Covers the stories behind a number of classic toys. This title features toy adventures that include: building a full-size house made entirely out of Lego; creating a Plasticine garden and entering it at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show; and, building the world's largest model aeroplane - a full-size Spitfire.

Takes a look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. This work puts the English national character under the anthropological microscope, and finds a strange culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. It also discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

A scrutiny of one hundred pop lyrics. It includes pie charts, flow diagrams, checklists, graphs and graphics.

A practical guide to the charms of the Gallic people - from their daily routines to their peerless gesticulations, from their come-ons to their put-downs.

Illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting 'It's bigger than hip hop'.

From the jiving 1950s to the hip hopping 90s, the disco funky 70s to the booty shaking noughties, Bust A Move is your essential guide to dance crazes through the ages.

Examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, this book maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives.

Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. This title investigates the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't mention.

It is said that the Hell's Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. This book explores the questions such as: How much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality?

Describes the author's time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago. This book tells how in the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago's South Side, he befriends JT, a gang leader for the Black Kings. It also tells how he gains JT's trust, and in order to convince the author of his CEO-like qualities, JT makes him leader of the gang.

Society is no longer based on mass consumption but on mass participation. New forms of collaboration - such as Wikipedia and YouTube - are paving the way for an age in which people want to be players, rather than mere spectators, in the production process. This title explains how the rise of mass collaboration affects us and the world.

Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. This title examines the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion.

A participatory journey through thriving worlds of fantasy and gaming - from good ol' Dungeons and Dragons to World of Warcraft, small live-action role-playing games to enormous make-believe medieval wars - filled with colourful characters and funny, poignant, and enlightening discoveries.

The Politics and Culture of Decline. 'Not With a Bang But a Whimper' is a beautifully-written and thought-provoking collection of pieces on subjects as diverse as the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand controversy, violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective merits of Shakespeare and Dr Johnson. Theodore Dalrymple uses examples from his ...

A fact can be a slippery thing. Shorn of context, it can lend undeserved authority to a shoddy opinion; artfully combined with other facts, it can crowd out dissent. And it is not always clear that we do respect the things. This book aims to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world.

Explores works from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. This work reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.

A cool, marijuana-themed colouring book geared towards adults, featuring a collection of 20 amazingly detailed images that will provide hundreds of hours of colouring fun. With the goal of helping anyone, stoned or sober, to rediscover and engage in the meditative art of colouring, pop-culture artist Re has assembled his most popular images to date. Suitable for colouring with markers, colouring .

A collection of essays on comic books, music, and other aspects of pop culture, focusing on a 10,000-word essay on the transformation of American film through the rise of the comic book movie.

A richly entertaining, compellingly readable survey of 21st-century England from a sharp-eyed American with a winningly humorous way with words.

Design, Nostalgia, Music.