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  • The Shroud of Buford Jackson

    02, #1

    by Gary Cross ...
    Series Book 1 - 02
    Disrespect in the Contemporary workspace, and Protagonist Marlene discovering her sexuality. Disrespect in 1972 when US Army Vietnam Veterans returned from War, and tossed their ribbons in protest. The US Army represented my workspace, and the Airborne Soldiers (101st, 82nd, 173rd) really felt disrespected. I present the reader with a Contemporary workspace and how Females like our Airborne ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men to Boys

    The Making of Modern Immaturity

    by Gary Cross ...
    Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character-the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career move. He would rather prolong the hedonistic pleasures of youth than embrace the self-sacrificing ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Free Time

    The History of an Elusive Ideal

    by Gary S. Cross ...
    2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsThe history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home eraFree time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to “doomscrolling” on social media for thirty minutes?Today, despite the promise of modern ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Consumed Nostalgia

    Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

    by Gary Cross ...
    Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age of fast capitalism. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia whose members remain ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • An All-Consuming Century

    Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

    by Gary Cross ...
    The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Adventures of Major John Tiltborough

    Book One

    by Gary Cross ...
    Retired Major John Tiltborough was enjoying his time in the high mountain ranges in the snow and cold hunting for deer. Unbeknown to John, he was about to stumble across a massive child abduction and pornography organisation. After saving three young teenage children he now has to get his old team on side to develop a mission to save hundreds of children. Along the way he encounters romance, and ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Worktowners at Blackpool

    Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

    by 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. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Technology and American Society

    A History

    by 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 technological change and ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Around the World with LBJ

    My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant

    by 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 his ride was General ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cute and the Cool

    Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

    by Gary Cross ...
    The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Playful Crowd

    Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

    by Gary Cross, John Walton ...
    During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Machines of Youth

    America’s Car Obsession

    by 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 for a first date, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD