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New Titles - Entertainment
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Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America's Doomsday Preppers
Tea Krulos · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the world - Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days.... |
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Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World
Alice Roberts · Random House UK
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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In Tamed, Alice Roberts uncovers the deep history of 10 familiar species with incredible wild pasts: dogs, apples and wheat; cattle, potatoes and chickens; rice, maize and horses - and, finally, humans. She reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants, and shows... |
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Boomer Brands: Iconic Brands That Shaped Our Childhood
Barry Silverstein · Guidewords Publishing
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
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Saturday morning TV shows... cereals, soft drinks and snack foods... cool cars and rock 'n' roll... Boomers will savor the memories with the new book, Boomer Brands: Iconic Brands that Shaped Our ChildhoodThose Saturday morning TV shows entertained Boomer kids, but they were also... |
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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
D.W. Pasulka · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial... |
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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
David Thomson · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire.Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction... |
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