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by Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising.
The book contains eight sections:
Historical Perspectives considers the historical...
And Then There's This
How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped-up crises-every day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and runs away. Stories spread wildly and die out in mere days, to be replaced by still more stories with ever shorter life spans. Through the Internet the news cycle has been...
by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Rapping. Breakdancing. MCing. DJing. Beatboxing. Graffiti art. These are just some of the most well-known artistic expressions spawned from hip hop culture, which has grown from being an isolated inner-city subculture in the 1970s to being a truly international and mainstream culture that has taken...
Kill All Normies
Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations...
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
The American Medicine Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American...
Rocket Dreams
How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades...
Good Night and Good Riddance
How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British...
Barthes' Mythologies Today
Readings of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics...
UAE - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is an extremely rewarding place to visit. Set on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Gulf, the country was once a poor desert land, a confederation of tribal sheikhdoms on the periphery of the Arab world, subsisting on pearl diving...
Beatleness
How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] six decades of Beatles literature passed over” (The Spectrum).
Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles...
Amore
The Story of Italian American Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Amore is Mark Rotella's celebration of the "Italian decade"—the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett, among others, won the hearts of the American public with a smooth, stylish, classy brand of pop. In Rotella's vivid...
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool
A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool profiles over 250 of the most intriguing personalities of the 1960s. The men and women covered in the book include a wide range of celebrities-from well-known superstars (the Beatles, Dustin Hoffman, Muhammad Ali) to lesser-known icons (Nico, Terry Southern, Bo Belinsky)-who...
The Superhero Book
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Appealing to the casual comic book reader as well as the hardcore graphic novel fan, this ultimate AtoZ compendium describes everyone’s favorite participants in the eternal battle between good and evil. With nearly 200 entries examining more than 1,000 heroes, icons and their place in popular culture,...