BenBella Books is an independent publishing

Publishing

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 house based in Dallas, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. Founded by Glenn Yeffeth in 2001, BenBella specializes in non-fiction books on popular culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

, health, and nutrition, along with books on science, politics, psychology, and other topics.

Smart Pop

BenBella publishes the Smart Pop series, a line of essay anthologies on popular culture. Titles include The Science of Dune (2008), The Science of Michael Crichton (2008), Grey's Anatomy 101 (2007), and The Psychology of Harry Potter (2007).