Popular Culture
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The Story of Us: How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
$29.00 Add to cartWe’ve had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story–full of joy, friendship, connection, clowning, and singing at the top of our lungs–is documented in this tribute to the fandom and the… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1668092921
- Language: English
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Fenway Punk: How a Boston Indie Label Scored Big on Baseball’s Greatest Rivalry
$29.00 Add to cartAn audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball’s greate… [more below]
- Author: Wrenn, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894140872
- Language: English
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One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of the witty and evocative writing of Anne Helen Petersen and Amanda Montell, a sharply clever exploration of what it means to be a “bad mom” by delving into the world of momfluencers, stage … [more below]
- Author: Dickson, Ej
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668051117
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
$19.99 Add to cartWe embraced the mediated life–from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse–because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp t
- Author: Rosen, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116773
- Language: English
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The 1990s: A Visual History of the Decade
$60.00 Add to cartA visual celebration of a seminal decade. As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip–hop, and rave exploded in popularity as teenagers and twenty–somethings searched for some
- Series: Story of a Decade #2
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500027374
- Language: English
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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Inc., Prospect Magazine, and The Conversation
“The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted .- Author: Mounk, Yascha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593493206
- Language: English
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Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of how you created internet culture and why it matters
Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the firs- Author: Walsh, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1839765399
- Language: English
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The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death, & Dive Bars
$31.23 Add to cartFor over two decades, writer, rabble-rouser, and bon vivant, Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart), has been chronicling life in San Francisco with grit, wit, and an open bar tab. Part memoir, part
- Author: Schuffman, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0999010859
- Language: English
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Barbieland: The Unauthorized History
$30.00 Add to cartA fresh and colorful cultural history of Mattel’s Barbie and how she helped shape our understanding of modern feminism and capitalism–perfect for fans of The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Disney… [more below]
- Author: Hitt, Tarpley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031825
- Language: English
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
$32.00 Add to cartA revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture–from music and fashion to art, f… [more below]
- Author: Marx, W. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833996
- Language: English
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Eternal Goth: Exploring the World’s Most Enigmatic Cultural Movement
$24.99 Add to cartJourney through the labyrinthine alleys of Goth culture to unravel its defining aesthetics, explore its musical evolution, and examine its profound impact on the arts.
Being Goth transcends mere fashi- Author: Madden, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155262
- Language: English
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I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of the Vampire Diaries
$22.00 Add to cartFrom Entertainment Weekly writer and debut author Samantha Highfill, a definitive and deliciously nostalgic look into the creation and legacy of hit show The Vampire Diaries, as told by its cast, crew… [more below]
- Author: Highfill, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 059347595X
- Language: English
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Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking
$28.00 Add to cartA social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.
The history of ghosts is ancient, but the hi- Author: Vernon, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 139941870X
- Language: English
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The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood: An All-New Exploration of the Real Science of the Multiverse, the Quantum Realm, and Everything in Between
$31.00 Add to cartDiscover the surprisingly real physics at work within some of the most popular superhero movies and tv shows
The multiverse and the quantum realm are fictional plot devices made popular by some of our- Author: Kakalios, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593719034
- Language: English
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartEnshittification: it’s not just you–the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the serv- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0374619328
- Language: English
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
$19.95 Add to cartA radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.
In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as t- Author: Maclay, Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420586
- Language: English
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Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream
$26.00 Add to cartIn Stumbling toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how those philosophies and policies have led to the cataclysm… [more below]
- Author: Goeglein, Timothy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1956454470
- Language: English
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
$32.00 Add to cartA rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factor… [more below]
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593317092
- Language: English
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Hunting: A Cultural History
$16.95 Read moreThe history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters.
Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to g- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Dizard, Jan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 026254329X
- Language: English
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Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks
$29.95 Add to cartA historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading
“Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene o- Author: Szendy, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1942130961
- Language: English
