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Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute
by Popink, Charles S. Anderson Design Company, Michael J. Nelson
From turn-of-the-century novelties and Depression-era distraction, through wartime comfort, to Hello Kitty and Jeff Koons, cuteness has thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. What is it about fluffy bunnies with bows, baby ducks splashing in puddles, kittens snuggled in baskets, and little lambs on their way to school? Happy Kitty Bunny Pony celebrates America's "cult of the... (more)
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SED Design: 1949-1989 (25th Anniversary Special Edtn)
by Ernst Hedler
This eccentric collection of goods features East German consumer products daringly acquired before the breaking down of the wall. From foodstuffs to household appliances, East German packaging and product design--sober yet slightly kitsch--reveals a little-known side of German popular history.
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Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage
by Michael J. Nelson
From the bodice-busting covers of Harlequin romances to personal ads to wedding cake toppers, romantic subjects have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. Brought to Abrams by the creators of the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute , Love Sick celebrates the many facets of love: dating, marriage, heartbreak, sex, and strange, thin men in... (more)
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Fresh Fruits
by Shoichi Aoki
Presented in an identical format to Phaidon’s previous Fruits, published in 2001, Fresh Fruits is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japan’s premier street fanzine of the same title. Published every month by Shoichi Aoki, who is also the sole photographer for the magazine, Fruits was established in 1994 as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the... (more)
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The Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Encyclopedia of the Bizarre
by Julie Mooney
Black Dog & Leventhal’s bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handier, more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original. From stupefying stunts to wacky world’s records, all of Ripley’s riveting findings are here, in an easy-to-browse, impossible-to-put-down color volume. Where else could you learn that: • It’s estimated that... (more)
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Five Faces of Modernity
by Matei Călinescu
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity , avant-garde , decadence , kitsch , and postmodernism . The concept of modernity—the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior... (more)
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Doctor Who Pattern Book
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Rough Guide General Reference
Cult Movies
by Paul Simpson, Helen Rodiss, Michaela Bushell
Synopsis This new edition of the Rough Guide to Cult Movies offers a new improved blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. From 'A Bout de Souffle' to 'Zoltan Hound of Dracula', this guide selects films to savour in every genre from circus movies to westerns of all flavours - spaghetti and sauerkraut. New... (more)
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The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts: Fifty Fabulous Projects from the Fifties and Sixties
by Leah Kramer
You’ll find no die-cut teddy bears, cross-stitched friendship plaques, and ducks painted with bonnets in THE CRAFTSTER GUIDE. A hip collection of easy-to-make, fun-to-wear, and stylish-to-display crafts from the fifties and sixties, it features 50 projects culled from vintage craft publications, including more than 10 new retro-inspired projects. This unabashedly tacky craft compendium includes clear instructions,... (more)
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Doctor Who Tech Manual
by Mark Harris
A guide to the technological fantasies, including advanced tools, weapons, computers, spaceships, robots, and lifelike human clones, introduced on the long-running British science fiction television series.
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Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity
by Michelle Bates
Take a tour of the burgeoning world of toy cameras and low-tech photography with Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity. Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity chock full of tantalizing tips, fun facts and, of course, absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech and simplest tools around. I got me a Holga. Now What? ... (more)
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Trademarks of the '60s & '70s
by Tyler Blik
The latest addition to the Trademarks series catches the wave of today's craze for the look of the sixties and seventies. Bursting with vibrant color and imagination, advertising art made a dramatic leap in maturity as it soared into the free love and "me" decades. This collection features the best of the pop culture explosion.
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Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
by Jane Stern
America's premiere scholars of popular culture present a hilarious tribute to the all-time highs of lowbrow taste. The Sterns offer the definitive sourcebook of the world's favorite cultural extremes and faux pas. 350 photos, 50 in full-color.
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Fluffy Humpy Poopy Puppy: A Ruff Dog-Eared Look at Man's Best Friend
by Michael J. Nelson
A canine companion to the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony, Fluffy Humpy Poopy Puppy is a humorous celebration of "man's best friend." From Toto to Lassie to Benji and beyond, the dog has thrived in the soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. What is it about dogs anyway ? Fluffy Humpy Poopy Puppy is a loving tribute to man's oldest and yes, smelliest, friends. Containing over 200 images from the... (more)
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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects--and people--are made to "perform" their meaning for... (more)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover — these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel... (more)
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The Sookie Stackhouse series/Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book 1
Dead Until Dark
by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out.... Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea. A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that's hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore) Praise for Charlaine Harris: ... (more)
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The Sookie Stackhouse series/Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book 2
Living Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it).Point is, they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she complies. And... (more)
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The Sookie Stackhouse series/Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book 3
Club Dead
by Charlaine Harris
Suddenly things aren't so great in the romance department for Sookie. Bill has become absorbed in something he's keeping secret from her, he has possibly become involved with someone else, and he's missing. Now Sookie must venture into the dangerous world exclusive to vampires, weres, shifters, and others she didn't know existed to try to find him. And if she succeeds, will there be anything left worth saving?
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Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities (A Pop Ink Book)
by Michael J. Nelson
A Pop Ink Book by Charles S. Anderson Design Company From Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to B horror movie icons to The Addams Family and beyond, macabre misfits have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. Brought to Abrams by the creators of the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Goth-icky celebrates the American goth, their culture, and the... (more)

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