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Moonwalk

— Michael Jackson • 1988

A pop icon's craft rules: learn from masters, own your work, convert every snub into fuel.

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🎵 Pop Music 💿 Music Industry ⭐ Celebrity Memoir 🎨 Creative Process 🎯 Perfectionism

Иммерсивные

Moonwalk

A pop icon's craft rules: learn from masters, own your work, convert every snub into fuel.

— Michael Jackson 1988 283 стр.

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🎵 Pop Music 💿 Music Industry ⭐ Celebrity Memoir 🎨 Creative Process 🎯 Perfectionism

Elvis and Me

— Priscilla Beaulieu Presley • 1985

Elvis chose her at 14, sculpted her to his liking, and called it a fairy tale.

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🎤 Celebrity Memoir ⛓️ Coercive Control 💊 Fame And Addiction 🦋 Identity Reclamation 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

Иммерсивные

Elvis and Me

Elvis chose her at 14, sculpted her to his liking, and called it a fairy tale.

— Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 1985 288 стр.

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🎤 Celebrity Memoir ⛓️ Coercive Control 💊 Fame And Addiction 🦋 Identity Reclamation 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

How Brands Become Icons

— Douglas B. Holt • 2004

Brands become icons by telling myths that resolve cultural tensions.

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🧱 Brand Strategy 🌍 Cultural Strategy 📖 Brand Mythology ⚖️ Cultural Tensions 🎭 Consumer Identity

How Brands Become Icons

Brands become icons by telling myths that resolve cultural tensions.

— Douglas B. Holt 2004 288 стр.

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🧱 Brand Strategy 🌍 Cultural Strategy 📖 Brand Mythology ⚖️ Cultural Tensions 🎭 Consumer Identity

The Language of New Media

— Lev Manovich • 2001

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies 🏺 Media Archaeology 🗃️ Database Aesthetics

The Language of New Media

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

— Lev Manovich 2001 354 стр.

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies 🏺 Media Archaeology 🗃️ Database Aesthetics

The Psychology of the Simpsons

— Alan S. Brown • 2006

Homer, Bart, and all of Springfield are walking psychology case studies, and their flaws are ours.

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📺 Pop Culture Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 📊 Behavioral Economics 🎭 Personality Psychology

The Psychology of the Simpsons

Homer, Bart, and all of Springfield are walking psychology case studies, and their flaws are ours.

— Alan S. Brown 2006 240 стр.

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📺 Pop Culture Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 📊 Behavioral Economics 🎭 Personality Psychology

How to Be Perfect

— Michael Schur • 2022

Five ethical systems. One working moral compass. No perfection required.

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🍿 Pop Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🏛️ Ethical Frameworks 🌱 Everyday Ethics 📜 Western Philosophy

How to Be Perfect

Five ethical systems. One working moral compass. No perfection required.

— Michael Schur 2022 304 стр.

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🍿 Pop Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🏛️ Ethical Frameworks 🌱 Everyday Ethics 📜 Western Philosophy

Down the Drain

— Julia Fox • 2023

An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 💉 Addiction Recovery 🌍 Immigrant Childhood ⛓️ Sex Work 🔥 Raw And Unflinching

Down the Drain

An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.

— Julia Fox 2023 318 стр.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 💉 Addiction Recovery 🌍 Immigrant Childhood ⛓️ Sex Work 🔥 Raw And Unflinching

Mood Machine

— Liz Pelly • 2025

Your favorite playlist runs on anonymous musicians and ad-tech logic; it was never a music company.

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🎧 Music Streaming 🏢 Platform Capitalism 🤖 Algorithmic Culture 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💼 Music Labor

Mood Machine

Your favorite playlist runs on anonymous musicians and ad-tech logic; it was never a music company.

— Liz Pelly 2025 288 стр.

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🎧 Music Streaming 🏢 Platform Capitalism 🤖 Algorithmic Culture 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💼 Music Labor

I Am Ozzy

— Ozzy Osbourne • 2009

Invented heavy metal by accident, survived a near-fatal blackout, and woke up a reality TV dad.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 🤘 Heavy Metal History 💊 Addiction And Recovery 😈 Dark Humor Memoirs 🌟 Surviving Fame

I Am Ozzy

Invented heavy metal by accident, survived a near-fatal blackout, and woke up a reality TV dad.

— Ozzy Osbourne 2009 391 стр.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 🤘 Heavy Metal History 💊 Addiction And Recovery 😈 Dark Humor Memoirs 🌟 Surviving Fame

The Image

— Daniel J. Boorstin • 1961

Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.

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🎙️ Media Criticism 🎭 Manufactured Reality 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🏛️ Image Politics 📢 Advertising Critique

The Image

Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.

— Daniel J. Boorstin 1961 336 стр.

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🎙️ Media Criticism 🎭 Manufactured Reality 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🏛️ Image Politics 📢 Advertising Critique

The Simpsons and Philosophy

— William Irwin • 2001

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

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📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism 🤡 Satire ⚖️ Ethics And Morality

The Simpsons and Philosophy

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

— William Irwin 2001 322 стр.

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📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism 🤡 Satire ⚖️ Ethics And Morality

Scar Tissue

— Anthony Kiedis • 2004

His father gave him drugs at eleven. This is what happened after.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💉 Heroin Addiction 🩹 Recovery Journey 🥁 Band Dynamics 🌴 Los Angeles Punk

Scar Tissue

His father gave him drugs at eleven. This is what happened after.

— Anthony Kiedis 2004 465 стр.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💉 Heroin Addiction 🩹 Recovery Journey 🥁 Band Dynamics 🌴 Los Angeles Punk

Making It So

— Patrick Stewart • 2023

Star Trek was a six-week gig, he thought. Then Shakespeare met the starship.

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🎭 Classical Theater 🎬 Acting Craft 🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🏭 Working-Class Origins 🖖 Star Trek Memoirs

Making It So

Star Trek was a six-week gig, he thought. Then Shakespeare met the starship.

— Patrick Stewart 2023 469 стр.

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🎭 Classical Theater 🎬 Acting Craft 🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🏭 Working-Class Origins 🖖 Star Trek Memoirs

How to Rap

— Paul Edwards • 2009

Craft sharp lyrics, command any beat, and own the stage: the MC's complete toolkit.

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🎤 Rap Technique ✍️ Lyric Writing 🎙️ Vocal Performance 🎛️ Studio Recording 🎪 Stage Performance

How to Rap

Craft sharp lyrics, command any beat, and own the stage: the MC's complete toolkit.

— Paul Edwards 2009 340 стр.

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🎤 Rap Technique ✍️ Lyric Writing 🎙️ Vocal Performance 🎛️ Studio Recording 🎪 Stage Performance

Hard-Core Romance

— Eva Illouz • 2013

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

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📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics 💕 Modern Courtship 🛠️ Self-Help Culture

Hard-Core Romance

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

— Eva Illouz 2013 96 стр.

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📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics 💕 Modern Courtship 🛠️ Self-Help Culture

Bad Habits

— Jenny McCarthy • 2012

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

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⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Bad Habits

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

— Jenny McCarthy 2012 222 стр.

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⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Deluxe

— Dana Thomas • 2007

How family ateliers became global machines, and why your handbag now funds drug cartels.

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👗 Fashion Industry 💎 Luxury Brands 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🌐 Globalization Critique 🏭 Labor Exploitation

Deluxe

How family ateliers became global machines, and why your handbag now funds drug cartels.

— Dana Thomas 2007 384 стр.

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👗 Fashion Industry 💎 Luxury Brands 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🌐 Globalization Critique 🏭 Labor Exploitation

The Half of It

— Madison Beer • 2023

Leaked nudes made her infamous at fifteen. She was a minor; the internet blamed her anyway.

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🌟 Child Stardom 🎵 Music Industry 💻 Online Hate 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📢 Misogyny In Media

The Half of It

Leaked nudes made her infamous at fifteen. She was a minor; the internet blamed her anyway.

— Madison Beer 2023 176 стр.

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🌟 Child Stardom 🎵 Music Industry 💻 Online Hate 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📢 Misogyny In Media

Консольные войны

— Блейк Дж. Харрис • 2014

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Консольные войны

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

— Блейк Дж. Харрис 2014 576 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Fashion Brands

— Mark Tungate • 2005

Clothes are secondary. The brand is the product, sold long before you enter the store.

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👗 Fashion Branding 🛍️ Consumer Desire 📈 Fashion Trends 🏬 Retail Experience 🌟 Celebrity Culture

Fashion Brands

Clothes are secondary. The brand is the product, sold long before you enter the store.

— Mark Tungate 2005 272 стр.

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👗 Fashion Branding 🛍️ Consumer Desire 📈 Fashion Trends 🏬 Retail Experience 🌟 Celebrity Culture

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

— Matt Rife • 2024

Bad teeth, small town, zero connections: the raw rules for outworking your flaws to sell out arenas.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📚 Comedy Memoirs 🥊 Underdog Mentality 💪 Hustle Culture 😅 Self-Deprecation

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

Bad teeth, small town, zero connections: the raw rules for outworking your flaws to sell out arenas.

— Matt Rife 2024 272 стр.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📚 Comedy Memoirs 🥊 Underdog Mentality 💪 Hustle Culture 😅 Self-Deprecation

Star Wars and Philosophy

— Kevin S. Decker • 2005

Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film As Philosophy ⚖️ Comparative Ethics 🏛️ Political Decay 🗺️ Hero's Journey

Star Wars and Philosophy

Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.

— Kevin S. Decker 2005 252 стр.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film As Philosophy ⚖️ Comparative Ethics 🏛️ Political Decay 🗺️ Hero's Journey

Кровь, пот и пиксели. Обратная сторона индустрии видеоигр

— Джейсон Шрейер • 2017

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

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🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Кровь, пот и пиксели. Обратная сторона индустрии видеоигр

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

— Джейсон Шрейер 2017 278 стр.

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24 000+ оценок

🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Cinema Speculation

— Quentin Tarantino • 2022

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

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🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema 💥 Exploitation Films 📖 Auteur Theory

Cinema Speculation

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

— Quentin Tarantino 2022 391 стр.

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🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema 💥 Exploitation Films 📖 Auteur Theory

ASAP

— Axie Oh • 2024

Quitting her idol debut, a CEO's daughter risks her family's empire for her K-pop ex.

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🎤 K-Pop Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🤫 Secret Relationship 🫂 Found Family 🌟 Idol Industry

ASAP

Quitting her idol debut, a CEO's daughter risks her family's empire for her K-pop ex.

— Axie Oh 2024 343 стр.

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🎤 K-Pop Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🤫 Secret Relationship 🫂 Found Family 🌟 Idol Industry

Architectural Digest at 100

— Architectural Digest • 2019

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

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📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

Architectural Digest at 100

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

— Architectural Digest 2019 464 стр.

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📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

Good Time Girl

— Heather Gay • 2024

Branded a party girl by her church, she turned the accusation into her freedom.

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⛪ Mormon Memoir 💔 Religious Deconstruction 📺 Reality Tv Memoir ✊ Good Girl Rebellion 🔄 Midlife Reinvention

Good Time Girl

Branded a party girl by her church, she turned the accusation into her freedom.

— Heather Gay 2024 288 стр.

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3 000+ оценок

⛪ Mormon Memoir 💔 Religious Deconstruction 📺 Reality Tv Memoir ✊ Good Girl Rebellion 🔄 Midlife Reinvention

Everything Bad is Good for You

— Steven Johnson • 2005

IQ scores keep rising, and your video game habit may explain why.

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📡 Media Studies 🎭 Pop Culture Analysis 🎮 Video Game Cognition 🧩 Narrative Complexity 🧠 Flynn Effect

Everything Bad is Good for You

IQ scores keep rising, and your video game habit may explain why.

— Steven Johnson 2005 273 стр.

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📡 Media Studies 🎭 Pop Culture Analysis 🎮 Video Game Cognition 🧩 Narrative Complexity 🧠 Flynn Effect

Danse Macabre

— Stephen King • 1981

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

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🎬 Horror Criticism 🧠 Psychology Of Fear 🧟 Monster Theory 🎥 Horror Film History ✍️ Horror Writing

Danse Macabre

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

— Stephen King 1981 400 стр.

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🎬 Horror Criticism 🧠 Psychology Of Fear 🧟 Monster Theory 🎥 Horror Film History ✍️ Horror Writing

The Book of Basketball

— Bill Simmons • 2009

An obsessive re-ranking of NBA history that argues winning is about people, not players.

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🏀 Basketball History 🧪 Team Chemistry 📊 Player Rankings ⚔️ Sports Rivalries ✍️ Modern Sports Writing

The Book of Basketball

An obsessive re-ranking of NBA history that argues winning is about people, not players.

— Bill Simmons 2009 736 стр.

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🏀 Basketball History 🧪 Team Chemistry 📊 Player Rankings ⚔️ Sports Rivalries ✍️ Modern Sports Writing

Straight Shooter

— Stephen A. Smith • 2023

Fired by ESPN. Dyslexic. A Queens kid's improbable rise to the top of sports television.

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🎙️ Sports Broadcasting 📺 Media Careers 📝 Sports Journalism 🔄 Career Comebacks 🚀 Self-Made Success

Straight Shooter

Fired by ESPN. Dyslexic. A Queens kid's improbable rise to the top of sports television.

— Stephen A. Smith 2023 288 стр.

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🎙️ Sports Broadcasting 📺 Media Careers 📝 Sports Journalism 🔄 Career Comebacks 🚀 Self-Made Success

The Dirt

— Tommy Lee • 2001

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

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📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess 🤘 Glam Metal 💉 Addiction Recovery

The Dirt

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

— Tommy Lee 2001 431 стр.

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📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess 🤘 Glam Metal 💉 Addiction Recovery

Slash

— Slash • 2007

The story of Guns N' Roses: squalor, stadiums, and the addiction that burned it down.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💔 Band Breakups 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎵 Music Industry 🕶️ 80s Rock Scene

Slash

The story of Guns N' Roses: squalor, stadiums, and the addiction that burned it down.

— Slash 2007 458 стр.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💔 Band Breakups 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎵 Music Industry 🕶️ 80s Rock Scene

The Big Picture

— Ben Fritz • 2018

How Marvel, Netflix, and the Chinese box office dismantled the movies you used to love.

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🎬 Hollywood Economics 📺 Streaming Disruption 🎥 Franchise Filmmaking 🌏 Global Box Office 🏢 Media Consolidation

The Big Picture

How Marvel, Netflix, and the Chinese box office dismantled the movies you used to love.

— Ben Fritz 2018 309 стр.

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2 000+ оценок

🎬 Hollywood Economics 📺 Streaming Disruption 🎥 Franchise Filmmaking 🌏 Global Box Office 🏢 Media Consolidation

The Princess Diarist

— Carrie Fisher • 2016

She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Comic Memoir 🌟 Fame And Identity 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📝 Diary Memoir

The Princess Diarist

She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.

— Carrie Fisher 2016 257 стр.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Comic Memoir 🌟 Fame And Identity 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📝 Diary Memoir

The Woman in Me

— Britney Spears • 2023

The world's biggest pop star, silenced for 13 years. This is the story they wouldn't let her tell.

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🎤 Child Stardom 🎵 Pop Music Memoir ⛓️ Surviving Exploitation 📰 Media Misogyny 📸 Tabloid Culture

The Woman in Me

The world's biggest pop star, silenced for 13 years. This is the story they wouldn't let her tell.

— Britney Spears 2023 288 стр.

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🎤 Child Stardom 🎵 Pop Music Memoir ⛓️ Surviving Exploitation 📰 Media Misogyny 📸 Tabloid Culture

The Expanse and Philosophy

— Jeffery L. Nicholas • 2021

Martian militarism, alien minds, and colonial revolt: philosophy class is now a solar system at war.

3.99

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🚀 Science Fiction Studies 🌍 Colonialism Critique 🪪 Personal Identity 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Expanse and Philosophy

Martian militarism, alien minds, and colonial revolt: philosophy class is now a solar system at war.

— Jeffery L. Nicholas 2021 256 стр.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🚀 Science Fiction Studies 🌍 Colonialism Critique 🪪 Personal Identity 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Bowie's Bookshelf

— John O'Connell • 2019

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

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🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation 🔮 Occult Influences 🌀 Postmodernism

Bowie's Bookshelf

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

— John O'Connell 2019 320 стр.

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🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation 🔮 Occult Influences 🌀 Postmodernism

Born to Run

— Bruce Springsteen • 2016

Stadiums roared his anthems. Inside, he waged a lifelong war with depression and his father's ghost.

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🎸 Songwriter Memoir 🏭 Blue Collar Roots 🌑 Depression And Art 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🥁 Band Dynamics

Born to Run

Stadiums roared his anthems. Inside, he waged a lifelong war with depression and his father's ghost.

— Bruce Springsteen 2016 528 стр.

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🎸 Songwriter Memoir 🏭 Blue Collar Roots 🌑 Depression And Art 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🥁 Band Dynamics

Understanding John Lennon

— Francis Kenny • 2020

Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.

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🎸 Music Biography 🎵 Rock History 💔 Childhood Trauma 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain 🤝 Artistic Partnership

Understanding John Lennon

Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.

— Francis Kenny 2020 320 стр.

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🎸 Music Biography 🎵 Rock History 💔 Childhood Trauma 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain 🤝 Artistic Partnership

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

— Holger Weßling • 2019

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

— Holger Weßling 2019 27 стр.

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

— Wayne Yuen • 2012

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

— Wayne Yuen 2012 262 стр.

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

Unfinished

— Priyanka Chopra Jonas • 2021

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

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🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality 💪 Female Ambition 🖤 Grief And Resilience

Unfinished

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

— Priyanka Chopra Jonas 2021 246 стр.

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10 000+ оценок

🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality 💪 Female Ambition 🖤 Grief And Resilience

How to Take Charge of Your Life

— Richard Bandler • 2014

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

How to Take Charge of Your Life

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

— Richard Bandler 2014 128 стр.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

Moral Combat

— Patrick M. Markey • 2017

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

Moral Combat

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

— Patrick M. Markey 2017 256 стр.

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

On Bullshit

— Harry G. Frankfurt • 2005

Organizations run on three hidden personality types, roles you were never trained to see.

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🏢 Workplace Dynamics 🏛️ Corporate Culture ⚡ Power Structures 🎭 Office Politics 🎲 Status Games

On Bullshit

Organizations run on three hidden personality types, roles you were never trained to see.

— Harry G. Frankfurt 2005 67 стр.

3.58

16 000+ оценок

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