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  • Assassins' Canon

    by Edwin Rydberg, Ken Goldman, Tyson Young, Jonathan Shipley, Douglas A. Van Belle, J. A. Powell, Ron Savage, Peter James McGuire, Suzzanne Myers, S. C. Hayden, Mark Onspaugh, Zachary Thede, Camille Alexa, G. Elmer Munson, Yvonne Pronovost, Michael Amos, Charlotte Bond, Murphy Edwards, Monique Frangi, Christopher Roy Denton, Megan Arkenberg, Karla Cruz, Jason Franks ...
    Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-Self

    Journeys Beyond the Human Body

    by Roy Christopher ...
    Using extreme music and film as points of departure, Post-Self digs deep into the darkest thoughts of the most dissatisfied minds, minds that want to leave their bodies behind.Everyone is looking for a way out.Throughout history, the physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, rapture, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Medium Picture

    by Roy Christopher ...
    The ever-evolving ways that we interact with each other, our world, and ourselves through technology is a topic as worn as the devices we clutch and carry every day. How did we get here? Drawing from the disciplines of media ecology and media archaeology, as well as bringing fresh perspectives from subcultures of music and skateboarding, The Medium Picture illuminates aspects of technological ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Boogie Down Predictions

    Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism

    by Rasheeda Phillips, Steven Shaviro, Kodwo Eshun ...
    Essays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture."This book, edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, the researched lyrical metaphors, the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world, and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop's intersections with Afrofuturism and science ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Zimbabwean Communities in Britain

    Imperial and Post-Colonial Identities and Legacies

    by Christopher Roy Zembe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines why Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain should be viewed as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the colonial and post-colonial phases of Zimbabwe’s history. In the absence of shared historic socio-economic or cultural commonalities, the book will tackle the key question: ‘Are Zimbabweans in Britain demarcated by race and ethnicity an ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Dead Precedents

    How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

    by Roy Christopher ...
    The story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century.In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century.Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound - would come to define the culture ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Outspoken and the Incendiary

    Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers

    by Terry Bisson ...
    For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activist journalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative and outspoken authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anarchism, sexuality, creativity, and the future of humanity itself - no topic was taboo. Bisson's prankster spirit also shone through as he quizzed his subjects about what cars they drove, played ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cutting Across Media

    Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law

    Edited by Kembrew McLeod, Rudolf Kuenzli ...
    In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in the popular and the avant-garde, in altered billboards and the work of the renowned painter Chris Ofili, in hip-hop and the compositions of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and in audio mash-ups, remixed ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mathematics in Popular Culture

    Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media

    Edited by Jessica K. Sklar, Elizabeth S. Sklar ...
    Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS all weave mathematics prominently into their storylines. Less obvious but pivotal references to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The '80s Resurrected

    Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now

    Edited by Randy Laist ...
    The 1980s is remembered as a time of big hair, synthetic music, and microwave cookery. It is also remembered as the heyday of conservative politics, socioeconomic inequality, and moral panics. It is dichotomously remembered as either a nostalgic age of innocence or a regressive moral wasteland, depending on who you ask, and when. But, most of all, it is remembered. In retro fashion trends, in '80s ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    by W. David Marx ...
    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Losing Confidence

    Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy

    by Elizabeth May ...
    A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist.We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either the US or the Canadian systems. Attack ads run constantly, backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike are muzzled ... Read more

    $12.99 USD