Popular Culture
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Eternal Goth: Exploring the World’s Most Enigmatic Cultural Movement
$24.99 Add to cartJourney through the labyrinthine alleys of Goth culture to unravel its defining aesthetics, explore its musical evolution, and examine its profound impact on the arts.
Being Goth transcends mere fashi- Author: Madden, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155262
- Language: English
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I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of the Vampire Diaries
$22.00 Add to cartFrom Entertainment Weekly writer and debut author Samantha Highfill, a definitive and deliciously nostalgic look into the creation and legacy of hit show The Vampire Diaries, as told by its cast, crew… [more below]
- Author: Highfill, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 059347595X
- Language: English
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Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking
$28.00 Add to cartA social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.
The history of ghosts is ancient, but the hi- Author: Vernon, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 139941870X
- Language: English
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The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood: An All-New Exploration of the Real Science of the Multiverse, the Quantum Realm, and Everything in Between
$31.00 Add to cartDiscover the surprisingly real physics at work within some of the most popular superhero movies and tv shows
The multiverse and the quantum realm are fictional plot devices made popular by some of our- Author: Kakalios, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593719034
- Language: English
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartEnshittification: it’s not just you–the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the serv- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0374619328
- Language: English
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
$19.95 Add to cartA radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.
In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as t- Author: Maclay, Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420586
- Language: English
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Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream
$26.00 Add to cartIn Stumbling toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how those philosophies and policies have led to the cataclysm… [more below]
- Author: Goeglein, Timothy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1956454470
- Language: English
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
$32.00 Add to cartA rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factor… [more below]
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593317092
- Language: English
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Hunting: A Cultural History
$16.95 Read moreThe history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters.
Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to g- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Dizard, Jan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 026254329X
- Language: English
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Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks
$29.95 Add to cartA historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading
“Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene o- Author: Szendy, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1942130961
- Language: English
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The Saucerian: Ufos, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
$32.95 Add to cartThe strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Gray Barker (1925-- Author: McKee, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049546
- Language: English
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All–But There Is a Solution
$20.99 Add to cartA “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture is a new phenomeno- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1668019159
- Language: English
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1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times
$32.99 Add to cartFrom pro wrestling and Pok?mon to Insane Clown Posse and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late ’90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and societ
- Series: Politics and Popular Culture
- Author: Benes, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638571
- Language: English
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Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love With) a Magical Subculture
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog.
Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almo- Author: Wolfe, Aj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1668069210
- Language: English
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The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
$30.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, insp… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyonc?, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade
$29.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Al… [more below]
- Author: Princiotti, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 593725085
- Language: English
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartA revised edition of this celebrated cultural history features a new afterword and three new chapters focusing on the global K-pop phenomenon BTS, as well as the Academy Award-winning film Parasite an
- Author: Hong, Euny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250353270
- Language: English
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
$19.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet–revealing how online influence and the creators who amass- Author: Lorenz, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982146877
- Language: English
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Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly
$19.00 Add to cart“Like a J.D. Salinger novel rolled in Hunter S. Thompson’s hallucinogen dust.” –Ann Powers, author of Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
“[Waiting for Britney Spears] transformed and transporte- Author: Weiss, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 374606137
- Language: English
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Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies–from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High… [more below]
- Author: Handy, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1501181173
- Language: English
