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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mixed Plate
Book SynopsisA stunning, hilarious memoir from Jo Koy, star of the major motion picture Easter Sunday, creator of the Netflix specials In His Elements and Coming in Hot and “far and away one of the funniest people out there” (Chelsea Handler). Mixed Plate illuminates the burning drive, celebration of his Filipino heritage and the brilliant comedic talent that make Jo Koy one of the world’s most successful comedians. Includes never-before-seen photos.In a memoir that is both surprising in its honesty and not surprising all for being laugh out loud ridiculous, Jo Koy delivers his life story for fans, and for anyone who has defied the expectations of their family and maybe even themselves. If you’ve ever seen Jo Koy’s standup, you know that his road to success has been…well…bumpy. As a half-Filipino, half-white kid with a mom who didn’t think much of his comedy career goals, Jo
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fixed.
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLooking at art through Amy Herman’s lens gives us a powerful new perspective to envision our problems and craft concrete solutions. — Col. Christopher Costa, USA, (Ret.), executive director of the International Spy Museum and former special assistant to the president for counterterrorism
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Deadpool Comeback Creator
Book SynopsisTrash talk like Deadpool with this hilarious authorized book that contains the best insults from the Deadpool comics, allowing you to create thousands of snarky comebacks worthy of the fast-talking Merc with a Mouth.He is annoying. He is dangerous. He smells terrible. But the public loves him. He talks and cracks jokes nonstop, breaks down the fourth wall for humorous effect, devises ingenious pranks and gags, and pummels enemies with brilliant and hilarious put-downs.Now, anyone can devise the perfect comeback with the Deadpool Comeback Creator. The best words from the Deadpool comics are featured on pages that are split into three individual sections. By flipping each section you can mix and match words to come up with the most outrageous insults worthy of Deadpool himself?150,000 snarky combinations in all! Each comeback can be chosen at random or customized to fit any situation. Plus, the back of each page takes you inside the mind of the fast-talking mercenary, explaining why he chooses specific words.Don?t be an ?insufferable flaming Zamboni,? flip the pages and let the good-natured trash-talking fun begin.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Happy People Are Annoying
Book SynopsisA wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer, Youtuber, and television superstar, Josh Peck.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Among the Bros
Book Synopsis“Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night LightsA brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life.When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble.Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure’s “Most Beautiful Campus in America,” Marshall traces several “C of C” boys’ journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder—one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests.An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow’s American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Spine Poems
Book SynopsisTrade Review"'Spine Poems' makes a fun gift for any book hoarder, and it’ll surely inspire you to start mixing up your stacks." — Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book Club “Dauphin Simon, a creative director and former bookseller, stacks books spine-out to tell poetic micro stories, categorizing the resulting verse in a bookshop-like way––cooking, parenting, true crime, and so on. The poetry is the main point ('Taking Turns / Cleaning Up / This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage') but part of the fun, too, is admiring the ordered chaos of books arranged with no regard to color.” — Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide "A delightful gift for any book lover! Warning: May cause a compulsion to re-arrange your bookshelves." — Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink and Bomb Shelter "For nearly thirty years, I've been making what I call "Sorted Books," or what Annette Dauphin Simon calls "spine poetry," and I definitely understand Annette's obsession! With this book, she makes clever, whimsical, quirky and memorable contributions to the genre of found poetry." — Nina Katchadourian, author of Sorted Books "Annette's book and concept are witty and inspiring. The whole idea strikes me as highly contagious. Book lovers will be deliciously infected, never to quite recover. I am comfortably in bed as I write but must get up and try to make such a poem immediately." — Jan Karon, #1 New York Times bestselling author "At once funny and deeply felt, these poems beg for interaction. I read them aloud, I looked for the books behind the spines, and I pulled a few titles off the shelf to make poems of my own." — Liz Garton Scanlon, author of the Caldecott-honored All the World "What a treat for any lover of books, words, poetry, and wonderment. Author Annette Simon began rearranging piles of books to create poems from their titles. I was fortunate enough to be present at the "storied independent bookstore in Neptune Beach" when this adventure took flight. . . . Simon has organized these spine poems into categories within Fiction and Non-fiction, and has paired them with related writings to inspire imagination and delight. Her last page aptly pictures two books with spines that proclaim “One Last Word” and “Mic Drop.” Personally, I hope not." — Rona Brinlee, owner of The BookMark bookstore "SPINE POEMS is an absolute feast for book lovers! Annette Dauphin Simon had me at the dedication poem, of course: Bibliophile/You Are a Badass/I Wrote This for You. Loaded with bookish content on each page -- artfully-paired quotes, fun facts, and more -- getting lost in this book feels like spending the day getting lost in a bookstore. These cleverly and carefully-crafted poems cover a broad range of topics and emotions, and in scanning the spines I see some of my favorites, and more that I'll be adding to my TBR pile. This is the perfect gift for readers everywhere!" — Nicole Yasinsky, Marketing Manager of novel. bookstore "In Spine Poems, Annette Dauphin Simon commits an act of worshipful bibliophilia. Through the seemingly simple exercise of puzzling the spines of books, she creates poetry that is at once poignant, lovely, goofy, whimsical, surprising---and, yes, brilliant. You will never look at a bookshelf the same way again." — Susan Coll, author of Bookish People "Annette Dauphin Simon's Spine Poems is creatively delightful with a discovery on every page! It inspires a joy for poetry and sparks a game for found poems. Snippets of facts makes this book perfect for story sleuths and lovers of literature alike." — Alicia D. Williams, Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning author of Genesis Begins Again, a Newbery Honor Book "Spine Poems isn't sitting on my shelf. It's living on my desk, a beautiful hardback with embossed title, filled with the titles of 323 more books (I counted) waiting to be discovered in an inspiring and delightful format. With every page turn, I declared out loud, "THIS one is my favorite!" ... until the next page. Split into categories from business to romance to pop culture, there's a spine poem for just about any day or mood, like a warm text from a friend, short and sweet, and perhaps with more to discover behind the spines." — Ruth Suehle, author at GeekMom "The verses range from hilarious two-line quips and truisms, to quirky observations about life and love, to insightful social commentary about the strange times we live in. Bursting with charm and joie de vivre, these friendly, visually appealing collages are accessible and oh-so-relatable, capable of turning skeptics into instant poetry lovers." — Jama Kim Rattigan, Alphabet Soup "Enchanting." — Chris Barton, author of New York Times bestselling and Silbert-honored picture books “A birthday cake slice of a book: delightful, colorful, short, sweet, and satisfying. But the best part might be the inspiration to make poems of your own.” — David Humphreys, Strong Sense of Place "Interesting social commentary and cutesy images of poetry." — Andrew Limbong, NPR's Book of the Day podcast, with Jane Clayson, WBUR "These spreads of found verse from the random (and not-so-random) arrangements of book titles are a bibliophile’s delight, and will add many to your must-read pile." — The Globe and Mail "Poignant." — Creative Mornings Global "A well-crafted poem is a thing of beauty, certainly, but 'found' poetry is somehow more magical: two words that accidentally rhyme, or mirror each other, or simply form a new meaning by accident feels like a happy secret. We were enchanted. " — The Simple Things "Fantastic. Gorgeous, full-color photographs, the spine poems are clever ... This is so great. It's just so cool." — Zibby Owens "Makes for a goofy gift with some surprisingly weighty contents." — Sloane Crosley, Departures "Grab a copy as a great addition to your own bookshelf –– it's sure to inspire some re-arranging! And maybe grab a few more as a unique gifts for all the wordsmiths, poetry lovers, and bibliophiles in your life." — Southport Magazine "Oh, how fun and beautiful this book is! Silly –– The Archer / Almost Missed You, lovely –– The Whisper / The Egg / The Watermelon Seed // The Art of the Commonplace / Tiny Beautiful Things, and sweet –– A Walk in the Woods / Dad by My Side / Above Us the Milky Way / Tender Is the Night." — Caroline Starr Rose, author of Miraculous, May B., and other books for young readers "I love that the concept of this book seems so simple, but author and creator Annette Dauphin Simon turned it into something complex and spectacular. What fun it is to have these facts and quotes accompany the poems, especially with the beautifully composed photos. Spine Poems is funny, delightful, informative, and even touching at times. I can't wait to put this book into the hands of every book lover I know!" — Johanna Albrecht, McIntyre's Books, Pittsboro, NC "So this is really cool, pretty. ... When you stack books on top of each other, and then read the titles all the way down the stack, you get a poem. And she's done that cleverly with an incredible number of poems with an incredible number of books." — Adah Fitzgerald with Andrea Jasmin, Main Street Books, Davidson, NC "A bibliophile's delight, Spine Poems is a stunningly produced volume of 'found verse.' Every two-page spread offers a visual treat, a verse and fun facts. The gold-embossed cover hints at the biblio-rich entertainment inside this delightful collection." — Cheryl McKeon, Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY "An amusing collection that combines the enjoyment of literature and poetry. I could not resist the turn of the page, where I found more titles from Walter Murch, Toni Morrison, Antoinette Portis, Tiffany D. Jackson, Dr. Seuss, and Phuc Tran. I could go on, but I do encourage you to have Spine Poems on your coffee table for all to enjoy. These poems are my kind of haiku." — Emöke, founder of Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, Asheville, NC
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fool Proof
Book SynopsisThe fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior;Trade Review"Wool is nice. So why do we just hate having it pulled over our eyes? Why would we rather be poor than cheated, mistaken than misled? Why would we rather be corpses than chumps? Smart, beautifully written, and grounded in science, Fool Proof explains how our aversion to being duped can make us the biggest suckers of all time. This book is a gem. Trust me. Would I lie to you?" — Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness “Fascinating, highly original, and terrific. Wilkinson-Ryan gets at the heart of a fundamental problem - and greatly illuminates law, policy, and human life in the process." — Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness "The fear of playing the sucker is so engrained in our psyches that it seems to be instinctual. But, as Fool Proof brilliantly reveals, exploitation narratives are profoundly shaped by racist and sexist stereotypes and frequently weaponized to bolster an inequitable social order. Contracts expert, moral psychologist, and mother of two, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan draws on a fascinating trove of empirical research and familiar experiences to question the tradeoff between avoiding scams and caring for each other—and to illuminate a path to greater moral integrity." — Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty “Thought-provoking and delightful on every page, Fool Proof is one of those books every curious reader will find themselves in. It reads like a fascinating conversation with someone brilliant you just met at a dinner party. With expertise and enthusiasm to burn, Wilkinson-Ryan has crafted a book I won’t be cooling off from anytime soon.” — Amanda Montell, author of Cultish and Wordslut
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Madame Clairevoyants Guide to the Stars
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Penguin Putnam Inc Slimed
Book SynopsisThe special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED! An Entertainment Weekly “Best Tell-All” Book One of Parade Magazine''s “Best Books About Movies/TV” Included in Publishers Weekly''s “Top Ten Social Science Books”Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic Nickelodeon nostalgia swept through the popular imagination, there was SLIMED!, the book that started it all. With hundreds of exclusive interviews and have-to-read-‘em-to-believe-‘em stories you won''t find anywhere else, SLIMED! is the first-ever full chronicle of classic Nick…told by those who made it all happen! Nickelodeon nostalgia has become a cottage industry unto itself: countless podcasts, blogs, documentaries, social media communities, conventions, and beyond. But a l
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Penguin Putnam Inc Mind Blown
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Penguin Putnam Inc You Are an Artist Assignments to Spark Creation
Book Synopsis“There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore. Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.” —Fast CompanyMore than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into itCurator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it. You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint color that perfectly match
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Oxford University Press Inc Sociology of Sport
Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewI adopted this text because it is balanced. It encompasses all important topics to those interested in the role of sport in society. It is both readable and academically appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate classes. I will adopt it until I retire. * Steven Aicinena, U of Texas Permian Basin *I appreciate the approach and the examples in this text. It offers many sides of sport and physical activity, with good examples, and a level of writing that is easy for students to understand. There are no weaknesses. * Alicia Richards, University of Illinois *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Part I TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF SPORT 1 The Sociological Analysis of Sport in American Society An Overview of Sociology of Sport as a Field of Study The Pervasiveness of Sport The Discipline of Sociology Assumptions of the Sociological Perspective Thinking as a Sociologist: Sociological Imagination Units of Sociological Analysis The Micro Level The Macro Level Micro and Macro Levels and This Book Sociological Theories: Contrasting Ways to See and Understand Social Life Functionalism Conflict Theory Conflict/Cultural Social Theories Sociological Theories and Sociology of Sport: Our Position Key Topics in the Study of Sport and Society Summary Notes 2 Social and Cultural Transformations and the Rise of Sport in the United States Pre-Columbian and Colonial Traditions in the United States The Colonists Restrict Physical Activities Early Nineteenth Century: Takeoff of Industrialization, Technology, and Organized Sport Building a Framework for Organized Sport The Technological Revolution and Sport Latter Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of Modern Sport Urbanization and the Rise of Modern Sport Forms Technological Innovation and Sport: Transportation Technological Innovation and Sport: Communication Technological Innovation and Equipment to Play Modern Sports Other Technological Breakthroughs and Sport The Cult of Manliness and Sport Muscular Christianity and Intellectuals Social Philosophy and Organized Sport Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Modern World and Sport The Maturing of Modern Sport Twentieth-Century Technology and Sport: Transportation The Technological Revolution and Sport: Communication Other Technological Innovations and Sport Sport in Education Summary Notes 3 Sport and American Culture and Values Culture, Values, and Social Theories Sport as a Microcosm of Cultural Values The American Value System Individual Striving for Success and Competition in Sport The Socially Valued Means to Achieve in Sport Progress Overcomes the Status Quo in Sport Materialism: Acquisitions and Consumption in Sport Social Conformity in Sport American Values; Sport, Character, and Athletic Bodies American Values: Sport and Technology Summary Notes 4 Social Problems and U.S. Sport: Violence,Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Overview of Social Problems in U.S. Sport Social Theories and Social Problems Eamples of Recent Social Problems in Sport Violence in American Society Violence in Historical Contet Contemporary Violence in the United States Violence in Sport: Terminology, Theories Is It Violence or Aggression Confusion in the Literature Theories About the Connection Between Aggressive Behavior and Sport Aggression Theories and Research on Sports Violence in Sport Violence as Part of U.S. Sports Fostering and Supporting Player Violence Violent Behavior of Coaches and Administration Violent Behavior of Athletes in Their Personal Lives Sources for Violence by Male Athletes in Their Private Lives Athletes' Violence Against Teammates: Hazing Sports Fans: Violent and Abusive Actions Factors Associated with Fan Violence Game and Postgame Violence Reducing Fan Violence and Abusive Behavior Substance Abuse and Sport Substance Abuse Not New to Sports The Scope of Current Substance Abuse in Sport Anabolic Steroids: Promises Big and Strong Social/Cultural Influences and Substance Abuse Among Athletes Can Substance Abuse in Sports Be Reduced, Even Prevented Sport and Mental Health Issues Summary Notes Part II SPORT AND STRUCTURED INEQUALITY IN SOCIETY 5 Sport, Social Stratification, and Social Mobility Terminology and Theory in Social Stratification and Mobility Basic Terminology in Social Stratification Dimensions of Inequality Social Class and Sport Adult Participation Preferences for Sports by Socioeconomic Status Youth Sport Participation by Socioeconomic Status Spectator Preferences for Sports by Socioeconomic Status Segregation in Sports by Social Class Social Mobility and the United States and Canada Sport as a Mobility Escalator Demytholoizing the Social Mobility-Through-Sport Hypothesis Summary Notes 6 Racial-Ethnic Minorities and Sport Racial-Ethnic Minorities: Social Theories and Relevant Concepts Social Theories and Race and Minorities Relevant Concepts About Race Sports Participation Among Racial-Ethnic Minorities The History of African American Involvement in U.S. Sport Latino/a Involvement in U.S. Sport Asian American Involvement in U.S. Sport Native American Involvement in Sport The Effects of Globalization on Ethnic Diversity in American Sport African American Dominance in Sport Race-Linked Physical Differences Race-Linked Cultural Differences Social Structure Constraints Racial Discrimination in Sport Stacking Leadership, Administration, and Authority Summary Notes 7 Gender in U.S. Sport: Continuity and Change Social Theories and Gender Relations Constructing and Reproducing Gender Relations Through Sport The Heritage of Gender Inequality in Sport Social Sources of Gender Inequality in Sport Parental Childrearing Practices and Gender Construction The School and Gender Construction The Mass Media and Gender Construction Nicknames, Mascots, and Heroines Females Surmount Social Barriers to Participation in Sport Negative Myths Women's Struggle for Opportunity and Equality in Sport From Boys-Only Youth Sports to Opportunities for Both Sees Title I: Federal Government Support for Gender Equity Toward Gender Equity in High School Sports Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Sports Men Rule in the Coaching and Administration of Women's Sports High School and College Women's Coaching Positions High School and College Administrative/Management Positions Ownership, Management, and Coaching in Professional and Olympic Sports Coaching and Administration/Management in U.S. Olympic Organizations Reasons for the Persistence of Men in Coaching and Administering Women's Sports Women Athletes' Careers at the Professional and Olympic Levels of Sport Female Olympic Athletes Gender Equality in Sport Sport, Gender Identity, and Seual Orientation Summary Notes Part III FROM ORGANIZED SPORT TO CORPORATE SPORT: YOUTH TO COLLEGE SPORT 8 Youth and Sport Youth Sports Programs: Something for Everyone Social Theories and Youth Sports The Rise of Youth Sports Programs: The Takeoff and Epansion of a New Form of Sport Objectives of Youth Sports Programs What Do Young Athletes, Their Parents, and Coaches Want from Sports Socialization and Sport: Involvement in Sport and Its Consequences Socialization into Sport: Why Do Children Become Involved in Organized Sports Families Parents Siblings Peers Coaches Schools Mass Media Participants: Youth Athletes Socialization via Sport: Process and Outcomes Two Forms of Play: Peer Group and Adult Organized Development of Personal-Social Attributes Through Sport Youth Orientation Toward Sport Sportsmanship in Youth Sports Character Development in Youth Sports Potential Psychosocial Problems in Youth Sports Adult Intrusion in Youth Sports Disruption of Education Risk of Injury The "Winning Is the Only-Thing" Ethic and Youth Sports Emphasizing Personal Growth and Self-Actualization Lifestyle and Action Sports Youth Sports Coaches Bill of Rights for Young Athletes Youth Sport and the COVID-19 Pandemic Summary Notes 9 Interscholastic Sports Social Theories and Interscholastic Sports The Status of Sport in Secondary Schools The Consequences of Sport for Schools, Communities, and Individuals The Consequences of Sport for the High School The Consequences of Sport for the Community The Consequences of Sport for Participants Problems, Dilemmas, and Controversies The Subversion of Educational Goals Reproduction of Social Class and White Privilege The Reinforcement of Gender Inequities Cheating Unsportsmanlike Behavior of Fans Autocratic Coaches Ecessive Pressures to Win Elitism Sport Specialization Economic Class Divisions and Budget Shortfalls Corporate High School Sport Programs Efforts to Reform High School Sports Summary Notes 10 Intercollegiate Sport Beginning and Development of College Sports Student-Centered College Sport Remains College Sport as Big Business Social Theories and Their Role in Colleges and Universities Functionalism and Big-Time College Sports Conflict/Culturalism and Big-Time College Sports Beliefs and Reality About Big-Time Sport Functions Further Consequences of the Commercial Orientation of Big-Time College Sports A Contradiction: Athletes as Amateurs in a Big-Business Environment The NCAA and Student-Athletes The Enforcement of "Amateurism" Pressure to Shift the Legal Parameters of Amateurism in Collegiate Sport The Restriction of Athletes' Rights Educational Performance and Student-Athletes Academic Predictions for Student-Athletes at College Academic Achievement and College Athletes Graduation Rates and Student-Athletes The Impediments to Scholarly Achievement by College Athletes Reform Initiatives and Intercollegiate Sports The Administration of Intercollegiate Sports Emphasizing the Education of Student-Athletes Commitment to Athletes' Rights Summary Notes Part IV SPORT AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 11 Sport and the Economy Professional Sport as a Business Social Theories and the Economy Professional Team Sports as Monopolies Public Subsidization of Professional Team Franchises Ownership for Profit A Radical Question: Are Owners Necessary Who Benefits Economically from Sports Professional Athletes' Earnings Auiliary Professions and Occupations in Sport Sport-Related Businesses Corporate Advertising in Sport The Relationship Between Owners and Athletes The Draft and the Reserve Clause Professional Team Sport Athletes Fight for Free Agency Amateur Sport as a Business The Ambiguous Case: Intercollegiate Sports and Amateurism The Economics of Collegiate Sport Gambling and Sport Issues About Sports Betting in the United States Sports Gambling and College Students Summary Notes 12 Sport and the Mass Media Social Roles of the Mass Media Prominent and Subtle Roles of the Media Mass Media and Social Theories The Symbiosis of Mass Media and Sport Enduring Linkages Between the Mass Media and Sport Television: The Monster of the Sports World Increasing TV Sports Coverage Economic Aspects of Televised Sports Television's Influence on Sport Increases in Sport Revenue Television Drives Shifts in Popularity of Sports Professional Sports Franchise Locations and the Media Television: The Financial Foundation for Big-Time Intercollegiate Sport Television Taps High School Sports Modifying Sports to Accommodate TV Television's Own Sports Televised Sport as a Socially Mediated Event The Impact of Sport on the Mass Media Increased Sport in the Media Sport's Privileged Treatment by the Media Sports Consumers and the Mass Media The Internet: An Essential Form of Mass Communications for Sports Integration of the Internet, Television, Computers, and Video Games Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter Media Sport: Gender , Race, and Disabilities Issues Reproduction of Hegemonic Masculinity in Media Sport Media Sport and Gender Inequities Media Sport and Racial and Ethnic Inequities Media Sport and Disabilities Inequities Sports Journalism and the Mass Media Sportscasters: Narrators of Mediated Sport Minority Sport Journalists and Broadcasters Women Sport Journalists and Broadcasters Summary Notes 13 Sport and Politics Politics as a Social Institution Social Theories and Politics Intertwining of Politics and Sports The Political Uses of Sport Sport as a Vehicle for Propaganda Sport and Nationalism Sport as an Opiate of the Masses The Eploitation of Sport by Politicians Sport as a Vehicle of Change in Society Internationalization of Social Activism and Sport Globalization and Sport The Political Olympic Games Political Problems and the Olympic Movement Proposals for Reforming the Olympic Games Summary Notes 14 Sport and Religion The Relationship Between Religion and Society Personal and Social Roles of Religion Historical Affiliation Between Religion and Sport Ancient Greece: Creators of Organized Sports Events The Early Christian Church and Roman Sport Spectacles Pre-Columbian Societies: Sport in the Americas Reformation and Protestantism in the North American Colonies Religious Objections to Sport Declined in the Nineteenth Century Religion and Sport Conciliation Sport as Religion Similarities Between Sport and Religion Critical Views About Sport as Religion Religion Uses Sport Churches Religious Leaders Embrace Sport Church Colleges and Universities Religious Organizations and Sports The Fellowship of Christian Athletes Religion and Professional Sports Organizations Sport and Religion Publications Missionary Work of Churches and Sport Religious Evangelizing by Athletes and Coaches The Promise Keepers: Patriarchy, Gender, and Seuality Sportianity Confronting Social Issues Value Orientations of Religion and Sport The Protestant Ethic and Sports Protestantism and Contemporary Sport Sport Uses Religion The Use of Prayer and Divine Intervention The Use of Magic Magic and Its Uses in Sports Summary Notes Part V SPORT, FUTURE TRENDS, AND SUSTAINABILITY 15 Future Trends: The Sustainability of Sport in the United States Key Social Factors that Drive Social Change The Economy, Technology, and Labor: The Information Society An Information Society Information Society and Fletime: Hopes and Realities of Increased Leisure Technology Demographic Shifts: Diverse and Aging Populations and Location Population Composition Locations Future Trends and Sports Professional Sports Esports and Video Games Future of Mediated sport: Television and the Internet Adventure and Lifestyle Sports Sports immersed in Outdoor/Nature Spaces Action and Lifestyle Sports Trends in Sustainability: Social Values and Future Sport Organizational Trends in Sport Neoliberalism Sport For Development and Peace Programs Youth and High School sports Intercollegiate Sports Professional Teams and Leagues Inclusion Trends in Sport People with Disabilities Older Adults LGBTQ Environmental Sustainability in Future Sports Summary Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press TruthSpots
Book SynopsisGieryn argues that place matters, and that understanding the role of place in the making of historical events can tell us a lot about those events and why they unfolded the way they did.
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The University of Chicago Press Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of
Book SynopsisTime capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be rememberedor if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.
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The University of Chicago Press TV by Design
Book SynopsisUncovers the story of how modernism and network television converged and intertwined in their mutual ascent during the decades of the cold war. This title shows how TV was instrumental in introducing the public to the different trends in art and design.Trade Review"Clear, compelling, frequently witty, and always engaging, TV by Design will easily meet the expectations of those readers who have come to expect the very best in scholarship, argument, and expression from Lynn Spigel. In stunning and bold fashion, she brings together television and fine arts and shows how their intersection fits logically into the history of twentieth-century culture. This is a work of major consequence." - Dana Polan, author of the British Film Institute's Pulp Fiction and Jane Campion"
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Columbia University Press Film and Stereotype
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJorg Schweinitz's study of film stereotypes is impressively comprehensive, admirably rigorous, and appropriately international. It will surely invigorate debates on conventionalized shapes in dominant cinema and well-known patterns of recognition in film genre. Schweinitz also revisits classical and contemporary film theory in provocative ways, opening up this field of possibility and offering new points of departure. -- Eric Rentschler, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Offering an unusually sophisticated, exhaustively researched and wide-ranging theoretical analysis as well as a series of deftly argued case studies, Schweinitz brings considerable erudition to bear on a subject that has until now often eluded scholarly attention. Film and Stereotype represents a novel contribution to ongoing debates concerning genre, style, national cinema, and identity. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era Film and Stereotype does a masterful job unpacking one of the thorniest concepts in film studies, tracing its multidisciplinary origins with theoretical agility and robust argumentation. This book is indispensable for those interested in the historical, cultural, and industrial utility of stereotypes; Schweinitz's use of theorists such as Bela Balazs and Rudolf Arnheim to reread the stereotype makes an important intervention in the theoretical and textual form of stereotypes. Film and Stereotype offers a rigorous critique of the form, function, and power of stereotypes within both the media industries and the cultural imaginary. -- Alison Griffiths, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New YorkTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I. Stereotype Theory: Concepts, Perspectives, and Controversies 1. The Stereotype in Psychology and the Humanities 2. Some Aspects and Levels of Stereotypization in Film 3. The Intellectual Viewpoint Versus the Stereotype in Mass Culture Part II. A Discourse History: The Topic of the "Stereotype" Throughout Film Theory 4. Prelude: Walther Rathenau's Cultural Criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric Concept of Film as Art, and the Neglect of the Stereotype 5. Bela Balazs's New Visual Culture, the Tradition of Linguistic Skepticism, and Robert Musil's Notion of the "Formulaic" 6. The Readymade Products of the Fantasy Machine: Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the Discourse on the "Standardization" of Film 7 The Stereotype as Intelligible Form: Cohen-Seat, Morin, and Semiology 8. Irony and Transf iguration: The Postmodern View of the Stereotype Part III. Film Analysis: Critique and Transfiguration-Three Case Studies 9. McCabe and Buffalo Bill: On the Critical Reflection of Stereotypes in Two Films by Robert Altman 10. Enjoying the Stereotype and Intense Double-Play Acting: The Performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hudsucker Proxy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
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Penguin Books Ltd Walkers Exercises for Ladies
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University of Illinois Press Circus Queen and Tinker Bell
Book SynopsisA glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable performersTrade Review"It was great fun reading Tiny Kline's fascinating and quirky story of the circus. There is nothing quite like her insider account. I found myself getting wrapped up in her personal descriptions and in the vagaries that confronted her both in and out of the entertainment profession. Her insights are crucial in understanding several important transitions in circus history."--Don B. Wilmeth, editor of The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, 2nd edition"Kline's fascinating story provides remarkably vivid descriptions of the day-to-day life of performers on the circus circuit and glimpses of well-known entertainment figures. Davis deftly places Tiny Kline's story amongst important questions about the role of popular amusements in class formation and Americanization of immigrant populations; about the meaning of bodily display and the exceptional body; and about early twentieth-century gender roles and transgressions."--Joy S. Kasson, author of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History"With this indispensible volume, Davis again demonstrates how the study of circus in particular and popular culture in general can enrich understanding of the world. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction -- Janet M. Davis / 1 Author's Note / 33 Prologue / 35PART ONE 1. The Bend in the Road / 41 2. As Mrs. Private Citizen, Viewing the Parade / 57 3. A Flight on Gossamer Wings / 62 4. In Pursuit of a Mirage to Yesterday / 75 5. A Tour behind the Platforms of Those Strange People / 86 6. Destiny Smiles, but Not on Shmoontsie / 99 7. A New Leaf, a New Life / 105 8. Where Caste Is Observed, According to Rank and Rating / 117 9. Equestrian Director Par Excellence / 143 10. The Awe-Inspiring Mr. John / 147 11. Calibrating for a Career / 150 12. Bareback: The Aristocrat of Circus Acts / 155 13. A Backdoor Glimpse of Supermen and Superwomen / 161 14. Elephants Are Like People / 172 15. Engineering the White City / 177 16. Finding the Lot -- A Daily Headache / 187 17. On the Sunny Side / 189 18. Life under the Big Top: Private, Social, Competitive / 193 19. Finale of the Season / 196 20. Circus Experience Pays Off / 198 21. An Annual Season's Opening / 203 22. Leitzel, Queen of the Air -- Of the Ground as Well / 208 23. Progress, Trends, and Customs Typical of Circus Folks / 214 24. On a Magic Carpet to a Land Fantastic / 221 25. Back to the Material World / 229 26. An Act Is Born / 234 27. Circus History Is Made: Merging "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "The World's Greatest Show," Thereafter to Be Known as "Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows" / 237 28. Pride versus Virtue / 246 29. Misery -- Like Death -- Knows No Class Distinction / 255 30. Fate Follows Her Course -- Strange, Mysterious, Terrifying / 258PART TWO 31. Sarasota -- Last Stop / 271 32. An Elucidating Interlude / 288PART THREE 33. The Circus, to Date (1948) / 293 Epilogue: The Show -- The Public -- Unto the End / 311 Appendix A: Superstitions / 313 Notes / 315 Index / 353
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MO - University of Illinois Press Pop Modernism Noise and the Reinvention of the
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the artistic bounty of modernist tensions over everyday life Trade Review“In all my years of reading, only once before have I had this kind of positive immediate reaction. I kept wondering, ‘How can Suárez possibly know so much, keep all his material straight, write about it with such flair, dig up so many corpses, and say something new about The Waste Land that makes it a less odious poem?’ A book of encyclopedic proportions, Pop Modernism is brilliant, and will set a new path for Modernist Studies.”--Paula Rabinowitz, author of Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp ModernismTable of Contentsix Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Modernism, Popular Practice, Noise Noise Abatement 19 1. Reading Modernity: Vachel Lindsay's Theory of FIlm 50 2. Reading the Modern City: Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta 80 3. John Dos Passos's USA, the Popular Media, and Left Documentary Film in the 1930s The Rustle of the Quotidian 119 4. The Art of Noise: The Gramophone, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and the Modernist Discourse Network 141 5. Joseph Cornell and the Secret Life of Things The Murmur of Otherness 179 6. Queer Modernism: Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler's The Young and Evil 208 7. Walking with Zombies: Haitian Folklore and Modernist Ethnography in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse 237 8. Inner-City Surrealism: James Agee, Janice Loeb, and Helen Levitt's In the Street 273 Notes 315 Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Circus Queen and Tinker Bell
Book SynopsisA glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable performersTrade Review"It was great fun reading Tiny Kline's fascinating and quirky story of the circus. There is nothing quite like her insider account. I found myself getting wrapped up in her personal descriptions and in the vagaries that confronted her both in and out of the entertainment profession. Her insights are crucial in understanding several important transitions in circus history."--Don B. Wilmeth, editor of The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, 2nd edition"Kline's fascinating story provides remarkably vivid descriptions of the day-to-day life of performers on the circus circuit and glimpses of well-known entertainment figures. Davis deftly places Tiny Kline's story amongst important questions about the role of popular amusements in class formation and Americanization of immigrant populations; about the meaning of bodily display and the exceptional body; and about early twentieth-century gender roles and transgressions."--Joy S. Kasson, author of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History"With this indispensible volume, Davis again demonstrates how the study of circus in particular and popular culture in general can enrich understanding of the world. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction -- Janet M. Davis / 1 Author's Note / 33 Prologue / 35PART ONE 1. The Bend in the Road / 41 2. As Mrs. Private Citizen, Viewing the Parade / 57 3. A Flight on Gossamer Wings / 62 4. In Pursuit of a Mirage to Yesterday / 75 5. A Tour behind the Platforms of Those Strange People / 86 6. Destiny Smiles, but Not on Shmoontsie / 99 7. A New Leaf, a New Life / 105 8. Where Caste Is Observed, According to Rank and Rating / 117 9. Equestrian Director Par Excellence / 143 10. The Awe-Inspiring Mr. John / 147 11. Calibrating for a Career / 150 12. Bareback: The Aristocrat of Circus Acts / 155 13. A Backdoor Glimpse of Supermen and Superwomen / 161 14. Elephants Are Like People / 172 15. Engineering the White City / 177 16. Finding the Lot -- A Daily Headache / 187 17. On the Sunny Side / 189 18. Life under the Big Top: Private, Social, Competitive / 193 19. Finale of the Season / 196 20. Circus Experience Pays Off / 198 21. An Annual Season's Opening / 203 22. Leitzel, Queen of the Air -- Of the Ground as Well / 208 23. Progress, Trends, and Customs Typical of Circus Folks / 214 24. On a Magic Carpet to a Land Fantastic / 221 25. Back to the Material World / 229 26. An Act Is Born / 234 27. Circus History Is Made: Merging "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "The World's Greatest Show," Thereafter to Be Known as "Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows" / 237 28. Pride versus Virtue / 246 29. Misery -- Like Death -- Knows No Class Distinction / 255 30. Fate Follows Her Course -- Strange, Mysterious, Terrifying / 258PART TWO 31. Sarasota -- Last Stop / 271 32. An Elucidating Interlude / 288PART THREE 33. The Circus, to Date (1948) / 293 Epilogue: The Show -- The Public -- Unto the End / 311 Appendix A: Superstitions / 313 Notes / 315 Index / 353
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University of Illinois Press German Film after Germany
Book SynopsisA focused examination of German film's transformation from a national to transnational industryTrade Review"A highly original approach to the study of contemporary cinema."--New German Quarterly "This complex, elegantly argued book addresses the production, distribution, and reception of 'German' films in an era of international coproductions and nascent European nationalism. . . . Recommended."--Choice "This ambitious book offers a fresh, engaging perspective on distinctive transnational media developments in Western Europe over the last twenty years. Halle recounts in detail how recent economic, political, and linguistic trends have substantially altered the practices of cinema production, distribution, and consumption. His analysis of the multifaceted globalized media emerging in Germany should interest scholars in media studies, political science, sociology, and cultural history, as well as German studies."--Ramona Curry, author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West As Cultural Icon"Through his breadth, originality, and 'nose' for ongoing transitions in culture and cinema, Halle provides a much-needed overview of the complex funding ensembles existing in and beyond Germany today. German Film after Germany fills a critical gap in film studies by expertly weaving together economic and aesthetic forces in its analysis."--Linda Schulte-Sasse, author of Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema"[A] very insightful study . . . it is sure to stimulate a healthy and much needed debate on the future, if not existence, of 'German' cinema."--German Studies Review"A highly original approach to the study of contemporary cinema."--New German Quarterly
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University of Illinois Press Feeling Modern The Eccentricities of Public Life
Book SynopsisA new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphereTrade Review"A rethinking of what constitutes modernist feeling. . . . Recommended."--Choice “Feeling Modern is handsomely written, and Nieland betrays a more fine-grained sensibility than many of his professional peers.”--Modernism/Modernity
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MO - University of Illinois Press Undercover Asian
Book SynopsisOffers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.Trade Review"In the case of Undercover Asian, Nishime's critical intervention cannot be overstated. Her book compels readers to see multiracial Asian Americans, to understand their function in discourses of popular culture, to contextualize the place of multiracial Asian Americans in contemporary society, and to challenge our ideas of race and racialization."--Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas "Nishime makes a compelling argument for productive possibilities in the way that we understand multiracial bodies and narratives. This fascinating, elegant book provides a model for doing this kind of analysis and creating new narratives so that these possibilities may one day be realized."--Feminist Media Studies "Nishime's persuasive, well-grounded analysis yields genuinely brilliant insights regarding the pitfalls and possibilities of multiracial visibility in contemporary media culture. Lucidly written with appealing attention to popular texts, this is the sort of book that moves multiracial and Asian American studies in interesting and engaging new directions."--Glen Mimura, author of Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video
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MIT Press Ltd In the Black Fantastic
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and the speculative, it recycles and reconfigures elements of fable, folklore, science fiction, spiritual traditions, ceremonial pageantry, and the legacies of Afrofuturism. In works that span photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, graphic arts, music and architecture, In the Black Fantastic shows how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender and identity. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity premised on the historical subjugation of people of color, In the Black Fantastic celebrates the ways that Black artists draw
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MIT Press Ltd The Art of Failure An Essay on the Pain of
Book SynopsisA gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and shout in frustration as we lose, or die, or fail to advance to the next level. Humans may have a fundamental desire to succeed and feel competent, but game players choose to engage in an activity in which they are nearly certain to fail and feel incompetent. So why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy? Juul examines this paradox.In video games, as in tragic works of art, literature, theater, and cinema, it seems that we want to experience unpleasantness even if we also dislike it. Reader or audience re
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Hachette Books Soul Boom
Book Synopsis**New York Times Bestseller**Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world.
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Random House USA Inc On Michael Jackson
Book SynopsisThe renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis.Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a “What Is It”? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the “chitlin’ circuit” inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson’s celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become “Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,” while establishing himself as an undeniably great perf
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Little Brown and Company The Science of Game of Thrones
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Little, Brown & Company David Sedaris Diaries A Visual Compendium
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£40.00
Legacy Lit Tomboy
Book SynopsisBased on the author’s viral New York Times op-ed, this heartfelt book is a celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood. We are in the middle of a cultural revolution, where the spectrum of gender and sexual identities is seemingly unlimited. So when author and journalist Lisa Selin Davis's six-year-old daughter first called herself a 'tomboy,' Davis was hesitant. Her child favored sweatpants and T-shirts over anything pink or princess-themed, just like the sporty, skinned-kneed girls Davis had played with as a kid. But 'tomboy' seemed like an outdated word—why use a word with 'boy' in it for such girls at all?So was it outdated? In an era where some are throwing elaborate gender reveal parties and others are embracing they/them pronouns, Davis set out to answer that question, and to find out where tomboys fit into our changing understandings of gender.In Tomboy, Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twentyfirst century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women—and those who identify otherwise—who stomp all over archaic gender norms. She highlights the forces that have shifted what we think of as masculine and feminine, delving into everything from clothing to psychology, history to neuroscience, and the connection between tomboyism, gender identity, and sexuality. Above all else, Davis's comprehensive deep-dive inspires us to better appreciate those who defy traditional gender boundaries, and the incredible people they become.Whether you're a grown-up tomboy or raising a gender-rebel of your own, Tomboy is the perfect companion for navigating our cultural shift. It is a celebration of both diversity and those who dare to be different, ultimately revealing how gender nonconformity is a gift.
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Random House USA Inc What I Wore
Book SynopsisA COOKBOOK FOR YOUR CLOSET Personal style expert Jessica Quirk approaches getting dressed just as you would plan the perfect meal: With a smartly stocked pantry and a few gorgeous “spotlight ingredients,” inspiration comes easily.In What I Wore, named after her enormously popular blog, Jessica shares recipes for creating a stellar wardrobe to get you through spring, summer, fall, and winter. From delicates (bras, slips, lingerie) to the basics every woman should have (black pants, white shirts, knee-high leather boots) to the dramatic touches that set just the right tone (scarves, jewelry, handbags), she shows you how to take your look from ordinary to outstanding without breaking the bank. Inside you’ll discover how to • remix the clothing you already have for dozens of fresh, pulled-together looks• become a smarter shopper and always get the most bang for your buck• create wow-worthy ensembles fo
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hard Times
Book SynopsisONE OF PITCHFORK''S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2019. From the comedic minds behind TheHardTimes.net comes the most accurate reporting on punk and hardcore culture in music history. Since 2014, The Hard Times has been at the forefront of music journalism, delivering hard-hitting reports and in-depth investigations into the punk and hardcore scene. From their scathing takedown of Kim Jong-un after he appointed himself the new singer of Black Flag to their incisive coverage of a healthy Lars Ulrich being replaced by a hologram, the site has become a trusted source for all things counterculture. Now, in this zine-style historical retrospective, the writers behind the site reveal their humble roots, documenting The Hard Times' ascension alongside the rise of punk. With original articles from their archives commenting on '70s, '80s, and '90s punk, as well as fan favorites from the aughts onward, this comprehensive examination of the scene will make readers dust off their Doc Martens and creepy crawl their way to the nearest pit.Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE HARD TIMES: THE FIRST FORTY YEARS: “250 pages of non-stop LOLs…[with] spot-on pieces satirizing the punk, hardcore, and indie worlds with a consistency that rivals The Onion in its prime.” –Pitchfork, Best Music Books of 2019 “The perfect, light reading…The Hard Times infuses their genuine affinity for music with savage humor that roasts every type of music fan.” –PASTE Magazine “Painstakingly researched…a testament to the benefits of strategically selling out.” –Washington Post “Hilarious…The First 40 Years bundle acidic jokes and incisive industry commentary in articles that celebrate and eviscerate the scene as it’s evolved from the Buzzcocks to Blink-182.” –AV Club “Think of it like The Onion for the cool kids.” –NPR’s Morning Edition “A comedy goldmine.” –LA Weekly “The Hard Times offers comfort amid today’s endless news cycle of shootings, corruption, and environmental catastrophes…Sometimes we need humor to heal, and this book has as much of the former as you could possibly hope for.” –San Francisco Weekly 100% AUTHENTIC PRAISE FOR THE HARD TIMES: “Is this that meme page from Instagram?” —Dave Grohl, lead vocalist, Foo Fighters “Ronald Reagan and his band of merry billionaires set the stage for a corrupt world that puts profits over people. Oh, how they promised the citizens of this country that trickle-down economics would be a boon to the working class, when the only trickle we got was in the form of piss being rained down on us from the . . . [cut for length]” —Jello Biafra, frontman, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, former frontman, Dead Kennedys “No.” —Henry Rollins, author, actor, vocalist, talking head “I’ve never read The Hard Times, but I will definitely check it out sometime.” —Debbie Harry, lead vocalist, Blondie —
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HarperCollins The Hobbit Sketchbook
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Art Monsters
Book SynopsisA Must-Read: Vogue, Nylon, Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, Frieze, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, InsideHook, The Next Big Idea Club,?[Lauren] Elkin is a stylish, determined provocateur . . . Sharp and cool . . . [Art Monsters is] exemplary. It describes a whole way to live, worthy of secret admiration.? ?Maggie Lange, The Washington Post?Destined to become a new classic . . . Elkin shatters the truisms that have evolved around feminist thought.? ?Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker: A Literary BiographyWhat kind of art does a monster make? And what if monster is a verb? Noun or a verb, the idea is a dare: to overwhelm limits, to invent our own definitions of beauty.In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women?s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin?the celebrated author of Flâneuse?explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims. How do we tell the truth about our experiences as bodies? What is the language, what are the materials, that we need to transcribe them? And what are the unique questions facing those engaged with female bodies, queer bodies, sick bodies, racialized bodies? Encompassing a rich genealogy of work across the literary and artistic landscape, Elkin makes daring links between disparate points of reference?among them Julia Margaret Cameron?s photography, Kara Walker?s silhouettes, Vanessa Bell?s portraits, Eva Hesse?s rope sculptures, Carolee Schneemann?s body art, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha?s trilingual masterpiece DICTEE?and steps into the tradition of cultural criticism established by Susan Sontag, Hélène Cixous, and Maggie Nelson. An erudite, potent examination of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political, the ambiguous and the opaque, Art Monsters is a radical intervention that forces us to consider how the idea of the art monster might transform the way we imagine?and enact?our lives.
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WW Norton & Co Superfandom
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the influence of fans—society’s alpha consumers—on our lives and culture.Trade Review"Fans aren’t just customers—they care more about what your company does, both good and bad—and no one understands how fans tick and what they can mean for a business better than Zoe and Aaron." -- Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations"In a 1986 sketch on Saturday Night Live, William Shatner told a gathering of Trekkers at a Holiday Inn in Rye, New York, to “get a life . . . for crying out loud.” A lot has happened since then. Tremendous technological transformations and online opportunities have created a complex calculus regarding the relationship between texts and brands and the people who love them. Superfandom provocatively explores this evolving relationship—with a dazzling number of examples—and describes what happens when fans don’t just consume something but influence it as well. And it’s not just a celebration of the new voices now being heard in the process of the production of culture; it also describes how superfans can, on occasion, be real pains-in-the-neck." -- Robert Thompson, professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communication and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University"Superfandom is the ultimate guide to making the most of the new fan-based economy. It presents the new way businesses interact with their customers, and it’s funny, too. Read it for insights into epic failure and brilliant success in fan management, or read it for stories about the politics of Disney’s social clubs. Either way, you won’t regret it. Your fandom will be better off for it." -- Jonah Berger, professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and best-selling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On"An insightful and entertaining look at the culture of fandom, from its early days right up to the present . . . . Well-reasoned and engagingly written." -- Booklist"Recommended for companies who seek to create a successful brand, as well as readers interested in the nature of fan culture." -- Library Journal
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WW Norton & Co Women in the Picture What Culture Does with
Book SynopsisArt historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.Trade Review"Women in the Picture mounts a sensitive and probing critique of the motifs, the preordained poses and affectations of the female figure in art. If feminism aspires to render itself obsolete, McCormack’s project too yearns for a future when critiquing such postures...will no longer be necessary." -- Jasmine Sanders, New York Times Book Review"A passionate, serious, yet often entertaining introduction to issues that will be with us for the foreseeable future, their historic context and their implications for women." -- Cathryn Keller, Washington Post"McCormack moves seamlessly between feminism's academic and popular iterations…Women in the Picture gave me new ways to think about feminist art and feminist art history…[E]legant, precise, inviting." -- Kimberly Lann - Women's Art Journal"[An] illuminating look at how women's bodies have been depicted in the arts…This eye-opening work will leave readers with plenty to ponder." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"A timely, succinct, aesthetic inquiry into debates about sexuality, objectification, and representation." -- Kirkus Reviews"On this grand tour of western visual culture, you couldn’t ask for a better guide." -- Bridget Quinn, author of Broad Strokes"Catherine McCormack succeeds in the nearly impossible task of discussing both the representation of women throughout the history of art as well as how women artists have challenged these male-centric images." -- Kathy Battista, author of New York New Wave"The art book we’ve all been waiting for." -- Helen Gørrill, author of Women Can’t Paint"I’m glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it." -- Jan Patience - Herald
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WW Norton & Co Picnic Comma Lightning The Experience of Reality
Book Synopsis"A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world." —GuardianTrade Review"[I]nsightful, in part for its academic nuance but also for its humane, personal style.…A moving meditation of reality in the 21st century." -- Wired UK"[A] touching exploration of identity in the twenty-first century." -- Everything Else, culture podcast from the Financial Times"In its willingness to dig deeper, Picnic Comma Lightning provides a bravura investigation of our turbulent times." -- New Scientist"Clever, funny and deeply moving…an engaging and thought-provoking journey through the fakery of modern life." -- Mail on Sunday"A brave exploration of life after loss and how it alters our reality." -- Evening Standard"[A]cutely perceptive…delivers a thoughtful message about finding an authentic way to live at a time when reality itself can seem built on shifting sands." -- Publishers Weekly"A lucid…brilliant critique of a fragmented culture in a peculiar time." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Penguin Putnam Inc Big Game The NFL in Dangerous Times
Book Synopsis“A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National Football League. —Wall Street JournalThe New York Times bestsellerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxietyLike millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet, making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich woul
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale David Bowie Retrospective and Coloring Book
Book SynopsisAn adult coloring book retrospective presenting music legend David Bowie's most idiosyncratic and indelible looks throughout the years, with insight into his famed designer collaborations, fashion inspirations, and stylish illustrations.Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Thin White Duke. . . . Bowie changed his style more dramatically than any other musician in history. His transformations brought about seismic cultural shifts, altering the definition of what it meant to be a popular rock star. This annotated collection of illustrations provide a remarkable overview of Bowie's nearly fifty years of evolution, featuring looks by the likes of Freddie Burretti and Kansai Yamamoto, further establishing him as the fashion king of self-invention.
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Random House USA Inc The End of Advertising Why It Had to Die and the
Book SynopsisA recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction, after having taken for granted a captive audience for too long, leading to lazy, overabundant, and frankly annoying ads. Make no mistake, Madison Avenue: Traditional advertising, as we know it, is over. In this short, controversial manifesto, Andrew Essex offers both a wake-up call and a road map to the future. In The End of Advertising, Essex gives a brief and pungent history of the rise and fall of Adland—a story populated by snake-oil salesmen, slicksters, and search-engine optimizers. But his book is no eulogy. Instead, he boldly challenges global marketers to innovate their way to a better ad-free future. With trenchant wit and razor-sh
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dont Eat This Book Fast Food and the Supersizing
Book SynopsisFor thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t Eat This Book, Spurlock examines everything from school lunch programs and the marketing of fast food to the decline of physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive—and interviews experts from surgeons general and kids to marketing gurus and lawmakers, who share their research and opinions on what we can do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions. Don’t eat this groundbreaking, hilarious book—but if you care about your country’s health, your children’s, and your own, you better read it.
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Random House USA Inc Kicks The Great American Story of Sneakers
Book Synopsis“A vivid picture of how what we wear on our feet can tell us what it really means to be an American.”—Vanity Fair “Expansive, thorough, and entertaining . . . a comprehensive look at how much the sneaker became a signature indicator of cool.”—The Wall Street Journal A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity “It’s gotta be the shoes.” When Spike Lee said it to Michael Jordan in a 1989 commercial, it was with a wink and a nod—what makes MJ so good? His Nike Air Jordan IIIs, of course. But as Nicholas Smith reveals in this captivating history, Lee’s line also speaks to the sneaker’s place at the heart of American culture. Once the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and cr
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Currency How to Think
Book SynopsisAbsolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now. —David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The DeTextbook The Stuff You Didnt Know about the
Book SynopsisYou are an idiot.Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck!But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with more sexy facts than the Encyclopedia Pornographica, the Cracked De-Textbook will teach you about the true stars of history, why you picture everything from Velociraptors to Ancient Rome incorrectly, and finally, at long last - how to pop a proper squat. This book was built from the ground up to systematically seek out, dismantle and destroy the many untruths that years of misguided education have left festering inside of you, and leave you a smarter person...whether you like it or not. The De-Textbook is a merciless, brutal learning machine. It can't be bargaine
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Penguin Putnam Inc I Want My MTV The Uncensored Story of the Music
Book SynopsisRemember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin - USA Today – CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post – VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San Francisco Chronicle Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in Thriller? Diamond Dave karate kick with Van Halen in Jump? Tawny Kitaen turning cartwheels on a Jaguar to Whitesnake's Here I Go Again? The Beastie Boys spray beer in (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)? Axl Rose step off the bus in Welcome to the Jungle? It was a pretty radical idea-a channel for teenagers, showing nothing but music videos. It was such a radical idea that almost no one thought it would actually succeed, much less become a force in the worlds of music, television, film, fashion, sports, aTrade Review"Highly entertaining" -Rolling Stone"It reminded me of those long days watching MTV, back when it still played videos...riveting." -New York Times"Hilarious, with behind-the-scenes dirt on hundreds of videos. I guarantee you'll have a tough time putting it down." -USA Today"Riveting reading, and a book we expect to see on the best-seller lists." -Very Short List"The sheer entertainment value within these pages is priceless." -Publishers Weekly"A smart, decadently entertaining oral history." -Playboy"Just as MTV hypnotized viewers, so the jump-cut structure of I WANT MY MTV swiftly compels." -Businessweek"Rollicking. The golden age of MTV was just as wild and debauched as you would hope." -New York Post"A rip-roaring, hilarious tribute to the cable channel that changed pop culture. A wonderfully entertaining and enlightening history, a magnificently enjoyable read." -The National"Riotous and irreverent. Crack it open to almost any page and you're guaranteed a giggle. Every gaffe, scandal, and sexual innuendo comes in for hilarious scrutiny." -New York Daily News"Insiders are already buzzing about the book, which does for music television what Fredric Dannen's Hit Men did for indie promotion." -HITS "A smart oral history." -Billboard"A wild trip down memory lane, this cool history makes us '80s and '90s kids totally nostalgic." -NYLON"Hugely readable and insanely fun." -Pitchfork"It makes you laugh, it makes you cry. I couldn't put it down. This is the best book I've read on how the music business really works." -Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter"An obscenely entertaining (and entertainingly obscene) account of MTV's early days." -Dave Holmes"The entire Grantland staff is obsessed with the book" -Grantland"The writers certainly did their homework, chronicling the wild and crazy ride of the network in the words of its own eclectic cast of characters...there is plenty to sink your teeth into with this book." -Hollywood Reporter"It's part voyeurism, part nostalgia, part social commentary - the perfect pulp non-fiction read for the cooling months ahead." -Modern Tonic"I WANT MY MTV chronicles MTV as I, and many others, would like to remember it: a lot of fun when it first came on the scene and a joy to watch every day" -TG Daily"MTV changed America and this book will change how you think about MTV. It's a fascinating look deep inside how MTV became what it was from the mouths of those who made it. Everyone who loved or hated MTV will love this story filled with fights, drugs, sex and music." -Toure, author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"Before Google and before Apple, MTV was the one post-60s American enterprise that really transformed the culture. And now we have this definitive, riveting, revealing, amazingly well-reported insiders' account of how an improbable group of visionaries made it up as they went along. You want I Want My MTV." -Kurt Andersen, author of Heyday and Reset, and host of public radio's "Studio 360""I Want My MTV is such a big, wild joyride of book, made to be read with glee and nostalgia and marvel. It's also a thoughtful and astonishingly well-researched historical document, of course, but mostly it's just a total gas. It's all in here, folks! Girls in cages! TV executives on blow! Dudes in eyeliner! Chicks with guitars! Pyrotechnics, consumerism, fame, destruction and shamelessness! Anyone who came of age during the glory days of MTV will be-page by page-steadily transported right back to your boyfriend's parent's wood-paneled den, to savor once more the life-changing lessons of decadence and magic we learned from cable TV." -Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed "I Want My MTV is the definitively funny-yet loving-chronicle of music video's golden age: the hopes, the dreams, the drugs, the hair, the legacy of Tawny Kitaen. And for gossip, it's packed tighter than one of Heart's spandex bustiers." -Rob Sheffield, author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran “Splendid. I Want My MTV is compulsively entertaining, hugely edifying, and occasionally profound.” -TIME“Hilarious. One of my favorite books of the year. I guarantee you’ll have a tough time putting it down.” -USA Today“This is my kind of book.” -Howard Stern“This colorful oral history of MTV’s early years doesn’t pull punches or waste time. A relentlessly entertaining book, an endlessly quotable volume.” -The Onion“Wildly entertaining. Music and culture fans of a certain age – you will want this book.” -Washington Post“Marks and Tannenbaum make business meetings sound as fascinating as UFC Fighting, with anecdote upon anecdote about models, midgets, and coke-fueled mayhem.” -Spin Magazine
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The University of Michigan Press Race Liberalism and Economics
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The University of Michigan Press Vidding
Book SynopsisTraces the history and development of a previously little-known fan practice
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The University of Michigan Press Old Roots New Routes
Book SynopsisFluid by design, the term Alt Country has forced even the genre's own mouthpiece, the magazine/website ""No Depression"", to declare its terrain to be 'alternative-country music (whatever that is)'. This book explores the influences, meanings, and identity of this significant contemporary music form.
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