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What the Dormouse Said
How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal ComputerIndustry
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford,...
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The rise of the girlie-girl, warns Peggy Orenstein, is no innocent phenomenon. Following her acclaimed books Flux, Schoolgirls, and the provocative New York Times bestseller Waiting for Daisy, Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the...
Champagne Supernovas
Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
“Terrifically exciting and fun” (Publishers Weekly), Champagne Supernovas is “a lucid, smoothly executed look at a pivotal decade in the legacy of American fashion” (Kirkus Reviews) as told through the lives of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen—the three iconic personalities...
How to Smoke Pot (Properly)
A Highbrow Guide to Getting High
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
"A humorous and informative trip through the drug’s various medicinal compounds, a timeline of the its history, and recipes that take you beyond the standard pot brownie—with pro tips from cannabis-friendly celebrities sprinkled throughout."
—Vanity Fair
Once literally demonized...
Dogfight at the Pentagon
Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...
Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse...
by Yuta Aoki
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Ever wondered what it's like to date Japanese men and women? How will culture affect your dating life? This book explores the dating histories of 15 people of 8 nationalities, including straight and LGBT people. Some of them came to Japan because of their job, and others by choice, but they have...
Casuals
Football, Fighting and Fashion: The Story of a Terrace Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
First came the Teds, then the Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Skinheads, Suedeheads and Punks. But by the late Seventies, a new youth fashion had appeared in Britain. Its adherents were often linked to violent football gangs, wore designer sportswear and made the bootboys of previous years look like the dinosaurs...
K-POP Now!
The Korean Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
"K-Pop Now! […] features one hundred and twenty-eight glossy pages of Korean pop eye-candy." —KpopStarz.com
K-Pop Now! takes a fun look at Korea's high-energy pop music, and is written for its growing legions of fans. It features all the famous groups and singers, and takes an...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
An interesting and unusual title for a book, "These Great Movies Won No Hollywood Awards" is nonetheless a great new entry in the John Howard Reid series. 142 movies are covered in this volume, with the special added attraction of two articles about director Henry Hathaway and his movies....
Twilight Memories
Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with...
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike.
An introduction explains the advent...
Starbucked
A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the...
Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable
Fifty Years of New York Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
New York, the city. New York, the magazine. A celebration.
The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead, one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple...