By Mick Farren

ISBN-10: 0345358082

ISBN-13: 9780345358080

The hunt of the DNA Cowboys, a trilogy by means of Mick released inthe incredible 70's, has been heralded because the 'lost' vintage ofadventure/pulp sci-fi novels. a protracted, unique story of the picaresque misadventures of the 'DNA cowboys' (is the Minstrel now not Mick's semi-biographical persona?), the unique trilogy, of which this publication is the purported finale, is a literary LSD head-trip through Mick's distinct, hallucinatory fantasy-scape of kung-fu video clips, sphaghetti westerns, high-tech beauty and dazed drugged decadence. briefly, a deliciously addictive mix of 70's Americana popular culture. the unique trilogy is now very very infrequent and fanatically wanted by way of fanatics. This new e-book is a pleasant shock while it first got here out, for nobody had anticipated Mick to retread the DNA Cowboy gambit. a couple of continuity difficulties asides (poor Mick didn't appear to have re-read his past paintings prior to scripting this 'sequel'!), this newest installment isn't any much less wonderful than the sooner ones, and has in actual fact benefitted from Mick's event as a author because. A profitable and hugely fun learn, a must-BUY!

By Shaun P. Young

ISBN-10: 0812697995

ISBN-13: 9780812697995

When you consider that its debut in 1964, Jeopardy! has been one in all America’s favourite and longest-running sunlight hours quiz indicates. It turns the question-answer layout of conventional quiz exhibits on its head and calls for contestants to pose right inquiries to solutions in chosen different types. whereas mining details and proof from Alchemy to Zoology, Jeopardy!, is a uniquely highbrow, erudite, and demanding sunlight hours tv application. some distance past interesting its fanatics with nail-biting contests of information, reminiscence, and pace, all of it yet calls for them to take part. Few humans watch Jeopardy! with no urgent an invisible button and blurting out inquiries to their television screen.

Because of this own and highbrow funding, so much Jeopardy! enthusiasts are religious. observing the express is valued as a regular ritual within which real highbrow ability and encyclopedic wisdom (as against skinny Hollywood depictions similar to these in Big Bang Theory or Rain Man) aren't basically revered and put within the highlight, but in addition rewarded with nationwide status and prize winnings. Champion Ken Jennings (who contributes to this quantity) has received over 3 million funds and remained champion seventy-four instances. in case you include Jeopardy! as an highbrow oasis within the arid desolate tract of pop culture, it's the geeks who shall inherit the earth.

Jeopardy!’s occasion of mind and forward-thinking is definitely well-known all through pop culture and between all age teams. Ken Jennings, Chuck Forrest, and different all-time champions are close to celebrities, whereas the convey itself frequently reaches out via designated tournaments to various segments of yankee tradition, reminiscent of actors and musicians (Celebrity Jeopardy!), high-school and faculty scholars (Teen event and faculty Championship Jeopardy!) and senior electorate (Senior event Jeopardy!). nonetheless, regardless of its common appreciate and, a few may possibly bitch, boastful self-respect, neither the express nor its fanatics take themselves too heavily. Jokes approximately host Alex Trebek’s hair and recognized parodies of Jeopardy! on Saturday evening Live are as primary as bizarre Al Yankovic’s MTV-mainstay “I misplaced on Jeopardy!” (to the track of “Our Love’s in Jeopardy”):

Don't comprehend what i used to be thinkin' of,
I wager I simply wasn't too bright.
Well, I yes wish I do better
Next weekend on The expense Is Right.

By Ty Burr

WITH eight PAGES OF BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

How—and why—do we obsess over motion picture stars? How does status either mirror and masks the individual in the back of it? How have similar to stardom and our stars’ photographs altered over a century of cultural and technological swap? will we create celebrities, or do they carry us?

Ty Burr, movie critic for The Boston Globe, solutions those questions during this vigorous and engaging anecdotal historical past of stardom, with all its advantages and curses for famous person and stargazer alike. From Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin to Archie Leach (a.k.a. Cary supply) and Marion Morrison (a.k.a. John Wayne), Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts, and such no-cal stars of this day because the Kardashians and the hot on-line megastar (i.e., you and me), Burr takes us on an insightful and pleasing trip throughout the sleek reputation video game at its flashiest, so much indulgent, sometimes such a lot tragic, and eventually, its so much revealing.

By Martin Gitlin

ISBN-10: 0313359458

ISBN-13: 9780313359453

From the instant she seemed at the American silver reveal as a runaway princess in Roman vacation, Audrey Hepburn was once liked by way of critics and audiences alike. From her formative years activism within the Dutch resistance flow in the course of international warfare II, to her wide movie occupation, her charity paintings for UNICEF, and her roles as a spouse, mom, and model icon, Audrey Hepburn's position in American cultural heritage is dropped at existence for a brand new new release of readers. that includes illustrations, a timeline of occasions, a particular bibliography, and an appendix of Hepburn's movie, degree, and television appearances, this quantity will attract scholars of yankee stories, American background, movie, and well known culture.A swish and diminutive presence onscreen, Hepburn breathed existence into essentially the most iconic movie roles in Hollywood background. to review her lifestyles is to review American style and tradition, particularly vintage motion pictures of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Her tale additionally illuminates the event of daily humans dwelling in Europe in the course of international struggle II, and the probabilities of modern day activism as exemplified in her paintings for UNICEF within the 80s and early 90s. From her early life activism within the Dutch resistance circulation in the course of global struggle II, to her huge movie occupation, her charity paintings for UNICEF.With wonderful aptitude, this enticing biography explores the existence and paintings of 1 of the main loved actresses ever to grace the level and display. Readers will discover the German career of her native land in the course of international battle II and her anti-Nazi resistance actions, her early level roles and her discovery by way of French novelist Colette, who solid her within the degree construction of Gigi, her prestige as style icon, and a behind-the-scenes check out the casting and filming of a few of her such a lot recognized movies, together with Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, and My reasonable girl.

By Brandon W. Forbes, George A. Reisch

ISBN-10: 0812696646

ISBN-13: 9780812696646

On the grounds that their leap forward hit "Creep" in 1993, Radiohead has persisted to make waves all through renowned and political tradition with its perspectives concerning the Bush presidency (its 2003 album used to be titled Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its pioneering efforts to provide ecologically sound street excursions, and, such a lot of all, its selection in 2007 to promote its newest album, In Rainbows, on-line with a debatable "pay-what-you-want" cost. Radiohead and Philosophy bargains clean how one can enjoy the lyrics, tune, and conceptual flooring of this hugely cutting edge band.

The chapters during this publication clarify how Radiohead’s song connects on to the philosophical phenomenology of thinkers like Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger, the existentialism of Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, and the philosophical politics of Karl Marx, Jean Baudrillard, and Noam Chomsky. fanatics and critics comprehend that Radiohead is "the purely band that matters" at the scene this day – Radiohead and Philosophy exhibits why.

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By Michael W. Austin, Heather L. Reid

ISBN-10: 0813136482

ISBN-13: 9780813136486

It really is stated the champions of the traditional Olympic video games obtained a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. whereas the mythology of the traditional video games has come to exemplify the top political, non secular, group, and person beliefs of the time, the fashionable Olympic video games, via comparability, are well known as a global, bi-annual carrying occasion the place champions have the aptitude to earn not just glory for his or her nation, yet profitable endorsement bargains and the perks of globally reputation. The Olympics and Philosophy examines the Olympic move from numerous theoretical views to discover the relationship among athleticism and philosophy for a deeper appreciation of the Olympic Pillars of game, atmosphere, and Culture.

While today's Olympic champions are neither blessed by means of the gods nor rewarded with wreaths of olive, the unique spirit and historic beliefs of the Olympic circulate suffer in its glossy embodiment. Editors Heather L. Reid and Michael W. Austin have assembled a workforce of overseas students to discover themes resembling the concept that of excellence, ethics, doping, gender, and race. Interweaving old and glossy Olympic traditions, The Olympics and Philosophy considers the philosophical implications of the Games' intersection with ancient occasions and sleek controversy in a special research of culture and the way forward for the Olympiad.

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By David Albert Jones

ISBN-10: 0199547300

ISBN-13: 9780199547302

During this energetic and concise Very brief advent, David Albert Jones offers a crisp, broad-ranging survey of angels in theology, philosophy, and pop culture.

Focusing on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, he examines how angels were imagined and defined in addition to why they proceed to captivate us. Jones explores the classical discussion--what they're made from, once they got here to be, and the way many there are. He names the archangels, surveys the various hierarchies, and examines how they've got replaced over the years. He seems to be at why the assumption of angels continues to be so effective in sleek tradition, even between non-believers.

By Liisa Ladouceur

ISBN-10: 1770410244

ISBN-13: 9781770410244

A guidebook to the language of the main shadowy of subcultures, this paintings collects and defines greater than 550 Gothic phrases and words. Compiled via an acclaimed Goth journalist and poet, this compendium presents perception into the original vernacular of this attention-grabbing neighborhood, describing intimately and with black humor the style, track, and way of life in addition to sharing insider slang akin to child Bat, Corp Goth, and the Gothic Two-Step. A Goth Band genealogy and crucial Goth listening, interpreting, and viewing ideas also are integrated during this phantasmagorical work.

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By Ada Calhoun

ISBN-10: 0393249794

ISBN-13: 9780393249798

A colourful narrative historical past of 3 hallowed new york blocks—the epicenter of yankee cool.

St. Marks position in big apple urban has spawned numerous creative and political pursuits. right here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. yet each new release of miscreant denizens believes that their period, and no different, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic paintings of reportage tells the various layered heritage of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized round these pivotal moments while critics declared “St. Marks is dead.”

In a story enriched through 1000s of interviews and dozens of infrequent photos, St. Marks local Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, between many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite handle, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the movie Kids—but it has regularly been a spot that outsiders name domestic.

By Simon Reynolds

ISBN-10: 0865479941

ISBN-13: 9780865479944

We are living in a pop age long gone loco for unfashionable and loopy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion excursions, elevated reissues of vintage albums and outtake-crammed field units, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . yet what occurs after we run out of previous? Are we heading towards a type of culturalecological disaster the place the archival circulate of dad heritage has been exhausted?

Simon Reynolds, one of many best track writers of his new release, argues that we've got certainly reached a tipping aspect, and that even though prior eras had their very own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement’s invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so enthusiastic about the cultural artifacts of its personal fast previous. Retromania is the 1st e-book to ascertain the unfashionable and ask the query: is that this retromania a demise knell for any originality and forte of our personal?