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Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom Activists today strive to...

A Former Google Data Scientist Presents An Insider's Look At What The Vast, Instantly Available Amounts Of Information From The Internet Can Reveal About Hu...

Concentrates on the design and architecture of the 1960s, this book traces the transition from the "Contemporary" design of the 1950s to the pure geometry o...

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Batman Is One Of The Most Complex Characters Ever To Appear In Comic Books, Graphic Novels, And On The Big Screen. What Philosophical Trials Does This Super...

PR! is Stuart Ewen’s pathbreaking history of public relations. It begins with the First World War when Ivy Lee, one of the nation’s first corporate PR men...

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Hollywood Babylon was originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a word has been changed. Not a story omitted. Here is th...

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

The Cultural Critic Questions How Modern People Understand The Concept Of Villainy, Describing How His Youthful Idealism Gave Way To An Adult Sympathy With ...

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreci...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most r...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...

Piercing pioneer Elayne Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since the 1980s and has brought many practices, such as tongue-piercing, into the mainstr...

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely...

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From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff ...

Accomplished Young Journalist Ian Frisch, Whose Writing Has Appeared In The New Yorker, Vice, Playboy And The New York Times, Threads Together A Personal St...

Traces The History And Development Of Video Games, Providing Information On The First Games, Influential Developers, How The Games Have Changed Over The Yea...

By Charles Mackay ; With A Foreword By Andrew Tobias. Originally Published As: Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London : R. Bentley, 1841. Includ...

a New York Times Bestseller That Has Changed The Way Readers View The Ecology Of Eating, This Revolutionary Book By Award Winner Michael Pollan Asks The Se...

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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...

"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...

On their 30th anniversary, the surviving Pythons—John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin—reminisce about their collaboration,...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

The perfect graduation gift for every young adult entering the real world.In the New York Times bestseller Nick Hornby calls “helpful, stimulating, and v...

This 2024 daily desk calendar showcases the original, highly collected Marvel Value Stamps, first published in 1974, and related ephemera, from the most ins...

Beauty Is A Beast / Amy Edgington -- Living Into My Body / Nancy Barron -- Beauty Mandates And The Appearance Of Obsession: Are Lesbians Any Better Off? / A...

Hashish History -- Hashish-making -- Hashish Cultures -- Constituents And Quality Of Hashish -- Consumption Of Hashish -- High-tech Hashish-making. Robert C...

From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world. Whethe...

Collects The Author's Best New Yorker Pieces, Including Essays On Such Topics As Why There Are So Many Kinds Of Mustard But Only One Type Of Ketchup, A Surp...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...

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...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

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...

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

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

Explores A Range Of Modern Cultural Phenomenon, Including Internet Pornography, Tribute Bands, Baseball Rivalries, And Reality Television.Categories: Litera...

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is a glorious celebration of the Great American Game, and of the city that loves it so. It is a love affair that began in 1874, whe...

In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in t...

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In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, ...

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively rea...

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

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