History & Criticism
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$19.99 Add to cartWhen school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been a
- Series: Private Detective Kate Marshall #5
- Author: Bryndza, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914547268
- Language: English
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Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk’s Guide to Loving Jazz
$16.99 Add to cartOnce you’ve collected every 7″ from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to l… [more below]
- Author: Suren, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1648412084
- Language: English
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Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
$16.99 Add to cartWOMEN BEHIND THE MIC:
Curators of The Culture
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition” from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who
- Author: Brookshire, Lajoyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1584410086
- Language: English
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Labelled with Love: A History of the World in Your Record Collection
$33.99 Add to cartA warm-hearted, reflective, musical odyssey through the record labels, bands and music which shaped our lives.
‘An instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the rec- Author: Bollen, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1803994339
- Language: English
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Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia
$27.95 Add to cartThe future ain’t what it used to be.
Is nostalgia revitalizing or killing 21st-century culture? The concept of nostalgia has seeped into almost all aspects of modern-day media, none more so than horror… [more below]
- Author: Burns, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1915316316
- Language: English
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I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: … [more below]
- Author: Avery, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000560
- Language: English
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These Fists Break Bricks (Revised and Expanded Edition): How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
$40.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix and film historian Chris Poggiali comes the full story of how kung fu movies came to–and conquered–America in this revised and expanded edition. … [more below]
- Author: Hendrix, Grady
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489480
- Language: English
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
$32.00 Add to cartMoving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz.
New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and- Author: Sebba, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1250287596
- Language: English
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Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences
$34.95 Add to cartEssays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity
How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribu- Author: Tenner, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 585
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1606180274
- Language: English
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Broadway: The American Musical
$49.95 Add to cartA comprehensive companion to the six-part Emmy-winning PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical is the gold standard of musical theater history books, tracing the roots of the art form a
- Author: Maslon, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1493047671
- Language: English
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Be the Bombshell: What Love Island Teaches Us about Dating
$18.99 Add to cartDate better, raise your standards, and learn to be true to yourself with these heartfelt lessons from the Villa.
“Can I pull you for a chat?” “Where’s your head at?” “Maybe we should call it the ‘frie- Author: Jennings, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1668205645
- Language: English
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Frank Zappa’s America
$39.95 Add to cartFrom his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blen
- Author: Morgan, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 080718392X
- Language: English
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Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
$24.00 Add to cartThat the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, root… [more below]
- Author: Gould, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0307353389
- Language: English
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News
$35.00 Read more“He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.”—Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI’s Action News for 47 years
“We we- Author: Grzybowski, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439921822
- Language: English
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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
$29.99 Add to cartJoan Didion opened The White Album (1979) with what would become one of the most iconic lines in American literature: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Today, this phrase is deployed inspi
- Author: Wilkinson, Alissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092610
- Language: English
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The In-Between: Intimate and Candid Moments of Broadway Stars
$45.00 Add to cartIn a world of marquee names and big personalities, Jenny Anderson is a legend in her own right. As a celebrated Broadway photographer, she has worked with the most important performers in theatre and
- Author: Anderson, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088114
- Language: English
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Family Don’t End with Blood: Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Has Changed Lives
$18.95 Read moreHow a Show, and the Support of Its Fandom, Changed–and Saved–Lives
Supernatural, a three-time People’s Choice Award winner for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show and Tumblr’s 2015 Most Reblogged “Live- Author: Zubernis, Lynn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1944648356
- Language: English
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Nkf: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables: 1927-1928
$60.00 Add to cartA graphic design masterpiece held in museum collections worldwide, now recreated in full facsimile
Widely regarded as the most important Dutch designer of the last century, Piet Zwart helped rewrite th
- Author: Zwart, Piet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989142316
- Language: English
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Little Guides to Style: The Classics
$65.00 Add to cartLittle Guides to Style: The Classics is the beautifully packaged story of four heritage design houses that exemplify elegance and haute couture – Burberry, Chanel, Givenchy and Louis Vuitton.
From the- Author: Gilroy, Darla-Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1802798668
- Language: English
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Little Book of Loewe
$16.95 Add to cartFrom avant-garde accessories to directional red-carpet glamour, Loewe is the fashion house of the moment.
Modern twists bring an unbridled joy to its cult items, from surreal balloon heels to the cove- Series: Little Books of Fashion
- Author: Bumpus, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1035419645
- Language: English
