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The Bedside Baccalaureate: The First Semester: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Sterling: August 2012

Seller ID: 40767

ISBN: 1402788347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the dark about black holes? Need to brush up on your Impressionists? Skip the line at the registr
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Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: June 2009

Seller ID: 49898

ISBN: 0865479879

Condition: Used - Good

With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Klein's No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay Free --long considered the Adbusters of the United States--is finally offering a compendium of new and previously published material on the impact of consumer culture on our lives. The book questions, in the broadest sense, what happens to human beings when their brains are constantly assaulted by advertising and corporate messages. Most people assert that advertising is easily ignored and doesn't have any eff...
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The Making of Pride and Prejudice (BBC)

By: Birtwistle, Sue; Conklin, Susie

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 1999

Seller ID: 7510

ISBN: 014025157X

Condition: Used - Good

The Making of Pride and Prejudice reveals in compelling detail how Jane Austen's classic novel was transformed into the stunning television drama starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. It vividly brings to life every stage of production of this sumptuous series.
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Who Is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who-The New Series

By: Burk, Graeme,Smith?, Robert

Price: $9.95

Publisher: ECW Press: April 2012

Seller ID: 46406

ISBN: 1550229842

Condition: Used - Good

Who is the Doctor is a fun and insightful episode guide that explores all facets of Doctor Who's triumphant return to television. Covering the six seasons of the New Series, this is the essential companion for the most avid fan as well as the more casual viewer. Doctor Who was already the world's longest-running science fiction series when it returned in 2005 to huge success. An enormously popular series among genre fans in North America, Doctor Who encompasses horror, science fiction, comedy, action, and historical adventure, and is loved for its uniquely British wit and clever scripting. ...
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You Got the Part!: A Casting Director Guides Actors to Successful Auditions for Film and Television

By: Chesley, Marsha

Price: $7.95

Publisher: J.Gordon Shillingford: June 2004

Seller ID: 12195

ISBN: 0920486711

Condition: Used - Good

"You Got the Part " is a must-have resource for anyone auditioning for roles in film and television. It is a comprehensive guide showing how to land an audition, how to prepare for and perform at that audition, and how to follow up afterward. Written by an award-winning casting director with twenty-eight years in the industry, this book takes the reader behind the scenes at actual casting sessions. Practical information is mixed with insiders' tips supported by anecdotes and stories from actors and casting directors. "You Got the Part " is amusing and informative, and an essential tool for ...
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Monologues for Young Actors

By: Cohen, Lorraine

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Avon: August 1994

Seller ID: 12187

ISBN: 0380761874

Condition: Used - Good

In professional and student theater alike, a good monlogue can often mean the difference between a "Thank you . . . Next " and a call-back. But sometimes it's hard for an aspiring actor to find the absolutely right audition piece that suits his or her personal style, type or age group.

Monologues For Young Actors is a unique and invaluable collection of dramatic speeches from some of the world's greatest plays -- chosen specifically for actors in their teens and early twenties.

Whether you're looking for something comedic or tragic, contemporary or classic, unorthodox o...
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DREAMLAND CHRONICLES: THE STRANGE AND CONTINUING SAGA OF AREA 51

By: DARLINGTON, DAVID

Price: $10.95

Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN: January 1998

Seller ID: 41791

ISBN: 0316644064

Condition: Used - Good

The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement

By: Donovan, Art

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing: August 2011

Seller ID: 37353

ISBN: 1565235738

Condition: Used - Good

Celebrate the world of Steampunk: a world filled with beauty and innovation. A world in which steam power and technology intertwine to create machines that are not only functional and practical, but also unique and striking. The Art of Steampunk brings the vision of Steampunk artists from around the world, alive on the page, providing a unique insight into the captivating and dynamic world of a vastly underground genre. The 17 artists featured have had their work displayed at an exhibition at The Museum of History of Science at the University of Oxford in England, and have attracted the media ...
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World of Oz

By: Eyles, Allen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: HP Trade: November 1987

Seller ID: 12083

ISBN: 0895864150

Condition: Used - Good

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

By: Gitlin, Todd

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Picador: January 2003

Seller ID: 48387

ISBN: 0805072837

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Everyone knows that the media surround us, but no one quite understands what this means for our lives. In "Media Unlimited," a remarkable and original look at our media-glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin makes us stare, as if for the first time, at the biggest picture of all. From video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, Gitlin evokes a world of relentless sensation, instant transition, and nonstop stimulus. He shows how all media, all the time fuels celebrity worship, paranoia, and irony; and how attempts to ward off the onrush become occasions for yet more media...
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Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad

By: Guffey, Ensley F., Koontz, K. Dale

Price: $13.95

Publisher: ECW Press: May 2014

Seller ID: 40945

ISBN: 1770411178

Condition: Used - Good

"I am not in danger . . . I am the danger." With those words, Breaking Bad's Walter White solidified himself as TV's greatest antihero. Wanna Cook? explores the most critically lauded series on television with analyses of the individual episodes and ongoing storylines. From details like stark settings, intricate camerawork, and jarring music to the larger themes, including the roles of violence, place, self-change, legal ethics, and fan reactions, this companion book is perfect for those diehards who have watched the Emmy Award-winning series multiple times as well as for new ...
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

By: Harris, Michael

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Toronto, ON.: Harpercollins (Harper Collins): January 2014

Seller ID: 16288

ISBN: 144342627X

Condition: Used - Good

The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar

By: Kinn, Gail, Piazza, Jim

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishing Inc: September 2002

Seller ID: 1836

ISBN: 157912240X

Condition: Used - Good

Finally, the definitive book on the Academy Awards is done up in a suitably lush package that makes a great gift for film buffs. It's all in here: great stories of actors and directors at the pinnacle of their careers; those who won and those who should've won; little-known information about all of the classic films; and even the scoop on Academy Award fashions, gaffes and speeches over nearly seventy-five years.

Each year's awards are featured over four pages, filled with listings, information, quotes, sidebars and lots of color photographs. Readers will learn everything from the actors ori...
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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

By: Klosterman, Chuck

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Scribner: July 2013

Seller ID: 44624

ISBN: 1439184496

Condition: Used - Good

From New York Times bestselling author, "one of America's top cultural critics" (Entertainment Weekly), and "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine, comes a new book of all original pieces on villains and villainy.

Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodness--but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing; it was because they were doing it on purpose (and they were doing it better). Th...
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

By: Klosterman, Chuck

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Scribner: July 2007

Seller ID: 46846

ISBN: 0743284895

Condition: Used - Good

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form--including the ground-breaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story--all recontextualized in Chuck's unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.

Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:

Things That Are True--Profiles and trend stories: Brit...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

By: Klosterman, Chuck

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Scribner: July 2004

Seller ID: 56338

ISBN: 0743236017

Condition: Used - Good

Over half a million copies sold
From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture--set in Chuck Klosterman's den and your own--covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks.

Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant...
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Hip: The History

By: Leland, Mr. John

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Ecco: October 2004

Seller ID: 56139

ISBN: 0060528176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

How an underground idea shaped American culture, from sex and music to race, fashion, drugs, commerce and the national rites of rebellion.

Hip: The History is the story of an American obsession. Derived from the Wolof word hepi or hipi ("to see," or "to open one's eyes"), which came to America with West African Slaves, hip is the dance between black and white -- or insider and outsider -- that gives America its unique flavor and rhythm. It has created fortunes, destroyed lives and shaped the way millions of us talk, dress, dance, make love or see ourselves in the mirror. Ever...
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Sanford Meisner on Acting

By: Meisner, Sanford, Longwell, Dennis

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1987

Seller ID: 12203

ISBN: 0394750594

Condition: Used - Good

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout these pages Meisner is a delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges.

With an introducti...
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Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer

By: Park, Ed; Julavits, Heidi

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Believer Magazine: July 2009

Seller ID: 51498

ISBN: 1934781398

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This volume collects the finest essays and articles from the four-time National Magazine Award-nominated Believer magazine. The book combines all the erudition and wit readers have come to expect from its pages: Jonathan Lethem on Nathanael West, William T. Vollmann on W. G. Sebald, Ben Ehrenreich on Brian Evenson, Paul La Farge on Dungeons & Dragons, and much, much more. It's an essential anthology, collecting the best in creative nonfiction, the best in literary journalism, and the best writing in English from the beginning of the twenty-first century, from one of the smartest, weirdest, and...
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Mondo Canuck: A Canadian pop culture odyssey

By: Pevere, Geoff

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Prentice Hall Canada: January 1996

Seller ID: 44702

ISBN: 0132630885

Condition: Used - Good

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