Cultural Studies
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Hardback
In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage.
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Hardback
A leading data visualisation expert explores the negative—and positive-influences that charts have on our perception of truth.
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
Hardback
Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
Hardback
These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library’s archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Paperback
The classic The New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction from much-lauded The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.