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LIFE Gone Too Soon
The 27 Club - Rock Icons Who Died Too Soon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The story of the 27 club is a one of brilliance: precious, fragile, and amazing to behold. Six musical artists who all happened to die at the same early age-27-did more than perform memorable songs: They expressed ideas and emotions that were shared by enthralled followers from their generations and...
The Spectacle of Skill
New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener...
Art and the Politics of Visibility
Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In an era of unprecedented global mobility, artists face unique challenges. How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions...
by Tyler Knott Gregson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Here starts the journey
Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love, and posted it online. These heartfelt poems have attracted a large and loyal following around the world. This highly anticipated follow-up to *Chasers of the Light, *presents Tyler’s favorites, some...
by Garrett Burke
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Colorful illustrations enhance this guided tour across America's 50 State Quarters®.
Discover each State Quarter's epic histories spanning the Revolutionary Era to the Space Age, international endeavors to individual triumphs. Concise text explores our nation's memories, legendary...
Superman
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
A celebration of Superman's life and history?in time for his 75th birthday
How has the Big Blue Boy Scout stayed so popular for so long? How has he changed with the times, and what essential aspects of him have remained constant? This fascinating biography examines Superman as a cultural phenomenon...
Love Is a Four-Letter Word
True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret. Fearlessly revealing their shattered...
Violence Girl
East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement....
Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me
The Pursuit of Happiness, One Celebrity at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For fans of The Happiness Project and The Year of Living Biblically comes a pointed look at our fascination with celebrities, as one woman strives to remake herself in the image of her favorite stars.
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What woman hasn’t seen pictures of Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Beyoncé and wished...
Queens Reigns Supreme
Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.For years, rappers from Nas to Ja Rule have hero-worshipped the legendary drug dealers who dominated...
Let's Bring Back
An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The Huffington Post's "Let's Bring Back..." columnist, Lesley M. M. Blume, invites you to consider whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many "friends" but have done away with the much more useful word "acquaintance"? All of these things,...
by Peaches, Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
One of the Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2015
"[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy...
by Ernst Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the conveniently closed and neatly labeled...
Grant Morrison
Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His...