with the debate over evolution
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People of Paradox

A History of Mormon Culture
Terryl L. Givens
$24.95
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Paperback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199915989ISBN10: 0199915989 An informative and nuanced chronicle of Mormon culture, revealing a people forged by a rich and paradoxical history
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The Day in Its Color

Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America
Eric Sandweiss
$39.95
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199772339ISBN10: 0199772339 A newly discovered treasure-trove of Charles Cushman's color photographs offers an arresting visual history of an America on the verge of momentous changes
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Shifting Grounds

Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865
Paul Quigley
$34.95
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199735488ISBN10: 0199735484
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New York's Golden Age of Bridges

Antonio Masi, Joan Marans Dim
$34.95
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780823240654ISBN10: 0823240657 "Bridges to me are a connection, not just joining two landmasses, but an emotional state, one that acts as an invisible thread binding the past and future."--Antonio Masi
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Erotic City

Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco
Josh Sides
$21.95
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Paperback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199874064ISBN10: 0199874069
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Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

Elizabeth Fraterrigo
$21.95
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Paperback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199832453ISBN10: 0199832455 Uses Playboy, and the cultural developments and social commentary it responded to as well as inspired, as a lens onto transformations in postwar society and culture.
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The Shaw Festival

The First Fifty Years
L. W. Conolly
$50.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780195446111ISBN10: 0195446119
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