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1	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything more books like this by Steven Levitt, Stephen J Dubner add to wishlist Economist Steven Levitt is a popularizer in the best sense of that term, and his reality-based view of economics encompasses both how it touches our daily lives (though we may not always see it) and how it can help bring clarity to that messy world we live in. In FREAKONOMICS, written with journalist Stephen J. Dubner, Levitt casts his ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Hell's Angels; a strange and terrible saga more books like this by Hunter S. Thompson add to wishlist Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their language,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. see all copies from £6.24! new only from £9.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto more books like this by Chuck Klosterman add to wishlist From the author of "Fargo Rock City" comes another hilarious and discerning take on popular culture, exploring everything from the crucial role of breakfast cereal to how John Cusack films destroy the modern meaning of love. see all copies from £6.12! new only from £6.12! \| first editions
4	Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community more books like this by Robert D Putnam add to wishlist Based on a 25-year research project, this book documents a significant downward spike in the ways that Americans gather in social groups--and recommends new ways that people can come together for the common good. see all copies from £6.52! new only from £7.74! \| first editions
5	Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible more books like this by Jorge Cervantes add to wishlist Featuring information by more than 300 contributors--a veritable "who's who" of cannabis cultivation--this is the most complete book on the subject available. New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters have been added to this edition. see all copies from £16.41! new only from £16.41!
6	The Savage Mind more books like this by Claude Lévi-Strauss add to wishlist "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review " "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at ... see all copies from £9.35! new only from £15.58! \| first editions
7	Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There more books like this by David Brooks add to wishlist In this study of trends and class, a writer defines and decodes a new group in American society which he calls BoBos--a portmanteau word made from "bohemian" and "bourgeois"--who embody a consumerist combination of those two world-views. Brooks engages in what he calls "cosmic sociology," and writes in the tradition of William H.Whyte (THE ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker more books like this by James McManus add to wishlist When HARPER'S magazine gave James McManus a $4,000 advance to write an article on the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he used it as a springboard to win his own way into the game. A poker player since the age of 9, McManus worked at improving his game and was eventually able to win the $10,000 needed to enter the big game--which boasts a ... see all copies from £1.26! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Eating the Dinosaur more books like this by Chuck Klosterman add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" returns with an all-original nonfiction collection of questions and answers about pop culture, sports, and the meaning of reality. see all copies from £12.23! new only from £12.23! \| first editions
10	Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers more books like this by Sonia Maasik add to wishlist Unlike other popular culture readers, "Signs of Life "presumes that this topic merits rigorous analysis and so provides a conceptual framework for understanding it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. The selections in "Signs of Life "are arranged in provocative chapters (on ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.20! \| first editions
11 view cover	Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds more books like this by Charles MacKay add to wishlist 'Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation,' said author Charles Mackay in 1841. It was true then, and it is certainly true now. This intelligent, humorous collection of popular delusions, from money mania to ... see all copies from £2.89! new only from £2.89! \| first editions
12 view cover	Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication more books like this by Richard Campbell add to wishlist Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell's "Media & Culture "goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
13 view cover	Mythologies more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist In MYTHOLOGIES, Roland Barthes's most popular work, he examines common signs or "myths," and how they mask larger meanings and realities within French society. The collection contains a number of short pieces on popular culture, politics, film, and more, written for the leftist Les Lettres Nouvelles in the mid-1950s; the content epitomizes classic ... see all copies from £1.58! new only from £6.09! \| first editions
14 view cover	Chuck Klosterman, Volume 4: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas more books like this by Chuck Klosterman add to wishlist A bestselling pop culture guru and author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" takes a unique look at his career in journalism, in this collection of work that includes the legendary chicken McNuggets experiment and an uncensored profile of Britney Spears. see all copies from £7.32! new only from £9.28!
15 view cover	The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge more books like this by Peter L Berger, Prof. Thomas Luckmann add to wishlist This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art. .".. A major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge." -- "American Sociological Review." see all copies from £6.44! new only from £7.51! \| first editions
16 view cover	Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture more books like this by Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright add to wishlist Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £12.29!
17 view cover	Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter more books like this by Steven Johnson add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
18 view cover	Among the Thugs more books like this by Bill Buford add to wishlist For eight years - the years of riots on Channel ferries, street-fighting outside Britain's football grounds, and the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters - Bill Buford, an American, travelled with football hooligans up and down Britain, and to Italy, Turkey, Greece and Germany. He attended a National Front disco and witnessed the robbing of a pub. He ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.84! \| first editions
19 view cover	Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories more books like this by Chuck Palahniuk add to wishlist Chuck Palahniuk abandons fiction for fact in this collection of essays, which includes pieces on Marilyn Manson, his job as a hospice driver, submarines, college wrestling, his father's murder, and the making of the movie of his novel FIGHT CLUB. see all copies from £5.72! new only from £6.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things more books like this by Dr. Barry Glassner (Read by) add to wishlist This engaging analysis examines how misinformation cycles through the media, transforms public opinion, and eventually leads to public policy changes. Uncovering the often hidden beneficiaries of these scare tactics, this cautionary tale encourages readers to decipher the reality behind media-fed "fear mongering" and to focus instead on the more ... see all copies from £2.74! new only from £5.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster more books like this by Dana Thomas add to wishlist The style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek" takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce mediocre merchandise. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Electric Kool Aid Acid Test more books like this by Tom James Wolfe add to wishlist Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is one of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, revolutionizing the way the reporters wrote about the world. This seminal work of the New Journalism, a style which explored the writer's own experience of the journey rather than merely reporting the bare facts, was written in a mind ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £7.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market more books like this by Eric Schlosser add to wishlist Marijuana, pornography, and immigrant migration: in common, they share the dubious distinction of having three of the largest black markets in history. And their prosperity is only growing. Noted essayist Schlosser, author of FAST FOOD NATION, examines these three market sectors and dissects what it is about these enterprises that makes them ... see all copies from £1.34! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture more books like this by Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media more books like this by Susan Douglas add to wishlist This is an examination of the images of women in the American mass media, ranging from cinema and TV soaps to pop music, advertising, magazines and news coverage. The book seeks to show that women are confronted with contradictory images from the dizzy blonde to images of what a "good" desirable wife should be. Women are simultaneously encouraged ... see all copies from £2.66! new only from £8.07! \| signed copies \| first editions

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