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License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver

By: Harrison, Rick,Keown, Tim

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hyperion: June 2011

Seller ID: 428772

ISBN: 1401324304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Las Vegas, there's a family-owned business called the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, run by three generations of the Harrison family: Rick; his son, Big Hoss; and Rick's dad, the Old Man. Now License to Pawn takes readers behind the scenes of the hit History show Pawn Stars and shares the fascinating life story of its star, Rick Harrison, and the equally intriguing story behind the shop, the customers, and the items for sale.

Rick hasn't had it easy. He was a math whiz at an early age, but developed a similarly uncanny ability to find ever-deepening trouble that nearly ruined his life....
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Works: The Art, the Magic, the Imagination

By: Henson, Jim

Price: $10.00

Publisher: May 2011

Seller ID: 444102

ISBN: 0679412034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today

By: It's Always Sunny in Philadelp

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 361589

ISBN: 0062225111

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The Gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia attempts their most ill-conceived, get-rich quick scheme yet: publishing a "self-help book" to hilarious, sometimes dangerous, and often revolting, results.

The Gang may have finally found their golden ticket. Left alone to close down Paddy's Pub one night, Charlie Kelly inadvertently scored himself, and his friends, the opportunity of a lifetime--a book deal with a real publishing company, real advance money, and a real(ly confused) editor. While his actual ability to read and write remains unclear, Charlie s...
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Television Aesthetics and Style

By: Jacobs, Jason

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 384061

ISBN: 1441157514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our viewing experience. This significant new work redresses a vital gap in Television Studies by engaging with the stylistic dynamics of TV; exploring the aesthetic properties and values of both the medium and particular types of output (specific programmes); and raising important questions about the way ...
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TV Theme Song Sing-Along Song Book

By: Javna, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 217551

ISBN: 312782152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

By: Jennings, Ken

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 341818

ISBN: 0812974999

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before: they auditioned for Jeopardy Two years, 75 games, 2,642 correct answers, and over $2.5 million in winnings later, Ken Jennings emerged as trivia's undisputed king. Brainiac traces his rise from anonymous computer programmer to nerd folk icon. But along the way, it also explores his newly conquered kingdom: the world of trivia itself.

Jennings had always been minutiae-mad, poring over almanacs and TV Guide listings at an age when most kids are still watching Elmo a...
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Inside The Writers' Room: Conversations with American TV Writers

By: Kallas, Christina

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Red Globe Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 462908

ISBN: 1137338105

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

US television drama has gained recognition for its sophisticated narrative form, and the role of the writer has been central to this. Here television writers share their experiences and practices of writing for highly successful shows such as The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Cheers, Sex and the City, The Wire, Mad Men, The Big C and Boardwalk Empire.
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Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By: King, Maxwell

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams: September 2019

Seller ID: 479578

ISBN: 1419735160

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The definitive biography of Fred Rogers, children's television pioneer and American cultural icon, an instant New York Times bestseller

Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness, fiercely devoted to children and taking their questions about the world seriously. The Good Neighbor is the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers.

Based on original interviews, oral histories, and archi...
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Even This I Get to Experience

By: Lear, Norman

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 345812

ISBN: 0143127969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written . . . an absolute treasure." --Booklist (starred review)

In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created, or developed more than a hundred shows; had nine on the air at the same time; founded the 300,000-member liberal advocacy group People For the American Way; was labeled the "no. 1 enemy of the American family" by Jerry Falwell; made it onto Richard Nixon's "Enemies List"; was presented with the ...
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Don't Go to Jail!: Saul Goodman's Guide to Keeping the Cuffs Off

By: Mad Men/Huff, Steve

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 401803

ISBN: 1250078873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lawyer Saul Goodman of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad offers his own particular brand of funny, down-to-earth legal advice.

Got the long arm of the law around your neck?
Does Lady Justice have her eye on you?
Were you set up at a lineup?
Saul Goodman can help
There are some crazy laws out there. Did you know that in New Mexico there's a law that says "idiots" can't vote? Or that Massachusetts still has a ban on Quakers and witches? Or that in Georgia it's illegal to put a donkey in a bathtub?
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Mad Men: The Illustrated World

By: Mad Men/Moe, Dyna

Price: $6.00

Publisher: September 2014

Seller ID: 190390

ISBN: 0399536574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As swingin' as the 1960s-an officially licensed tie-in to the wildly popular hit television series "Mad Men"
By turns fun, sophisticated, and celebratory, this is an eye-popping and inventive companion to the hit show "Mad Men," as well as a salute to the era of cocktails and "Camelot." Inspired by the artistic styles that defined 1960s advertising, Dyna Moe creates a candy-colored record of the time, exploring such topics as:
? Theoffice culture, including secretary etiquette and hangover workarounds
? The cocktail craze, with Sally Draper's cocktail menu
? Pastimes and fads, ...
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Sterling's Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man

By: Mad Men/Sterling, Roger

Price: $7.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 278354

ISBN: 0802119891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When it premiered in 2007, the Mad Men series sparked a cultural phenomenon that now boasts over three million viewers. With a long list of awards including three back-to-back Golden Globes and three consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series, Mad Men has captivated the world with its brilliant portrayal of the 1960s and stylish characters, including the dashing advertising mogul Roger Sterling. Directing and discovering some of the sharpest talents in the business, Roger has shown an uncanny flair for unique methods of motivation and a tireless genius, resulting in campaigns...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

By: Madison, Holly

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 384436

ISBN: 0062372106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion--and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key--from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door
A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's #1 girlfriend. But like Alice's journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion--including A-list celebrity parties and ...
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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Ma d Men and Breaking Bad

By: Martin, Brett

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Press: July 2013

Seller ID: 473080

ISBN: 1594204195

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A riveting and revealing look at the shows that helped cable television drama emerge as the signature art form of the twenty-first century.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. No longer necessarily concerned with creating always-likable characte...
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Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Console-ing Passions)

By: McCarthy, Anna

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 412287

ISBN: 0822326922

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.
Discussing the roles television has played in different inst...
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Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell

By: Melcher Media

Price: $7.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 82597

ISBN: 0743457307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After six wildly successful and critically acclaimed season, HBO's Sex and the City lowered its curtain with an extraordinary finale befitting its remarkable run. Now Sex and the City, the first true comedy about sex and love from a female point of view (and the show that made cosmopolitans and designer shoes part of every single woman's night out), lives on in this luscious, uniquely entertaining, and one-of-a-kind book.
Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, the official companion book, celebrates the show with behind-the-scenes stories on all six seasons and original i...
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Modern Family: Wit and Wisdom from America's Favorite Family

By: Modern Family

Price: $3.00

Publisher: May 2016

Seller ID: 315766

ISBN: 1401324754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Every week, the families of Modern Family have something to learn. Sometimes it's a lesson about parenting. Other times, it's about the relationship between husbands and wives (or husbands and husbands, as the case may be). Or maybe it's about getting along with your adult parents, or your spouse's parents. What audiences, critics, and Emmy voters have all loved is how the writers and actors of Modern Family present all these dilemmas in a new, fresh, and incredibly funny way. There are plenty of books out there that tell you how to deal with your mother, but this one will give the reader advi...
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My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves

By: Nixon, Agnes

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 351984

ISBN: 0451498232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the Emmy-winning creator and writer of All My Children and One Life to Live, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time.
Before there was Erica Kane, Adam Chandler, or Victoria Lord, there was Agnes Nixon, a young girl who dreamed up stories for paper dolls. Those tales she imagined--ones filled with ambitions, rivalries, and romances--would soon parallel her own path to success. In a memoir filled with as much drama as the soaps she penned, Nixon sha...
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The Office Quizpedia: The Ultimate Book Of Trivia

By: Office /Lewis, Amy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Smith Street Books: October 2020

Seller ID: 481892

ISBN: 1925811727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How well do you know The Office? This book will put your trivia to the test.
While
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Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Console-ing Passions)

By: Parks, Lisa

Price: $9.00

Seller ID: 380952

ISBN: 0822334976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission, direct broadcasting, remote sensing, and astronomical observation had altered how we imagined ourselves in relation to others and our planet within the cosmos. In Cultures in Orbit, Lisa Parks analyzes these satellite practices and shows how they have affected meanings of "the global" and "the televisual." Parks suggests that the converg...
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Category: Television