検索キーワード： 大衆文化

'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social...

Raise your hand if you cringe at the sound of your own voice, worry that you actually do sound like your mother, or have spent a sleepless night wondering if your inner and outer voices are in sync. Now, hands down, headphones on. Lake Bell is going to tell you why you’re not alone and why your voice matters in the most deeply personal ways. Inside Voice unpacks the writer-director-producer-actor’s obsession with voice and all its permutations.

Japan is at a crossroads. The postwar economic miracle that brought it unprecedented development and prosperity is over. Since the publication of the first Culture Smart! guide, it has been overtaken by China as the world's second-largest economy. The balance of power in Asia has shifted and new players are entering the field. No one can predict how Japan will rise to the challenge, or what effect the changes will have on how people live, think, and behave.

New York Times Bestseller Featured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG ""It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG."" — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019 She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming...

More than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions.

Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia.

In a fun and accessible way, Star Trek Psychology delves deep into the psyches of the show's well-known and beloved characters. The trailblazing franchise spans five TV series, 13 films, and countless novelizations. It celebrated, as no other form of entertainment had before, a world filled with space-traveling dreams and human diversity. In the process, it became one of the oldest and most popular sci-fi franchises of all time. 

Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world - an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it's enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it's a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. 

BBC: Brainwashing Britain? is a shocking expose of mass propaganda, its components, and aims. You may never look at Auntie in the same way ever again. The people of Britain are under attack. We are being brainwashed. We are being brainwashed completely, ceaselessly and cynically... So just who...

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.  

How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

The explosive inside account of the Beckham family saga by acclaimed journalist Alison Boshoff. The first and definitive book about the Beckham family saga since the seismic revelations made by Brooklyn about his parents Sir David and Victoria Beckham written by acclaimed Daily Mail journalist...

Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Beginning in the mid-1970s, Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men – including the storylines "Dark Phoenix Saga," "Days of Future Past," "Inferno," "Mutant Massacre," "Fall of the Mutants," and "X-Tinction Agenda" – catapulted the mutant heroes to the top of...

Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Genius. Monarch. Sorcerer. God. Since the birth of the Marvel Universe, Doctor Doom has left scars across it as indelible as the ones he hides beneath his cold iron mask. Victor von Doom is one of Marvel’s most popular villains, having menaced just about...

Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The unforgettable and unexpected deaths of three indelible heroes in the early 1980s shattered the status quo and shook the Marvel Universe to its core. In this age of relentless online spoilers, there may never again be comics events of such powerful shock...

Explores the evolution of fashion in video games from the origin of Mario to recent partnerships by luxury brands to create in-game skins. Did you know that Mario’s iconic overall look was born out of necessity due to the limitations of 8-bit animation? Or that Link, the hero of 1986’s...

From the bestselling author of Palo Alto, a kaleidoscopic and thought-provoking history of how America came to pursue convenience—the feeling of getting what you want, when you want it—at all costs, to the detriment of our health, happiness, and even our efficiency. We are drowning in...

Известный библиофил Альберто Мангель, который, по его собственным словам, представляет свою жизнь «как перелистывание страниц множества книг», исследует, как литературные герои живут с нами с детства, меняются сами и меняют нас. Эти вымышленные люди учат нас понимать мир и порой становятся более значимыми и настоящими, чем реальные.

Con Zombified: Lecciones del mundo real a partir de apocalipsis ficticios, ha compilado sus investigaciones y reflexiones en un fascinante Audible Original que te hará pensar más a fondo en todos esos cadáveres tambaleantes y hambrientos de cerebros de la cultura pop, por no hablar de nuestra vida cotidiana.

¿Es posible que estemos asistiendo al ocaso de la inteligencia? ¿Por qué los necios parecen ganar terreno en la política, los negocios y la sociedad en su conjunto? Pino Aprile propone una teoría provocadora y sorprendente: en el mundo moderno, la estupidez no es un defecto evolutivo, sino una ventaja adaptativa. Así como la selección natural despojó a nuestros ancestros de la cola y el vello corporal, la selección cultural tiende a reducir las capacidades intelectuales que durante milenios nos permitieron sobrevivir.