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Green Porno
A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
From the beloved actress Isabella Rossellini comes Green Porno, a strange and enlightening visual exploration of the sex lives of insects and sea creatures, based on the wildly popular short videos of the same name. Co-director Jody Shapiro has taken 125 arresting film stills of Isabella dressed in...
Things Are What You Make of Them
Life Advice for Creatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else)
The Ultimate BuzzFeed Books Gift Guide - Official Selection
From the creative mind and heart of designer Adam J. Kurtz comes this upbeat rallying cry for creators of all stripes. Expanding on a series of popular essays,...
Videocracy
How YouTube Is Changing the World . . . with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can’t Stop Watching
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world.
Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, “Gangnam Style,” the “Bed Intruder” song, an ASAPscience explainer, Rebecca...
by Dan Casey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Perfect for Star Wars fans who think they already know everything
On May 25, 1977, the world of science fiction, film, and pop culture was changed forever with the release of Star Wars. The beginning of this epic space opera franchise would inspire an expanded universe of creativity, including...
Everybody Lies
Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
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, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided...
X vs. Y
A Culture War, a Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Seen through the eyes of siblings 14 years apart in age, X vs. Y is a smart, funny, stylish, and visually driven anthology that compiles and compares their two generational cultures. It’s a story told through lists, infographics, essays, anecdotes, and images, with chapters devoted to fashion,...
The Ultimate History of Video Games: Volume Two
from Pong to Pokemon and beyond...the story behind the craze that touched our li ves and changed the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics...
My Fair Lazy
One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Readers have followed New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now, in this bitter and witty memoir, Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments...
Beyond Heaving Bosoms
The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name...
We do it in the dark. Under the sheets. With a penlight. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. We have a "special place" where we store them. Let's face it: Not many folks are willing to publicly admit they love romance novels. Meanwhile,...
Fantasy Life
The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Gu y Who's Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Includes new chapters with small, easy-to-understand words. Bestselling words!
Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend...
Why We Suck
A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The New York Times bestseller
One of America’s most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long. Sparing no one, Leary zeroes in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it—his Irish...
by James Kakalios
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course...
Whiter Shades of Pale
The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
HOW WHITE YOU ARE!
If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times–reading, self-satisfied latte lovers—you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags. Veteran white...
From Scratch
The Uncensored History of the Food Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**Twenty Years of Dish from Flay and Fieri to Deen and DeLaurentiis...
Includes a New Afterword!**
*“I don’t want this shown. I want the tapes of this whole series destroyed.”—Martha Stewart
“In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able...