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  • TECHNOLOGY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
    GARY CROSS / RICK SZOSTAK
    Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, authors Gary Cross and Rick Szostak analyze the cause-and-effect relationship of tech...

    $1,800.00

  • AROUND THE WORLD WITH LBJ
    JAMES U. CROSS / DENISE GAMINO / GARY RICE
    A " delightful, honest, and entertaining" memoir by an Air Force One pilot and member of Lyndon Johnson's inner circle (Bill Moyers).   When Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to go somewhere, there was no stopping him. This dynamic president called for Air Force One as others summon a taxi—at a moment's notice—whatever the hour or the weather. And the man who made sure that LBJ got ...

    $229.00

  • WORKTOWNERS AT BLACKPOOL
    GARY CROSS
    Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture. ...

    $1,240.00

  • MACHINES OF YOUTH
    GARY S. CROSS
    For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing) their first car, a machine which is home to many a teenage ritual—being picked up f...

    $611.56

  • PACKAGED PLEASURES
    GARY S. CROSS / ROBERT N. PROCTOR
    From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience.  Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure,...

    $663.99