Culture & Counterculture

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Bedrock City - trade paperback
By Todd Oldham - $19.95 - add to cart

The first of four titles in a continuing series of books by Todd Oldham that highlight remarkable people places and spaces, features an essay by designer Michael Graves.

 

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are - hardcover
By Rob Walker - $28.00 - add to cart

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...

 

Buzzed - trade paperback
By Cynthia Kuhn - $21.00 - add to cart

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 ...

 

Cheech and Chong: The Unauthorized Biography - hardcover
By Tommy Chong - $27.99 - add to cart

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...

 

Collections of Nothing - hardcover
By William Davies King - $21.95 - add to cart

Nearly everyone collects "something," even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing--and a lot of it. Cap...

 

The Cult of the Amateur - trade paperback
By Andrew Keen - $16.50 - add to cart

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 ...

 

The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends - trade paperback
By Ingo Niermann - $15.50 - add to cart

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...

 

Deluxe - trade paperback
By Thomas Dana - $16.50 - add to cart

Newsweek reporter Thomas skillfully narrates European fashion houses' evolution from exclusive ateliers to marketing juggernauts. Telling the story through characters like the French mogul Bernard ...

 

Drive - hardcover
By Tim Falconer - $35.00 - add to cart

Liberation, lust, envy, rage, power, thrill--our cars provoke enough emotion to jam a six-lane highway. If you name your ride, reminisce about sex in the back seat or enjoy roaring down the open...

 

A Dull Roar - trade paperback
By Henry Rollins - $16.50 - add to cart

In this chronicle of a tumultuous five-month period in his life, the punk icon and former front man for Black Flag reflects on music, the industry, current affairs, and other topics in his typicall...

 

The Encyclopedia Shatnerica - trade paperback
By Robert Schnakenberg - $18.95 - add to cart

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the 1998 book "The Encyclopedia Shatnerica", an irreverent A-to-Z encyclopedia covering all aspects of the life and career of actor William Shatn...

 

Havana Before Castro - trade paperback
By Peter Moruzzi - $32.99 - add to cart

Through vintage and contemporary photographs, brochures, postcards, and artifacts evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro tells the story of the city that was the most popular exotic dest...

 

Home Studio Home - trade paperback
By Todd Oldham - $19.95 - add to cart

The second of four titles in a continuing series of books by Todd Oldham that highlight remarkable people places and spaces, features and essay by artist/director Cindy Sherman.

 

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre - hardcover
By Josh Frank - $28.99 - add to cart

On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death in his loft in downtown Los Angeles, ending a short-lived but essential pop cultural moment that has been all but lost to history. For th...

 

Roomies: Sharing Your Home with Friends, Strangers, and Total Freaks - trade paperback
By Kathryn Williams - $14.95 - add to cart

Roomies -- Some roommates become best friends, others end up battling it out on TV talk shows—either way, there's no getting around getting along with a roommate. Roomies is a hip and sassy guide ...

 

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