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Yellowstone is America''s premier national park. Today is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the grea...

First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. I...

Turn on, tune in, drop out, Timothy Leary advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creating a counterculture built on drugs, rock music, se...

With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi has become a go-to source for smart takes on po...

Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressin...

Bob Dylans cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have infor...

Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and pre...

Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the po...

This motivational journal inspired by one of the greatest bands of all time, *NSYNC, lets the world know It's Gonna Be ...You! With quotes and pro...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

For fans of the hit show Fargo and bestselling author Noah Hawley comes the perfect collector's item. This companion to the first three seasons of ...

**A Stylist Book Club pick** 'In a time when women are under constant attack, I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp and topical book. Pe...

In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, ...

In Theft by Finding, David Sedaris opened up his written diaries (and himself) to the world in an unprecedented way. Now, in this illustrated volum...

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it ...

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it ...