Popular Culture
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
$16.95 Add to cartExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.
Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Goth- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1915672635
- Language: English
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There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
$30.00 Add to cartA smart, page-turning exploration of the business and creative decisions that transformed Taylor Swift into an unprecedented modern cultural phenomenon.
Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The
- Author: Evers, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
$30.00 Read moreGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond
- Author: Mattson, Greggor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1503629201
- Language: English
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–And Why This Harms Everybody
$17.99 Add to cartWall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexi… [more below]
- Author: Pluckrose, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1634312279
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles
$29.98 Add to cartWAITING FOR THE SUN – A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES
- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0879309431
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence
$26.99 Add to cartHow do we resist the false idols of power and influence to seek true connection and community?
From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a
- Author: Dark, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 150648168X
- Language: English
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential works of social psychology in history, The Crowd was highly instrumental in creating this field of study by analyzing, in detail, mass behavior. The book had a profound imp… [more below]
- Author: Le Bon, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486419568
- Language: English
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The 1980s: Image of a Decade
$60.00 Add to cartThe 1980s were a time of bold exploration, dazzling creativity, inspiring unity–and stark division. Technology, media, gender roles, race, sexuality, geopolitics, climate, and even our place in the u
- Series: Story of a Decade #1
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 500027226
- Language: English
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Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation
$39.95 Add to cartConsidering the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to queer history in the US
Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing
- Author: Filreis, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1941753698
- Language: English
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Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
$27.00 Add to cartWitty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt’s Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies
“Hello stranger.” As an opening line, you really c- Author: Betancourt, Manuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222296
- Language: English
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
$20.00 Read more“With Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, [Dana] Thomas–who has been the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years–has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaini… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113704
- Language: English
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Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99 Add to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Elden Ring: Arise Now, Ye Tarnished
$19.99 Read more“Oh, arise now, ye Tarnished. Ye dead, who let live. The call of long-lost grace speaks to us all.” Opening Cutscene, Elden Ring “The Psychology of Elden Ring” offers a deep dive into the captivating
- Author: Bean, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955406162
- Language: English
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Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers
$18.95 Read moreA former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives–for better or worse
From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093424
- Language: English
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing values
In the early twentieth ce- Author: Bobrow-Strain, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0807044784
- Language: English
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The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
$27.95 Read moreLOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to m… [more below]
- Author: Maddox, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827911
- Language: English
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Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
$48.75 Read moreAlgorithms-rules written into software-shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Today, high s
- Author: Robinson, David G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0871547775
- Language: English
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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers
$19.99 Read more“We Are the Baby-Sitters Club is the ultimate companion guide for a generation of devout superfans. This book revisits the beloved series through grown-up eyes–but never loses the magic we all felt t… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604905
- Language: English
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Cultivating Exceptional Cannabis: An Expert Breeder Shares His Secrets
$18.95 Read moreDJ Short’s essays on the craft of indoor cannabis cultivation show how any hobbyist can refine gardening technique and achieve mastery.
DJ Short is a celebrated breeder whose collection of seed strain- Author: Short, DJ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0932551599
- Language: English
