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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn 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
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 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
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 -
Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDo 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 -
Dumisani Abraham Maraire – The African Mbira – Music Of The Shona People Of Rhodesia
$12.00 | CD, CD, Used Items Add to cart“Much of the instrumental and vocal music of East Africa has been described as repetitive and monotonous; apologists counter that the music is quite varied and exacting. Yet freed of […]
GENRE: International -
Various – Animals Of Africa: Sounds Of The Jungle, Plain & Bush
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used Items Add to cart“Current research among naturalists tends to break down any remaining class-distinction between animals and man; the more we know about the other creatures on our common planet, the sillier [...]
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Shona – Africa: Zimbabwe – Shona Mbira Music
$12.00 | CD, CD, Used Items Add to cart“Mbira music is one of the most popular traditional arts of black Africa, and the Shona musicians of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) are among the instrument’s most distinguished players. This [...]
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Paul F. Berliner – Zimbabwe: The Soul Of Mbira – Traditions Of The Shona People
$12.00 | CD, CD, Used Items Add to cart“Mbira music is one of the most ancient and popular forms of music found throughout black Africa. Its myriad forms constitute a contribution of unique richness to the world’s music. […]
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Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRobert 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 on the Mafia Coast
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartChasing 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 […]
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Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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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The Healing Flower Color Cards
$100.00 | Print, Used Items Add to cart77 card deck that combines Dr. E. Bachs Flower medicine and color therapy meditation with outstanding plant and flower drawings to make anyone a flower botanist. AGM Aktiengesellschaft [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Renegade Sisters: Girl Gangs On Film
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom boarding school to women’s prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple feature of exploitation/independent cinema. Renegade Sisters examines [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
George Hayduke – Revenge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDepicts 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
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 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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The Ambivalent Crowd – Bagong Umaga
$45.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cartAmbivalent Crowd is a defunct Pinoy band that gained popularity during the 1970s. The members of the group were Pol Enriquez, Celeste Legaspi, Cynthia Patag, Gigi Escalante, Mae Cendana, Pinky [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, International -
Roland Barthes – S/Z
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes’ structural analysis of “Sarrasine”, the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through the text of the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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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Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 […]
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Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt 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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Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartForty 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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Hitchcock/Truffaut
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollaborators 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 -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThere was something uncanny about Charlie Chaplin. His fellow actors spoke of him as inhuman—automaton-like. His stiff, comic movements could be viewed as an attempt to parody the newly developed [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDuring 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor 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
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVolume 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThese 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJazz 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
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriters 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 -
Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartKathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBy 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 -
Douglas A Martin – Acker
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMartin’s lyric essay, written through Kathy Acker’s evocative prose, public statements, and private archives, follows Acker through New York’s downtown St. Mark’s Poetry Project scene, Black [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJust 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
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 -
The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHere is the first book in English about Japan’s modern master of fear and horror. The book traces Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s humble beginning in the pink film industry through his evolution […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947–1959
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWelcome to Mars is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartStan 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 -
NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]
GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction