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Red Card
How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A...
The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances
Outrage at Couple Dancing in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social morality. Decrying the corrupting influence of social dancing, they failed to suppress the popularity of the waltz or other...
Escaping the Rabbit Hole
How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre….
All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright lies. But many people passionately believe...
USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of "just like in the movies" familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich...
Sing to Me
My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In this long-awaited memoir, illustrated with over 100 never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, the groundbreaking record producer chronicles his struggles, his success, and the celebrated artists that made him a legend.
Over the last twenty-five years, legendary music producer...
Canuck Rock
A History of Canadian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations...
Winnebago Nation
The RV in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous,...
All the Pieces Matter
The Inside Story of The Wire®
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation.
Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled,...
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
The American Medicine Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American...
by Becky Beal
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to becoming a worldwide youth culture phenomenon. This now-mainstream action sport has spawned a multi-billion-dollar commercial market for skateboarding equipment, skateboard-related...
The Lustron Home
The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Advertised as “a new standard for living,” the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses became very popular, and were heavily promoted from...
Rocket Dreams
How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades...
Good Night and Good Riddance
How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British...
by Patrick Humphries
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
'It's Number One... it's Top Of The Pops', for every generation from 1964, until the show ended in 2006, that was the sentence every young television viewer sat down to hear. At its peak, a quarter of the UKs entire population was watching. 'Top Of The Pops' was the pivotal pop television programme...