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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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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Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Cent…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
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Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Ca…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMusô 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, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile 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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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew 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, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn 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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Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGiovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]
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Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]
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Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]
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Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartKyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]
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John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIt 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 [...]
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The Liberated Film Club
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Situationist International Anthology
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1…
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat 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 […]
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang W…
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 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 [...]
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Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from t…
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRevolution 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 [...]
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Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBetween 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 [...]
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Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the…
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 […]
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Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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. […]
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Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOther Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]
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Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War…
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFar 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 [...]
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Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFilmmakers 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, [...]
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Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and …
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“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 […]
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Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Inte…
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Uto…
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAngel 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