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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Bootstrap for Rails

Bootstrap for Rails

Syed Fazle Rahman

Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the ...

Dead Spy Running

Dead Spy Running

Daniel Marchant (1)

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Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New ...

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City

Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City

Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions

Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema ...

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and ...

Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?

Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?

Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of ...

Life Its Ownself

Life Its Ownself

I Lost It at the Movies

I Lost It at the Movies

I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone

I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family ...

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature

Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature

Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies ...

Jonathan Kirshner

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the ...

The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox

The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall ...

The Road to Woodstock

The Road to Woodstock

King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson

King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson

Laurence Leamer

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best ...

Norman Lebrecht

Paul Newman: A Life

Paul Newman: A Life

De Niro: A Life

De Niro: A Life

Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years: 1

Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years: 1

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the ...

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line

Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020

Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020

Deirdre Loughridge

Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy

Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel ...

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

M. K. Asante, Jr.

Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest ...

William J. Mann

Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

The Trip to Jerusalem

The Trip to Jerusalem

Elizabethan Theater (3)

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Thomas R. Martin

Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats, the Greatest Band You've Never Heard Of

Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats, the ...

Andrew Matheson

Beatles vs. Stones

Beatles vs. Stones

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain

Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, From Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, ...

The Bee Gees: The Biography

The Bee Gees: The Biography

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American Dream

A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American ...

Tracey L. Mollet

The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 ...

Brian Morton & Richard Cook

Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed ...

Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground ...

Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

Peter Normanton

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream

Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream ...

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect ...

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Robert Louis Peters

Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

Gene D. Phillips

Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing ...

James Poniewozik

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show ...

My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure

My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep ...

My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music

My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original ...

Alice Randall & Carter Little & Courtney Little

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of ...

Philip Rawlings

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales From the World of Classical Music and Beyond

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales From ...