Social Science / Popular Culture

The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.

The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.

The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.

The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.

A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects.

The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.

From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women's hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.

A feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture.

The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.