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ANIMALS presents an innovative and insightful look at our relationship with animals in the age of the Anthropocene from bestselling author Henry Carroll with original images from an innovative array of contemporary photographers. In this second book of the series, Carroll deep-dives into an...

The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s that forever changed comics. In Dirty Pictures author and journalist Brian Doherty tells the wild history of the outlaw, outsider, and sometimes illegal world of Underground Comix. This...

Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema’s greatest contemporary film directors. Through a series of interviews beginning in the early days of Campion’s career and conducted by award-winning cinema historian Michel Ciment, each chapter contains...

How do the most diverse and relevant voices of contemporary photography respond to the urgent issues of today?  Henry Carroll, the bestselling photography writer of the last decade, unpacks the ideas behind images to reflect on race, gender, faith, inequality, beauty, politics, and our...

This lavish volume is a photo-essay of exquisitely composed tableaux featuring Patrick Norguet's furniture and product designs. Sometimes paired with the human body, sometimes resembling the human body, and others standing in contrast to it. Norguet's sense of colour, formal reserve, elegant purity, and steadfast...

Reefer Movie Madness is the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful Harold and Kumar franchise and the Judd Apatow library (Pineapple Express, Superbad). In addition to entries on...

The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including pioneers like Roxanne Shanté, game changers like Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott, and current reigning queens like Nicki Minaj,  Cardi B, and Lizzo―as well as...

Rare & Collectible A revealing history of the Beatles' experimental record label, as told by the label's manager, Barry Miles. In August 1968, the Beatles launched their greatest business enterprise, Apple Records, to international fanfare. The less well-known story is the introduction of their...

Noir as a style, movement, or sensibility has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called film noir by French cinéastes. But film isn't the only medium with a...