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Renee Gladman – Event Factory
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she […]
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James Baldwin – No Name In The Street
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the [...]
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Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the arid summer heat, four children—Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom—find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless […]
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Talcott Parsons – The System of Modern Societies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCybernetics informed work on sociology This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to […]
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Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a masterly translation by Norman Shapiro, this selection of poems from Les Fleurs du mal demonstrates the magnificent range of Baudelaire’s gift, from the exquisite quatrains to the [...]
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Eric Rhode – Tower of Babel: Speculations on the Cinema (as-is, …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEric Rhode’s examination of film and its’ cultural place, through the work 0f eleven directors. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Arthur Marwick – The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, Fr…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIf the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music […]
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Aihwa Ong – Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNeoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global […]
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, an…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers―from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the […]
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Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and […]
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Henry Kyemba – A State of Blood
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor 6 years, Henry Kyemba was Idi Amin’s principal private secretary and later Minister of Health in 1970’s Uganda. If you want shivers sent up your spine, then this book […]
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The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe (as-is)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPresenting a classic illumination of Neolithic goddess-centred culture, this text provides a picture of a complex world, offering evidence of the matriarchal roots of civilization. This book is [...]
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William T Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins, tracing humanity’s long-forgotten history into deep prehistory. This landmark work of feminist history shows that warfare and [...]
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Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story [...]
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Inquisition: A Bilingual Guide To The Exhibition Of Torture Instrument…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA guide to devices built for every type of pain you can imagine. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to […]
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Sansone’s Police Photography
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis helpful textbook teaches the fundamentals of photography and their application to police work. It offers clear explanations of the basic elements of photography that are used in [...]
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Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (A Whole Earth Cat…
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe world’s economy has shifted from one built on materials to one governed by information. In the past, those who controlled materials like gold and oil governed all. In the […]
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Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA timely and lavishly comprehensive collection from the inimitable critical firebrand—hailed as “a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever” (The New York Times)—tackling [...]
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The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doom…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the height of morning rush hour on March 20th, 1995, the deadly nerve gas sarin poured into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring 6,000 more. This […]
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Drugs (Life Science Library)
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIllustrated overview of the history and scientific effects of drugs, both legal and illicit. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]
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Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor nearly two generations, this bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard for those seeking access to the wisdom of Taoist thought. Now Jane English and […]
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John Lane – Timeless Beauty
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOnce people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen […]
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Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of […]
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Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of […]
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Oswald Spengler – The Decline Of The West
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our […]
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Robert Coover – The Universal Baseball Association
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSomewhere in a “major-league” American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan. The most important part of Waugh’s [...]
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The Celtic Year: A Perpetual Solar And Lunar Calendar
$100.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA perpetual Solar and Lunar Calendar. The ancient festivals and the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Zodiac. Gorgeously illustrated. Light creasing from the fold of the calendar itself. Folds […]
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level — from […]
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Twilight of the Celtic Gods: An Exploration of Britain’s Hidden …
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwilight of the Celtic Gods is a fascinating account of Britain’s surviving Celtic tradition. This ground-breaking book – based on the authors’ combined research in the field [...]
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Emilio Salgari – The Mystery of the Black Jungle
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIndia, 1851. Few can live in the Black Jungle, a desolate place teeming with wild dangerous beasts. Yet it is among its dark forests and bamboo groves that the renowned […]
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Henry Corbin – The Voyage and The Messenger: Iran and Philosophy
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis work, incorporating previously unpublished interviews and articles, retraces the quest of Henry Corbin into the imaginal realm of the unseen self, the domains of angels and numinous beings. [...]
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Walter Burkert – The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Infl…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Walter Burkert offers […]
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Yosef ben-Jochannan – Black Man of the Nile
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]
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Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJean Fautrier, one of France’s most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the Otages, his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or [...]
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Danilo Kis – A Tomb For Boris Davidovich
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsComposed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth [...]
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Composers on Music: An Anthology Of Composers Writings From Pakestrina…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeatures a wide array of essays written by composers as diverse as Satie, Carlos Chavez, Bartok and more. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]
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Brotzmann: Paintings and Objects
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCatalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey, October 26 – November 30, 2007. Includes an essay by John Corbett. Design by Kathi Beste. Artist and musician Peter Brötzmann […]
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Arthur C. Danto – Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and M…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to the pages. The binding […]
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Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis new and augmented edition brings the history of the visual arts since the war forward to the events of the mid-1970’s, and, in particular, to the shift of attention […]
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Knut Hamsun – Hunger
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFirst published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical […]
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Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrook Ziporyn’s carefully crafted, richly annotated translation of the complete writings of Zhuangzi—including a lucid Introduction, a Glossary of Essential Terms, and a [...]
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The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society & Social Responsibli…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Subversive Imagination , professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist’s responsibility to society. The [...]
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Erich Von Daniken – Signs of the Gods
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWere human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine […]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Morning Star: A Novel
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a […]
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Andrew Edwards – Crowbar
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJay and Al, exiled Rhodesian mercenaries near the end of their rope, take a bagman job for a man in black named Cohen. Launched deep into the heavy syndicate, Jay […]
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Lisa Saltzman – Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz examines the legacy of German-Jewish culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Positioning Kiefer as a deeply learned artist who encounters and represents [...]
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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Ge…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe true story of punk-messiah Darby Crash. Never-before-told story of the life and times of Darby Crash, the lead singer of the notorious LA punk band The Germs, who died […]
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Camile Paglia – Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, […]
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J.K Huysmans – Against Nature
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive