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  • Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
    Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
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    At a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
    Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
    $8.00 | , ,

    “In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leaves little room for complaint or cavil…An editorial program of real vision; series like this are what makes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
    Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
    $8.00 | , ,

    “More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
    The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
    $9.00 | , ,

    The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louise Bourgeois: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Louise Bourgeois: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    $9.00 | , ,

    Survey of Bourgeois’s work, published on the occasion of her 1982 exhibition at MOMA This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
    Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
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    A survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
    Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
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    Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
    Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
    $9.00 | , ,

    Originally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lupo Cittá – Inverno
    Lupo Cittá – Inverno
    $23.00 | ,

    The title track for Lupo Città’s second LP, INVERNO (‘winter’ in Italian), was born in January 2023. Written in waking sleep at 4 am. Looking out the window at the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
    Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
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    The recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity
    Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
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    Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
    Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
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    Hugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture
    The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
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    Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities
    Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
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    From the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance of Ancient Scripts Including Runes, Greek, Ogham, Hebrew and Alchemical Alphabets
    Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
    $12.00 | , ,

    Using the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Sleeves – The Sleeves
    The Sleeves – The Sleeves
    $23.00 | ,

    The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
    Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
    $10.00 | , ,

    The stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    $15.00 | , ,

    Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
    The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
    $15.00 | , ,

    The Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Faces Of The Living Dead: The Belief In Spirit Photography
    Faces Of The Living Dead: The Belief In Spirit Photography
    $15.00 | , ,

    Martyn Jolly examines the evolution and photographic techniques of spirit photography – the craze for photographing ‘spirits’, which was rooted in the popularity of Spiritualism [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred
    Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
    $15.00 | , ,

    Angels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
    R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
    $18.00 | , ,

    Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
    Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
    $18.00 | , ,

    Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
    Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
    $20.00 | , ,

    Throughout his creative career, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers, and built a large body of public works that merge sculpture and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
    The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
    $20.00 | , ,

    In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
    Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
    $20.00 | , ,

    The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts—or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Timothy J Knab – The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld
    Timothy J Knab – The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, C…
    $20.00 | , ,

    In Mexico’s Sierra Norte de Puebla, beliefs that were held before the coming of Europeans continue to guide the lives of modern Aztecs. For residents of San Martín Zinacapan, life […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
    Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Francis Bacon’s first painting of a pope was Head VI of 1949, a head‑and‑shoulders image which already presented the inspired conflation between the Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World
    Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age a…
    $20.00 | , ,

    Gagosian is proud to present an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer entitled Dein und mein alter und das alter der Welt (Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World). […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Pleasure Tax – Pleasure Tax
    Pleasure Tax – Pleasure Tax
    $22.00 | ,

    Pleasure Tax is Jeannine Lonardo (Equipment Pointed Ankh, Shutaro’s Roadhouse Band) Real life absurdity meets fevered hallucinations. Digital worms, psychotic realms, disconnect, bodies of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today
    Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to …
    $25.00 | , ,

    Smile of the Buddha explores the influences of Asian world-views and particularly Buddhism on the art of Europe and America in the modern era. In an informative and perceptive introduction […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
    The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
    $25.00 | , ,

    Argues that sacred art is not synonymous with art on religious subjects, and analyzes sixty-five twentieth-century works which display the intense and personal commitment characteristic of the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • A Book by Anselm Kiefer
    A Book by Anselm Kiefer
    $25.00 | , ,

    Offers a brief profile of the German artist, reproduces a book of his watercolors, which include seascapes and nudes, and discusses the themes of his work This book is in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth
    Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth
    $25.00 | , ,

    An exploration of the stories of 8 women from Maori myths, in art works and texts. The artist intends her work to be visual representations of the myths, rather than […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor
    Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor
    $25.00 | , ,

    A sharp send-up of authoritarian hubris–in which bloated, self-satisfied, bare-bottomed public officials excrete a foul diet literally to be swallowed by the masses–the etching [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
    The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
    $25.00 | , ,

    This collection brings together the essential writings of a master thinker whose work bridges philosophy, spirituality, and metaphysics. Through eloquent essays and reflections, it explores the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • In Quest Of The Absolute
    In Quest Of The Absolute
    $30.00 | , ,

    This volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization (scarce, as-is)
    Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hi…
    $30.00 | , ,

    A noted archaeologist demonstrates the existence of prehistoric goddess-worshipping, egalitarian, nonviolent cultures whose hidden heritage is just now being restored This book is in Good [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955-1975
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Es…
    $40.00 | , ,

    Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Grant Green ‎– Green Is Beautiful
    Grant Green ‎– Green Is Beautiful
    $32.00 | , ,

    Media: VG Jacket: VG+ Label: Blue Note – BST 84342 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jukka Tolonen ‎– Tolonen!
    Jukka Tolonen ‎– Tolonen!
    $15.00 | , ,

    Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Label: Janus Records – JLS 3066 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1974

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band* ‎– Express Yourself
    Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band* ‎– Express Y…
    $30.00 | , ,

    Media:VG+ Jacket: VG Label: Warner Bros. Records – WS 1864, Warner Bros. Records – 1864 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Press Country: US Released: 1970

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Puppet Wipes ‎– The Stones Are Watching & They Can Be A Handful
    Puppet Wipes ‎– The Stones Are Watching & They Can Be A Handful
    $15.00 | , ,

    Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Label: Siltbreeze – SB-192 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: Jun 18, 2022     Puppet Wipes is the latest source of audio levitation for […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • The JB’s ‎– Food For Thought (Pass The Peas I Mean Gimme Some More)
    The JB’s ‎– Food For Thought (Pass The Peas I Mean Gimme Some Mo…
    $85.00 | , ,

    Media:VG+ Jacket: VG Label: People (8) – PE 5601, People (8) – 2391 034 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Scranton Pressing Country: US Released: Jun 1972

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gary Bartz ‎– Music Is My Sanctuary
    Gary Bartz ‎– Music Is My Sanctuary
    $50.00 | , ,

    Media: VG Jacket: VG Label: Capitol Records – ST-11647 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Winchester Pressing Country: US Released: 1977

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gary Bartz ‎– Love Affair
    Gary Bartz ‎– Love Affair
    $15.00 | , ,

    Media: VG+ Jacket: VG Label: Capitol Records – SW-11789 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1978

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Richard Ramirez ‎– Distant, Fading
    Richard Ramirez ‎– Distant, Fading
    $18.00 | , ,

    Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Label: Tall Texan – TTR-012 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2024

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Susan Buck-Morss – The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
    Susan Buck-Morss – The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and…
    $30.00 | , ,

    Walter Benjamin’s magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
    Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
    $30.00 | , ,

    The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal may be the only culture in the world where both shamanic and tantric techniques are still alive and in full practice today. The result of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Anselm Kiefer, the Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973-2001
    Anselm Kiefer, the Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973-2001
    $40.00 | , ,

    Born in the final weeks of World War II–in what Germans who wished to erase it from collective memory called Year Zero–Anselm Kiefer has long sought to come to grips […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography