Popular Culture

How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

Offers An Assortment Of The Most Provocative Essays, Reporting, Rants, And Raves From Bitch Magazine's First Ten Years, Along With New Pieces Written Especi...

In This Madcap Journey, A Bestselling Journalist Investigates Psychopaths And The Industry Of Doctors, Scientists, And Everyone Else Who Studies Them. The P...

The Internet Isn't The First Technology To Alter How We Communicate, But It Is Making Our Language Change Faster And In More Interesting Ways Than Ever Befo...

A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an anal...

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existen...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category Finalist For The 2019 Pen / Diamonstein-spielvogel ...

A holistic understanding of the physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of marijuana which bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science....

Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely Peop...

Special Hardcover Library Edition The Everyday Sexism Project Was Founded By Writer And Activist Laura Bates In April 2012. It Began Life As A Website Where...

"Walk upstairs, open the door, and look in the crib.What do you see: Most of us see a picture of innocence and helplessness, a clean slate. But in fact, wh...

Are scrolls containing the secret teachings of Jesus buried in Scotland?The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancien...

Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses,...

Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book deli...

Everyone knows about pot brownies, but not many know how to make them — and brownies are so old-school. Aunt Sandy has perfected more than 30 cannabis-inf...

This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s...

The sunny days on Sesame Street never looked brighter than with this 12-month wall calendar featuring the Muppets and their wisdom.\Enjoy each and every day...

The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in AmericaWhat the Eye Hears offers...

“No one writes about the subjects of sexuality, desire, the shadow, and diabolism with such relish, and when I read her words I feel both smarter and les...

Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Foreword / Richard D. Parsons And Jonelle Procope -- The Apollo: A Place Of Possibility / Lonnie G. Bunch Iii -- Growing Up ...

Until Recently, It Was Assumed That The Nazis Agitated Against Chaplin From 1931 To 1933, And Then Again From 1938, When His Plan To Make The Great Dictator...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011...

Fans will devour Elvis: American Idol, an intimate and entertaining chronicle of the life and legend of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. This fascinating, unique...

The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly...

For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unu...

In this 6th edition of his successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As befo...

Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best...

Award-winning Journalist Catherine Price Presents A Practical, Hands-on Plan To Break Up -- And Then Make Up -- With Your Phone. The Goal? A Long-term Relat...

After Having A Nationally Televised Panic Attack On Good Morning America, Harris Knew He Had To Make Some Changes. A Lifelong Nonbeliever, He Found Himself ...

Lost in Space was the prime time weekly series to take viewers into outer space’s strange new alien worlds – something the networks believed impossible ...

Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely Peop...

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing...

one Hundred Twenty Pages Of Illustrations, Accompanied By Descriptive Captions, Depict One-piece Strapless Bathing Suits And Dresses With Plunging Necklin...

The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—“A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans...

How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of d...

How To Think Is A Contrarian Treatise On Why We're Not As Good At Thinking As We Assume - But How Recovering This Lost Art Can Rescue Our Inner Lives From T...

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter...

This Book Provides A Cultural, Political, And Social Survey Through The Most American Of Pastimes That Continues To Thrive Today. With Narrative, Accessible...

Thrown Is Kerry Howley's Masterful Debut. A Work Of Rigorous Nonfiction That's Sure To Be Branded Experimental, But That's As Involving And Page-turning As ...

What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way ...

Ann Bannon was designated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for authoring several landmark novels in the ’50s. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Banno...

In This Intimate And Humorous Memoir About How Childhood Passions Shape Our Adult Selves, Cathal Kelly Probes His Youthful Obsessions--from Star Wars To The...

this Book Offers A Well-rounded Introduction To The Sociological Understanding Of Education, Analyzing Key Debates And Issues With References To Critical ...

Which Is More Dangerous, A Gun Or A Swimming Pool? What Do Schoolteachers And Sumo Wrestlers Have In Common? Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?...

Each year over 700,000 beauty pageants are held in cities and towns the world over. Here is a celebration of that glitz and that glory. From Miss Universe t...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

"She was the best mother in the world," said Princes William and Harry at Diana's 10-year memorial. "Entertaining and persuasive," (Publishers Weekly) this ...

Foreword By Steven Pinker Blending The Informed Analysis Of The Signal And The Noise With The Instructive Iconoclasm Of Think Like A Freak, A Fascinating, I...