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Excess Culture


Excess Culture

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Treehouses and Other Cool Stuff: 50 Projects You Can Build
Treehouses and Other Cool Stuff: 50 Projects You Can Build
by David Stiles and Jeanie Stiles
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Remember the handcrafted mischief of the gangs on The Little Rascals, Gilligan's Island, and The Swiss Family Robinson? This cleverness is back in the old-fashioned fun of Treehouses and Other Cool Stuff You Can Build. Imagine building an old-fashioned... (read more)

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Everything Else
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
by Lawrence Weschler
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A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists — that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more)

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Objects
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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
by Leanne Shapton
Publisher Comments
Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a persontheir passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In Leanne... (read more)

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Love
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Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan
Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan
by Misty Keasler
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Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in... (read more)

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Art
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Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster
Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster
by Craig Yoe
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Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster showcases rare and recently discovered erotic artwork by the most seminal artist in comics, Joe Shuster. Created in the early 1950s when Shuster was down on his luck after suing his... (read more)

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Fashion for Life
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Gothic and Lolita
Gothic and Lolita
by Masayuki Yoshinaga
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- The Japanese fashion phenomenon, born in the underground clubs of Tokyo and Osaka, has now made its way onto the streets - Eccentric fashions, inspired by western Gothic, Victoriana and Rococo style have taken on a cultish following - From the same... (read more)

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Recreation
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Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America
Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America
by Phil Noyes and Bryan Burkhart and Allison Arieff
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With linen postcards of trailer camps and auto courts, campy family photos, and ads dating back to the 1920s, "Trailer Travel" is the perfect complement to a new TV documentary on the colorful history of America's fascination with life on the road. 150... (read more)

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Misfortune
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The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
by Harold Schechter
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In the tradition of Mary Roach's bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford's classic expose The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter... (read more)

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Tijuana Bibles
Tijuana Bibles
by Bob (edt) Adelman
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ABOVEGROUND FOR THE FIRST TIME! As wry and raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art form the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s devoted to making sexual mockery of every... (read more)

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Devil Babe's Big Book of Postcards
Devil Babe's Big Book of Postcards
by Isabel Samaras
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Award-winning artist Isabel Samaras has conjured up a series of 24 full-color picture postcards of devilish cuties and naughty vixens. This collection offers a provocative gift for highbrow art connoisseurs and lowbrow eccentrics: fun for those who are... (read more)

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Kids' books | May 31, 2009

Dirty Wow Wow Part 7



Here is another tribute to a beloved childhood toy inspired by Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of... Continue »
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Kids' Q&A | May 30, 2009

Dirty Wow Wow, Part 6



Here is another tribute to a beloved childhood toy inspired by Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of... Continue »
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