Popular Culture
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The Saucerian: Ufos, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
$32.95 Read moreThe strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Gray Barker (1925-- Author: McKee, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049546
- Language: English
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All–But There Is a Solution
$20.99 Add to cartA “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture is a new phenomeno- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1668019159
- Language: English
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1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times
$32.99 Add to cartFrom pro wrestling and Pok?mon to Insane Clown Posse and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late ’90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and societ
- Series: Politics and Popular Culture
- Author: Benes, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638571
- Language: English
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Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love With) a Magical Subculture
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog.
Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almo- Author: Wolfe, Aj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1668069210
- Language: English
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The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
$30.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, insp… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyonc?, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade
$29.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Al… [more below]
- Author: Princiotti, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 593725085
- Language: English
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartA revised edition of this celebrated cultural history features a new afterword and three new chapters focusing on the global K-pop phenomenon BTS, as well as the Academy Award-winning film Parasite an
- Author: Hong, Euny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250353270
- Language: English
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
$19.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet–revealing how online influence and the creators who amass- Author: Lorenz, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982146877
- Language: English
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Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly
$19.00 Add to cart“Like a J.D. Salinger novel rolled in Hunter S. Thompson’s hallucinogen dust.” –Ann Powers, author of Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
“[Waiting for Britney Spears] transformed and transporte- Author: Weiss, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 374606137
- Language: English
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Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies–from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High… [more below]
- Author: Handy, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1501181173
- Language: English
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
$16.95 Read moreExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.
Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Goth- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1915672635
- Language: English
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There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
$30.00 Add to cartA smart, page-turning exploration of the business and creative decisions that transformed Taylor Swift into an unprecedented modern cultural phenomenon.
Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The
- Author: Evers, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
$30.00 Read moreGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond
- Author: Mattson, Greggor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1503629201
- Language: English
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–And Why This Harms Everybody
$17.99 Read moreWall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexi… [more below]
- Author: Pluckrose, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1634312279
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles
$29.98 Add to cartWAITING FOR THE SUN – A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES
- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0879309431
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence
$26.99 Read moreHow do we resist the false idols of power and influence to seek true connection and community?
From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a
- Author: Dark, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 150648168X
- Language: English
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
$11.95 Read moreOne of the most influential works of social psychology in history, The Crowd was highly instrumental in creating this field of study by analyzing, in detail, mass behavior. The book had a profound imp… [more below]
- Author: Le Bon, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486419568
- Language: English
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The 1980s: Image of a Decade
$60.00 Add to cartThe 1980s were a time of bold exploration, dazzling creativity, inspiring unity–and stark division. Technology, media, gender roles, race, sexuality, geopolitics, climate, and even our place in the u
- Series: Story of a Decade #1
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 500027226
- Language: English
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Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation
$39.95 Read moreConsidering the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to queer history in the US
Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing
- Author: Filreis, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1941753698
- Language: English
