History & Criticism
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Futuristic: Rockets, Robots and Rayguns of Space Age Pop Culture
$49.95 Add to cartBlast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities… and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and ’60s po… [more below]
- Author: Voger, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1605491276
- Language: English
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Bending the Rules: Fashion Beyond the Binary
$29.95 Add to cartBending the Rules is a fascinating, provocative, and highly entertaining visual exploration of identity and gender through fashion.
Celebrated costume designer Camille Benda seamlessly weaves together- Author: Benda, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1797227610
- Language: English
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Graphic Design. 1890-Today
$20.00 Add to cartThrough the turbulent events of the last century-and-a-half, graphic design–with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea–has distilled the spirit of each age. It surrounds us every minute of the
- Author: Müller, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 11 2025
- ISBN10: 375440024X
- Language: English
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Grandma’s Story
$9.99 Add to cartThe storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories … [more below]
- Series: Portals
- Author: Minh-Ha, Trinh T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1068591803
- Language: English
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Zoinks!: The Spooky Folklore Behind Scooby Doo
$14.99 Add to cartThis is Zoinks!, the critically-acclaimed book all about Scooby-Doo by acclaimed folklorist and podcaster Mark Norman. Recognised internationally for his expertise in folklore and known by many for hi
- Author: Norman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 072235195X
- Language: English
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Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, the Bottom Line
$44.95 Read moreIn 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one c
- Author: Pepper, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1493080148
- Language: English
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Cult Sneakers: Discover the Stories of the Most Iconic & Rare Designs
$60.00 Add to cartDiscover the legendary stories behind the most iconic sneakers, brands and collaborations in history with social media sensation Tonton Gibs.
Discover the legendary stories behind the most iconic sne- Author: Gibs, Tonton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1788406303
- Language: English
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Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell
$14.95 Add to cartUpon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mayward, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765132760
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Read more**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
From bui
“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025
$23.00 Add to cart“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” –Elif Batuman
“Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “ou
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1953813186
- Language: English
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The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear
$18.95 Add to cartForeword by John Russo
Updated and Expanded with a New Coda A provocative, fascinating, and compulsively readable account of one of the most shocking, influential, and successful films of all time, Th- Author: Segaloff, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0806541954
- Language: English
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Rush 1984 to 2015: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Read moreThis volume is the companion book to Rush On Track 1973 – 1982. Fans who hoped that 1982’s keyboard heavy Signals had been a one off were to be disappointed. In line with their desire never to make th… [more below]
- Series: On Track
- Author: Richards, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1789523729
- Language: English
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Last Week in End Times Cinema
$17.95 Add to cartAn almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.
From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1 and the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902681
- Language: English
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The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
$28.00 Add to cartThis definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without.
The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock’s work remains unsurpa… [more below]- Author: Spoto, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418132
- Language: English
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Preppy Style: A Modern Guide to Timeless Fashion
$16.99 Add to cartTake a deep dive into preppy culture with this stunning lookbook and history of the iconic style.
Preppy is a look, a vibe, and a lifestyle. From its inception as the fashion of Ivy League students to- Author: Gomersall, Rosalyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155467
- Language: English
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A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks
$30.00 Add to cartFor the first time, the complete history of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks–from the landmark, original cult series that changed the course of television to its 25-years-in-the-making sequel-… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894140391
- Language: English
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What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate to: A Memoir
$22.95 Add to cartAn iconic rock DJ of the Twin Cities tells her harrowing story of being stalked while living her very public life
What’s it like to be in the public spotlight when it just might get you killed? For M- Author: Lucia, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918863
- Language: English
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Beatles for Sale to Help!
$39.98 Read moreFrom November 1964 through Summer 1965, the Beatles issued two albums (Beatles For Sale and Help!), three singles (“I Feel Fine,” “Ticket To Ride” and “Help!”) and a movie (Help!) in Great Britain. In… [more below]
- Series: Beatles Album
- Author: Spizer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798986319094
- Language: English
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Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
$59.95 Add to cartBehind the Pink Curtain takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the country’s distinc… [more below]
- Author: Sharp, Jasper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1913051447
- Language: English
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Vintage Icons of Fashion: From the Chanel 2.55 to the Rolex Oyster
$39.99 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated celebration of the most collectable vintage pieces from the world’s most iconic fashion brands.
Luxury vintage clothing and accessories have avid collectors all over the world- Author: Sanz, Raul Barragan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1840919655
- Language: English
