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"Royal Family, News Headlines and True Crime: Britain in the 20th Century" is a book in the series "Bitesize Britain". The book will take listeners on a unique voyage through time, offering bite sized chunks of social history helping the listener gain an understanding and appreciation of the key events that shaped Britain.

Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-star group of six superheroes in September 1963. From there, just three main writers chronicled Earth's Mightiest Heroes in that most turbulent of decades: Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Jim Shooter, each with differing approaches. The Avengers quickly became the pivot around which the Marvel Universe turned. To look back through its issues is to get a crash course in '70s pop culture.

Doctor Strange, one of Marvel's most fascinating early characters, began at the hands of co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and his ethereal voyages through other dimensions made him an important figure in 1960s culture. Over his first ten years, a succession of writers and artists—including Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Gardner F. Fox, P. Craig Russell, Marie Severin, and notably Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner—expanded on Ditko's original mind-bending concepts.

They didn’t just make Mario. They made your childhood — and then they made sure you’d never forget it. From handmade Japanese playing cards to the global Pokémon phenomenon, Nintendo has spent over a century shaping culture, controlling imagination, and redefining what fun means — on their terms. This isn’t just a company biography. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the secret history of control, nostalgia, and innovation, told through the colorful world of pixels and power-ups. You’ll revisit the games that changed everything — from Donkey Kong to Zelda, Pokémon to Smash Bros.

Chi parla, soprattutto se da posizioni di autorità o in contesti istituzionali, ha una pesante responsabilità: ciò che diciamo cambia i limiti di ciò che può essere detto, sposta un po' più in là i confini di ciò che viene considerato normale, assodato, legittimo. E cambiare i limiti di ciò che può essere detto cambia allo stesso tempo i limiti di ciò che può essere fatto.

Beginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, Listening In traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. Exploring how mass audio surveillance is carried out through devices such as smart phones, speakers and baby monitors and used to inform and train AI algorithms, the book provides fresh insights into how we are allowing our personal privacies to be traded for enhanced social connectivity and technological convenience.

Tired of personal responsibility? Ready to unlock the unlimited power of blaming the universe for your failures and stagnant life? This little work delivers a masterclass in how to rise to the top—by sinking to the bottom. We explore the new social hierarchy where feelings trump facts, being hurt is a superpower, and ambition is optional while complaining is mandatory. Each chapter unveils the — up until now - unwritten laws of victimhood—how to dress the part, speak the lingo, and cultivate the perfect blend of fragility and indignation.

The pub is an English institution. But its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "time." But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.

In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theater, plating has become art and ubiquitous Instagram content. It explores the meaning we find in good food and warm hospitality. It shows why the restaurant offers unique opportunities to change the quality of our engagement with others and to create shared meaning across the table.

The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics, and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a beautiful 20th anniversary edition featuring a new foreword Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and...

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children's literature. Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History explores Disney's adaptations of Victorian texts like Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist, Treasure Island, Peter Pan, and the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

Raised on Porn is a carefully reasoned and thoroughly documented look at how porn has infiltrated modern life, why it matters, and how we can respond. This book is a must-read for every parent, youth leader, educator, or anyone who cares about human rights, especially the rights of our most vulnerable people. Author Benjamin Nolot, known for his filmmaking and his battle against sex trafficking, spent more than 10 years researching and writing Raised on Porn. This book is not some shrill attack on free speech or free expression.

En Enigmas los autores hacen un completo repaso por diversos tópicos inquietantes de la historia universal. Es un libro que nos enfrenta a lo desconocido y nos reencuentra con la fascinación atávica del ser humano por el misterio y lo inexplicable, desde el lejano pasado hasta todos los futuros posibles. Con este tercer libro, Francisco Ortega y Juan Andrés Salfate completan una trilogía sobre lo desconocido, que comenzó hace tres años.

Verdaderamente, una medicina para el cuerpo y el alma, uno de los mayores dones del cannabis es su notable potencial para la sanación y el despertar espiritual. En esta guía autorizada, el editor Stephen Gray y otras 17 voces influyentes del movimiento cannábico moderno exploran los beneficios espirituales del cannabis y ofrecen orientación sobre cómo interactuar con la inteligencia de esta planta aliada, compañera y defensora de la humanidad durante milenios.

When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe, and the glamorous Kentucky Derby. Add college basketball to that list, and you have yourself a superfecta. Looking beyond these time-honored traditions, however, visitors will find in Kentucky a diverse patchwork of faces and places, each as unique as the state's geography. Kentucky, Y'all is an entertaining and informative compilation of the state's favorite oddities, cultural quirks, traditions, and rites of passage.

Maar wie doet er eigenlijk precies aan online daten, hoe daten ze, en welke lessen kunnen we trekken uit hun ervaringen? Online dating: the good, the bad and the ugly brengt het (liefdes)leven van de online dater in kaart. Maar ook voor zij die zich liever niet op de onlinehuwelijksmarkt begeven, is het een must-read: dit boek bevat namelijk een schat aan informatie over hoe relaties in de eenentwintigste eeuw tot stand komen, en hoe je als ouder kunt omgaan met kinderen die net in de dating scene duiken.

A searing investigation into the child influencer industry and the perils of childhood internet fame, Like, Follow, Subscribe is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the costs of internet fame, and the ethics of online content. What is it like to grow up with a camera in your face...

Wie entsteht eigentlich ein Ghostsitter Hörspiel? Wie viele Menschen sind daran beteiligt und wie lange dauert es eigentlich von der ersten Idee bis zum fertigen Abenteuer? Autor und Regisseur Tommy Krappweis nimmt Euch in dieser "Doku zum Anhören" mit hinter die Kulissen. Ihr lernt viele Menschen kennen - von der Lektorin über die Besetzung und die Regieassistenz bis zu den Geräuschmachern - die euch erzählen, was ihre Aufgaben sind und wie die Texte von Tommy sich langsam zu einem fertigen Hörspiel zusammenfügen. Ein spannender und informativer Werkstattbericht für alle Ghostsitter- und für alle Hörspiel-Fans!

The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick-learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain’s mid-20th-century pop music explosion didn’t happen from a standing start. The reasons, both dazzling and multifaceted, appear to lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records to Liverpool’s port and the legacy of music halls.