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1.		Twenty Ads That Shook the World from Random House USA Inc Price: £8.99 Customer Review: Although it sounded like an interesting book, initially I bought it with low expectations; I generally find that books written about adverts are poorly written and rather shallow. BUT, this book blew me away!! Twitchell is not only brilliant and insightful, but also a fantastic writer (it was only... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Branded Nation: Our Love Affair with Luxury from Simon & Schuster	Click here for more information

3.		Twenty Ads That Shook the World: The Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How it Changed Us All: The Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How It Changed Us All from Random House USA Inc Customer Review: Although it sounded like an interesting book, initially I bought it with low expectations; I generally find that books written about adverts are poorly written and rather shallow. BUT, this book blew me away!! Twitchell is not only brilliant and insightful, but also a fantastic writer (it was only... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature from Duke University Press Price: £15.19 Customer Review: This book is a great example of a carefully researched text, that would be great for a lover and / or student of literature. The book covers the topic of the vampire in literature in great detail, without becoming bogged down in cliques and sterotypes. It is also very refreshing as it not only looks... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Preposterous Violence: Fables of Aggression in Modern Culture from Oxford University Press Inc, USA	Click here for more information

6.		Where Men Hide from Columbia U.P. Price: £9.86	Click here for more information

7.		Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America from Columbia University Press Customer Review: Twitchell, although he does bring an interesting point of view to the world of media theory, "trashes" his own book in a brain fart whereby he endlessly spews numbers, figures, and statistical information to the reader at an inconceivable rate. If you're looking for stats as opposed to... more info	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face from Simon & Schuster	Click here for more information

9.		For Shame: The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture from Diane Pub Co Customer Review: Contrary to the Kirkus review which I found more academic than the book, and generally misses the point, I found the book quite interesting. I think it made one heck of lot of sense. In fact I'm going to get two of his other books: The Trashing... & the Advertising book.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Living Dead: Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature from Duke University Press Customer Review: This book is a great example of a carefully researched text, that would be great for a lover and / or student of literature. The book covers the topic of the vampire in literature in great detail, without becoming bogged down in cliques and sterotypes. It is also very refreshing as it not only looks... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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