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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak  
Publisher Comments In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while...
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
by Mark Dery
Publisher Comments 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...
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What Would Jesus Buy?: Reverend Billy's Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse (07 Edition)
by Billy Publisher Comments The Church of Stop Shopping was founded by Talen to protest the modern culture of commercialization and consumption. This short and powerful book is designed to entertain, to convince the skeptical, and inspire the converted....
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture...
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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...
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
by Daniel Jos Boorstin Publisher Comments First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" -- events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported -- and the contemporary definition of...
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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere — in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television...
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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...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats...
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Mexican Postcards (97 Edition)
by John Monsivais Publisher Comments In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio...
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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders
by James Scurlock
Powells.com Staff Pick How much money do you owe on your credit card bills? Paying off a mortgage, home equity loan, or college loan, too? Our culture has come to take debt for granted, but this hasn't always been the norm. Over the last generation in America, James Scurlock...
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh Publisher Comments What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel...
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Chuck Klosterman IV : Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (06 Edition)
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Klosterman's most "dangerous ideas" may be his assertion that Billy Joel is a fantastic songwriter, but, oddly enough, his profile on the singer is not only fascinating, it earned him the wrath of Mr. Joel himself. How ironic! And yet, perhaps...
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (02 Edition)
by Bakari Kitwana Publisher Comments Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American...
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Graffiti Paris
by Fabienne Grevy Publisher Comments Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation...
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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste
by Herbert J. Gans Publisher Comments Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?<P>In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of...
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Big Book of Buds #03: The Big Book of Buds, Volume 3: More Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders
by Ed (edt) Rosenthal Publisher Comments This third volume of everyone's favorite marijuana resource book by the renowned Ed Rosenthal promises to follow in its predecessor's tradition and offer gardeners or connoisseurs the crucial information they want to know. Big Book of Buds brings...
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Marijuana New School Indoor Cultivation
by Jeff Mowta Publisher Comments This comprehensive book provides step-by-step instructions for 20 affordable indoor growing setups. Packed with over 600 illustrations and photos, the book walks readers through the construction of both hydroponic and soil systems and shows how to...
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Culture Industry ((Rev)01 Edition)
by Theodor Adorno Publisher Comments This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture....
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