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Yogis Have Been Using Cannabis To Enhance Spiritual Practice For Millennia. Unfortunately, We've Lost This Tradition In The Modern Practice Of Yoga, And Alo...

A Collection Of Essays Explores Philosophical Aspects Of The Beatles' Music, Lyrics, And Political Acitivities. Topics Addressed Include: Skepticism And Epi...

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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...

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...

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Welcome To Celebrity Culture In The Early Aughts: The Reign Of Perez Hilton, Celebrity Sex Tapes, And Dueling Tabloids Fed By Paparazzi Who Were Willing To ...

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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. ...

The United States Is Obsessed With Virginity--from The Media To Schools To Government Agencies. The Purity Myth Is A Critique About Why This Is So, And Why ...

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...

Beyond Roswell examines the circumstances surrounding the July 1947 reports of a flying saucer crash and the government's recovery of the craft's non-human ...

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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...

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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...

When Irving Berlin First Conceived The Song White Christmas, He Envisioned It As A Throwaway -- A Satirical Novelty Number For A Vaudeville-style Stage Revu...

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

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...

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An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film. Salon - Steve Vineberg The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith rele...

Charlie Rose Has Called Louis C.k. The Philosopher-king Of Comedy, And Many Have Detected Philosophical Profundity In His Material. Twenty-five Philosophers...

The Cannabis Breeder's Bible offers real-world, professional techniques for breeding primo pot and gives precise growing information for 60 popular marijuan...

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...

In the summer of 2003,The New York Times Magazinesent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young ...

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...

From Mary Wollstonecraft--who, For Decades After Her Death, Was More Famous For Her Illegitimate Child And Suicide Attempts Than For A Vindication Of The Ri...

A Spiritual Book Written For--and By--someone Who Would Otherwise Never Read A Spiritual Book, 10% Happier Is Both A Deadly Serious And Seriously Funny Look...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

American Hunks Depicts The Muscular American Male As Documented In Popular Culture From 1860 To 1970. The Book, Divided Into Specific Historic Eras, Include...

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...

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

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Satirizes Hipster Culture And The Exploits Of The Third Reich Using A Combination Puns, Parody, Dark Humor, And Visual Gags. The Early Years -- The Lead Up ...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

One of Canada's hippest, smartest cultural critics takes on the West's defining value.We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackage...

Hay un gran interés en la cultura actual sobre la idea de Persona y el mapeo psicológico del mundo interior. De hecho, el interés es tan fuerte que la ba...

Can There Still Be Anything New To Say About The Erotic, Sexy Play, And Desire? Yes , Because What Drives Each Of Us To Any Sexual Fixation--from Feet Or Fa...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

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 ...

Can We Imagine A World In Which Homer's Lyre And Gutenberg's Press Have Given Way To Virtual Reality Environments Like The Star Trek Holodeck? Murray Sees T...

The legalization of marijuana has changed the way we live, party, and treat illnesses. If you have ever wanted to grow your own Cannabis, now you can, with...

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...

A Collaborative Picture Book About Music. The Wilco Book Documents The Band At Home, On Tour, And In The Recording Studio, While Elucidating Its Ideas, Phil...

In No Apologies, Katherine Brodsky argues that it' s time for principled individuals to hit the unmute button and resist the authoritarians among us who nam...