Popular Mechanics


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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.







Media and the American Mind


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In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments










Race and the Jury


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In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.




Families of Dickerman Ancestry


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Thomas Dickerman and his wife, Ellen, came to Dorchester Massachusetts ca. 1636. He died there in 1657. Early descendants lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut and then spread throughout the U.S.