History & Criticism
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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 Add to cartA 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
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
$30.00 Add to cartA critical history of the idea of design–and its utopian promise
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as- Author: Gram, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600630
- Language: English
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Space Mission Patches: A Collection Used by NASA
$25.00 Read more– Over 200 mission patches featured in this second book of the series Art About NASA
– Beautifully illustrated tour of NASA’s heritage patches and logos – Follow-up to the popular Space: Posters & P- Author: Schwartz, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1788842898
- Language: English
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Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening
$18.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers
Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bron- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453282
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
$35.00 Add to cartOn the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York Cit
- Author: Gould, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63022982
- Language: English
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Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema
$55.00 Add to cartFrom early cinema to the digital era, Color in Motion explores the vibrant history of color on screen
The art of producing color in movies is a fascinating process with a long history. Many people don’
- Author: Niebel, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811302
- Language: English
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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
$29.99 Add to cartAn illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball’s beloved husband on I Love Lucy, lea… [more below]
- Author: Purdum, Todd S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1668023067
- Language: English
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Fantasy: Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communications
$24.95 Add to cartThe first-ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations
“But isn’t imagination also fantasy? And can’t fantastic images also a
- Author: Munari, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1941753701
- Language: English
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Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of the Godfather
$20.99 Add to cartThis “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film’s original release.
The story of how The Godfather- Author: Seal, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1982158603
- Language: English
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Yo La Tengo’s and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
$14.95 Add to cartHailed as a “quiet masterpiece” upon release, Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music. Released at a time when the music industry was chang
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Simpson, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106679
- Language: English
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Sinead O’Connor’s Universal Mother
$14.95 Read moreWith Universal Mother, Sinead O’Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.
Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Bertei, Adele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106914
- Language: English
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Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre
$19.95 Read moreThe definitive biography of Hollywood horror legend Tod Browning–now revised and expanded with new material
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time, Tod Browning (1880-1962) b- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916739
- Language: English
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The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s countercultur… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 306835665
- Language: English
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Little Book of Miu Miu: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House
$16.95 Add to cartQuirky, daring and unconventionally chic, Miu Miu is the fashion house for those that dare to be different.
The cult little sister brand of Prada, the maison was launched as an ‘anti-fashion’ brand in- Series: Little Books of Fashion
- Author: Bateman, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1035420619
- Language: English
