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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Practices of Looking : an Introduction To Visual Culture (01 - Old Edition) by Martia Sturken Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the by Mike Edison Publisher Comments “If your books subtitle is Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, you have a lot to live up to—and somehow Mike Edison does .... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing about as Pop Culture by John Alberti Publisher Comments This new text examines how students are communicating and creating culture through blogs, MySpace pages, texting, and other high-tech means of expression. Alberti engages student interest and provides tools for students to more effectively analyze texts... (read more) List Price $96.90 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicano Popular Culture : Que Hable El Pueblo (01 Edition) by Charles M. Tatum Publisher Comments Over the past several decades, Mexican Americans have made an indelible mark on American culture through the music of bands such as Santana and Los Lobos, films such as Zoot Suit, and a wide range of literature, such as Sandra Cisneros's The House on... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mix It Up: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society (10 Edition) by David Grazian Publisher Comments What accounts for the rise and fall of popular cultural trends? Why do A-list movie stars make so much money? How do television networks decide what programs to air? Do video games encourage violent behavior among young people, or do they make users... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud Publisher Comments < P> In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit < I> Understanding Comics< /I> , a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink by Mark Dery Synopsis From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms by Ron Rosenbaum Publisher Comments One part intellectual and one part private eye, Ron Rosenbaum takes readers into "the secret parts" of the great mysteries, controversies, and enigmas of our time, including:the occult rituals of Skull and Bones, the legendary Yale secret society that... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Cars, Cool Rides (06 Edition) by Amy L. Best Publisher Comments Jane Ransom's Bye-Bye is a darkly comic first novel, both sexy and profoundly philosophical. The protagonist/narrator is a bisexual divorcee in Manhattan who assumes a false identity in an effort to escape the past and to spy on her own life. While... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.) by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence (2ND 11 Edition) by William Beezley Publisher Comments This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Exploring such themes and events as funerals, dance and music, letters and literature... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bomb the Suburbs: Grafitti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments The suburbs is more than just an unfortunate geographical location. It is an unfortunate state-of-mind. It's the American state-of-mind, founded on fear, conformity, shallowness of character, and dullness of imagination. Most books are suburban books.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture by Amy Best Publisher Comments "As lame as school dances can be, there's always that one moment." "Dawson's Creek" <BR>"It was a crazy night because many of us did things we never expected. Some of us got drunk for the first time and others lost their virginity, like me. I look... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey Publisher Comments The first generation of “Digital Natives”—children who were born into and raised in the digital world—are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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