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Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
by Jake Smallman  Publisher Comments An edgy, lavishly visual survey that shows the best work of the best street artists working in Melbourne, Australia. Bansky, the well known British stencil artist, after a visit to Melbourne, in 2003 said: "The walls of Melbourne are very noisy...like...
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Street Renegades: New Underground Art
by Francesca Gavin Publisher Comments Graffiti and street art have been at the heart of visual subcultures for the past thirty years. However, as time progresses the new wave of artists are moving in fresh directions. Corporate giants have been quick to jump on the graffiti bandwagon...
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Mongo: Adventures in Trash
by Ted Botha Publisher Comments Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only...
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture
by Lawrence Grossberg Publisher Comments Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg offers an original and bold interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture....
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Steven Cerio's Abc Book: a Drug Primer
by Steven Cerio Publisher Comments Steven Cerio offers a playfully sinister look at the drug culture, written and illustrated in the style of a child's alphabet book. 62 color illustrations....
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Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class
by Jan Whitaker Publisher Comments Whitaker presents an entertaining and fully illustrated history of the department store--the center of American cultural and economic life....
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Cannabis Culture
by Patrick Matthews Publisher Comments Over the last 30 years, millions of people have come in contact with cannabis, but there is surprisingly little information available that examines the drug as a whole-- its medicinal properties, its function as a commodity traded on a global scale, its...
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Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
by Edward Castronova Publisher Comments From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours&#...
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Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (Road and American Culture)
by John A Jakle Synopsis Eating on the run has a long history in America, but it was the automobile that created a whole new category of dining: fast food. In the final volume of their Gas, Food, Lodging trilogy, John Jakle and Keith Sculle contemplate the origins, architecture,...
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Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde
by Barbara Beth Zabel Publisher Comments As the machine age roared at full tilt in the early twentieth century, avant-garde artists saw opportunities to buck the past. In welcoming the new technologies, they created the art we now identify as modernist. "Assembling Art gives a vivid account of...
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Mistaking Africa : Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind (99 Edition)
by Curtis A. Keim Publisher Comments For most Americans, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, wild animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Few think to question these perceptions or ask how they came to be so deeply lodged in the...
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Basquiat and Graffitti Art (Temporis Collection)
by Margo Thompson Synopsis This book gives a new analysis of the intersections between graffiti art and the work of Basquiat. Not only are there few existent writings on the subject, but the book will also appeal to a very large public....
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Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture : Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society (3RD 07 Edition)
by Arthur Asa Berger Publisher Comments Now in its third edition, the popular Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture...
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Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday
by Juan A Suarez Publisher Comments Understanding the artistic bounty of modernist tensions over everyday life...
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires (00 Edition)
by Anne Allison Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of the varied culture of sex and sexuality, power and gender dynamics, in contemporary Japan....
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Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
by Roland Kelts Publisher Comments Japanamerica is the first book that directly addresses the American experience with the Japanese pop culture craze--including anime from Hayao Miyazaki's epics to the burgeoning world of hentai, or violent pornographic anime to Haruki Murakami's fiction.&...
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Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy Credit
by James D Scurlock Publisher Comments In this shocking and illuminating road trip through an America ravaged by debt, award-winning film director James Scurlock examines our multitrillion-dollar addiction to easy credit in all of its absurdities and contradictions. Maxed Out ventures beyond...
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Stencil Graffiti
by Tristan Manco Publisher Comments Over 400 examples of stencil greffiti....
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The Cannabible
by Jason King Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and index....
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit
by Laura Penny Publisher Comments Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell — while we're laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for...
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