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Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture And The War on Tradition

by Michael Medved

Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride...


Mama

by Maria Perez-Brown

Latina daughters finally have a chance to honor their mothers and inspire readers -- by paying homage in Mamá to the strong women who have sacrificed and struggled, laughed and cried, and fought hard to create...


Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the American Way of Dea

by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned...


Stiffed

by Susan Faludi

One of the most talked-about books of last year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Backlash now explores the collapse of traditional masculinity that has left men feeling betrayed. With Backlash in 1991,...


Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey

by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli & Holly George-Warren

A companion to the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.

Included...


A Focus on Hope: Fifty Resilient Students Speak

by Erik E. Morales

This extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon, detailing the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from various racial and ethnic backgrounds....


Inside the Cage: A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament

by Wight Martindale Jr.

The most popular outdoor basketball court in New York City is half the regulation size, offers no seating, and has sidelines bounded by a chain-link fence. But the summer league on West 4th Street in Greenwich...


Why the Net Matters, or Six Easy Ways to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

by David Eagleman

The advent of the internet has been one of the most significant technological developments in history. In this thought-provoking and groundbreaking work David Eagleman, author of international bestseller SUM,...


Cycling Home from Siberia: 30,000 Miles, 3 Years, 1 Bicycle

by Rob Lilwall

“ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts;...


Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

by David Brooks

Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those...


Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow

by None & Jamie Brisick

Whether on water, pavement, or fluffy white powder, the history of surfing,skateboarding, and snowboarding is a landscape filled with rugged personalities, exotic locales, wild innovation, and most of all the...


The Foreign Vocabulary Of The Qur'an

by Arthur Jeffery

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...


Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On

by Anneli Rufus

"The brilliant mind behind Party of One examines the striking social trend: people are stuck and they want to change, but..." (San Francisco Chronicle)

In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect...


Terror And Suicide Attacks

by Fethullah Gulen

This book collects articles from various Turkish scholars on Islam and terror, particularly how Islam treats suicide bombers. The contributors analyze such subjects as terrorism, suicide attacks, jihad in consultation...


Rumi And His Sufi Path Of Love

by Faith Citlak

This collection of articles by artists, philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists explores the Sufi tradition and its best-known teacher, Rumi, a 13th-century poet, jurist, and philosopher. Setting...


Muslim Citizens of the Globalized World

by Robert Hunt

Exploring the response and contributions of Muslims and Turkish Muslims to globalization?including areas such as democratization, scientific revolution, changing gender roles, and religious diversity?this study...


Dialogue Of Civilizations

by Jill Carroll

Fethullah Glen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller...


Badass: The Birth of a Legend

by Ben Thompson

From sex-crazed gods to ravenous monsters, Ben Thompson brings legendary titans to life in tales of adventure, bloodlust, and unrelenting badassitude.

Since the beginning of human history people have created...


Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might BeOur Last Hope

by David Anderegg

"Anderegg's clear-eyed look at a damaging cultural truism does nerds and jocks-all Americans, really-a service." (The Washington Post).

Thick glasses, socially awkward, a math whiz with a pocket protector-...


FAIL: An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

by Chuck Klosterman

Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture, this essay is about Ted Kaczynski.