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The United States of Fear
Haymarket Books 2011; US$ 16.95The creator of TomDispatch dissects America's endless urge to go to war. more...
Gun Digest Presents Classic Sporting Rifles
F+W Media 2012; US$ 24.99In Greatest Sporting Rifles of Gun Digest, the reader will find blow-by-blow, you-are-there reports on some of the greatest sporting rifles of all time, presented by the greatest gunwriters of all time, as they originally appeared in the world?s greatest firearms annual. Once available only to those few collectors who owned a complete set of Gun Digest,... more...
Oppenheimer Is Watching Me
University of Iowa Press 2007; US$ 24.95When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America?s atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me, takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties... more...
Dispatches from Bitter America
B&H Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.99FOX News & Commentary Host Todd Starnes takes a satirical look at serious culture war issues—everything from religion and healthcare to whoopee pie vs. sweet potato pie—getting input from celebrities and everyday folks along the way. more...
Remembering Roadside America
University of Tennessee Press 2011; US$ 29.95The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions,... more...
The Wow Climax
NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.00Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video). Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their actsa final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic was celebrated by other writers... more...
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards
Portable Press 2011; US$ 16.95This unique volume? Uncle John?s Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards ?gives readers a new way to recognize some of the world?s greatest (and oddest) achievements. Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers? Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that matter). With more than 11 million... more...
The Urban Cyclist's Survival Guide
Triumph Books 2011; US$ 14.99The Urban Cyclist's Survival Guide is written for cycling enthusiasts who expect to run into vehicular traffic or urban traffic patterns anywhere in the world. This book is not limited to only cyclists in the major cities. Every tip, hint, trick, and tactic can be applied to cycling anywhere?rural or urban. It took years of cycling the city streets... more...
Prosthetic Memory
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 29.99Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories... more...
The Call of the Weird
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 15.95No, it doesn?t get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (A.K.A. Prussian Blue, a white-power folk group for kids) and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade, Louis Theroux has been making acclaimed... more...









