Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

Welcome to the fabulous lifestyles of the cruel and despotic. Running with the idea that our homes are where we are truly ourselves, Peter York's wildly original and scathingly funny look at the interior decorating tastes of some of history's most alarmin

Hey Nostradamus!

Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and relig

Souvenir of Canada 2

Douglas Coupland returns to re-inventing Canada following his best-seller that made it clear, Canada is way more than slightly cool.Douglas Coupland gets Canada. Better, he has set out to re-invent his country with his particular brand of insight, humor,

Souvenir of Canada

Full of surprises and insights, Souvenir of Canada presents us as we have never seen ourselves before in an irresistible flow of text and image.Douglas Coupland offers new ways of seeing and experiencing Canada -- looking at how it feels to be a Canad

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver

Terry: Terry Fox and His Marathon of Hope

In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research — despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation

D'oh-it's "The Simpsons." And here's the book with the behind-the-scenes story of how America's favorite nuclear family first arrived at a TV near you, how the series grew into a worldwide icon, and who brings it to life so brilliantly week after week, ye

God Hates Japan 神は日本を憎んでる [Kami Wa Nihon O Nikunderu]

Tokyo, fine anni novanta. Concluse le scuole, Hiro Tanaka e i suoi amici un po’ sballati si dividono tra università e lavoretti part time, rave party e sessioni di shopping sfrenato a Shibuya, fughe oltreoceano e inseguimenti precipitosi. Paranoico e i

Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays and Stories for an Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century

Nine short non-fiction pieces with a forward by Shumon Basar.

Kitten Clone: The History of the Future at Bell Labs

Douglas Coupland, one of the world's biggest cultural brains, takes an inside look at the global company that keeps us connected, and wonders what all that connectivity is doing to our brains and our sense of ourselves as humans.The incomparable Douglas C