Un buen almuerzo entre amigos es el mejor lugar para conversar sobre el mundo, la religión, la política, la cultura, el amor y la cocina. Esta obra es una meditación tan deliciosa como lúcida sobre el valor profundo de la hospitalidad y el significado de ser anfitrión. Vivimos en un mundo donde unos poseen demasiado y a otros les falta lo más indispensable, donde migrantes y refugiados son unas veces acogidos y, otras humillados, y donde la...

Why is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook is full of insight that will help regular people begin a more inspiring and less stressful relationship with art. With tips on how to visit museums, how to talk about art at cocktail parties, and how to let art wake you up to the world around you, this little guide makes it possible...

An in-depth look into the exploding subculture of sneaker collecting and the widespread influence it has had on popular culture around the world. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"It's the really well-structured, tongue-in-cheek American history as told by brilliant knuckleheads that makes this one a must-see." - Anne Harris, **Austin Chronicle***

Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The...

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World delivers a empowering book for women and girls of all ages, featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a best-selling book you can be proud to display in your home.
The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in the best sense of the word: they challenged the status quo and changed the rules...

In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-pounding music, gender-bending dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Clubland is the story of Owen's six-year journey behind the velvet...

Mormons of the Lie, (expose-type non-fiction) unlocks a mammoth evil gone viral. A physician's wife dies tragically. Overcoming personal tragedy and betrayal unmask a bigger picture of social political and historical reality. Mormonism surfaces as a microcosm in the breakdown of society's wickedness. A psycho-spiritual look forges a deeper understanding of the gamut of emotions-transforming grief and explosive fury to peace of mind and genuine forgiveness,...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past, or family heirlooms handed down over generations, and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and media moments. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia built around narrow age groups whose members remain loyal to the toys, television, and music of their youth and return...

The history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.

We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are. From Greek mythology to the stories of the Christian martyrs and Dr. Faustus,...