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Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills is a collection of information and images put together over a twenty-year period in a search for hands-on communication with our shared Stone Age past. The story of the Stone Age is our story, and primitive technology is a way for anyone who wants to understand that shared history. Watts makes the case that the learning and practice of aboriginal skills helps us connect with our remote past...

De simples vendedor a uma das pessoas mais influentes do mundo de todos os tempos. Este foi Dale Carnegie, biografado neste livro do americano Steven Watts. A esclarecedora biografia a do autor do best seller Como fazer amigos e influenciar pessoas, mostra como ele deu a volta por cima, tornando-se um dos homens mais aclamados do mundo, por ensinar pessoas a aumentar sua renda, a falar com eficiência e preparar-se para a liderança.'.

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford's outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in gi...

Life After Phillip Morris is the second installment of the life story of gay, four-time prison escapee, fraudster and conman, Steven Russell. The first half of his life was made into the book/film I Love You Phillip Morris.

The Romance of Real Life incorporates sensitivity to the "social history of ideas, in which both the form and content of language remain rooted in the material experience of real life.

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The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon"Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger"Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times"This is a fun book. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account of the man, his magazine and their place in social history. Playboy is no longer t...

When Hugh Hefner started a magazine called Playboy, he aimed to create something more than just a moneymaker. But a set of pictures of a scantily clad Marilyn Monroe in the first issue would overshadow all his higher ambitions.

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Part biography and part cultural analysis, this work sheds some light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt". It also digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and proving insights into his peculiar psyche.

The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American 'culture of capitalism.' In the Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. He explores the sweeping changes that took place in America between 1790 and 1820--the growth of an entrepreneurial economy of completion, the development of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeo...

Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills is a collection of information and images put together over a twenty-year period in a search for hands-on communication with our shared Stone Age past. The story of the Stone Age is our story, and primitive technology is a way for anyone who wants to understand that shared history. Watts makes the case that the learning and practice of aboriginal skills helps us connect with our remote past...

This is not just another standard biography of the youthful president JFK. By examining Kennedy in the context of certain books, movies, social critiques, music, and cultural discussions that framed his ascendancy, Watts shows us the sense of possibility, the optimism and aspirations, that accompanied the dawn of a new age in America.

When Hugh Hefner started a magazine called Playboy, he aimed to create something more than just a moneymaker. But a set of pictures of a scantily clad Marilyn Monroe in the first issue would overshadow all his higher ambitions.

Hugh Hefners life behind the public persona, from awkward schoolboy to cultural iconwritten with his full cooperation.

When Hugh Hefner started a magazine called Playboy, he aimed to create something more than just a moneymaker. But a set of pictures of a scantily clad Marilyn Monroe in the first issue would overshadow all his higher ambitions.

Praise for Steven Watts's The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century "Intelligent, thorough, and engaging. . . . The implicit claim of Watts's admirable book is almost inarguable-that it's impossible to understand twentieth-century America without knowing the story of Henry Ford."-The New York Times Book Review "Ford has had many biographers. . . . None, however, comes close to Steven Watts. . . . He brilliantly reveals the na...