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Brainiac

Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings chronicles his rise from anonymous computer programmer to record-winning "Jeopardy!" champion, describing how he learned the trivia needed to win the game and the impact his legendary run

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Everything Bad Is Good for You

Steven Johnson

Presents an examination of popular culture in America, and suggests--with examples from research--that vehicles of mass media and entertainment such as television and video games are evidence of an in

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Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the years of the 1900s and 1910s.

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Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the 1920s and the 1930s.

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Music of the Counterculture Era

James Perone

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable

An alphabetically arranged collection of entries on the language and events that shaped pop culture in the English-speaking world during the twentieth century, including words, phrases, slogans, names

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