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Popular Culture and Shaping Reality

Author(s): David LoConto

Theory historically has portrayed popular culture as a means of blinding and distracting the masses to the real problems occurring in the world today, thereby making them passive regarding change. Popular Culture and Shaping Reality provides a different explanation of popular culture and its impact ...

Doing the Transcultural Thing: Explorations in Living in the United States

Author(s): Michael W. Schwartz

Whether we are aware of it or not, every utterance we produce is an expression of who we are as individuals and what we believe. When we begin the process of learning an additional language, we are not only learning a new linguistic code (basic vocabulary and structures) that allow us to ask for dir...

Foundations of Computer Science: A Rigorous, Non-Programming Introduction

Author(s): Roy M Turner, Elise H. Turner

Foundations of Computer Science: A Rigorous, Non-Programming Introduction provides a non-programming, yet rigorous, introduction to computer science.  Although programming is an essential skill for a computer scientist, there are a plethora of good programming textbooks, and the field is much broade...

Detroit and Motown: The Rise and Fall of Two Giants

Author(s): EDWARD HIGGINS

In 1959, Barry Gordy, a twenty-nine year old wanna be boxer borrowed $800 to start a record company. Set against the civil rights movement alongside the decay of one of America’s most storied cities, Motown, Detroit’s History and Music, is the tale of how Motown effected the city of Detroit and how ...