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This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression. It was a period of quiet desperation and shifting values, one in which nickels and dimes replaced dollars as the currency of popular culture, and in which the emphasis was on finding methods to occupy idle time and idle minds. Popular culture during the 1930s is important for understanding not only how Americans coped, but why they did so with such good humor and so little of the discontent visible elsewhere in the world. An appreciation of popular culture during the 1930s is essential to understanding other aspects of the decade.

For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and its most influential Marxist public intellectual. Gary Dean Best traces the trajectory of Laski's American career and accounts for its ultimate failure.

Like the Scopes "monkey trial," the two murder trials of Edith Maxwell were the subject of extensive publicity and controversy because many women believed she was tried and persecuted for her gender.

Continuing on the path of The Gift of Fear (Gavin deBecker), Spotting Danger Before It Spots You is the go-to guide for anyone wanting to improve their level of awareness and strengthen their personal defenses. This book will greatly improve your understanding of how, when and where violence occurs, providing you with the tools you need to properly identify and escape violent encounters before they can happen.

This book examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s in America that has since captivated writers, readers, moviegoers, and television viewers. During the 1920s, Americans were aware of the momentous changes taking place in their lives. It was an introspective decade. Magazines and newspaper articles, books and anthologies explored the causes, nature, and implications of those changes. The impact of radio, and to a lesser extent motion pictures, rivaled the effects that the invention of printing had had on human society hundreds of years earlier. Add to these developments the effects of World War I and the popularization of Freud and Darwin, and the result was an America cast adrift on a sea of normlessness, treading water between two worlds: one of stability and tradition before the war, and one as yet dimly perceived in the mists of the future. While Freud challenged notions of traditional behavior, Darwin challenged traditional religious beliefs. The arrival of the affordable automobile transformed human mobility on a scale not seen since the domestication of the horse and the invention of the wheel thousands of years before. But those previous changes had not ushered in so many cataclysmic changes in so short a time. The author maintains that only in this context can much of the behavior of the time be understood, from the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan to the excesses of the flappers and the jazz age.

The Open Door By: Gary Dean Luitjens The Open Door is about how looking at one’s Christian life and comparing it to the life of Jesus can show how anyone can live that same kind of life. Learn what you can expect God to do for you as we work together towards salvation. This book is the result of a lifetime of searching for the answers to what it means to be a Christian and how it can be personally rewarding. This book is for anyone who has been looking for God and wants to know how to serve Him correctly and completely. This is the groundwork to show you how to make it happen, to show you how to be bold, be curious, and to be a loyal son or daughter of God.

For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and its most influential Marxist public intellectual. As a fervent proponent of the New Deal in the 1930s, much of Laski's success stemmed from the fact that he offered answers when so many Americans had only questions. By the postwar years, however, his reputation was in decline and his influence left the Democratic Party vulnerable in the1948 elections. In Harold Laski and American Liberalism Gary Dean Best traces the trajectory of Laski's American career and accounts for its ultimate failure.American politics and society were central to Laski's intellectual enterprise. As Best shows, probably no one residing in America has published as many words critical of the United States as did this Englishman. Virtually no aspect of American life went unscathed, and yet at the root of every attack was American capitalism, the businessman, those with property, who, in Laski's view were the source of all the perversion of American life.The 1930s was a period of ferment among America's intellectuals. By the 1940s it was only Laski who was bewildered--at the failure of his diagnoses and the rejection of his prescriptions even by those who had been captivated by him in the previous decade. By the time he died, in 1950, his earlier pronouncements seemed wide of the mark, and the increased stridency and shrillness produced by his disappointment had begun to bore even many who had been devoted to him in earlier years.As this volume shows, the real tragedy for Laski was that he allowed his intellect to be captured and held captive by the Marxian dialectic, denying himself the use of his own reason despite that dialectic's repeated failures. Harold Laski and American Liberalism will be of interest to intellectual historians, political scientists, and American studies specialists.

What dreams might remember thee From yestr on to yonder eve Wander these pages of things once thought And question your own and others a lot Perhaps theyre memries I heard on wind Or the echos from the depths of a Dragons Den Might be the Dreams from a times past times Turn not a page nor whisper the rhymes Nor ponder too deep what seems Or ye may find yor self in a sea gulls dreams A Sea Gulls Dreams is a collection of poems by Gary Dean Collins.

Spotting danger before it happens while traveling alone or with your family is a skill that can be developed and may even save your life. Unfortunately, when planning a getaway, you must think about more than just the fun stuff; you must also consider your personal safety and the safety of those you're traveling with. This is where situational awareness comes into play. In "Spotting Danger for Travelers", you will learn how to develop a solid foundation of situational awareness, preemptively spot danger, quickly implement escape plans, and take control of your own safety while traveling. It breaks the information into three easy to follow phases. PREDEPARTURE includes planning, threat assessments, home security, intel briefing, equipment, and things to avoid. TRAVELING includes switching on situational awareness, and security considerations. ARRIVAL includes on-site security, communication, area familiarization, cultural awareness, blending in, spotting danger, contingency planning, maintaining control, heading home, and post-travel considerations.--Publisher.

Intended to provide individuals, either those who are newly appointed deans or those who are about to become academic deans, with the keys to success in meeting the challenges that come with such leadership positions.