Popular Culture

Describes How A New System Of Wealth Creation Is Transforming Power At Every Level Of Society. The Powershift Era -- Muscle, Money, And Mind -- Beyond The A...

F, U, C, And K. Four Letters That When Combined, Can Cause Outrage, Scandal, Embarrassment, Or Instant Rekief If You've Hit Your Thumb With A Hammer. The F-...

Venice--a city of masks and riddles, where narrow streets and passageways form a giant maze that confounds the uninitiated and deepens the sense of myster...

Readers Will Emerge From The Book With A Better Understanding Of The Significance Of Quality Teacher-student Talk And Some Of The Most Important Research An...

The darling of the fashion world and co-host of the music TV show Fuse News shares her inspirations, musings, and her own very personal and eclectic style ...

In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working u...

2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category) It is not enough to condemn culture. N...

Gender & Pop Culture Provides A Foundation For The Study Of Gender, Pop Culture And Media. This Comprehensive, Interdisciplinary Text Provides Text-book...

Vintage paperbackCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesPopular Culture

In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes...

United Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D...

In this second volume of Tino Balio's history of United Artists, he examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin i...

Fans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In the Uni...

Studio 54 was the icon of excess—a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bath...

A position a day keeps the love doctor awayFrom the perpetrators of Nerve.com's wildly popular Position of the Day: After all these years of thinking 69 wa...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Safran Foer Re-evaluated His Meat-based Diet--and His Conscience--in His Powerful Memoir And Investigative Re...

From The Bestselling Author Of The Organized Mind, The Must-have Book About How To Analyze Who And What To Trust In The Age Of Information Overload. It's Be...

in America, In Contrast To Almost Anywhere Else In The World, The Good Life Means Traveling A Long Distance To Get To Work. How And Why This Came To Be Ou...

This is a book about TRUTH--and all the ways we try to avoid it--from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up. We live ...

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen month...

In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond A...

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: everything you never knew you never knew about every country on Earth. A scientist by training and an explorer by passion, D...

The ultimate collection of 1,500 facts about the world’s toughest and most awesome man. Finally, the wait is over. The most comprehensive collection of ...

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regr...

From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies—from Rebel Wi...

Gaming Magazine Authors From Around The Globe Present A Chronological Yet Qualitative History Of The Video Game, With Insight Into The Development, Populari...

Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is ...

Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist ...

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent...

This Collection Of Essays Takes An Unprecedented Look At The Philosophical Issues And Themes Behind Amc's Emmy Award-winning Show, Mad Men, Exploring Issues...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

In This Newly Revised And Updated Edition, Unlock The Secrets Of Your Dreamlife With The Most Comprehensive A-z Reference Book On Dream Interpretation You'l...

This Reference Work Includes An Examination Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's Selection Process, A Review Of The Annual Induction Ceremony, And Provides C...

levitt (economics, U. Of Chicago) And Writing Collaborator Dubner (a Writer For The New York Times And The New Yorker) Dub The Material In This Work Freako...

This Book Offers A Historical-critical Analysis Of How And Why Youth Culture Emerged And Evolved In North America. The Author Traces The Origins Of Youth In...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

A retrospective covers forty years worth of the best of American Bandstand, a popular music television show hosted by the author who remains a pop icon toda...

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television ...

David Brooks. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

Asking Provocative And Profound Questions About Human Motivation And Contemporary Living And Reaching Some Astonishing Conclusions, 'freakonomics' Will Make...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining countercu...

A Riveting Saga In The History Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Decades-long Rivalry Between The Two Men Who Innovated The Electric Guitar's Amplified Sound--leo Fende...

Product Description If you can judge a book by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler ...

Willie And Korie Robertson.Categories: Sports & Outdoors Outdoor RecreationHunting

For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapoli...

This Pathbreaking Book Explains Why, Contrary To All Expectations, Americans Are Working Harder Than Ever. The Author Presents The Astonishing News That Ove...

Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the Wo...