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Amazons in America
Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in...
by Theodor W. Adorno
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Intellettuale tra i più importanti del Novecento, sociologo, filosofo, musicologo, Theodor W. Adorno è stato figura centrale della cosidetta Scuola di Francoforte. Scritto durante l'esilio americano, e pubblicato nel 1941, il saggio Sulla Popular Music offre un'analisi brillante e ancora oggi sorprendente...
Nelson Riddle
The Man Behind the Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
David Morrell isnt only an acclaimed thriller author. Hes also a former professor of American Studies who writes in-depth profiles about music and film legends.Frank Sinatra. Nat “King” Cole. Ella Fitzgerald. Judy Garland. Peggy Lee. Rosemary Cloony. Linda Ronstadt. No matter their various styles,...
Sam Quek
Hope and a Hockey Stick
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Sam Quek is mainly known for her starring role in the 2016 Olympic gold medal winning hockey team. This was the first time a British ladies team had won gold, but what is much less known is that Sam’s rise to the top of her spot was far from easy.
Sam missed out on being part of Team GB at...
The Exile of Britney Spears
A Tale of 21st Century Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
What we consume matters: a conclusion that is making more sense as sustainability and eco-responsibility become part of our everyday cultural conversations. What we fail to realize is that we consume – unconsciously, continually, and, at times, violently – much more than food. The Exile of Britney...
TIME FOR KIDS Top 5 of Everything
Tallest, Tastiest, Fastest!
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Here's a trivia quiz for you: What are the five most popular names for dogs? Which five nations spend the most on chocolate per year? What are the five oldest baseball stadiums? Who were the five youngest Presidents? The answers to those questions-and dozens more-are found in the Time For Kids Top...
Only What's Necessary
Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the...
Of Dice and Men
The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Lord of the Rings meets Moneyball in this unique and authoritative book on Dungeons & Dragons—from the game’s origins through its rise to cultural prominence, and its ripple effect on popular culture today.
Even if you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know someone...
by Matt Mogk
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The most comprehensive zombie handbook ever published—with a foreword by Max Brooks! In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.*
Q. How can I increase my chances of survival?
A. One simple step is to keep...
by UK Jung
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
There are so many k-pop boy groups, while the groups are too numerous to mention one by one. However, some of them just disappear after debut, and only a very small minority of k-pop boy groups can become popular. By the way, there is a boy group who has been on the steady rise since its debut and...
Dogfight at the Pentagon
Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Over 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 Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial...
K-POP Now!
The Korean Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
"K-Pop Now! […] features one hundred and twenty-eight glossy pages of Korean pop eye-candy." —KpopStarz.com
K-Pop Now! takes a fun look at Korea's high-energy pop music, and is written for its growing legions of fans. It features all the famous groups and singers, and takes an...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
An interesting and unusual title for a book, "These Great Movies Won No Hollywood Awards" is nonetheless a great new entry in the John Howard Reid series. 142 movies are covered in this volume, with the special added attraction of two articles about director Henry Hathaway and his movies....