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Product Description: From turn-of-the-century novelties and Depression-era distraction, through wartime comfort, to Hello Kitty and Jeff Koons, cuteness has thrived in the fertile soil of modern media and pop culture. What is it about fluffy bunnies with bows, baby ducks splashing in puddles, kittens snuggled in baskets and little lambs on their way to school? "Happy Kitty Bunny Pony" celebrates the 'cult of the cute' in all its camp, kitsch, ironic glory...read more
By Michael J. Nelson (editor)

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9780810992009 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 17, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collects more than two hundred images of cute things, from turn-of-the-century novelties to Hello Kitty, and includes relevant facts, bits of sarcasm, and wit.

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9781435270237 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: From turn-of-the-century novelties and Depression-era distraction, through wartime comfort, to Hello Kitty and Jeff Koons, cuteness has thrived in the fertile soil of modern media and pop culture.

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Product Description: A Pop Ink Book by Charles S. Anderson Design CompanyFrom Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to B horror movie icons to The Addams Family and beyond, macabre misfits have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture...read more

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9780810957893 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A Pop Ink Book by Charles S.

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Product Description: From the bodice-busting covers of Harlequin romances to personal ads to wedding cake toppers, romantic subjects have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. Brought to Abrams by the creators of the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Love Sick celebrates the many facets of love: dating, marriage, heartbreak, sex, and strange, thin men in shorts with funny socks! Containing more than 200 images from the print and advertising archives of Charles S...read more

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9780810957909 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From the bodice-busting covers of Harlequin romances to personal ads to wedding cake toppers, romantic subjects have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture.

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Downsized from his day job with a publisher of obscure journals, Pontius Foeb, the aging author of inaccessible nonfiction books, is desperate for a commercial hit and comes up with a horror tale about a giant rat that terrorized a Minnesota hamlet in the nineteenth century, but when the book is sold as nonfiction, unexpected chaos ensues. Original.

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9780060934729 | Dey Street Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Downsized from his day job with a publisher of obscure journals, Pontius Foeb, the aging author of inaccessible nonfiction books, is desperate for a commercial hit and comes up with a horror tale about a giant rat that terrorized a Minnesota hamlet in the nineteenth century, but when the book is sold as nonfiction, unexpected chaos ensues.
9780070540309, titled "Ace the Technical Interview" | Computing McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | also contains Ace the Technical Interview | About this edition: Gathers two thousand key technical interview questions, looks at the interview process, and offers advice on preparation and performance

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In a collection of more than fifty zany essays, the author of Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese shares his thoughts on the bizarre world of human life as he shares his thoughts on shopping expeditions to Home Depot and Radio Shack, the state of men's fashion, pet names for relatives, the history of television, and other topics. Original. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780070340640, titled "Parliamo!: An Introduction to Italian" | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill College, December 1, 1995), cover price $23.80 | also contains Parliamo!: An Introduction to Italian

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9780060936143 | Dey Street Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Shares the author's observations on television, performance theatre, Minnesotans, the nineteen-seventies, Hamlet.

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Provides over sixty humorous reviews and essays about movies, actors, showbiz families, and television programs. (view table of contents)

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9780380814671 | 1 edition (It Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Provides over sixty humorous reviews and essays about movies, actors, showbiz families, and television programs.

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Describes the plots of more than one hundred bad science fiction movies, and shares some of the comments used on the 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' television show in an attempt to make the movies funny

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9780553377835 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Describes the plots of more than one hundred bad science fiction movies, and shares some of the comments used on the 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' television show in an attempt to make the movies funny

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