The Motel in America (The Road and American Culture) [New ed.] 0801869188, 9780801869181

Hit the Road, Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road 9780773587861

Revealing the road as an icon of American culture - always under construction.

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Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream 9780804782029

This book examines how Indian American motel owners have created a successful immigrant business niche, yet still suffer

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Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream 0804782024, 9780804782029

Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners

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The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and constitutionalism in America

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Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel 9780231542395

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with di

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The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America 9780520953710

Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for l

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Music and the road: Essays on the interplay of music and the popular culture of the American road 9781501335266, 9781501335297, 9781501335280

Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon—these familiar figures have written road m

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John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel 9781501757181

On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 peopl

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Jewish American Food Culture (Food Cultures in America) 0313343195, 9780313343193

This book is written well and the recipes work fatastically! I had a lot of questions about Jewish holiday foods, Kosher

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Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America 9780300155495

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highe

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