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Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination by Ostwalt, Conrad, Jr., ISBN 1563383616

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In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. This book tries to move away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues. Instead, Ostwalt guides us along a busy two-way street, where religions and secular views interact and enrich each other.

Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, despite the promise of the Enlightenment to free society from religions confines. He points out that secularization does shift the authority to express religious ideals from traditional places to other cultural forms such as the government, entertainment, or media. He challenges the often repeated assumption that Europe is more secularized than America; secularization is a reality in both to the same degree, but proceeds in distinctly different ways.

Religious institutions, he says, use secular and popular cultural forms like television, movies, and music to make religious teachings relevant. When religious institutions no longer dominate culture, they lose their grip on striving toward the sacred, and religious concerns find expression in other cultural forms. Secular and popular culture may in fact contain more authentic belief than official religious teachings.

Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York City Political Warfare by Evan J. Mandery, ISBN 0813398150

Eyes on City Hall is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaigns. Mandery offers a behind-the-scenes look at political campaigns in the television era. This day-to-day account of the 1997 New York City mayoral race takes us to the real battleground of modern politics. Sometimes cynical, often mirthful, and always honest, Eyes on City Hall will forever change your view of political campaigns. Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York City Political Warfare by Evan J. Mandery, ISBN 0813398150
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Cisco Kid: Collection 3, The

Here's adventure! Here's romance! O. Henry's "famous Robin Hood of the Old West" is back! "The Cisco Kid" stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Leo Carrillo as his faithful sidekick and comic foil, Pancho. One of the first television programs to be filmed in color, this classic Western ran from 1950-1956. Set in 1890's New Mexico, Cisco and Pancho fight corruption and seek justice for the victims of bandits, con men and cattle rustlers. With a combination of humor and compassion for their fellow man, Cisco and Pancho have become legendary to television viewers everywhere. Episode highlights for "The Cisco Kid Collection 3" include: Cisco and Pancho go undercover to prevent a rowdy gang of thugs from taking over Buffalo Flats; Cisco discovers a treasure buried during the Civil War when a former wealthy banker regains his memory; and Pancho poses as a woman's uncle to help Cisco prove that the man was murdered. Cisco Kid: Collection 3, The
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Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York City Political Warfare by Evan J. Mandery, ISBN 0813398150

Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators

Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career and takes readers on the hunt. Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators
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Here Come The Brides: The Complete First Season (Full Frame)

Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and David Soul (TV's "Starsky And Hutch") star in the classic television series "Here Come The Brides," a delightful comedy that combines romance and adventure in the rugged landscape of the mid-nineteenth century Pacific Northwest. The Bolt brothers own a mountain and logging camp in Seattle, and as the area's only employer, the brothers borrow money and head east to bring back a shipload of lovely ladies to boost morale. But if any of the women leave Seattle within a year, the Bolts lose their mountain to the man that lent them the money! Also starring legendary actress Joan Blondell ("Grease," "The Public Enemy"), the complete first season of "Here Come The Brides" is presented for the first time ever and is only available on DVD! Episodes include: Disc 1: "Here Come The Brides," "A Crying Need," "And Jason Makes Five" and "The Man Of The Family" Disc 2: "A Hard Card To Play," "Letter Of The Law," "Lovers And Wanderers," "A Jew Named Sullivan"... Here Come The Brides: The Complete First Season (Full Frame)
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What Would Sipowicz Do?: Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue

Taking an entertaining, intelligent look at the culturally influential 11-year television run of "NYPD Blue," this examination of the show that changed the police drama genre includes a collection of essays on topics ranging from the series' portrayal of race relations in New York City to Sipowicz's famously thorny demeanor. What Would Sipowicz Do?: Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue
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Little ABC Coloring Book by Anna Pomaska, ISBN 048625156X

Each letter of the alphabet on left-hand page, object beginning with that letter on opposite page. 52 illustrations. Little ABC Coloring Book by Anna Pomaska, ISBN 048625156X
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