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A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manc...

the Cultural Creatives Illuminates An Emerging, Pervasive Movement Whose New Worldview Is Deeply Affecting Not Only Their Own Lives But Our Larger Society ...

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One Hundred Years Ago, Scientists Would Have Said That Lasers, Televisions, And The Atomic Bomb Were Beyond The Realm Of Physical Possibility. Here, Physici...

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

In This Follow-up To Love Is A Mix Tape, A Writer For Rolling Stone, After His Wife's Death, Finds Solace In Music, Which Leads Him To The Strangest Places ...

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A Tour Of Key Historic Sites In America Where Incidents Of Political Violence Have Occurred Reveals Lesser-known Points Of Interest Pertaining To Each And S...

A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questionsWhat is love?...

The Autobiography The Food Network Would Write If It Could Write One--a Candid, Behind-the-scenes Look At How One Network Launched One Of The Biggest Cultur...

Social Movements Cleverly Translates The Art Of Collective Action And Protest To The University Classroom. Students Will Learn The Core Components Of Social...

Vanity Fair has, from the start, made Hollywood its stomping ground. For its readers, this star-studded book encapsulates a century of the movie mecca's gl...

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Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

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The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in Go...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

An Examination Of Cuban Society Through The Music Of The 1920s-30s When It Began To Embrace Afro-cuban Culture. Traces How The African Element Of Cuban Soci...

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Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism—a modern classic from one of the most promin...

Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty w...

Origami meets the age-old art of swaddling in Baby-Gami and no longer does baby wrapping have to be an intimidating undertaking. Easy-to-follow instructions...

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 ...

About the Author\Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer. She has starred in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, among other film...

Back in print for the first time in decades! THE UNIDENTIFIED and CREATURES OF THE OUTER EDGE, the classic early works of Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, n...

Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about. Her name is on everyone's lips — but can she help it if she was born rich and privileged? Now, with a...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Rational Optimist And Genome Returns With A Fascinating, Brilliant Argument For Evolution That Definitively Dis...

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

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For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

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An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenome...

'global Sex' Is The First Major Work To Take On The Globalization Of Sexuality, Examining The Ways In Which Desire And Pleasure - As Well As Ideas About Gen...

The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians and gays coming out; from Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas to the tr...

Inside Hollywood's Descent into Dreary, Dull Leftist Groupthink\Hollywood’s Dream Factory is now a nightmare of woke restrictions, Identity Politics run a...

A Close-up Examination And Exploration, How We Live Now Challenges Our Old Concepts Of What It Means To Be A Family And Have A Home, Opening The Door To The...

A Manifesto For Everyone Tired Of Pretending To Like Things--really, Really Bad Things. Hater Begins From A Simple Premise: That It's Good To Hate Things. N...

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Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn't been a week Ralph Macchio hasn't heard friendly...

Here, For The First Time In Print, Is The History Of The Beatles--by The Beatles. The Extraordinary Project Has Been Made Possible Because Paul Mccartney, G...