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  • Cool Rules

    Anatomy of an Attitude

    de David Robins, Dick Pountain ...
    Series series FOCI
    Cool Rules introduces the reader to a new cultural category. While the authors do not claim to have discovered Cool, they believe they are the first to attempt a serious, systematic analysis of Cool’s history, psychology, and importance.The contemporary Cool attitude is barely 50 years old, but its roots are older than that. Cool Rules traces Cool’s ancient origins in European, Asian, and African ... Leer más

    $14.75 USD

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  • Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love

    A Journey to the End of Taste

    de Carl Wilson ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking ... Leer más

    $11.51 USD

  • Free Women, Free Men

    Sex, Gender, Feminism

    de Camille Paglia ...
    From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism’s most outspoken, independent, and searingly ... Leer más

    Antes $9.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

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  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Leer más

    $12.32 USD

  • U-Turn

    What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?

    de Bruce Grierson ...
    In this impressively researched and incisive book, Bruce Grierson draws on over three hundred stories of so-called "U-turners," who have risked their livelihoods to answer a sudden wake-up call. We meet people who change political parties and careers, doctors who quit to become poets, men who become women, people who suddenly become revolutionaries for a cause they didn't care about the day before ... Leer más

    $9.53 USD

  • Burn This Book

    Notes on Literature and Engagement

    Edición de Toni Morrison ...
    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political ... Leer más

    $11.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    de S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Leer más

    $30.77 USD

  • Conscientious Objections

    Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education

    de Neil Postman ...
    In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    de Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $10.99 USD

  • Sincerity

    How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull)

    de R. Jay Magill Jr. ...
    “A serious and engaging cultural history painted on an admirably large canvas.”—Laura Kipnis, New York Times Book ReviewWhat do John Calvin, Sarah Palin, Jean-Jacques Rosseau, and Bon Iver have in common? A preoccupation with sincerity. With deep historical perspective and a brilliant contemporary spin, R. Jay Magill Jr. tells the beguiling tale of sincerity’s theological past, its current ... Leer más

    $12.32 USD

  • The Sixties

    Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974

    de Arthur Marwick ...
    If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade.Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues ... Leer más

    $12.95 USD

  • The Hearts of Men

    American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

    de Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history."Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausible explanation...of loosening marriage bonds. According to Barbara Ehrenreich...it is men who started walking off, in search of freedom from their stifling role of breadwinner/success-machine. The shock—and ... Leer más

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