Popular Culture
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How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality
$24.99 Read more“Essential reading for today’s climate.”–Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath meets Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe in this illustrated guide to navigating today’s post- Author: Spitale, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1683693086
- Language: English
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The Life We’re Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
$25.00 Read moreA deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness–fr
- Author: Crouch, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 059323734X
- Language: English
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The One about Their Best One-Liners: The Little Guide to Friends-Unofficial & Unauthorized
$8.95 Add to cartFriends may have stopped filming in 2004 but Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey have never left our screens or our hearts. Now let their words comfort and cajole you through the tricky, s
- Series: Little Book Of… #2
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 1911610600
- Language: English
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
$18.00 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!
“Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, an
Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post
A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer- Author: McCulloch, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0735210942
- Language: English
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book – Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 – One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 4, 2018
- ISBN10: 0735224897
- Language: English
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Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
$37.95 Add to cartLate ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. The City by the Bay is reeling … [more below]
- Author: York, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316057
- Language: English
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Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention
$18.00 Read moreThis visionary book details the steep costs of our deepening crisis of distraction and reveals remarkable scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus and sustained attention.I… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884627
- Language: English
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The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$21.99 Add to cartLearn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about S- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: Tomley, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 146547854X
- Language: English
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The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
$18.00 Add to cartFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a
- Author: Perry, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 1, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250760143
- Language: English
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
$28.00 Read moreA scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s–Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, and Jen–and the sexist, exploitative culture that let them dow
- Author: Ditum, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1419763113
- Language: English
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Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
$28.99 Read moreHow momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothers
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, gene- Author: Petersen, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006637
- Language: English
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Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
$27.00 Add to cart“An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world’s greatest songwriters.”–Haaretz
“A fascinating and intense account of Leonard Cohen’s time in Israel during the 19-day Yom Kippur War
- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1954118074
- Language: English
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We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies
$23.99 Add to cartDo you want to believe? Explore our fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence through exclusive interviews, archival photos, and strange but true stories from history.
After decades of- Author: Hartzman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1683693353
- Language: English
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
$21.00 Read moreOne of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.
This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on wha- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 031242759X
- Language: English
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The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
$16.99 Add to cart“A fascinating and funny guide to history’s favorite genius–and why he still matters.” –A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author
A fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science contin
- Author: Cohen, Benyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728248388
- Language: English
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The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies
$18.00 Read moreGeek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series’ life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of al… [more below]
- Author: Britt, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 593472993
- Language: English
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
$19.00 Add to cartGonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels–Hell’s Angels, that is–in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 1996
- ISBN10: 0345410084
- Language: English
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”–Esquire
“One- Author: Odell, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593242726
- Language: English
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Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl
$28.99 Read moreWhich American Girl are you?
Are you a Molly (a patriotic overachiever with a flair for drama)? Felicity (the original horse girl)? Kirsten (a cottagecore fan who seems immune to cholera), Samantha (a- Author: Mahoney, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250792835
- 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
$29.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668019140
- Language: English
