Popular culture - United States
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The X-Files the Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of the X-Files
$24.99 Read moreIn September 1993, a TV show like no other appeared on our screens, asking us to consider the essence of truth and belief, to think about the nature and roles of science and humanity, and to question … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Bethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1949024504
- Language: English
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Space Craze: America’s Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight
$29.95 Read moreA space historian’s tour through astounding spaceflight history and the Smithsonian’s collection of space and science fiction memorabilia
Winner of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauti- Author: Weitekamp, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1588347257
- Language: English
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
$24.95 Read moreA comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995)
From its beginnings in hip hop culture,
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: April 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0819562750
- Language: English
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Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
$30.00 Add to cartThe nation’s premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a b… [more below]
- Author: Luntz, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1401302599
- Language: English
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Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been
$55.00 Read moreRedefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular cu
- Author: Williams, Pharrell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0847835898
- Language: English
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Reborn in the USA: An Englishman’s Love Letter to His Chosen Home
$16.99 Add to cart“One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced … [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0062958712
- Language: English
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The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics
$30.00 Read moreIn recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years’ worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another.
- Author: Serazio, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635481
- Language: English
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
$25.99 Add to cartAn excellent book by a genius,” said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.
“This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years f
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429126
- Language: English
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Eating the Dinosaur
$18.99 Add to cartAfter a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of … [more below]
- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416544216
- Language: English
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The Altars Where We Worship
$35.00 Add to cartWhile a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans
- Author: Floyd-Thomas, Juan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0664235158
- Language: English
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the season’s most talked about cultural studies” (Los Angeles Times)–an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journ… [more below]
- Author: Nugent, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0743288025
- Language: English
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
$18.99 Add to cartOver half a million copies sold!
From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture–set in Chuck Kl- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: July 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0743236017
- Language: English
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
$17.99 Add to cartIn the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sex… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982165782
- Language: English
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Supreme
$70.00 Add to cartThe first monograph on the iconic independent New York street fashion label Supreme.
In April 1994, Supreme opened its doors on Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan and became the home of New York C- Author: Jebbia, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0847833119
- Language: English
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Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00 Add to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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Truck: A Love Story
$18.99 Add to cart“A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging.”–New York Times
Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 60571187
- Language: English
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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
$29.99 Read moreBEST READS OF 2023: New York Times Book Review – USA Today – The Skimm – Bookpage – St Louis Post-Dispatch / BEST HOLIDAY GIFTS 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2023: ELLE – The Mil
- Author: Harris, Aisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063249944
- Language: English
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You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything
$30.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power.
Virtually anyone who
- Author: Hickey, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1523515899
- Language: English
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The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life’s transitions–from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Qu
- Series: Moth Presents
- Author: The Moth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593139038
- Language: English
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Pharrell: Carbon, Pressure & Time: A Book of Jewels
$65.00 Read moreWith pieces drawn from the extensive personal collection of Pharrell Williams, this is a stunning and unprecedented exploration of the “bling” in hip-hop culture and fashion.
Few recording artists hav- Author: Williams, Pharrell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0847899179
- Language: English
