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Hungry is an excellent text about peoples methods of adapting to modern life; it encompasses psychology, generational identities, and marketing in ...

The Irish do death differently.Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creat...

Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much ...

A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience. Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Wor...

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to cond...

If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book. -Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductres...

Badass Victorian WomenWild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremot...

Fifteen years. Two brothers. Angels and demons. A story like no other. And one of the most passionate fan bases of all time.  That's Supernatural....

Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: the...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives...

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.   This expans...

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.   This expans...