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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations, charts, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy.
Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true―and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young...
3) Bagdad Cafe
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A German woman happens upon a dilapidated diner/motel in a remote American desert town and develops an uneasy but magical partnership with the owner. Together they transform the dive into a thriving business.
4) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, mid-century pioneers such as David Lavender remembered “not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow.” And as the nation exhausted its gold and silver veins, as law...