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Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In the days when cinema audiences insisted that movie programs include two features, plus shorts, plus a newsreel, plus trailers, plus a cartoon, the supporting feature was known in the film trade as a "B". On many occasions, the unheralded "B" movie turned out to be more entertaining...
Right of the Dial
The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country. During its heyday, critics accused Clear Channel, the fourth-largest...
Wardrobe Crisis
How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street—or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced...
How to Think
A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York Times
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our...
Call of the Mall
The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy—praised by The New York Times as “a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves”—now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about.
Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim...
by Joe Wilcox
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Knowledge@Wharton, University of Pennsylvania's online business journal, calls San Diego Comic-Con the “Super Bowl of pop culture”. The convention is the required pilgrimage for artists, actors, filmmakers, producers or screenwriters. Each year 130,000 fans gather, and where they go Hollywood...
Was Superman a Spy?
And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 130 urban legends about comic book culture
Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like priceless back issues in the seventy-plus...
The League of Regrettable Superheroes
Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Meet one hundred of the strangest superheroes ever to see print, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary.
You know about Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but have you heard of Doll Man, Doctor Hormone, or Spider Queen? So prepare yourself for such not-ready-for-prime-time...
The Caped Crusade
Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him—now with a new afterword.
Since...
by James Daily, Ryan Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
An intriguing and entertaining look at how America’s legal system would work using the world of comic books.
The dynamic duo behind the popular website LawAndTheMultiverse.com breaks down even the most advanced legal concepts for every self-proclaimed nerd.
James Daily and Ryan Davidson—attorneys...
by Kameron Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought,"...
by Chuck Klosterman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.
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