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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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TOR
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The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.
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Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Hip, entertaining...imaginative."-Kirkus, starred review * "Essential." -Min Jin Lee * "A Herculean effort."-Lisa Ling * "A must-read."-Ijeoma Oluo * "Get two copies."-Shea Serrano * "A book we've needed for ages." -Celeste Ng * "Accessible, informative, and fun." -Cathy Park Hong * "This book has serious substance...Also, I'm in it."-Ronny Chieng RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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"In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume." -Publisher
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Random House
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"In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest observers, Kurt Andersen, demonstrates that what's happening in our country today--this strange, post-truth, 'fake news' moment we're all living through--is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by impresarios and their audiences, by hucksters...
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Race Point Publishing
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"You've conquered Comic Con. You binge watch Star Wars regularly. Now it's time to get your geek on in the kitchen. Cassandra Reeder loves to cook, and she's a bona-fide mega-geek. Comic-lover, avid gamer, and sci-fi and fantasy lover, she started The Geeky Chef in 2008, [creating] real-life recipes for all the delicious foods you've seen in your favorite sci-fi and fantasy movies, TV shows, and video games"--Amazon.com.
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Kanopy Streaming
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In MEF's powerful new release, The Bro Code, filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms that are saturated with sexism -- movies and music videos that glamorize misogyny; pornography that trades in the brutalization of women; comedy routines that make fun of sexual assault; and a slate of men's magazines and cable...
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Media Education Foundation
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At any given moment, 1.7 million users world-wide are streaming pornography. It is estimated that one-third of all Internet content is pornographic and that 1 in 4 Internet searches are porn-related. However, few media programs investigate pornography's impact beyond the simplistic cause-and-effect question of whether it is linked to sexual assault or sex addiction. Dr. Chyng Sun, the director of The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and...
11) Family of Fear
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Green Planet Films
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This documentary shares the story of a group of people brought together by their love of haunted houses. Some come from broken homes, are bullied in school, have depression, loneliness and other concerns. But in the Arx Mortis haunted house they found a family. FAMILY OF FEAR is about finding inclusion and community in one of the scariest places in the USA.
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MVD Entertainment Group
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Records Collecting Dust II focuses on the East Coast cities of Boston, New York and Washington DC and includes in depth interviews with twenty eight highly influential people from the 1980's hardcore punk rock music scene. Talking about the music, the bands and the records that forever changed their lives. Including Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, John Joseph of Cro-Mags, Dave Smalley of DYS, Roger Miret of Agnostic Front and Clif Croce of The Freeze....
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Music Box Films
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The wickedly mesmerizing story of the ten grueling years before Twisted Sister broke out of gigs at suburban clubs and became the biggest glam rock band of the 1980s, recounted by the band themselves, their managers and their biggest fans. “*Fascinating...A comprehensive and sometimes harrowing portrayal of the grind a working bar band in the 1970s had to endure to get by.*” - Gleen Kenny, ***The New York Times***
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Michael Blackwood Productions
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This documentary pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA’s now famed exhibition, “High & Low: High Art and Popular Culture”. Opening in the fall of 1990, the show placed a spotlight on the rapid merging of consumerism and the artistic avant-garde. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik and featuring work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, “High & Low” ignites conversations of...
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Gravitas
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English
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A journey of discovery into how an American artist and a Canadian artist with a father and son generation gap team up to revive the ancient Japanese woodcut printing by juxtaposing traditional art with pop culture icons such as Super Mario and Pokémon. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs International Documentary Festival**. *"UKIYO-E HEROES is a beautiful film about people who strive to make beautiful things, and that lesson resonates regardless...
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America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
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Scribner
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"From New York Times bestselling author, legendary Jeopardy! champion, and host Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring destinations to die for from literature, mythology, and pop culture ranging from Dante's Inferno to Hadestown to NBC's The Good Place." -Publisher
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Kanopy Streaming
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For all of the achievements of the womens movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very...
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Media Education Foundation
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bell hooks is one of America's most engaging public intellectuals. In this richly illustrated two-part interview, hooks argues that we can acknowledge the impact of media without denying our own agency or the pleasure we derive from popular culture. Rather than ignoring or denying the power of representation, hooks advocates for critically confronting the influence of media in our lives.
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