Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters

6 best books like Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters (Thomas Hine): The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, A Field Guide to Sprawl, Hollywood Babylon, I Am Not Ashamed, First 100 Animals, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author	Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN	0670785938

A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...

A Field Guide to Sprawl

Author	Dolores Hayden
ISBN	0393731987

A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America.

Can you define edge node, boomburb, tower farm, big box, and parsley round the pig? Sprawl is hard to pin down and the terms change every day. This concise book defines the vocabulary...

Hollywood Babylon

Author	Kenneth Anger
ISBN	0517344084

Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a boiling cesspool of lies! Practically none of this shit happened. The ratio of truth to lies is like 10 to 1. I have it on the highest authority those girls looked thirty under the bad set lighting. My great-great-great aunt was there for that underage (by trickery!...

I Am Not Ashamed

Author	Barbara Payton
ISBN	0870671081

One of the great "lost" autobiographies of Hollywood Babylon history, I Am Not Ashamed is the memoir of Barbara Payton, the 1950s film noir star who acted alongside greats like Jimmy Cagney and Gregory Peck - only to be fired by the studios for her wild (and very public) love-life... and ultimately walk...

First 100 Animals

Author	Roger Priddy
ISBN	0312496761

Probably the most inconsistent book ever made!! WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!! The sections of animals are completely random. For example, Australian animals, farm animals, forest animals, pets, and wild animals to name a few. Now I'm pretty sure most of the animals besides the pets and farm animals are...

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

Author	Donald Spoto
ISBN	0815411839

Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents. The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from her guarded childhood,...