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Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally,...
I Want My MTV
The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.
Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin - USA Today – CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post – VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San...
Laurel Canyon
The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling...
by John Seabrook
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic
There’s a reason today’s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they’re designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider’s look at the global hit...
Beyond Heaving Bosoms
The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name...
We do it in the dark. Under the sheets. With a penlight. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. We have a "special place" where we store them. Let's face it: Not many folks are willing to publicly admit they love romance novels. Meanwhile,...
Fantasy Life
The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Gu y Who's Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Includes new chapters with small, easy-to-understand words. Bestselling words!
Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend...
by James Kakalios
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course...
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.
Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from...
Cowboys Full
The Story of Poker
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate.
Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global**—but...
"I Give You My Body . . ."
How I Write Sex Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For writers looking to make sure their next physical interlude on the page inspires readers to share the moment rather than to laugh at it, bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets behind the sex scenes in her wildly popular Outlandernovels.
“Ask...
The Dumbest Generation
How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual...
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists...
The Sociology of Sports
An Introduction, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In its second edition, this book takes a fresh approach to the study of sports, presenting key concepts such as socialization, economics, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, the media and the role of sports in society. The authors offer a critical examination but highlight also the many positive...
How Soccer Explains the World
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about.”
—The New York Times Book Review
"An insightful, entertaining, brainiac sports road trip."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Foer’s skills as a narrator are enviable. His characterizations…...