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Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets
A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
In this inspiring, delightful memoir, a young woman decides to escape the daily grind and turn her “what if” fantasy into a reality, only to find work—and a man—she loves in one fell swoop, all in a secondhand bookstore in a quaint Scottish town.
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood,...
The Explorer Gene
How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper, and Further Than Any Before
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The remarkable account of an extraordinary family of explorers who spurred innovation and accomplished incredible feats—even when the popular consensus was against them.
On May 27, 1931, Auguste Piccard became the first human to enter the stratosphere, flying an experimental balloon he invented...
Pikachu s Global Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including...
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, And Real Cool Cats
Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour,...
by Mark Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection...
Mondo Exotica
Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio...
For the Love of Letters
The Joy of Slow Communication
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Remember letters? They were good, weren’t they? The thrill of receiving that battered envelope, all the better for the wait . . . In this richly entertaining book, paper geek John O’Connell puts forward a passionate case for the value of letter-writing in a distracted, technology-obsessed world....
Baskerville
The Mysterious Tale of Sherlock's Return
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Based on true events in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this darkly thrilling tale of friendship, rivalry, and ambition tells the backstory of how one of the world’s most celebrated mysteries came to be written.
Dartmoor, 1900. Two friends are roaming the moors: Arthur Conan Doyle –...
D-Day
Minute by Minute
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Told in a purely chronological style, this fascinating account vividly details the authentic stories of regular people caught up in the historical events of D-Day.
June 6, 1944 was a truly historic day, but it was also a day where ordinary people found themselves in extraordinary situations...
Lieutenant...
The Limits of Ferocity
Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which convey a loathing of middle-class culture or,...
Look For Me In The Whirlwind
From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
At a moment when the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement recites a daily 'We Have a Duty to Win' affirmation penned by exiled revolutionary Assata Shakur, the membership of the NY 21 is largely forgotten and unknown. Their legacy, however - reflected upon here in this special edition - provides...
Archives of Empire
Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts...
Ghosts of Passion
Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding...
Containment Culture
American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1995
Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within...