We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry...

Pospopulares: Las culturas populares despǔs de la hibridaci̤n es un balance profundo de los debates que, desde hace treinta ąos, organizaron los estudios sobre las culturas populares latinoamericanas. A la vez, propone nuevas perspectivas en tiempos de crisis de la categor̕a: la pregunta central es ¿qǔ significa hoy lo popular? La relaci̤n entre las culturas populares y la cultura de masas ha cambiado radicalmente en este siglo, de un modo...

"Easy-to-follow and imaginative explanations about the extraordinary physics that invisibly guides our daily lives"--

Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, able to cope with complexity and to separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this "other society," comforting, reassuring images, fantasies, slogans and a celebration of violence push reality, complexity and nuance to the margins....

The Greek myths have been retold countless times, first by the conquering Romans, then through the medieval and Renaissance eras of Europe, and finally finding new expression in masterworks of art, literature and cinema on the global stage. Classical scholar Richard Buxton explores the stories at the heart of this ancient mythology and how they have come to influence our society today. The Greek legends seem to speak to us universally, their deities...