History & Criticism
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Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, and the Art of Rock Promotion
$24.95 Add to cartGliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed ‘Rap’ who grew up in thrall to rock’n’roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes’ lives
- Author: Rappaport, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 191682918X
- Language: English
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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalo… [more below]
- Author: Posner, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974689
- Language: English
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It’s (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build a
$29.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its evolu… [more below]
- Author: Potts, Kimberly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668008505
- Language: English
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El Libro del Dise?o (the Design Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre las innovaciones, los avances y los hitos que marcaron la historia del dise?o.
Este libro analiza las ideas y principios detr?s de los primeros dise?os de la historia hasta la actualidad, exp- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 593848136
- Language: Spanish
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The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World
$29.00 Add to cart“A substantial and engaging biography that contributes significantly to the history of jazz in the United States.”–Library Journal
The first definitive biography of Gene Krupa, the most famous drumme- Author: Rosenthal, Elizabeth J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543264
- Language: English
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illumina
- Series: ZE #6
- Author: Boyd, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988670056
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- 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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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
$29.99 Add to cartA BLAZINGLY ORIGINAL HISTORY CELEBRATING THE PERSISTENCE OF QUEERNESS ONSCREEN, BEHIND THE CAMERA, AND BETWEEN THE LINES DURING THE DARK DAYS OF THE HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION CODE.
From the 1930s to the 1- Author: Koresky, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639732543
- Language: English
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First Women of Hollywood: Female Pioneers in the Early Motion Picture Business
$32.95 Add to cartLargely created by immigrants, the film industry evolved over its first few decades thanks to the work of people outside the traditional ruling class–
immigrants, people of color, women–partly as a… [more below]- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089307
- Language: English
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The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona’s National Treasure
$34.95 Add to cartTombstone, Arizona, is forever associated with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural symbol of the Old West. The town’s most iconic and
- Author: Mihaljevich, Michael Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 157441948X
- Language: English
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Clint: The Man and the Movies
$37.50 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in
- Author: Levy, Shawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063251027
- Language: English
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Little Book of Issey Miyake: The Story of the Iconic Fashion Designer
$16.95 Add to cartResearch, innovation and experimentation formed the foundations of fashion futurist Issey Miyake’s designs.
From his famous Pleats Please range to Steve Jobs’s signature black turtleneck and Grace Jon- Series: Little Books of Fashion
- Author: Chitrakorn, Kati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1035420635
- Language: English
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Room 100: Sid, Nancy, and the Night Punk Rock Died
$26.95 Add to cartRoom 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock’s very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a wealth of archival material, plus new and exclusive interviews from rock luminar… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Jesse P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 149305063X
- 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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Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy
$24.95 Add to cartThe first full-length history of the Shangri-Las, one of the most significant–and most misunderstood–pop groups of the 1960s.
Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite
- Author: Mackinney, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1959163078
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonc? – 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
$16.95 Add to cartNo other art is as popular–or pervasive–as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles–even the brand-new Beyonc?. But things weren’t
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Ford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030525
- Language: English
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I Am McLovin: How Superbad Became the Biggest Comedy Hit of Its Generation
$29.95 Read moreWhen Superbad was released on August 17th in 2007, it proved itself to be a massive success right out of the gate, especially for those in the film’s target millennial demographic.
The film wound up d… [more below]- Author: Buss, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493079824
- Language: English
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Roll with It: Oasis in Photographs 1994-2002
$40.00 Add to cart‘Sheehan captures the rise and fall of Oasis over a wild decade’
‘Enough to make you mad fer it all over again’
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-ROLLING STONE RELIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF LEGENDARY PHOTO- Author: Sheehan, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1035429012
- Language: English
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Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators
$23.00 Read moreA user-friendly manual to research methods in art and design practices
This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the co
- Author: Staal, Harma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404161
- Language: English
