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  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
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    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Liberated Film Club
    The Liberated Film Club
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    The Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Situationist International Anthology
    Situationist International Anthology
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    The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1…
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback   Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang W…
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
    Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from t…
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    Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
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    Between 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the…
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    The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
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    A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
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    Other 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
  • Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War…
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    Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
    Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
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    The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
    Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
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    Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
    Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and …
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    “In these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
    Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
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    A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death.  The first book in Pascal Quignard’s Last Kingdom series, The Roving Shadows can [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
    The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
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    An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.  The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
    John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
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    In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
    Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
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    The unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursion
    Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Inte…
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    A rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marguerite Young –  Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
    Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Uto…
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    Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
    Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths amo…
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    Robert 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns on the Mafia Coast
    Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns o…
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    Chasing 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 Hegemony in the Congo
    Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial …
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • George Hayduke – Revenge
    George Hayduke – Revenge
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    Depicts pranks that can be used to humiliate, defame, insult, or trick individuals or organizations on whom one seeks revenge Lyle Stuart, 1982 Softcover Edition. Some discoloration to wraps and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
    Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
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    Since 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
    Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
    Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
    Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
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    “How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
    Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
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    At 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
    Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
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    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
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    Forty 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Al…
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    Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
    Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing G…
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    During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
    Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
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    For more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
    A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of t…
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    In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
    Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
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    The first publication in English of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s manifestos, published originally in 1925. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
    Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
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    This profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit…
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    Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music fr…
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    The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
    Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual…
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    These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
    Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
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    Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
    Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
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    Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
    Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance …
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    The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term “poetic voice” emphasizes poetry’s reliance on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
    Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age…
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    This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
    Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
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    By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Alaap is Amit Chaudhuri’s singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Non-Fiction
  • Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
    Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
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    Just as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film
    Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings …
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    The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
    Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
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    Stan Brakhage’s body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction