Popular Culture Books


The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Best Price: $7.49 An amazing tour de force of food in the US! Pollan writes with wonderful wisdom and honesty. ...	Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Best Price: $14.99 This book serves a valuable purpose in challenging some of those long held beliefs that are...	Rules of the Game Best Price: $14.61 I thought these books were going to be the size of the first book. Wrong. They are pocket-book...	Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age Best Price: $17.08 This book could not have come at a better time in our lives! Distracted: The Erosion of...	The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) Best Price: $14.39 I used to read a lot of books. I always had a book in my coat pocket. My collection is the envy...



Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Best Price: $7.47 Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of the most powerful most inspired...	The Age of American Unreason Best Price: $15.92 I read Richard Hofstadter's ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE when it came out so I looked...	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Best Price: $3.95 I really enjoyed this book for one reason: looking at things that would otherwise be mundane and...	Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible Best Price: $19.38 If you want to know anything and everything about growing, this is your book. Seriously, this...	Iconic America: A Roller-Coaster Ride through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture Best Price: $36.00 I just got this book today and it is awesome! It is very inspiring and informative. The...



Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library) Best Price: $13.10 This is a wonderful republishing effort in hardback with a great photo of Hunter on its cover -...	Wall and Piece Best Price: $14.73 This book is great. Page after page after page of stencils and stories. There are so many...	Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias Best Price: $14.00 Many Baby Boomers, as we draw closer and closer to the magic number that will allow, or maybe...	The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America Best Price: $13.49 Highly informative, slightly esoteric, and entirely relevant, Hajdu's case study on the hysteria...	Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper Best Price: $2.00 I loved this book! Not only was it hilarious, it also gave an interesting look into a world I...

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas Best Price: $7.62 Klosterman's work reflects creativity and interesting insights into American culture. His major...	Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster Best Price: $3.34 Deluxe by Dana Thomas summarizes everything the casual reader needs to know about the history,...	The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Best Price: $4.73 Schwartz has a compelling argument: the more options we have for each choice, the higher our...	Secret Diary of a Call Girl Best Price: $7.88 Compelled by Showtime's ad campaign for their new series "Secret Diary of a Call...	How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization Best Price: $5.88 I could write another BOOK as to why this tome should NEVER have been written. For all those who...

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion Best Price: $14.48 This is a rather poor anthology of some (very good) author's lesser works. You know, ones they...	OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion Best Price: $11.46 I had to chuckle at the title of this book "Obsessive Branding Disorder." This sounds...	Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies Best Price: $12.42 Medical clinicians to literary scholars should read this book. Recently, many artists and...	Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories Best Price: $7.33 Reading Chuck Palahniuk's collection of oddball 'strange-but-true' stories, articles written for...	Kirby: King of Comics Best Price: $23.50 Read this in an evening. Well-researched (the author was an assistant of Kirby's in the late...

Playboy Cover to Cover -- the 50's: Searchable Digital Archive--Every Page, Every Issue Best Price: $28.99 This is a great collection of the older Playboys and is long overdue for collectors. Hopefully,...	Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) Best Price: $10.08 Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Can we hold the Joker...	Porn for Women Best Price: $5.18 This book is incredibly dead-on! It really sums up the things that make women happy! I took this...	Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life Best Price: $11.40 light read thats totally funny and brings you back to college days. and believe it or not you...	Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over Best Price: $12.00 By age thirty-seven, Cathy Alter had made a mess of her life. With a failed marriage already...

Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics Best Price: $15.46 Winograd and Hais theorize that American political constituencies cycle and recycle every...	The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas Best Price: $8.60 I have read "Freakonomics" and "Naked Economics" in the past 6 months and...	The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use Best Price: $13.54 This book was a great find! It has more information than pictures which is okay, it is very...	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test This is a benchmark of non fiction. From reading it, one can understand why. This book has an...	Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook: Easy Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation Best Price: $11.25 Can someone please tell me where to buy vermiculite and mushroom spores as mentioned in the PF...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Best Price: $5.92 "In watching American television, one is reminded of George Bernard Shaw's remark on his...	Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio Best Price: $12.50 Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZHJXBW4N301D	The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do Best Price: $7.56 Nice stories, good observations, simplistic expos?s and bold statements... but dubious...	Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol Best Price: $15.00 A spirited look at the history of alcohol from the dawn of civilization to the twenty first...	Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction Best Price: $18.76 How many Bands can boast that someone had documented every gig with Audio, Photos, memorabilia...

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood Best Price: $0.33 This book isn't about alcohol abuse, really. It's about a girl from a priviledged family who...	The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World Best Price: $10.99 Having been playing games since 1989, when I was four years old, I feel like video game history...	Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined Best Price: $5.94 I find it very useful, watching movie and looking for unknown words in the: Urban Dictionary:...	Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl Best Price: $8.88 This is a good book. A lot of books by former call girls just show that they hate men. Perhaps...	Gothic & Lolita Bible Volume 2 Best Price: $12.47 Am I the only one who thinks these mooks could stand to the talents of someone with a marketing...

Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 Best Price: $4.90 A highly entertaining academic work that attempts to bust out of the classroom. With using the...	Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Best Price: $5.99 Overall, I guess you could say I kind of enjoyed it... However, I was really suprised to see...	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Best Price: $3.60 This book is an expose into the seedy underworld of the American food system. It takes the...	The Curse of Lono Best Price: $37.79 The last great Thompson work that I have read which I hadn't bought because it's a bit...	In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus) Best Price: $4.98 My Crazy Type-A Fellow Americans: We all need to take a cue from the Italians and S-L-O-W...

The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) Best Price: $12.45 Sagal's talent for entertaining with biting and insightful commentary on the absurd and unseemly...	Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (Cultureamerica) Best Price: $19.75 When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took...	The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions Best Price: $31.39 I'd seen the individual books that comprise this set come out over the years and regretted not...	Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture Best Price: $4.80 Levy is a brilliant writer with a colloquial style that makes her academic, and at times...

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