Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Popular Culture eBooks

If you like Popular Culture eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 9622 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • বাঙালির মিডিয়োক্রিটির সন্ধানে - Bangalir Mediocrityr Shondhane

    by ফাহাম আব্দুস সালাম - Faham Abdus Salam ...
    Like so many of his neighbours and fellow citizens, Faham Abdus Salam came to Australia to study and ended up making its small-town-capital his home. The last words of his bio in the book reads Shehvaar’s father —and that identity is the one that underpins his book Bangali’r Mediocrity’r Shondhane (In Search of the Bengali Mediocrity). He writes for his daughter, knowingly and explicitly in the ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook

    From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology

    by Liv Albert ...
    series World Mythology and Folklore
    Finally sort out who’s who in Greek mythology—from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between!Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite characters from Greek mythology with this collection of profiles to tell you who’s who in classical lore!In Greek ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Pikachu s Global Adventure

    The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

    by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green, Anne Allison, Koichi Iwabuchi ...
    Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including comic books, a TV show, movies, trading cards, stickers, toys, and clothing. Pokémon eventually became ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Tinderbox

    HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers

    by James Andrew Miller ...
    Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever.The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession…HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and con.. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Public Morality and the Culture Wars

    The Triple Divide

    by Bryan Fanning ...
    How is public morality understood in the twenty-first century, and what effect does this have on legislation and social policy?Public Morality and the Culture Wars is a strictly non-polemical analysis of the intellectual and ideological conflicts at the heart of the ‘culture wars’. Taking debates on human nature, sexuality, gender identity, abortion, censorship, and free speech, Bryan Fanning ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Looking for Miss America

    A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

    by Margot Mifflin ...
    From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progressLooking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Andy and Don

    The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American

    by Daniel de Visé ...
    A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy moved to Hollywood to film a TV pilot for a comedy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Retreat

    How the Counterculture Invented Wellness

    by Matthew Ingram ...
    What have the hippies ever done for us? Matthew Ingram explores the relationship between the summer of love and wellness, medicine, and health.The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect -- both in its core identity and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Opium for the Masses

    Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication

    by Jim Hogshire ...
    Jim Hogshire's early '90s cultural phenomenon, written about by Michael Pollan in Harpers, has been out of print for nearly a decade, and now, with all the current obsession with gardening, it's time to bring back this book, spiced up with amazing new material on how to make various opioids and analgesics from homegrown poppies. Includes a great deal of new material on poppies other growable highs ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Punch

    One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever

    by John Feinstein ...
    When an on-court fight broke out between the Houston Rockets and the LA Lakers just before Christmas 1977, Rudy Tomjanovitch raced to break it up. He was met by Kermit Washington's fist. This is the story of how one punch changed two lives, the NBA and how we think about basketball, forever. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Death by Landscape

    by Elvia Wilk ...
    From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinctionIn this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.Wilk ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Italian Job (The Kathryn Freeman Romcom Collection, Book 6)

    by Kathryn Freeman ...
    Book 6 - The Kathryn Freeman Romcom Collection
    Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiancé.A year in a gorgeous Italian castle…When Anna Roberts’ life implodes, an online search leads her to an ad for the ultimate dream job – management of a gorgeous castle on the shores of Lake Como, accommodation included. The only catch? Anna can’t do it alone……With the last man on earth she’d choose!The castle owners will only accept a couple as caretakers, which ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Will to Change

    Men, Masculinity, and Love

    by bell hooks ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves.Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sex and the Kitty

    A Celebrity Meowmoir

    by Nancy the Cat ...
    A hilarious feline memoir charting Nancy the Cat’s transformation from small-town kitty into celebrity glamour-puss.Even as a kitten, Nancy knew she was different. Unlike her peers, who were content to hunt mice and sunbathe all day, Nancy was born with a thirst for adventure.She first tastes local fame after hitching rides in strangers' cars and visiting neighborhood pubs, but soon the fearless ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sorry About That

    The Language of Public Apology

    by Edwin L. Battistella ...
    People do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Often, afterward, they apologize. But what makes a successful apology? Why does Joe Biden's 2007 apology for referring to Barack Obama as "articulate and bright" succeed, whereas Mel Gibson's 2006 apology for his anti-Semitic tirade fails? Naturally, the effectiveness of an apology depends on the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • All of the Marvels

    A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

    by Douglas Wolk ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related BookThe first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale**“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Nineties

    A Book

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    **An instant New York Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.**It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Il riposo della polpetta e altre storie intorno al cibo

    by Massimo Montanari ...
    Un godibilissimo excursus sulla storia del cibo raccontata dal punto di vista del cervello più che delle viscere. Faccio subito un esempio molto significativo: il pane. Questo alimento fondamentale, anche se un po' trascurato nelle culture del benessere, rappresenta una vera e propria 'invenzione'. Corrado Augias, "il venerdì di Repubblica" Un patrimonio di sapienze tradizionali, un repertorio di ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Alone Together

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Consuming Japan

    Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

    by Andrew C. McKevitt ...
    series Studies in United States Culture
    This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse

    A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels

    by David Kalat ...
    The Mabuse phenomenon is recognized as an icon of horror in Germany as Frankenstein and Dracula are in the United States. A study of the 12 motion pictures and five books (and some secondary films) that make up the eight decades of adventures of master criminal Mabuse, created by author Norbert Jacques in the best-selling 1922 German novel and brought to the screen by master filmmaker Fritz Lang ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pulphead

    Essays

    by John Jeremiah Sullivan ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011**A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape—from high to low to lower than low—by the award-winning young star of the literary ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Esoteric Hollywood:

    Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film

    by Jay Dyer ...
    Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most read essays, combining philosophy, comparative religion, symbolism and geopolitics and their connections to film. Readers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus