Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very...
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary [Paperback]
Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority. See all Editorial Reviews
She Must Be Having A Bad Day: The Cult of the Female Food Service Worker
The zine written for food-service professionals, by food-service professionals! Ever been a server? Then you can relate to the abundance of disgruntled ranting contained in this zine! Demanding customers and poor-tippers are among the horrifying customer architypes represented here in these...
"I am not allowed to have a favorite bag because I have to create the next one. I have to like change to keep it alive," says Karl Lagerfeld of the eternally classic quilted Chanel 2.55 handbag. And keeping it alive is just what he has so seamlessly succeeding in doing, with reincarnations...
The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair With Luxury
The Cult of the Luxury Brand is the first book to explore how and why an amazing phenomenon is rocking Asia, sweeping up not just the glitzy upper crust, but also secretaries clutching Burberry bags, junior executives sporting Rolex watches and university students flaunting Ferragamo shoes. Hong...
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The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture
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Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary
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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unravelled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum...
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost hear the tinny echo: "I wanna...
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
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Concise, scholarly, and well illustrated, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the religious practices of prehistoric man. Follow the countless traces left behind by ancient peoples, extracted from the earth's immense archives: these artifacts--including a hunting scene painted at...
Product Description Sounds and images - the essence of Daft Punk's art! Here are all their singles (in no particular order), a trio of rare remixes plus all the videos (including a new one to "Prime Time Of Your Life"). They flew in the face of pop stardom, erasing their humanity from...
Written by FRED VAN LENTE, TOM DEFALCO and TOM PEYER. Art by BARRY KITSON, and RON FRENZ. Cover by JELENA DJURDEVIC. As the first wave of the Gauntlet jolts Spidey's life in the form of Electro, we'll take a look back at how Max Dillon became the voltage virtuoso known as Electro as Fred Van...
The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection)
Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version...
The Hebrew Goddess 3rd Enlarged Edition [Paperback]
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War.
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Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy And The Most Outrageuos Trial - Philip Hoare
Even though Oscar Wilde--playwright, wit, critic, and convicted sodomite--died exiled and disgraced in 1900, his memory and influence remain central to British culture. In 1918 the specter of Wilde manifested itself in what social historian Philip Hoare calls "the trial of the century."...
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The coming of Christianity to the state of Kievan Rus' at the end of the tenth century had an enormous impact on the development of Russian civilization. Despite the abandonment of the pagan gods, both Christian and pagan practices and beliefs continued to coexist for centuries, producing a...
In the eyes of the world Ireland is a Celtic country - the source of all Celtic wisdom and lore, untouched by the Roman Empire. Here the Celtic way of life and war was preserved for centuries. But just how Celtic is Ireland? Do we know whether the Celts arrived at all? If so, when? What was their...
CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery
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The ancient Egyptians created some of the world's most beautiful art and architecture. To this day, this ancient civilization--which produced the great pyramids, the riddle of the Sphinx, and the riches of Tutankhamun--exerts a strong hold on our imaginations. Now, in Ancient Egypt, eminent...
From the 1970s right on through to today, Japanese schoolgirl fashions and subcultures have sprung up, burned out, mutated, and evolved into an amazing pop cultural phenomenon that's now gone global. From Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku Girls" (Harajuku = a neighborhood in Tokyo where,...
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard [Hardcover]
"Richard Brody's biography of Godard—arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century—effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually...
When the original Eberhard Faber Blackwing faded from production, it did not go quietly in the minds of its most ardent fans. Whole blogs dedicated to the cult of the Blackwing sprouted up. A dozen unused pencils fetched prices upwards of $380. The composer Steven Sondheim appealed to the company to...
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women
Susan Douglas first took on the media's misrepresentation of women in her funny, scathing social commentary Where the Girls Are. Now, she and Meredith Michaels, have turned a sardonic (but never jaundiced) eye toward the cult of the new momism: a trend in American culture that is causing women...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
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