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by HUGO
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2016
De l'humour, de la culture générale et de l'auto-dérision : Les Questions Cons arrivent en livre !
Dans la vie, tout le monde se pose des questions. Il y a les questions intelligentes, celles qui font réfléchir : c'est quoi un atome ? Comment sortir de la crise ? ... Et puis il y a les autres,...
by M.A. Cassata
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Are you a true Big Time Rush fan? Well then, prove it! How much do you really know about James, Kendall, Logan and Carlos. On their Nickelodeon hit TV show they play four guys trying to make it big, but in reality Big Time Rush are living the dream as one of the biggest boy bands in the world.
With...
Polaroids from the Dead
And Other Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's...
Pretentiousness
Why It Matters: An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
“A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.” —The New York Times Book Review
*Pretentiousness *is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently...
Charles Pachter
Canada's Artist
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada’s best-loved and most celebrated artists.
Pachter is an artist with an astonishing...
That Book
...of Perfectly Useless Information
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Did you know that . . .
John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game?
Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row?
The shortest war in history, between England and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only thirty-eight minutes?
Want...
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by Kristin G. Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because...
Texts From Last Night
All the Texts No One Remembers Sending
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
In the tradition of The Truth About Chuck Norris, PostSecret, and I Can Has Cheezburger?, Texts from Last Night celebrates the funniest and most outrageous text messages from the instantly popular website
There are few forms of communication that are more entertaining, appalling, and laugh-out-loud...
Back to the Garden
The Story of Woodstock
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
On the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock, renowned New York City disc jockey Pete Fornatale brings the iconic rock concert to vivid life through original interviews with Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, and dozens of headliners, organizers, and fans.
On Friday,...
The Perfect Thing
How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded...
Inventing the Dream
California through the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1986
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that...
Ghettonation
A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr,to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter of a city...
Cheap
The High Cost of Discount Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain
From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive...
Signal: 01
A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles, this unique resource serves as an active discussion of the role of art in revolution. Introducing the artists and cultural workers who have been at the center...