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In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.
Cultural historians divide the career of the comic book in the U. S. into several ages or historical eras:
In his most popular book, Cultural Literacy — What Every American Needs To Know, he offers lists, quotations, and information regarding what he believes is essential knowledge.
Cultural events related to the book and Oscar Wilde were hosted in Dublin during April 2010.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o in his book Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom records how the Oxford Readers for Africa with their heavily Anglo-centric worldview struck him as a child in Kenya.
In his book Introducing Cultural Studies, Ziauddin Sardar lists the following five main characteristics of cultural studies:
This view is best exemplified by the book Doing Cultural Studies: The Case of the Sony Walkman ( by Paul du Gay et al.
However, in 1985 Jane Tompkins expressed a different view of Uncle Tom's Cabin with her book In Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (), is a book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong, the former leader of Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution.
During the Cultural Revolution, studying the book was not only required in schools but was also a standard practice in the workplace as well.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the importance of the book waned considerably, and the glorification of Mao's quotations was considered to be left deviationism and a cult of personality.
In his recent book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9 / 11, he wrote that:
During an interview on The Colbert Report on January 16, 2007, while promoting his book, The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9 / 11, D ' Souza maintained that liberals were not without fault in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
A comparison and contrast of " longevity in antiquity " ( such as the Sumerian King List, the genealogies of Genesis, and the Persian Shahnameh ) with " longevity in historical times " ( common-era cases through twentieth-century news reports ) is elaborated in detail in Lucian Boia's 2004 book Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present and other sources.
In his book Cultural Flow Between China and the Outside World, Shen Fuwei notes that maritime Chinese merchants in the 9th century were landing regularly at Sufala in East Africa to cut out Arab middle-men traders.
In her book The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, social historian Rachel Shteir described how shoplifting from companies you dislike is considered by some activist groups, such as some freegans, decentralized anarchist collective CrimethInc, the Spanish anarchist collective Yomango and the Canadian magazine Adbusters, to be a morally defensible act of corporate sabotage.
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart question the extent to which McDonaldization has really been occurring in their book Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World, finding national cultures resilient in the face of globalization.
Much of the material for Memoirs was drawn from the " confessions " that Peng had written during the Cultural Revolution, and the book focused on Peng's early life, before the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Among them are the book, The Literature Peñuelas " Yagrumal " or " The Cultural History Peñolano Almanac, " which is classified into several volumes and contain poetry about the different neighborhoods and sections of the people of Peñuelas.
Its sponsorship through the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation is well-known, but its support in other fields such as universitary book printing or theatre, is less known.
Images of the mansion may be found in the book " Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings " by James W. Goode, and in several books in the collection of the Historical Society of Washington, D. C. A descendant ( Edward Sisson ) of the family that owned the mansion throughout its existence has posted a collection of paintings, drawings, photos, and histories of the mansion on-line in an " album " titled " Worthington House and Brentwood Mansion " on a Mac Web Gallery site.
* 1990: The Cultural Arts Council of Houston, now known as Houston Arts Alliance published The Cultural Guide to Houston, a guide book of Houston which included maps of each cultural center in the city, including a map of the Museum District.
Along his retirement in 2009, he published his major life-time book " Islam's Predicament with Cultural Modernity ".
It gained visibility in the European Americanization debate with the 1994 publication of Reinhold Wagnleitner's book, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War.

book and Growth
This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
D ' Arcy Thompson postulated that differential growth rates could produce variations in form in his 1917 book On Growth and Form.
The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer modeling of unchecked economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.
In his 1964 book Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Fogel tried to use quantitative methods to imagine what the U. S. economy would have been like in 1890 had there been no railroads.
She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world.
In 1972 she was on the MIT team that produced the global computer model " World3 " for the Club of Rome and provided the basis for the book, Limits to Growth.
Beyond the Limits is a 1992 book continuing the modeling of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population that was started in Limits to Growth.
Beyond the Limits ( Chelsea Green Publishing Company ) and Earthscan addressed many of the criticisms of the Limits of Growth book, but still has caused controversy and mixed reactions.
This insight eventually led to the publication of her second book, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm in 1959.
* Dimitrie Cantemir-History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire ( 1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript )
The Club of Rome raised considerable public attention with its report Limits to Growth, which has sold 12 million copies in more than 30 translations, making it the best-selling environmental book in world history.
Lawrence E. Joseph in his book Gaia: The Growth of an Idea argued that Kirchner's attack was principally against Lovelock's integrity as a scientist.
His last book, The Growth of British Policy, written as an essay and intended to be an introduction to a full account of the expansion of Britain, was published posthumously.
Vinogradoff followed up his Villainage in England with The Growth of the Manor ( 1905 ) and English Society in the Eleventh Century ( 1908 ), works on the lines of his earlier book.
Dr. Ward published his experiment and followed it up with a book in 1842, On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases.
Morison was criticized by some African-American scholars for his treatment of American slavery in early editions of his book The Growth of the American Republic, which he co-wrote with Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenburg.
Growth Fetish is a book about economics and politics by the Australian liberal political theorist Clive Hamilton.
According to chemical engineer Robert Ulanowicz, in his 1986 book Growth and Development, Laplace's demon met its end with early 19th century developments of the concepts of irreversibility, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics.
In 2003 he published another book on church building entitled Church Growth by Design: A Complete Guide for Planning and Building Churches to God's Glory ISBN 0-9745015-0-6.
It was originally produced and used by a Club of Rome study that produced the model and the book The Limits to Growth.
The model was documented in the book Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World.
The Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World book provides multiple different scenarios.
A detailed criticism of the model is in the book Models of Doom: A Critique of the Limits to Growth.
His book Economic Growth and Declining Social Welfare advances the idea that in modern economic growth there is an increasing output of useless and even discomforting things, such as advertising.

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