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The Sign and the Seal
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Graham Hancock |
A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details behind the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant.
The ***Lost Ark of the Covenant*** is one of the great historical mysteri… |
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It came from the 1950s!
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Jones, Darryl |
"It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, a… |
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New femininities
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Rosalind Gill |
"This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debate… |
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Blue collar pop culture
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M. Keith Booker |
"This book is about Blue Collar Pop Culture - From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore"-- |
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American folk art
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Kristin G. Congdon |
"Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this c… |
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Berserk style in American culture
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Kirby Farrell |
"As an idea, the berserk style is terrifying but also alluring in its promise that we can gain access to extraordinary resources by overthrowing inhibitions. Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using p… |
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Diego Rivera
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Manuel Aguilar-Moreno |
"This revealing biography covers the life and art of painter Diego Rivera"-- |
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Body Style
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Theresa M. Winge |
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … |
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Remembering Diana
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Victor J. Seidler |
"Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identificat… |
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Iconic
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Lakesia D. Johnson |
"A visual and narrative iconography of the Black female revolutionary across a variety of media texts and historical contexts"-- |
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The Psychopath Test
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Jon Ronson |
"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey th… |
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Text me when you get home
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Kayleen Schaefer |
Journalist Kayleen Schaefer has put together a completely new sociological perspective on the way we see our friends today, one that includes interviews with dozens of other women across the country:… |
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Trainwreck
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Sady Doyle |
"From Mary Wollstonecraft--who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman--to Charlotte Brontë, Billie… |
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Tokyo geek's guide
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Gianni Simone |
Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive guide to Tokyo's geeky underworld ever produced. It p… |
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Planet Funny
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Ken Jennings |
Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter memes, that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world. |
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Superman in myth and folklore
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Daniel Peretti |
"How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth"-- |
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Pen & ink
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Isaac Fitzgerald |
"Why did you get that tattoo? Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or … |
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Sharing our lives online
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David Brake |
"Most of us know someone who has inadvertently revealed something shameful or embarrassing online about themselves or someone else. With the growth of social media like Facebook and Twitter, we are h… |
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God'll cut you down
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John Safran |
"An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South"-- |
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Mystery train
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Greil Marcus |
"In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordin… |
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