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From the Archies to Britney Spears, bubblegum music has excited every generation of music lovers. Featuring interviews with many of the genre’s major creators, this ambitious anthology dismantles the worst myths about how bubblegum is produced and identifies the gum tendencies of artists as various as the Sex Pistols, Abba, the Monkees, and the Ramones. [...]
The classic era of barrio culture, as seen through the artwork, interviews and true stories created by homies and homegirls themselves, from the seminal street ’zine Mi Vida Loca. The Chicano street tough look, or Cholo Style, has grown in a big way, becoming incorporated as a matter of pride in American Hispanic culture and according [...]
In 1986, it was unimaginable that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture. Yet this shockingly fast and barbaric amalgam of hardcore punk and heavy metal would define the musical threshold of extremity for years to come. Initially circulated through an underground tape-trading network by scraggly, angry young boys, death metal and grindcore [...]
Welcome to the Revised and Expanded Edition of the New York Times bestseller. The New Edition includes astonishing photos that NASA is unable to cover-up of architectural formations on the Moon and Mars. “Hoagland’s most important book. A deeply disturbing, thought-provoking tour de force that will keep you reading through the night. — Graham Hancock, [...]
The publication of Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook proves there is no such thing as the “good old days.” Jack Huddleston, a bona fide detective with the Los Angeles police department, collected together a scrapbook of oddities and gruesome moments from his years working for the force. Huddleston’s scrapbook spans Southern California in its noir [...]
While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. DOPE MENACE collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik [...]
“Mexico’s go-to Web site on information on the country’s drug war.” — MSNBC “A gritty, front-row seat to Mexico’s drug war.” — Houston Chronicle “Some of the horror it displays makes the 2002 film City of God, charting the drug war on the streets of Brazil’s look like a Disney film.” — The Daily Mail [...]
eBook available for Kindle, iPad, Nook and more! A tour de force of darkness, Encyclopaedia of Hell is an “invasion manual” for Earth written by Lord Satan for his invading hordes of Demons, complete with hundreds of unpleasant illustrations, diagrams and a comprehensive and utterly repulsive Dictionary of Earth Terms. Since the customs and mores of humanity are alien and inconceivable to [...]
Erik Jan Hanussen made a name for himself as Europe’s most audacious and controversial soothsayer. Billing himself as “The Man Who Knows All,” he performed in cabarets and music halls, attracting the attention of everyone from Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann to Marlene Dietrich and Peter Lorre. His exceptional paranormal abilities–along with his stage specialty [...]
Explosive as the views it presents, Extreme Islam cuts to the chase, and shows the major voices of the orthodox Islamic current to speak for themselves why Allah should annihilate ‘The Great Satan.’ Remarkable interviews, essays, fatwas, political cartoons, propaganda, posters, poems and stories are collected to confront the reader with important and rarely-seen perspectives of [...]
Where do books go when they die? You may say the recycling bins or the county dump. But sometimes they make it to the book purgatory. Maybe they get resold online, or at library sales, where they might be carted away $2 a bag. Perhaps they were left out in front of a used bookstore [...]
