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How We Got Here : The Decade That Brought You Modern Life by David Frum (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBasic Books

ISBN-100465041957

ISBN-139780465041954

eBay Product ID (ePID)538170

Product Key Features

Book TitleHow We Got Here : the Decade That Brought You Modern Life

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicSociology / General, Popular Culture, Modern / General, American Government / General, Customs & Traditions

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorDavid Frum

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Table Of Content1. An introduction to symbiosis2. Symbiosis as a source of novel metabolic capabilities3. Novel structures in symbiosis4. Nutritional interactions in symbiosis5. How symbioses are formed6. Regulation of microbial symbionts7. The ecological impact of symbiosis8. Symbiosis and the eukaryotic cellIndex

SynopsisFor many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading., A sweeping condemnation of the decline of American culture since the 1970s by one of America's leading conservative writers., This is a highly engaging story about how the implementation of a writing-across-the-curriculum program evolved, and of how such a program has altered philosophies rather than only practices -- about how when a university tests in depth the concept that writing is a chief means of learning, that institution becomes perforce a place where teaching and learning become its true reason for being. Kipling and Murphy's account, in detailing the development and effects of its WAC program, offers telling insights into the dynamics of institutional culture. Readers will hear firsthand accounts from faculty, administration, and students, framed in an ethnographic narrative that both persuades and inspires. Recommended for all college faculty and administrators.

LC Classification NumberE169.12.F78 2000