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Baby-boomer father-of-two disgusted with sleazy pop culture and its influence on children goes on a search for beauty in every-day life. Begins with scathing indictment of media content--slasher movies, female-debasing video games and radio talk show hosts, mainstream movies with reams of gratuitous... More

Its life in suburban Connecticut as seen through a discussion of the familys appliances. Our Appliances, a satire of Americas hyper-consumer society, is presented in the self-deprecating monologue of a middle-aged baby boomer enslaved to a corporate job, a man who must deal with a thousand household... More

Offering corporate CEOs and Internet entrepreneurs alike a much-needed framework for developing and analyzing e-commerce strategies, "Unchained Value" provides readers with the strategic firepower to rethink their businesses and benefit from the new economy.The Internet Revolution has been broadly a... More

The dangers of environmental change for people and what they value is what makes environmental issues so important for our future. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of environmental risks. Contributors assess the identification and causes of risks, who and what is vulnerable to them, the... More

The first Chinese author ever to win the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature, Gao Xingjian is best known for Soul Mountain, an elegant, unforgettable and courageous novel which journeys deep into the heart of modernday China.... More

The author states the following in reference to this book, "Whether the story represents the actual experience of some one certain individual, or of several such individuals, is not essential; neither is it necessary to indicate the identity of such person or persons, assuming that he, or they, are ... More