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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By Hunter S. Thompson ,

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All About Love: New Visions
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All About Love

By bell hooks ,

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The Age of Light
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The Age of Light

By Whitney Scharer ,

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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Teaching to Transgress

By bell hooks ,

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The Orchid Thief
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The Orchid Thief

By Susan Orlean ,

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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga
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Hell's Angels

By Hunter S. Thompson ,

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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
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England's Dreaming

By Jon Savage ,

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
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Acid Dreams

By Martin A. Lee , Bruce Shlain ,

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Argument Culture Moving From Debate to Dialogue
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Argument Culture Moving From Debate to Dialogue

By Deborah Tannen ,

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The Burnt Orange Heresy
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The Burnt Orange Heresy

By Charles Willeford ,

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Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
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Paradoxia

By Lydia Lunch ,

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The Arcades Project
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The Arcades Project

By Walter Benjamin , Howard Eiland (translator) , Kevin McLaughlin (translator)

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Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code
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Seal of Approval

By Amy Kiste Nyberg ,

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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
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Where the Girls Are

By Susan J. Douglas ,

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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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The Beauty Myth

By Naomi Wolf ,

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Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age
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Hollywood Cartoons

By Michael Barrier ,

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Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization
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Heaven's Mirror

By Graham Hancock , Santha Faiia ,

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Hashish
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Hashish

By Robert Connell Clarke ,

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Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
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Chasing Dirt

By Suellen Hoy ,

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The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience
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The Comforts of Home

By Merritt Ierley ,

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Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
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Discourses of the Vanishing

By Marilyn Ivy ,

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PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
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PiHKAL

By Alexander Shulgin , Ann Shulgin ,

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A Life on the Road
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A Life on the Road

By Charles Kuralt ,

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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
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How to Stop Time

By Ann Marlowe ,

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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
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After the End of Art

By Arthur C Danto ,

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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

By Sarah Banet-Weiser ,

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Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History
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Keeping Together in Time

By William H. McNeill ,

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Leisure and Ancient Rome
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Leisure and Ancient Rome

By J. P. Toner ,

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The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
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The Sociology of Philosophies

By Randall Collins ,

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Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body
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Consuming Fashion

By Anne Brydon (editor) , Sandra Niessen (editor) ,

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Escapism
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Escapism

By Yi-Fu Tuan ,

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The Time of Our Time
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The Time of Our Time

By Norman Mailer ,

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Something in the Blood
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Something in the Blood

By Jeff Guinn , Andy Grieser ,

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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

By Rick Kennedy ,

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Batman: The Complete History
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Batman

By Les Daniels ,

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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West

By Margaret C. Jacob ,

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Forged Under the Sun/ Forjada Bajo el Sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas
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Forged Under the Sun/ Forjada Bajo el Sol

By Fran Leeper Buss (editor) ,

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Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
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Life

By Neal Gabler ,

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Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America
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Claims to Fame

By Joshua Gamson ,

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When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-45
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When Hollywood Loved Britain

By H. Mark Glancy ,

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The Man Who Came Uptown
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The Man Who Came Uptown

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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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Imperial Leather

By Anne Mcclintock ,

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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
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Flowers in the Dustbin

By James Miller ,

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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
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Movie-Made America

By Robert Sklar ,

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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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Sexual Personae

By Camille Paglia ,

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Samba: Resistance in Motion
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Samba

By Barbara Browning ,

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Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
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Otis and Will Discover the Deep

By Barb Rosenstock , Katherine Roy (illustrator) ,

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Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
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Performing Rites

By Simon Frith ,

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The Mole People
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The Mole People

By Jennifer Toth ,

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Within the Context of No Context
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Within the Context of No Context

By George W.S. Trow ,

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Deviant
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Deviant

By Harold Schechter ,

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