'A visionary steam-powered heavy metal fantasy. Gibson and Sterling create a high-Victorian virtual reality of extraordinary richness and detail' Ridley Scott, creator of ALIEN

Discusses the elements of rap music, including its lyrics, music, culture, and style, and looks at the impact of rap music.

How the Bush administration has curtailed our freedoms, mortgaged our economy, ravaged our environment and damaged our standing in the world - an impassioned lament by the editor of Vanity Fair.

Provides an introduction of the players who came up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the hip-hop culture. It describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island and South Central LA. It is intended for DJs, B-Boys, MCs and those with an interest in the history of America.

An examination of the world-wide hip hop phenomenon. This work explores the way how through hip hop the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism.