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Popular Culture January 2019
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Lonely Planet Wellness Escapes
by Lonely Planet Publications
Including nearly 200 destinations that are energizing, inspiring and relaxing, this guide to wellness retreats around the world makes it easy to find the perfect getaway.
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| She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill SolowayWhat it's about: In this candid and eye-opening memoir, Transparent creator Jill Soloway (who is nonbinary) reckons with their place in male-dominated Hollywood, offering insights on gender, sexuality, and the #metoo movement.
Did you know? Soloway was inspired to create Transparent after their own parent came out as transgender.
Book buzz: She Wants It is a New York Times Editors' Choice pick. |
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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
by Sam Maggs
Readers new to fandom might be a bit wary about attending their first con or participating in online discussions, so if that's you, this intro to fandom etiquette, avoiding trolls, and rocking cosplay might give you a bit of confidence. Effusive and enthusiastic (though you don't really need a tattoo to prove you're a fan, if you don't want one), this guide is aimed at beginners, but those of you long comfortable in your fandoms might get a kick out it too. (And for further reading: geek girl extraordinaire Felicia Day is publishing a memoir -- You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) -- which should be available in August.)
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The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space : 42 Questions (And Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything
by Jim Lebans
Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much to Adams as it does to Newton or Einstein or Hawking, have flipped that notion through a gap in the space-time continuum (or something like that) and come up with answers to the 42 essential questions about space.
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Distrust that particular flavor
by William Gibson
A first collection of non-fiction writings by the best-selling author of Neuromancer includes his Wired magazine article on the Singapore trial of a drug trafficker, his New York Times piece on what was wrong with the Internet and his Rolling Stone-published essay on the way music documents modern culture.
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