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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...

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What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden...

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipu...

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A Woman’s Handbook To Demystifying The World Of Weed, Whether It’s Being Used For Pain Relief, A Moment Of Calm, Or A Fit Of Giggles. Women Of All Ages ...

A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an anal...

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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 re...

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...

For many of us, the word "religious" immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. Why not be done with it...

"She was the best mother in the world," said Princes William and Harry at Diana's 10-year memorial. "Entertaining and persuasive," (Publishers Weekly) this ...

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How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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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...

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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 ...