Category: Popular Culture

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Holly Baxter

ISBN-10: 144816172X

ISBN-13: 9781448161720

Have you ever EVER…

Obsessed over your body’s ‘problem areas’?

Killed an hour at the Sidebar of Shame?

Wondered even if to attempt ‘50 intercourse how you can Please Your Man’?

Felt worse after doing any of the above?

Holly and Rhiannon grew up analyzing modern mags and, like most ladies, considered them as just a little of enjoyable. yet through the years they began to suppose uneasy – not only approximately magazines, yet approximately tune video clips, web page three, and ladies being labelled frigid, princesses or tramps.

So, following the superb good fortune in their Vagenda weblog, they wrote this ebook. Welcome on your fundamental advisor to the insanity of women’s media.

By John L. Casti

Review:

From the studies: "They [the chapters] inform an engrossing tale, and the secret heightens because it is going. . . . it's chatty and knowing." Greg Benford, Physicist and science-fiction author, writer of "Timescape" and "Deep Time" "I am struck by way of how thought-provoking all of it is. i'm certain that your ebook will draw loads of attention" Tor Norretranders, technological know-how author, writer of "The beneficiant Man" and "The person Illusion". “This is John Casti’s daring speculation in temper concerns, which demanding situations either conventional monetary thought and human intestine response approximately how the area works. … The wealth of proof he offers should still function useful gas for destiny medical researchers arguing either for and opposed to socionomics. In those instances of monetary turmoil, many folks will decide up temper issues with the desire of predicting monetary markets. … The publication emphasizes the significance of sociometers in signaling that fate.” (Richard Taylor, technological know-how, Vol. 329, September, 2010) “Readable, exhaustively researched, and fully iconoclastic, this publication used to be a excitement for me on many degrees. i'm consistently wanting to listen approximately new how you can view this outdated global, and Casti has a truly new solution to view global occasions. His thesis is that the temper of the folk isn’t MADE through occasions, yet … MAKES occasions. … The exhaustive study i discussed is all documented in his appendices.” (Richard Derus, LibraryThings, October, 2010) “In temper issues (2010) John Casti says loads of issues … approximately how ones angle (mood) shapes occasions, and the way we cycle backward and forward among pessimism and optimism (mood). … a concept frightening book.” (LibraryThing, August, 2010) “Mood concerns is excellent enjoyable to learn as Casti’s writing all through is tender, clever and funny. … Casti explores the correlation among the ‘mood of the crowd’ and more than a few different tendencies … and occasions, together with the autumn of countries and the outbreak of struggle. it's a highly fascinating and wide-ranging research. … For these eager about assessing tendencies and in predicting destiny occasions, no matter if social, political or financial, this ebook … swap the complete method they ply their trade.” (Goodreads, August, 2010) “John Casti … deals a really exact and various viewpoint of why issues ensue – in our lives, in our international, and in our political platforms. … i locate John’s perspectives of exterior occasions to be clean and fascinating … . he offers a truly attention-grabbing view of the way social impacts in some way – but at once – influence the industrial health of our society … . John has performed a truly great activity … . temper concerns is a truly well-written e-book, very precise, and extremely thorough.” (Abraham Aizenman, TodayNewsline, February, 2011)

From the again Cover:

"Mood Matters" makes the unconventional statement that every one social occasions starting from models in song and artwork to the increase and fall of civilizations are biased via the attitudes a society holds towards the long run. whilst the "social mood" is confident and folks look ahead to the long run, occasions of a wholly varied personality are inclined to take place than while society is pessimistic. The ebook offers many examples from each stroll of existence in help of this argument. moreover, equipment are given to truly degree the social temper and to undertaking it into the long run for you to forecast what’s most probably or now not over various sessions of time. Casti's writing is a excitement to learn and its contents an eye-opener. "They [the chapters] inform an engrossing tale, and the secret heightens because it is going. . . . it's chatty and knowing." Greg Benford, Physicist and science-fiction author, writer of "Timescape" and "Deep Time" "I am struck via how thought-provoking all of it is. i'm certain that your booklet will draw loads of attention" Tor Norretranders, technological know-how author, writer of "The beneficiant Man" and "The consumer Illusion".

By Arthur Asa Berger

ISBN-10: 0803957335

ISBN-13: 9780803957336

In this consultant to cultural feedback, Arthur Asa Berger provides advanced suggestions in jargon-free language, making the ebook an excellent introductory textual content. It covers the most important theorists, techniques, and topic components, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories of semiotics and Marxism. Berger brings cultural feedback to lifestyles by way of making those theories appropriate to work out scholars' lives. Illustrating his reasons with excerpts from vintage works, Berger provides readers a feeling of the fashion of significant thinkers and is helping position them in context. there's an in depth bibliography with the intention to be a useful source in the event you desire to discover the themes in better intensity.

By Dan Karlan, Allan Lazar, Jeremy Salter

ISBN-10: 0061132217

ISBN-13: 9780061132216

From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here's a compelling, eye-opening, and perpetually unique compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who've assisted in shaping our tradition and our lives. The a hundred and one so much Influential those who by no means Lived deals interesting histories of our such a lot liked, hated, feared, and respected invented icons and the indelible marks they made on civilization, together with:

# 28: Rosie the Riveter, the buff, blue-collar manufacturing facility employee who helped jump-start the Women's Liberation flow

# 7: Siegfried, the mythical warrior-hero of Teutonic nationalism liable for propelling Germany into global wars

# eighty: Icarus, the headstrong high-flyer who encouraged the Wright brothers and humankind's goals of defying gravity . . . whereas demonstrating the urgent desire for flight coverage

# fifty eight: Saint Valentine, the hapless, de-canonized loser who misplaced his center and head at concerning the comparable time

# forty three: Barbie, the bodacious plastic babe who grew to become a task version for thousands of little women, environment an most unlikely usual for attractiveness and magnificence

By John Huss, David Werther

Curiosity within the guy in Black has grown due to the fact his demise in 2003, with elevated checklist revenues, conceal video clips via teams like 9 Inch Nails, and the 2006 biopic Walk the Line cementing his repute. This booklet honors money via analyzing the various philosophical concerns and ideas inside of his tune. From the gender confusion of “A Boy Named Sue” to the ethics of "shooting a guy simply to watch him die,” philosophers who're lovers of Johnny money discover the which means and carrying on with significance of his paintings and legacy.

By Ben Thompson

ISBN-10: 0062074946

ISBN-13: 9780062074942

From sex-crazed gods to starving monsters, Ben Thompson brings mythical titans to existence in stories of experience, bloodlust, and unrelenting badassitude.

because the starting of human historical past humans have created myths, tall stories, superheroes, and arch-villains—men and ladies who launched into insane adventures, played awesome feats of exceptional awesomeness, and overcame all odds to violently smite their foes into bloody pulp. In Badass: The beginning of a Legend, Ben Thompson compiles those fantastical stories from the start of time to at the present time and tells them within the thoroughly over-the-top demeanour within which they have been meant, together with:

Rama
The Indian god-king who led a military of monkeys opposed to the King of All Demons

Thor
The Viking god of thunder and amazing hair, who beaten the skulls of giants with a ridiculously large hammer

Beowulf
An Anglo-Saxon hero so hardcore he may possibly arm-wrestle monsters' joints out in their sockets

Moby-Dick
The hate-filled literary behemoth who obliterated send hulls together with his face

Skuld
The Norse necromancer queen who summoned a horde of zombie berserkers

Dirty Harry Callahan
The prototypical modern day antihero and intensely embodiment of badass

From Publishers Weekly
In his first publication, Badass, Thompson, author of the website badassoftheweek.com, all for warlords, samurai, pirates, and gunfighters who really existed; during this follow-up, he turns to mythological badasses all through background. From Anubis and Zeus to Capt. James T. Kirk and Godzilla, Thompson offers targeted and adrenaline-fueled screeds on forty characters "whose tales of ball-crushing conquest are nonetheless remarkable adequate to make even the tamest readers are looking to take hold of up a sword and pass trying to find dragon meat." matters comprise El Chupacabra ("this freakadelic ass-reaming spawn of Satan"); Diomedes ("the wanton slaughter of faceless jobbers is simply the start of awesomeness"); and, in a long-overdue tribute, the Daleks from surgeon Who ("these murderous, automatic salt-shakers are vile constructs of natural evil"). thankfully, the publication contains badass girls in addition to males, and Thompson's overheated prose rises even additional whilst describing the Indian goddess Kali: "When she's now not eating the entrails of the gods, getting under the influence of alcohol on human blood, acting her Dance of Annihilation... she shoots blood out of her mouth like a fireplace hose... she's pretty well the main completely steel being ever." (Mar.)
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About the Author
Ben Thompson has run the warhammer of an internet site badassoftheweek.com due to the fact 2004, and has written funny history-related columns for shops reminiscent of Cracked, Fangoria, Penthouse, and the yankee Mustache Institute. even supposing he's by no means flown a jetpack over the Atlantic Ocean or punched somebody so difficult that his head exploded, he's thought of via many to be the world's most appropriate specialist on badassitude. His first e-book, Badass, used to be published in 2009.

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By Luke Haines

ISBN-10: 1409037169

ISBN-13: 9781409037163

Britain within the past due Nineties. put up Britpop. The sunrise of the rock and roll apocalypse. If it seems like there's not anything new lower than the solar, that's simply because there's not anything new below the sunlight. After the demise of Kurt Cobain pop culture entered, and continues to be in, its ultimate part: put up everything.

Post every little thing is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Bad Vibes: Britpop and My half in its Downfall. it's a tale of survival within the song ... and the one option to continue to exist the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to turn into an Outsider.

We open with Luke Haines - the 'avant-garde Arthur Scargill' - calling upon the nation's pop stars to down instruments and pass on strike. We get the tale of Haines' post-Britpop paintings residence trio Black field Recorder (Chas and Dave with a chanteuse) then, slightly pausing to install a short visual appeal on Top of the Pops, we meet a conversing cat, lifeless rappers (Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur), a magical England soccer supervisor, and a shady transgender German Professor - exponent of a perilous and radical 'Beatles denial' cult and writer of The Theorem of the Moron (the most vital booklet approximately rock that you've by no means heard of). Haines even unearths time to jot down a musical for the nationwide Theatre.

Blisteringly humorous and searingly scathing, Post Everything could rather in all probability be the 1st and in basic terms really surreal comedian rock memoir. It even features a killer recipe for scrambled eggs.

By Robin Walz

ISBN-10: 0520216199

ISBN-13: 9780520216198

As well as its extra popular literary and inventive origins, the French surrealist circulate drew idea from currents of mental nervousness and uprising operating via a shadowy aspect of mass tradition, in particular in awesome well known fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this insolent mass tradition resonated with the highbrow and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in this attention-grabbing research. Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative background of the intersection among mass print tradition and surrealism, re-evaluating either our knowing of mass tradition in early twentieth-century Paris and the progressive goals of the surrealist flow.
Pulp Surrealism provides 4 case experiences, every one exploring the out-of the-way and impertinent components which impressed the surrealists. Walz discusses Aragon's Le paysan de Paris, one of many nice surrealist novels of Paris. He considers the preferred sequence of Fantmes crime novels; the Parisan press insurance of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer Landru; and the surrealist inquiry "Is Suicide a Solution?", which Walz juxtaposes with reprints of exact suicide faits divers (sensationalist newspaper blurbs).
even though surrealist curiosity in sensationalist pop culture finally waned, this exploration of mass print tradition as one of many cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged finally calls into query assumptions approximately the avant-garde origins of modernism itself.

By Chuck Klosterman

From Sex, medicines, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, those essays at the moment are to be had during this booklet assortment for lovers of Klosterman's writing on movie and tv.

By Robyn Waters

ISBN-10: 1591841364

ISBN-13: 9781591841364

From the previous trendmaster of Target—how the ability of contradictory tendencies might help reframe your online business strategy

Contradictions are in every single place! nowadays we put on previous military with new Gucci, Hanes T-shirts with Armani fits, couture Chanel with classic denim. Suburban mansions are packed with flea marketplace reveals, and we sing their own praises our Michael Graves teakettle from objective on Viking stoves in our gourmand kitchens that will even comprise cupboards bought from IKEA.

whilst Robyn Waters all started her profession within the past due Seventies, a pattern used to be outlined as whatever that every person sought after while. model and company magazines proclaimed what used to be "in" and what used to be "out." again then, it was once really effortless for corporations to figure out the following massive development, and journey all of it how to the financial institution.
In today’s market the "next giant thing" has been changed by way of one thousand subsequent gigantic issues. And on the way to notice what shoppers are hungry for firms have to observe what’s important…to them. at the present time a cookie cutter technique now not works. Waters explains that for each development there’s an both legitimate countertrend.

In The Hummer and the Mini, Waters explores the recent development panorama and urges businesses to forestall trying to find the one correct answer of their undefined. there are numerous sturdy how you can layout items, enhance a line of products, item a shop, or craft a advertising message. you could thrive by means of promoting large vehicles (the Hummer) or tiny ones (the Mini). you could flip anything outdated into whatever new and fascinating (the Vespa) or flip a commodity right into a luxurious (In-and-Out Burgers on the Oscars). it's also possible to customise a product designed for the lots (personalized postage stamps) or promote much less as extra (Minute Clinics).

via energetic stories of influential traits and countertrends, The Hummer and the Mini will aid you reside with the contradictions, utilize the inconsistencies, and embody the paradoxes of industrial as a resource of clean rules.