Distracted
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Written by Maggie Jackson
Format: Trade Paperback, 327 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $18.00
Do you text during family dinners or read e-mails during meetings? Does your spouse learn about your day from Facebook? Do you get news about the world by scanning online headlines while also doing something else? Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are...
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Why We Hate Us
American Discontent in the New Millennium
Written by Dick Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
Americans are as safe, well fed, securely sheltered, long-lived, free, and healthy as any human beings who have ever lived on the planet. But we are down on America. So why do we hate us? According to Dick Meyer, the following items on this (much abbreviated) list are some of the...
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Seriously Funny
The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Written by Gerald Nachman
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.99
The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each one a...
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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $25.95
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have...
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Hollywood Intuition
It's What Separates Fashion Victims from Fashion Victors
Written by Jaye Hersh and Karen Salmansohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $12.95
Is the world more fascinated with the sex lives of celebrities—or the clothing lives of celebrities? Judging by the massive amount of magazine pages devoted to who’s wearing what, and who’s wearing it best—it’s the latter!
Nobody knows the insider story on celebrity fashion better than Jaye Hersh—a top celebrity stylist, regularly featured on
Entertainment...
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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $11.99
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have...
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Cover Story
Album Cover Art
Written by The Staff of Wax Poetics
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
“Reading Wax Poetics, Brooklyn’s glossy, reverent, visually immaculate zine dedicated to funk, soul, hip hop, and the other obsessions of crate-diggers worldwide, is enough to make you wish neither compact discs nor the Internet had ever been invented.”
—
The Village Voice Cover Story: Album Cover Art, the second book from...
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Unusually Stupid Celebrities
A Compendium of All-Star Stupidity
Written by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $8.99
The Greeks honored Zeus, the Romans revered Juno, but modern civilization worships a different sort of god: Celebrity. Face it, we follow the stars’ every move, fashion choice, and deliciously dishy affairs. Now Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, authors of
Unusually Stupid Americans, pull the demanding divas, screwball stars, and celebu-twits...
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Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg
Written by Kathie Lee Gifford
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $9.99
Just When I Thought I’d Dropped My Last Egg is Kathie Lee Gifford’s triumphant laugh-out-loud celebration of forging ahead with gusto, even long after we’re old enough to know better. Age, after all, isn’t a number, it’s a state of mind, and being fertile isn’t just about having babies, it’s about being...
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The 27s
The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll
Written by Eric Segalstad
Illustrated by Josh Hunter
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
Excess and tragedy are the stuff of music legend, but it is only with hindsight that deeper patterns emerge. None of these is more striking than the deaths at age 27 of some of the greatest musicians of our time.
Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Brian Jones. Kurt Cobain. Founding bluesman...
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Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 1
Written by The Staff of Wax Poetics
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $39.95
“The fandom driving the magazine is infectious, and the best pieces are simply essential... A large part of Anthology’s draw, as with
Wax Poetics the magazine, is how gorgeous it looks: Many pieces come with lovingly reproduced album covers and 45 labels, arrayed neatly like so much recordcollector porn.”
—The Onion...
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Powerhouse Magazine #5
Busted
Edited by Powerhouse Books
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $10.00
Remember when you got grounded in 10th grade for coming home drunk and vomiting on the dog? Or the time you got caught selling fake ecstasy and were escorted out of that after-hours dive? Or how about the time your girlfriend got your password and broke into your Gmail account, only...
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Bang Your Head
The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal
Written by David Konow
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.99
“Bang your head! Metal Health’ll drive you mad!”
— Quiet Riot
Like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music on steroids, Bang Your Head is an epic history of every band and every performer that has proudly worn the Heavy Metal badge. Whether headbanging is your guilty pleasure or you firmly believe...
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What Is a Canadian?
Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses
Edited by Irvin Studin
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $11.99
Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.
Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he...
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $11.99
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them...
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I Saw You
Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections
Edited by Julia Wertz
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $11.99
This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings
and make you think. Lonely hearts, romantics, and even cynics pore over missed connection ads in search of love, to gawk and giggle, or out of...
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Guilty
Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
Written by Ann Coulter
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $27.95
“Liberals seem to have hit upon a reverse Christ story as their belief system. He suffered and died for our sins; liberals make the rest of us suffer for sins we didn’t commit.”
Who are the victims here? To hear liberals tell it, you’d think they do nothing but suffer at the...
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