History & Criticism
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A History of Brands: Origins of Consumer Markets
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover the fascinating evolution of branding with Richard Shear’s A History of Brands.
In this comprehensive yet concise guide, Shear traces the origins and growth of some of the world’s most recogn- Series: Sva Masters in Branding
- Author: Shear, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0760395179
- Language: English
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Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public Design
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes’ J.B. Jackson Book Prize
Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy sp
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title- Series: Reading the American Landscape
- Author: Boone, Kofi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181560
- Language: English
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Design: Art Deco: Design Inspiration from Paris to New York
$19.99 Read moreYour handy, inspirational reference guide to the iconic Art Deco Style.
Art Deco was the antithesis to all that came before it. Where art nouveau sprawled out in arabesques, art deco’s lines were cle
- Author: Craswell, Penny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1964786460
- Language: English
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Banton of Paramount: Haute Couture in Hollywood’s Golden Age
$40.00 Read moreAn introduction to the career of Travis Banton, one of the preeminent costume/fashion designers of Hollywood’s Celebrated “Golden Age.” Working at Paramount Pictures from 1925 through 1938, Banton was… [more below]
- Author: Gutner, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1493085026
- Language: English
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Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island
$28.00 Read moreSTEP INTO THE VILLA AND OUT OF YOUR READING RUT
A fascinating, unauthorized exploration of the smash reality show Love Island, revealing the secrets, drama, and behind-the-scenes stories of TV’s mos- Author: Peele, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668205599
- Language: English
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Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949-1972
$24.95 Add to cartA complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.
Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approac
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855804959
- Language: English
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Gary Stewart: I Am from the Honky-Tonks
$40.00 Read moreIn the mid-seventies, Stewart’s crazed hits, including “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” and “Drinkin’ Thing,” rocketed him to the top of the charts, earning him the admiration of Bob Dylan… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798990579910
- Language: English
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Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels–from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay- Author: Martin, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 076790351X
- Language: English
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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication
$29.95 Add to cartA master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics
“Film- Author: Kael, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1598535080
- Language: English
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Punk: The Last Word
$45.00 Read moreThe triumphant last word on the radical movement that shook the world — Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan’s deliciously cacophonous and comprehensive oral history of Punk, told by those who lived
- Author: Colegrave, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1915841259
- Language: English
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The Hollywood History of Art
$79.95 Add to cartHow Hollywood has portrayed the lives of artists, from Kirk Douglas’ Vincent van Gogh to Salma Hayek’s Frida Kahlo
Ever since the dawn of the sound era, Hollywood and friends have made a series of elab
- Author: Frayling, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0956648789
- Language: English
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100 Movies of the 1960s
$40.00 Add to cartPositioned precariously between the uptight ’50s and the freewheeling ’70s, the 1960s marked a transitional decade in the film industry. As art, mass market, and pop culture merged and collided in tru
- Author: Müller, Jürgen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 3836587238
- Language: English
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
$24.00 Add to cartFew albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane’s 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual ex… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003522
- Language: English
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Caf? Tacvba’s Re
$14.95 Add to cartThis book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re.
Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Caf? Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Esterrich, Carmelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106556
- Language: English
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Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
$17.95 Read moreNew York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik offers a “darkly entertaining” (Carlos Lozada, Washington Post) history of mass media from the early 1980s to today, demonstrating how a volcani… [more below]
- Author: Poniewozik, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1631498150
- Language: English
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Life-Changing Lessons for School, Home, and Everyday Life: The Let Them Theory for Kids & Teens
$12.95 Add to cartWhy does life feel so hard sometimes-and why do people never act the way we want them to?”
If you’re a kid or teen trying to figure out friendships, school stress, family drama, or just the ups and dow
- Author: Rochin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349583995
- Language: English
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The Music of Time
$29.95 Add to cartThe Music of Time blends music with time travel as Preston Nichols reveals his hidden role in the music industry where he worked as an expert sound engineer and recorded hundreds of hit records during
- Author: Nichols, Preston B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0967816203
- Language: English
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Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
$14.95 Add to cartConceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimental
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106464
- Language: English
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The ‘Before’ Trilogy
$17.95 Add to cartIn Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a magica
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hilderbrand, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028025
- Language: English
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Hitchcockian Thrillers: Must-See Films in the Style of the Suspense Master
$49.95 Add to cartDuring Alfred Hitchcock’s five-decade reign as the screen’s internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rea
- Author: Rebello, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 149307959X
- Language: English
