By Rob Walker - $28.00 - add to cart

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Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Weaned on TiVo, the Internet, and other emerging technologies, the short-attention-span generation has become immune to marketing. Consumers are “in co...

By Cynthia Kuhn - $21.00 - add to cart

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There is no talking down or trying to be hip in this guide to recreational drugs. The title is the slangiest thing about it, until the glossary of street language at its end, and a reader needs to ...

By Todd Oldham - $19.95 - add to cart

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The fourth of four titles in a continuing series of books by Todd Oldham that highlight remarkable people, places and spaces features an essay by author/social critic/educator Camille Paglia.

By Jonathan Gould - $18.95 - add to cart

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Gould seeks to explain why The Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context...

By Robin Cherry - $45.50 - add to cart

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In "Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail-Order Shopping", Robin Cherry traces the timeline of these snapshots from American history and discovers along the way how we dressed, decorated our hou...

By Peter Phillips - $19.95 - add to cart

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The best-selling Censored series-with over 150,000 copies in print-highlights each year's twenty-five most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to the negligence of corporate medi...

By Tommy Chong - $27.99 - add to cart

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America's favorite stoner comedian, Tommy Chong, is back and funnier than ever as he takes us on a nostalgic trip through his career with partner Richard "Cheech" Marin. Over the course of their de...

By Sheila Whiteley - $36.95 - add to cart

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How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This book is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical...

By Camille De Toledo - $16.50 - add to cart

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Enfant terrible Camille de Toledo recently burst onto Paris' intellectual scene with this controversial manifesto that examines counterculture movements from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the pres...

By Cory Doctorow - $16.95 - add to cart

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Hailed by Bruce Sterling as “a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebr...

By Broccoli Books - $26.00 - add to cart

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Cosplay is a white-hot Japanese subculture devoted to dressing — and acting — as famous characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, video games, and other pop culture phenomena. COSMODE #1 brings this...

By Damian Thompson - $28.00 - add to cart

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Counterknowledge is misinformation packaged to look like fact. From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, we are experiencing an epidemic of demonstrabl...

By Dirk Burhans - $28.95 - add to cart

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The potato chip has been one of America’s favorite snacks since its accidental origin in a nineteenth-century kitchen. Crunch! A History of the Great American Potato Chip tells the story of this cr...

By Andrew Keen - $16.50 - add to cart

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Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s ...

By Ingo Niermann - $15.50 - add to cart

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Curiouser and curioser--a fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Following in the tradition of "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information," "The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends...