title: The American Heritage Dictionary: Fourth Edition (21st Century Reference)
author: Houghton Mifflin Company
description: "This new<b> American Heritage </b>is more suited to our national character than any other previous dictionary." <i>New York Times Book Review</i>
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  Philosophy and the interpretation of pop culture / edited by William Irwin and
  Jorge J. E. Gracia.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  Includes 