A journalist examines the teenage experience at various points in American history and shows how the definitions and roles of teens have changed. Hine addresses issues of schooling, delinquency, family, and popular culture in this broad overview.
"Populuxe" - populism, popularity and luxury is the word coined by the author to express the atmosphere of American society during the decade 1954-1964. The book examines the new luxury products created at this time and the lifestyle they represent, so giving a tour of this era when the United States had a booming economy and was virtually ...
"The Total Package" is a history of product packages. The familiar packages of products such as Coke and Quaker Oats are key components of our consumer culture. The author traces the history of packaging as well its meanings to consumers.
Traces the history of material acquisition and how it reflects culture, discussing the psychological factors that result in the human desire to acquire things, and noting how an increasing choice of goods over time has accompanied a growing sense of individual possibility. Reprint. 15,000 first prin
"The Total Package" is a history of product packages. The familiar packages of products such as Coke and Quaker Oats are key components of our consumer culture. The author traces the history of packaging as well its meanings to consumers.
Ranging widely over the landscape of masculinity, " Material Man" features provocative photos and essay--plucked from movies, magazines, television, and the fine arts--of sports heroes, astronauts, movie stars, pop singers, soldiers, Elvis impersonators, models, and wrestlers. 260 illustrations, 210 in full color.
This is the right brain guide to NASD compliance for Registered Representatives. This book tells the thrilling story of Thomas Hine's 22 month NASD arbitration, and how he applied timeless martial arts principles to build and protect his wealth advisory practice. The authors combine courtroom drama, vivid anecdotes, analogies, humor, and practical ...
Drawing from the roster of award-winning residences featured in the annual Record Houses issue of Architectural Record, this book showcases the most innovative residential architecture of the past five decades, touching on many groundbreaking achievements along the way. Here are many of the most loved, most debated, and most influential American ...
Hines history of the 1970s maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that had shaped an era.
The epitome of Modernist style and luxurious comfort, Charles and Ray Eames's leather-upholstered rosewood-veneered chair and matching ottoman, launched in 1956, is a design classic of the twentieth century. This major publication, celebrating the Lounge Chair's fiftieth anniversary, explores the design in detail and places it in its cultural, ...
Hines history of the 1970s maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that had shaped an era.
Journalist Thomas Hine makes a brilliant, provocative, and entertaining examination of the creation and history of a unique social invention--the American teenager.
Made from common salt and water, chlorine and its co-product, caustic soda, are two of the most basic building blocks used for a wide range of products valued by society. "The Handbook of Chlor-Alkali Technology" provides comprehensive and concise treatments of all aspects of technology and handling directly related to the products of electrolysis ...
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