History & Criticism
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Life-Changing Lessons for School, Home, and Everyday Life: The Let Them Theory for Kids & Teens
$12.95 Add to cartWhy does life feel so hard sometimes-and why do people never act the way we want them to?”
If you’re a kid or teen trying to figure out friendships, school stress, family drama, or just the ups and dow
- Author: Rochin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349583995
- Language: English
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The Music of Time
$29.95 Add to cartThe Music of Time blends music with time travel as Preston Nichols reveals his hidden role in the music industry where he worked as an expert sound engineer and recorded hundreds of hit records during
- Author: Nichols, Preston B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0967816203
- Language: English
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Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
$14.95 Add to cartConceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimental
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106464
- Language: English
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The ‘Before’ Trilogy
$17.95 Add to cartIn Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a magica
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hilderbrand, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028025
- Language: English
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Hitchcockian Thrillers: Must-See Films in the Style of the Suspense Master
$49.95 Add to cartDuring Alfred Hitchcock’s five-decade reign as the screen’s internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rea
- Author: Rebello, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 149307959X
- Language: English
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Herm?s Philosophy
$65.00 Add to cartHerm?s Philosophy takes you on a stunning visual journey through the history and inner workings of the world’s most exclusive fashion and luxury brand.
Herm?s Philosophy takes you on a stunning visual- Series: Luxury Philosophy
- Author: Cappelletti, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1788843355
- Language: English
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The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
$19.99 Add to cartIn this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski–hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly–tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and t
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123516
- Language: English
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Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
$24.95 Add to cartA revised and expanded edition of the long out-of-print history of Factory Records, the legendary record label that launched Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays. Featuring a foreword by Jon Sav… [more below]
- Author: Nice, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0571395406
- Language: English
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Rooted: How Black and Brown People Created Classical Music
$10.00 Add to cartThis highly captivating book takes readers on a journey through the history of classical music. However, author and music educator Vincent Sneed demonstrates that this history does not begin in Europe
- Author: Sneed, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798295438738
- Language: English
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The Cello Who Loved Me: An accidental pilgrimage to master the world’s most beautiful instrument
$20.00 Add to cartA surprise recital while walking the Camino de Santiago turns into another kind of pilgrimage: to learn to play the cello.
George, 71, is nearing completion of this ancient route across Spain when he
- Author: Sorensen, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798999877116
- Language: English
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Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City
Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From
- Author: McDougall, Rennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1419771124
- Language: English
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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
$35.00 Add to cart“An essential book for this moment.”
The definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact on culture and American life From the underground dancefloors of th
–Rob Sheffield- Author: Walters, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217059829
- Language: English
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Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age, blending theory and cultural analysis to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and e… [more below]
- Author: Corey, Mj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593701348
- Language: English
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Rocky. the Complete Films
$116.67 Add to cartRocky Balboa is the Philadelphian icon who took on the world and won. The original “Italian Stallion,” the gutsy fighter who rose above the odds to boxing glory, and a rags-to-riches legend in the bus
- Author: Stallone, Sylvester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 20 2025
- ISBN10: 3836599198
- Language: English
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When Harry Met Sally…
$17.95 Add to cartGroundbreaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally… (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Following the relationship betwe
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1805750259
- Language: English
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In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive
$29.00 Add to cartThe physical spaces we inhabit impact us so much more than we realize. From home to work and everywhere in between, learn how to get more out of your spaces, and yourself.
So many books address how- Author: Klotz, Leidy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0316567361
- Language: English
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Love, Loss and the Fade to White
$16.95 Add to cartSiskel and Ebert meet Joan Didion in Auteur, a unique series that combines in-depth film criticism with personal autobiography. Each book in the series examines a single movie through a critical and h
- Series: Auteur #2
- Author: Wyman, Maia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1632461730
- Language: English
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Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
$24.00 Add to cartJimmy Stewart’s all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected … [more below]
- Author: Eliot, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 25 2007
- ISBN10: 140005222X
- Language: English
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This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich
$29.95 Add to cartOVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, ome of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves o
- Author: Rachel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142850
- Language: English
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Won’t Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
$31.99 Add to cartHear “American Girl” or “Born in the U.S.A.” and, like it or not, chances are you begin to hum along. The soundtrack of grocery stores, pool halls, bowling alleys, flea markets, chain restaurants, dru
- Author: Osmon, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 132405137X
- Language: English
