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Gods Like Us
On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs
In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of...
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Egypt - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
Egypt - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
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France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
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Pakistan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
Also available as an
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Pakistan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
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Hippie Dictionary
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s
Written by John Bassett Mccleary
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "C?©sar Ch?°vez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a... Read more >
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s
Written by John Bassett Mccleary
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "C?©sar Ch?°vez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Superman
The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Written by Larry Tye
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $17.00
Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and... Read more >
The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Written by Larry Tye
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $17.00
Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and... Read more >
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $10.99
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $10.99
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
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Down the Up Escalator
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Written by Barbara Garson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human... Read more >
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Written by Barbara Garson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human... Read more >
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Down the Up Escalator
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Written by Barbara Garson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human... Read more >
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Written by Barbara Garson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Mansion of Happiness
A History of Life and Death
Written by Jill Lepore
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
A History of Life and Death
Written by Jill Lepore
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can...
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
Written by Lawrence Weschler
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers... Read more >
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
Written by Lawrence Weschler
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Devil's Cinema
The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room
Written by Steve Lillebuen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.99
The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room
Written by Steve Lillebuen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.99
"A detailed, well-constructed account of a diabolical real-life Dexter. Lillebuen has written a riveting, true crime page-turner about aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell, who turned his obsession with fantasy into horrible reality." -- Robert Remington, co-author of Runaway Devil
On the night of October 10, 2008, Johnny Altinger was heading to his...
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White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
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Assholes
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $23.95
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $23.95
In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Assholes
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $12.99
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $12.99
In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Assholes
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $17.50
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $17.50
In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people...
