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24 Hour Party Peopleby Tony WilsonISBN 075222025X (0-7522-2025-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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3862 Days : The Official History of Blurby Stuart MaconieISBN 0753502879 (0-7535-0287-9)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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Absolute Beginnersby Colin MacInnesISBN 0749005408 (0-7490-0540-8)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolute Beginners'Book summary:London, 1958 - Soho, Notting Hill ... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless - the Absolute Beginners - were creating a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records the moments of a young teenager's life in the capital- sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the era of the first race riots and the lead-up to the swinging sixties. A twentieth century cult classic, Absolute Beginners remains the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture and paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and sensitivity. [via]
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American Popular Music Business in the 20th Centuryby Russell Sanjek, David SanjekISBN 0735103518 (0-7351-0351-8)
Hardcover, Replica Books
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The Asti Spumante Code: A Parodyby Toby ClementsISBN 0751537683 (0-7515-3768-3)
Softcover, Time Warner Books Uk
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Bathing Beauties: The Amazing History of Female Swimwearby Michael ColmerISBN 0722124694 (0-7221-2469-4)
Hardcover, Sphere
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Batman: The Ultimate Guide To The Dark Knightby Bob Kane, DkISBN 0756611210 (0-7566-1121-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Batman: The Ultimate Guide To The Dark Knight'Book summary:If you're already well versed in Bat-trivia, you probably won't find The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight anywhere near ultimate enough. But as a broad history of Batman's friends, foes, and high-tech hardware and hideouts, this oversized, illustration-filled DK guide just can't be beat.
Just as DK did with the people and paraphernalia of Star Wars in Star Wars: Episode I: Incredible Cross-Sections and Star Wars: Episode I: Visual Dictionary, this guide pulls apart and pokes at the many gadgets and backdrops found in the Dark Knight's world. Exploded diagrams reveal the innards of the new and old Batcaves, and stat-packed tags and captions spell out everything from how the Bat-Signal works to where Catwoman stashes her bullwhip. Batman scholar Scott Beatty has compiled hundreds of excellent panels and covers from the original comic, and he displays commanding knowledge cataloging Gotham's most colorful characters in big, splashy spreads. (And no doubt future historians will appreciate his capsulized, 1939-on Batman timeline as an uncanny window into American pop consciousness.)
Die-hard fans will find much lacking here, though, like the near-omission of Frank Miller's genius Dark Knight Returns series and not even a passing reference to Batman's poignant love-hate relationship with the Man of Steel. But what DK's Ultimate Guide does, it does well--examining neat Bat-minutiae and providing a primer on the post-no-man's-land comic continuity. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Blair Witchby D. A. SternISBN 0743411897 (0-7434-1189-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Contentby Biz StoneISBN 0735712999 (0-7357-1299-9)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Boring Postcards USAby Martin ParrISBN 0714843911 (0-7148-4391-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Born on a Rotten Day: Illuminating and Coping With the Dark Side of the Zodiacby Hazel Dixon-CooperISBN 0743225627 (0-7432-2562-7)
Softcover, Fireside
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Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, Et Alby E. S. TurnerISBN 0718112822 (0-7181-1282-2)
Hardcover, Joseph
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagersby Alissa QuartISBN 0738208620 (0-7382-0862-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers'Book summary:In Branded, Alissa Quart takes us to the dark side of marketing to teens, showing readers a disturbingly fast-paced world in which adults shamelessly insinuate themselves into "friendships" with young people in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to, and buy. We travel to a conference on advertising to teenagers and witness the breathless and insensitive pronouncements of lecturers there. We meet the unofficial teen "sales force" for a new girls' perfume (the unpaid daughters of the company's saleswomen) and observe the attempts of mega-corporations to purchase the time and space for product-placement in schools. We witness the aggressive and potentially emotionally damaging ways in which adults seek to control vulnerable young minds and wallets. But we also witness the bravery of isolated and increasingly Internet-linked kids who attempt to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them.Eye-opening and urgent, Branded exposes and condemns a segment of American business whose high-paid job it is to reduce teens to their lowest common denominator, to systematically sap youth of individuality and creativity. Engaging and thought provoking, Branded ensures that consumers will never look at the American way of doing business in the same way again.In Branded, author Alissa Quart spotlights the most nefarious of youth marketing techniques, revealing eye-opening facts about the commercialization of today's teens, including:--31 million teens now spend upwards of $153 billion on leisure expenses- clothing, CDs, and makeup-a year. 55% of American high-school seniors work more than three hours a day to earn the money to fulfill their need for stuff.--A growing number of high schools are sponsored by corporations. Textbooks regularly mention Oreo cookies and math problems contain Nike logos. Teenagers not only play ball in gyms rimmed with logos but also spend their English classes coming up with advertising slogans for sponsors, all under the auspices of their so-called public schools.--In the last two years, cosmetic surgery rates for teens have gone from 1% to 3% of the total 4.6 million surgeries performed each year. Teen liposcution has doubled; breast augmentation has increased by almost a third in the last five years.[via]More editions of Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers:
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millionsby Ben MezrichISBN 0743249992 (0-7432-4999-2)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions'Book summary:It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail -- and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took the casinos for over three million dollars -- while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams.
In the midst of the go-go eighties and nineties, a group of overachieving, anarchistic MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world. While their classmates were working long hours in labs and libraries, the blackjack team traveled weekly to Las Vegas and other glamorous gambling locales, with hundreds of thousands of dollars duct-taped to their bodies. Underwritten by shady investors they would never meet, these kids bet fifty thousand dollars a hand, enjoyed VIP suites and other upscale treats, and partied with showgirls and celebrities.
Handpicked by an eccentric mastermind -- a former MIT professor and an obsessive player who had developed a unique system of verbal cues, body signals, and role-playing -- this one ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars from corporate Vegas, making them the object of the casinos' wrath and eventually targets of revenge. Here is their inside story, revealing their secrets for the first time.
Master storyteller Ben Mezrich takes you from the ivory towers of academia to the Technicolor world of Las Vegas, where anything can happen -- and often does. [via]
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The Casefilesby Jeff Mariotte, Nancy Holder, Maryelizabeth HartISBN 074342414X (0-7434-2414-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Celestine Prophecyby James RedfieldISBN 0756759900 (0-7567-5990-0)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capitalby Sarah ThorntonISBN 0745614434 (0-7456-1443-4)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Coming Clean: The Best and Worst of DailyConfession.Comby Greg Fox, Kevin BrimmerISBN 0740741772 (0-7407-4177-2)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Complete Slayer : An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayerby Keith ToppingISBN 0753509318 (0-7535-0931-8)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Slayer : An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer'Book summary:[via]An episode-by-episode look at the series, covering every show in each of the seven seasons with each episode broken down into recurring categories to analyze the themes of the show, unearth pop culture and soundtrack information, serve up the best lines of dialogue, expose continuity errors, analyze the show's subtext and serious issues - all in a style that captures the unique humor of the show.More editions of The Complete Slayer : An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Mealby Anthony BourdainISBN 0756781604 (0-7567-8160-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Crackpotby John WatersISBN 0743246276 (0-7432-4627-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crackpot'Book summary:Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters' brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinationg people, places and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation's public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this new special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental. [via]
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Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songsby Dave BarryISBN 0740706004 (0-7407-0600-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs'Book summary:Dave Barry, that indefatigable yukmeister, writes terrific humor columns (never mind that they all begin to sound the same if you read him regularly). He's the funniest friend you never had. If you read his column--better yet, if you don't read his column--get your hands on a copy of The Book of Bad Songs.
Barry's style is so effortless that you can't resist quoting him. This bit is from his mock-hortatory introduction: "If you keep reading, you're going to have all kinds of bad songs waking up and creeping around inside your brain, refusing to die, just like the corpses in the movie The Night of the Living Dead ..." [via]
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The Dc Comics Encyclopediaby Phil Jimenez, Dc Comics, IncISBN 075660592X (0-7566-0592-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Deconstructing Disneyby Martin McQuillan, Eleanor J. ByrneISBN 0745314511 (0-7453-1451-1)
Softcover, Pluto Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deconstructing Disney'Book summary:Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the heart of the evil empire. Deconstructing Disney takes issue with knee-jerk polarities, overturning classical oppositions and recognising that, just as the Disney text has changed, so too must the terms of critical engagement. This book is a sharply focused deconstruction of the political culture and the cultural politics of the Disney canon in the years since the emergence of the so-called New World Order. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan offer a critical encounter with Disney which alternates between readings of individual texts and wider thematic concerns such as race, gender and sexuality, the broader context of American contemporary culture, and the global ambitions and insularity of the last great superpower. The movies discussed include The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Pocohontas, Snow White, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Hercules and Mulan.[via]More editions of Deconstructing Disney:
Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessionsby Jane HammersloughISBN 0738207721 (0-7382-0772-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Einstein's Refrigerator: And Other Stories from the Flip Side of Historyby Steve SilvermanISBN 0740714198 (0-7407-1419-8)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Father Ted: The Complete Scriptsby Arthur Mathews, Graham LinehanISBN 0752218506 (0-7522-1850-6)
Hardcover, Boxtree
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Father Ted : The Complete Scriptsby Graham Linehan, Arthur MathewsISBN 0752272357 (0-7522-7235-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteemby Maureen StoutISBN 0738204358 (0-7382-0435-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem'Book summary:Maureen Stout isn't the first to attack self-esteem boosters in public schools, and she won't be the last. The question is: Do such creatures actually still exist? Stout, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at California State University-Northridge, uses many of her graduate students to illustrate the fallout from the self-esteem movement, which hit its heyday in the 1980s and early '90s. She portrays her pupils--tomorrow's teachers--as spoiled brats who can't spell and feel entitled to grades they haven't earned. Her fellow professors are painted as bovine, unoriginal thinkers. It doesn't instill much confidence in the future of our education system--but it's not meant to. Stout attacks the basic tenets of the self-esteem movement, blasting it for lowering expectations, belittling competition, and turning schools into centers for therapy, not learning. She blames "feel-good curriculums" for everything from road rage to the abuse defense used by the parent-killing brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez. Her argument is scattered at times, but it remains passionate throughout. While many self-esteem programs have fizzled under similar harsh criticism, the mindset still pervades our public schools, Stout contends. She lists a number of "red flags" and questions for parents to ask of their schools so they can monitor their own children's education to see if self-esteem exercises are endangering another generation of young minds. The Feel-Good Curriculum will confirm the fears of many and outrage the rest. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the Worldby Davy RothbartISBN 0743251148 (0-7432-5114-8)
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From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing Film Anaysisby Martin Barker, Thomas AustinISBN 0745315798 (0-7453-1579-8)
Softcover, Pluto Pr
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Fuzzy Diceby Paul Di Filippo, Rudy RuckerISBN 0743498224 (0-7434-9822-4)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fuzzy Dice'Book summary:How badly could you screw up when granted access to infinite worlds conforming to your heart's most intimate desires? No matter how much of a disaster you or I might make of such a miraculous gift, rest assured that Paul Girard, hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, can hilariously surpass your worst fumblings and missteps. Visited one morning by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision. But without truly knowing himself, Paul soon discovers that framing a wish that gets the expected results is not as easy as it first appears. From the depths of the Big Bang to a world where hippies rule; from a land of Amazons to one where life is a video-game; from a society where cooperation means everything to one where individual chaos rules-across these bizarre dimensions and many others, Paul races in the search for happiness, love, wealth, status¨ and the answer to the Ontological Pickle. Acquiring comrades and enemies along the way, our feckless alternaut reaches a cul-de-sac from which the only exit is death. And then his adventures really begin¨. [via]
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Garden Book Midiby NISBN 0714844896 (0-7148-4489-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80sby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0743250443 (0-7432-5044-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s'Book summary:Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling "Gonzo Papers," was first published in 1988 and is now back in print.
Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best -- covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN -- 24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson -- eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring. [via]
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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garlandby Gerald ClarkeISBN 075676131X (0-7567-6131-X)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Good in Bedby Jennifer WeinerISBN 0743418174 (0-7434-1817-4)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good in Bed: A Novel'Book summary:Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed is the story of a year in the life of a late-twentysomething American woman: Cannie, a journalist on the Philadelphia Examiner, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years (cue endless similarities with countless other books aimed at young Western women). Fortunately, Weiner's book has enough originality to break out from the mould, with an overweight heroine and a mother who has recently moved in with her lesbian lover. Good in Bed has its funny moments, dealing with humour and sensitivity with Cannie's status as a "larger woman", her bizarre family and her regrets at splitting up with Bruce, but there is often more a feeling of pathos than laughter. Cannie is not a tragic figure through her dress size--Weiner successfully side-steps any attempt to pity her or her fellow larger women at a weight-loss clinic, taking the humorous path instead--but through her relationship and career predicaments. It is therefore not clear why Weiner cast Cannie as a plus-size, unless to drive home the eternal fact that whatever their size, all women have the same neuroses inside. Cannie's year offers more lows than highs--with a particularly heart-breaking low towards the end of the novel, which is unlikely to be read by anyone with even a wry smile--and it therefore is not a "feel good to be a woman" novel. For laugh-out-loud writing with a dash of pathos try Shannon Olson's Welcome to My Planet, but for sensitive and ultimately tear-inducing touching narration try Good in Bed. --Olivia Dickinson [via]
The Gospel According to the World's Greatest Superheroby Steve SkeltonISBN 0736918124 (0-7369-1812-4)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Timeby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0743250451 (0-7432-5045-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 0747532745 (0-7475-3274-5)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'Book summary:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cassette Travel Bag is a complete and unabridged reading by Stephen Fry on six cassettes, contained in a travel box. A CD travel bag is also available.
Just when it seems that there cannot possibly be another twist to the Harry Potter tale, Stephen Fry dons his haughtiest and naughtiest tones to bring Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to vibrant life on audio. Harry Potter has spent the first 10 years of his life at the mercy of the dreadful Dursleys--the aunt, uncle and fat, spoilt brat of a cousin who reluctantly gave him a home after the death of his mother and father. But on his 11th birthday Harry discovers that he is no ordinary boy, and despite the best efforts of his hideous relatives he escapes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his new life as a trainee wizard. And the rest, as they say, is history...
As Harry battles against the evils thrown in his path, Stephen Fry injects the proceedings with a wry, dry and extremely contagious humour that perfectly suits the tale, wringing out the best in Harry and his cohorts as they get to grips with their new lives at the sharp end of Hogwarts. Fry's innate upper-class drone is perfectly suited to the telling of this most magical tale, cracking into the high-pitched squawking of Hermione the swat, or the gentle tones of the firm but fair Dumbledore, or the evil sniping of slimey Snape at precisely the right moments.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fine story and much has been written about its success, but until you have heard Fry's cracking reading of this most magical of stories then you simply haven't lived. As with any audio book, this one is perfect for car journeys and an ideal way of introducing reluctant readers to the magic that is Harry Potter. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
Running time: 8 hrs 25 mins [via]
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How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essaysby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0749397098 (0-7493-9709-8)
Softcover, Minerva Pr
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I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movieby Roger EbertISBN 0740706721 (0-7407-0672-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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In the Miso Soupby Ryu MurakamiISBN 0747574057 (0-7475-7405-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Realityby David Murray, Joel Schwartz, S. Robert LichterISBN 0742510956 (0-7425-1095-6)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Killing Bonoby Neil McCormickISBN 0743482484 (0-7434-8248-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Kitchen Confidentialby Anthony BourdainISBN 0747550727 (0-7475-5072-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitchen Confidential'Book summary:Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn [via]
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the Worldby A. J. JacobsISBN 0743250621 (0-7432-5062-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World'Book summary:33,000 pages
44 million words
10 billion years of history
1 obsessed manPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but, shall we say, unconvinced.
With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child.
The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom. [via]
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KylieISBN 0732910080 (0-7329-1008-0)
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Learning to Fly: The Autobiographyby Victoria BeckhamISBN 0718144910 (0-7181-4491-0)
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LIT Riffsby Mtv, Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Amanda Davis, Aimee Bender, Neal Pollack, Neil StraussISBN 0743470265 (0-7434-7026-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LIT Riffs'Book summary:Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, electrifying stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff.
Alongside Bangs's classic work, you'll find stories by J.T. LeRoy, who puts a recovering teenage drug abuser in a dentist's chair with nothing but the Foo Fighters's "Everlong" -- blaring through the P.A. -- to fight the pain; Jonathan Lethem, whose narrator looks back on his lost innocence just as an extramarital affair careens to an end -- this to the tune "Speeding Motorcycle" as recorded by Yo La Tengo; and Jennifer Belle, who envisions a prequel to Paul Simon's "Graceland" -- one that takes place at a children's birthday party replete with a real live kangaroo.
With original contributions from Tom Perrotta, Nelson George, Amanda Davis, Lisa Tucker, Aimee Bender, Darin Strauss, and many more -- riffing on everyone from Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen to the White Stripes, Cat Power, and Bob Marley -- this is both an astounding collection of short stories and an extraordinary experiment in words and music.
Soundtrack available from Saturation Acres Music & Recording Co. [via]
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Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Radio, Television, Stand-up, and Movie Comedyby Joe Garner, Richard PryorISBN 0740746952 (0-7407-4695-2)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: The Essential Libraryby Charles MacKayISBN 0738843091 (0-7388-4309-1)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: The Essential Library'Book summary:If you've ever wondered where popular catch phrases and slang comes from or why men's beards go in and out of fashion, then this book is for you. How often do you come across a book that can explain most everything? Much of today's news has a basis in prior historical events. The internet IPO market shares striking similarities to the Dutch "tulip mania" of the 1600's. The conflict in the Middle East can trace its roots to the Crusades. The recent satanic child abuse trials are reminiscent of the European witch trials of the 1400s-1600s. This complete two-volume edition demonstrates that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.
Here are astonishing and entertaining tales of thievery, greed and madness. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions from haunted houses and the prophecies of Nostradamus to speculative excess. Charles MacKay explains it all in this classic edition. Enjoy! [via]
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Memorial : A Novelby Bruce WagnerISBN 0743272358 (0-7432-7235-8)
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learnedby Alan AldaISBN 0739325523 (0-7393-2552-3)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned'Book summary:Alan Alda's autobiography travels a path less taken. Instead of a sensationalist, name-dropping page-turner, Alda writes about his life as a memory play, an exercise in recollecting his childhood, his parents (dad Robert was a veteran on stage, film, and vaudeville), and his career. You want to know about Alda's most famous work, the eleven years on M*A*S*H? You have exactly 16 pages to do so, and guess what: It's one of the least entertaining parts of the book. But should fans of the award-winning actor-writer-director avoid this slim memoir? Not in the slightest. Slyly humorous and open-hearted, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is a breezy, most enjoyable read. Alda's ability to recall his childhood (including backstage at raunchy vaudeville shows), school years, stage struggles and successes is as entertaining as one of his Emmy-winning teleplays. Alda is inordinately attune recalling life's crystallizing moments: when religion no longer worked for him, how something in his pocket made him forever a better actor, or his mother's painful descent into dementia. Alda's ever present humor is a great asset whether telling a charming love story on meeting his wife Arlene or a life-threatening illness in a remote part of Chile ("I am in and out of consciences, but I never take a break from the screaming. The show must go on."). Like Alda's persona, his book is more human and less flash. What would be filler in most books is often the mot entertaining and revealing here; especially Alda's dynamic relationship with his parents. Really, who else would name his memoir after an unfortunate trip to the taxidermist? The year the book was published during a revival for the 69-year-old; he was nominated for an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony in the same year. --Doug Thomas [via]
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Nnnnnby Carl ReinerISBN 0743286693 (0-7432-8669-3)
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Nosetalgiaby Sylvie Vaccari, Carol BoboltsISBN 0740751328 (0-7407-5132-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nosetalgia'Book summary:Nosetalgia is the first and only book of its kind in the world. And it literally stinks! It has 14 nostalgic scratch-and-sniff spots to take you back.In the hyper-protective, safety-conscious world we live in, we can consider it a badge of honor that as kids we breathed in the deliciously noxious smells of damp mimeograph paper, model airplane glue, Wite-Out, rubber cement, Magic Markers, and Superelastic Bubble Plastic and lived to tell about it.
Very few things transport you in time like your sense of smell. It is the oldest, most primal sense and the one most tied to memory. And while we can identify over 10,000 individual smells, it is still the most underappreciated of all our senses.
The authors of Nosetalgia: The Smells That Take You Back present a way to help release stored and oft-forgotten childhood memories. This unique book features 96 pages of vibrant, full-color photos of a wide variety of items from the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s, from Lip Smackers to Odorama memorabilia. To complete the experience, there are 14 scratch-and-sniff scent spots, from menthol (recalling Vick's VapoRub) to coconut (Coppertone suntan lotion and the smell of piña coladas) and a variety of bubblegums, perfumes, and colognes to help trigger smell memories for the reader. It is a scratch-and-sniff book for grownups who want to relive the glory days of their childhoods.
People the world over continue to ride the wave of nostalgia that has swept the entire globe. Nosetalgia will be a coffee-table must-have. It is something people will flip through again and again and will tell their friends about. [via]
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Opus 2005 Calendar: His Greatest Hitsby Berkeley BreathedISBN 0740746081 (0-7407-4608-1)
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Pastoraliaby George SaundersISBN 074755000X (0-7475-5000-X)
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The Perfect Thing : How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolnessby Steven LevyISBN 0743285220 (0-7432-8522-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perfect Thing : How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness'Book summary:On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the company's wildest dreams. Over 50 million people have inserted the device's distinctive white buds into their ears, and the iPod has become a global obsession. "The Perfect Thing" is the definitive account, from design and marketing to startling impact, of Apple's iPod, the signature device of our young century.
Besides being one of the most successful consumer products in decades, the iPod has changed our behavior and even our society. It has transformed Apple from a computer company into a consumer electronics giant. It has remolded the music business, altering not only the means of distribution but even the ways in which people enjoy and think about music. Its ubiquity and its universally acknowledged coolness have made it a symbol for the digital age itself, with commentators remarking on "the iPod generation." Now the iPod is beginning to transform the broadcast industry, too, as podcasting becomes a way to access radio and television programming. Meanwhile millions of Podheads obsess about their gizmo, reveling in the personal soundtrack it offers them, basking in the social cachet it lends them, even wondering whether the device itself has its own musical preferences.
Steven Levy, the chief technology correspondent for "Newsweek" magazine and a longtime Apple watcher, is the ideal writer to tell the iPod's tale. He has had access to all the key players in the iPod story, including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom Levy has known for over twenty years. Detailing for the first time the complete story of the creation of the iPod, Levy explains why Apple succeeded brilliantly with its version of the MP3 player when other companies didn't get it right, and how Jobs was able to convince the bosses at the big record labels to license their music for Apple's groundbreaking iTunes Store. (We even learn why the iPod is white.) Besides his inside view of Apple, Levy draws on his experiences covering Napster and attending Supreme Court arguments on copyright (as well as his own travels on the iPod's click wheel) to address all of the fascinating issues -- technical, legal, social, and musical -- that the iPod raises.
Borrowing one of the definitive qualities of the iPod itself, "The Perfect Thing" shuffles the book format. Each chapter of this book was written to stand on its own, a deeply researched, wittily observed take on a different aspect of the iPod. The sequence of the chapters in the book has been shuffled in different copies, with only the opening and concluding sections excepted. "Shuffle" is a hallmark of the digital age -- and "The Perfect Thing," via sharp, insightful reporting, is the perfect guide to the deceptively diminutive gadget embodying our era. [via]
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The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Languageby John H. McWhorterISBN 0716744732 (0-7167-4473-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Language'Book summary:In his enormously ambitious book The Power of Babel, John McWhorter offers an account of the first common language ever spoken by human beings, and proceeds to explore why it then fragmented into the 6,000 languages that are spoken today across the globe. As Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, McWhorter is perfectly qualified to provide a witty and accessible guide to his subject. As he puts it, "the process by which one original language has developed into six thousand is a rich and fascinating one, incorporating not only findings from linguistic theory but also geography, history, sociology. It is this fascinating story that I will share with you in this book."
McWhorter's theory of language draws explicit parallels with Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and the biological theories of Richard Dawkins. The Power of Babel absorbs and uses everything from evolutionary theory to Monopoly and soap operas to offer a dynamic story of language which originally "split into thousands of branches that each have evolved in part to maintain what is necessary to communication but in equal part have evolved just because various semantic spaces, perceivable to and processible by human cognition but nonessential to the needs of speech, were 'there' to be evolved into". For McWhorter, languages do not "evolve"; instead they endlessly transform themselves across and into other languages. As a result, "today's languages are Polaroid snapshots of ever-mutating transformations of the first language in six thousand different directions". He controversially concludes that there is no possibility of ever recovering the original first language, but that "of the languages extant today, the ones that most closely approximate the first language are creoles".
The Power of Babel is a clever and engaging book, never dry or boring, but it sometimes overplays the grandness of its claims, which can sometimes seem rather straightforward. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Quotable Slayerby Micol Ostow, Stephen BrezenoffISBN 0743410173 (0-7434-1017-3)
Softcover, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humorby Geoffrey KloskeISBN 0743292529 (0-7432-9252-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor'Book summary:Why do people tell dirty jokes?
And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?
G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject.
More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh.
Here -- back in print -- is the definitive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. Rationale of the Dirty Joke will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke.
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The Real Science Behind the X-Filesby Anne Elizabeth Simon, Chris CarterISBN 0756760690 (0-7567-6069-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Real World New Orleansby Alison PolletISBN 0743411277 (0-7434-1127-7)
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronautby Mike MullaneISBN 0743276833 (0-7432-7683-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut'Book summary:In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are -- human.
Mullane's tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often comical, and always entertaining. He vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experience, from telling a female technician which urine-collection condom size is a fit to hearing "Taps" played over a friend's grave. He is also brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster -- killing four members of his group. A hilarious, heartfelt story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, Riding Rockets will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop."
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Rise And Shineby Anna QuindlenISBN 0739326449 (0-7393-2644-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise And Shine'Book summary:From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.
Its an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurices perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of Rise and Shine, the countrys highest-rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial breakbut not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike.
In an instant, its the end of an era, not only for Meghan, who is unaccustomed to dealing with adversity, but also for her younger sister, Bridget, a social worker in the Bronx who has always lived in Meghans long shadow. The effect of Meghans on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghans son, husband, friends, and fans, as well as Bridgets perception of her sister, their complex childhood, and herself. What follows is a story about how, in very different ways, the Fitzmaurice women adapt, survive, and manage to bring the whole teeming world of New York to heel by dint of their smart mouths, quick wits, and the powerful connection between them that even the worst tragedy cannot shatter. [via]More editions of Rise And Shine:
Schott's Food & Drink Miscellanyby Ben SchottISBN 0747566542 (0-7475-6654-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Sex and the City : Kiss and Tellby Amy SohnISBN 0743457307 (0-7434-5730-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bi'S, Drags, Trans, Virgins and Othersby Charles PanatiISBN 0756759412 (0-7567-5941-2)
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Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generationby Philip NormanISBN 0743235657 (0-7432-3565-7)
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Slayer : The Last Days of Sunnydaleby Keith ToppingISBN 0753508443 (0-7535-0844-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slayer : The Last Days of Sunnydale'Book summary:[via]After a seven year run that has seen love, death, violence and college, the cult phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer has finally reached its close.
Adhering to Virgin's successful programme guide format and the style of previous editions, Slayer: The Last Days of Sunnydale contains a complete episode-by-episode guide to the final season Season Seven with each episode broken down into recurring categories to draw attention to details that viewers might have missed. Bestselling author Keith Topping analyses the themes of the show, unearths pop culture and soundtrack information, serves up the best lines of dialogue, exposes continuity errors, while still managing to analyse the show's subtext and serious issues. In addition, there are sections on the first six seasons, the extensive media coverage of the series finale, the Internet realm of Buffy and what happens next in the Buffy-verse all in a style that captures the unique humour of the show.
Vampires, violence, passion, angst and humour Slayer: The Last Days of Sunnydale is the essential guide to the end of a teen phenomenon.More editions of Slayer : The Last Days of Sunnydale:
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolutionby Howard RheingoldISBN 0738208612 (0-7382-0861-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution'Book summary:From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Howard Rheingold takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift-a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices that will allow us to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.From the amusing ("Lovegetty" devices in Japan that light up when a person with the right date-potential characteristics appears in the vicinity) to the extraordinary (the overthrow of a repressive regime in the Philippines by political activists who mobilized by forwarding text messages via cell phones), Rheingold gives examples of the fundamentally new ways in which people are already engaging in group or collective action. He also considers the dark side of this phenomenon, such as the coordination of terrorist cells, threats to privacy, and the ability to incite violent behavior.Applying insights from sociology, artificial intelligence, engineering, and anthropology, Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the brave new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. At the same time, he reminds us that, as with other technological revolutions, the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, adapt to it, and ultimately use it to transform themselves, their communities, and their institutions. [via]
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Social Graces: Manners, Conversation, and Charm for Todayby Ann Platz, Susan Wales, Kathryn Andrews FincherISBN 0736901124 (0-7369-0112-4)
Hardcover, Harvest House Pub
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0743240995 (0-7432-4099-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream'Book summary:First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably astute social commentary.
With Thompson's trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades -- 1950 to 1990 -- Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem," and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents, and Fourth Amendment battle with the Law. These tales -- often sleazy, brutal, and crude -- are only the tip of what Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time."
Songs of the Doomed is vintage Thompson -- a brilliant, brazen, bawdy compilation of the greatest sound bites of Gonzo journalism from the past thirty years. [via]
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Starby Pamela AndersonISBN 0743493753 (0-7434-9375-3)
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Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Momentsby Joe GarnerISBN 0740726935 (0-7407-2693-5)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out into the Real Worldby Maria ShriverISBN 0740733591 (0-7407-3359-1)
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Them: Adventures With Extremistsby Jon RonsonISBN 0743233212 (0-7432-3321-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Them: Adventures With Extremists'Book summary:In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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Trainspottingby Irvine WelshISBN 0749396067 (0-7493-9606-7)
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