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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, Print, Used ItemsAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
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Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of […]
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James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Br…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, […]
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Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Mur…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
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Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRegarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLayering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]
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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIlya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]
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Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
$32.00 | Book, PrintOther Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]
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The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
$19.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKara Walker’s work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker’s newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence [...]
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Barry Flanagan: Early Works, 1965-1982
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBarry Flanagan (1941–2009) is best known for his bronze hare sculptures that sit, walk, or leap in museums and public spaces around the world. The success of these and other […]
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Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths amo…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and [...]
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Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsChasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe and how the plight of those most in need is […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the [...]
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Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire [...]
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Various Artists – Jodie Drake / Christopher Jane / Edwards & Devi…
$20.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylKiller library music record from the always dependable CBC Radio Canada Label: CBC Radio Canada – LM-405 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Canada Released: 1974 VG+/VG+
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Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a [...]
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Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain […]
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Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and […]
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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsForty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]
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V/A – Blowin’ Through Yokohama!
$12.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylHeavy soul and early rock n roll comp, featuring an insane track by The Payments. Label: Atomic Passion – AP 1958 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: US Released:1996 […]
GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll, Soul / Funk / Disco -
V/A – Rock Bop Boogie… To The Hula Hop!
$12.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylRockabilly comp focused on early and obscure Sun tracks Label: Sun – LP 1021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1985 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll