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

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...

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...

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

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...

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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...

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

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...

Narcissism — a very positive and inflated view of the self — is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife...

In A Natural, Cultural, And Artistic History Of Our Favorite Mood Enhancer, The Authors Show How Caffeine Was Discovered, Its Early Uses, And The Unexpected...

Out, outrageous, provocative, and proud, this comprehensive anthology and library resource reviews 500 of the best of Hollywood's output of gay, bisexual, ...

To some it's the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, wh...

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...

Howard Hawks is now regarded as one of the greatest directors ever to work in Hollywood. His career stretched from the silent era through the seventies and ...

Featuring A Wide Array Of Iconic Rock Posters, Period Photographs, Music Memorabilia And Light Shows, Out-of-this-world Clothing, And Avant-garde Films, Thi...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mourning political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original...

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...