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Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book writers whose work at Marvel in the 1970s established their own authorial voice within the strictures of corporate comics.

“A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & Country Welcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring...

Nem Te Conto é uma áudio série original da Audible em 6 episódios que traz um olhar íntimo e aprofundado sobre a fofoca do ponto de vista da atriz, apresentadora e vítima de fofocas desde o início da carreira: Luana Piovani. A cada episódio, traremos um convidado para conversar com ela um subtema relativo à fofoca, abordado por um viés psicológico, sociológico, filosófico e opinativo. Com tom descontraído, a conversa é basicamente uma grande fofoca sobre a fofoca e, até por isso, ela escolheu a dedo as pessoas que gostaria de ter na mesa durante essa temporada.

Brought to you by Penguin. If you met an alien, what might it be like? Ever since childhood, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has wanted to be abducted by aliens. Here, he draws upon a lifetime’s fascination to explore the science of alien life – and to offer a practical guide to your...

The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable movie franchises of all time. The movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, and now it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling. In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them.

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times ‘The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’ THE OBSERVER ‘This isn’t a book; it’s a case for revolution’ SUNDAY TIMES 'Undoubtedly the most important book of the last year, if not the...

Ditch the subtitles and decode your favorite K-Pop lyrics with this immersive Korean language learning audio course. Transform your daily commute into an engaging, high-energy journey through the vibrant world of idol culture and hit television dramas. Whether you are streaming late-night...

‘It’s a book that tackles the awful without self-flagellation and the good without congratulation. It has the cool, considered air of a commencement speech, which feels like something Brown was born to do’ GQ An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown - Queer Eye’s...

A manager fires someone using the word "space" four times and never once says "fired." A parent negotiates with a four-year-old instead of holding a limit. Ten thousand strangers destroy a person's career over one bad tweet, and every one of them believes they're being kind. These aren't unrelated. They're the same thing wearing different clothes. We spent thirty years building a culture that treats kindness as the highest virtue and discomfort as a kind of harm to be prevented at any cost. We renamed honest feedback "toxic."

On August 1, 2018, in response to the outrage amongst some citizens that Coles would be phasing out the supply of single use plastic bags in NSW, Osman wrote to his 20,000 Twitter followers: "Australians are a deeply conservative, insular and fearful people with the collective delusion they are...

La historia es sencilla: a inicios de los años setenta un joven de clase alta decide hacer una fiesta en su casa, aprovechando que sus padres están fuera de México. La invitación pasa de boca en boca y a la cita llegan más de 140 personas. Entonces irrumpe la policía con pistola en mano y se lleva a casi todos detenidos. La prensa lo llamó "orgía"; la policía, delito; la moral pública, decadencia.

True Grime isn't just a true crime book. It also asks why true crime became the biggest entertainment genre on earth. You might think it's about murder, cults, serial killers, dark tourism and courtroom dramas. It is. And, it is about us. It's about why sensible, compassionate, busy people can't...

A provocative, eye-opening look at a genre long dismissed as trash television. Featuring interviews with dozens of reality hosts and stars, including Jeff Probst and Gordon Ramsay, and with insights into its history, production, and ethics, True Lies will change the way you look at reality television forever.

A journalist’s incisive and darkly entertaining look at self-improvement spirituality—in which new age practices like astrology, tarot, and manifestation are reconfigured through the lens of social media algorithms and wellness culture to create a religion of the highly-optimized self. If...

At some point early in life it hits us all: the adults around us, who we assumed knew what they were doing, have no more idea than we do. Most of the time we are all making it up as we go. Even in science there are few absolute truths. And yet uncertainty makes us deeply uncomfortable. Our...

A fascinating exploration of the science and psychology behind fear, madness, and the haunting stories that linger in our minds Scientists throughout centuries have mined the depths of humanity looking for—and finding—answers to life’s most mysterious questions, but perhaps the most...

The outrageous inside story of the music video revolution, told by the maverick director who brought David Bowie, Queen, The Cure, The Bangles, Wam!, Hall & Oates, and more to our screens Tim Pope was there from the beginning, before music videos became slick corporate products, when anything felt possible. I Shoot Rock Stars is his music-obsessive-turned-guerrilla-filmmaker’s wild ride inside the birth of the pop video —smuggled cameras, blown budgets, and no idea too strange to try.

A love letter to the city of Philadelphia, and the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation of a timeless and beloved piece of American pop culture: Rocky. The greatest underdog story in movie history celebrates its golden anniversary. Rocky turns fifty, and in Going the Distance, Mike...

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the...

What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach even our daily tasks in a playful way, taking the attitude of play without the activity of play. So what, then, is play? In Play Matters, Miguel Sicart argues that to play is to be in the world; playing is a form of understanding what surrounds us and a way of engaging with others. Play goes beyond games; it is a mode of being human.