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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyondby Bruce Shlain, Martin A. LeeISBN 0802130623 (0-8021-3062-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond'Book summary:Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history. "Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." - Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation; "Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News; "An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life." - William S. Burroughs; "An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." - John Sayles.[via]More editions of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond:
The Afghanby Frederick ForsythISBN 1585478563 (1-58547-856-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Manby Lee Gilmore, Mark Van ProyenISBN 0826333990 (0-8263-3399-0)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Alternative Americasby Mildred J. LoomisISBN 0876633750 (0-87663-375-0)
Hardcover, Universe Publishing
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Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selectionby Antero AlliISBN 1561840092 (1-56184-009-2)
Softcover, New Falcon Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection'Book summary:Angel Tech is a guide for the realization of the Multidimensional Self. The great neurological scripts of the past are synthesized and modernized for our day: Tarot, Cabala, Alchemy, the Hindu Chakra System and more are all made accessible and understandable. [via]
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Apocalypse Cultureby Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915059 (0-922915-05-9)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Culture'Book summary:For years I've been a little leery of this book. First published in 1987, this anthology of doomster essays has become a fixture on the bookshelves of every Tom, Pierced Dick, and Harry. After finally reading it, I have to admit that my prejudice against those who think that being cool means reading lots of ReSearch magazines kept me away from what is actually a fascinating volume, wherein the most absurd, inexcusable positions are defended with calm intelligence and witty rationality. With essays ranging from the sexual liberation of necrophiliacs to strong cases against art and agriculture, editor Adam Parfrey's collection is one that Tristan Tzara would enjoy, if he were to rise from his mouldy grave in search of good bathroom reading. [via]
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As History'Book summary:One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.[via]More editions of Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As History:
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Before Night Fallsby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0670840785 (0-670-84078-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before Night Falls'Book summary:Reinaldo Arenas' account of his life as a writer and a homosexual. Acknowledged as one of the great 20th-century Cuban writers, he was born in 1943 into a poor, rural Cuban family. At the age of 15 he joined Castro's guerrillas against Batista's right-wing regime, only to discover that repression under Castro would be on a monumental scale. He spent 20 years of his life trying to survive his "re-education", to safeguard his manuscripts and to maintain his sanity when he was imprisoned in El Morro prison in Havana. But, despite everything that had happened to him, including betrayal by his aunt and some of his closest "friends", Arenas triumphed, finally leaving Cuba during the Mariel exodus in 1980. But America could never replace his beloved Cuba, and his anti-Castro stance made him unsympathetic to many American intellectuals. "Before Night Falls" was begun before Arenas left Cuba and was completed in the last stage of his battle with AIDS, which dominated the last years of his life until he committed suicide on 7 December 1990 at the age of 47. It is a compelling and moving account of the hell Arenas experienced in Cuba and the purgatory he endured in the United States. It is a book both raw and fierce, tender and lyrical. It reveals a man of enormous vitality, resilience and courage. [via]
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Blab 4by Monte BeauchampISBN 0878160639 (0-87816-063-9)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr
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Blab 6by Monte BeauchampISBN 0878161317 (0-87816-131-7)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr
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Blab! 15by Monte BeauchampISBN 0878160884 (0-87816-088-4)
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Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edgeby Laren Stover, Izak, Patrisha Robertson, Paul Gregory HimmeleinISBN 0821228900 (0-8212-2890-0)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge'Book summary:Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, its a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. BOHEMIAN MANIFESTO explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor of a lifestyle and spirit shared by free-thinking, free-living artists, poets, writers, sculptors, musicians, and intellectuals. This is the first book to distill and categorize all the ingredients of Bohemian life. In a witty and engaging style, Laren Stover examines the contents of a Bohemians closet, bathroom, and bookshelf. She explains the allure of absinthe, why it isnt wise to leave a Bohemian unattended in your home--you could return to find nude nymphs painted on your lamp shades--and how to identify what type of Bohemian you might be. [via]
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The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural Historyby Phil BakerISBN 0802139930 (0-8021-3993-0)
Softcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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The Borribles Go for Brokeby Michael De LarrabeitiISBN 0765350068 (0-7653-5006-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Borribles Go for Broke'Book summary:What is a Borrible?[via]
Borribles are runaways who dwell in the shadows of London. Apart from their pointed ears, they look just like ordinary children. They live by their wits and a few Borrible laws--the chief one being, Don't Get Caught! The Borribles are outcasts--but they wouldn't have it any other way&.
The Borribles Go For Broke
On the Great Rumble Hunt, Chalotte, a Borrible from Whitechapel, very nearly lost her life--and good friends had been left for dead--all because of the Rumble Treasure Chest. To Chalotte the treasure was evil and she had sworn never to go on another adventure. But when Chalotte and the other survivors discover that Sam the horse is in danger they know they have no choice--Borribles always help their friends. Their attempts to rescue Sam lead them into the second Great Borrible Adventure!More editions of The Borribles Go for Broke:
Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biographyby Dominic StreatfeildISBN 1852279214 (1-85227-921-4)
Hardcover, Virgin
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Crackpotby John WatersISBN 0743246276 (0-7432-4627-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crackpot'Book summary:Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters' brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinationg people, places and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation's public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this new special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental. [via]
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 1568493207 (1-56849-320-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'Book summary:The Crying of Lot 49, a novel by Thomas Pynchon. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Crying of Lot 49: ISBN 0397004184 (0-397-00418-4)
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The Crying of Lot Forty-Nineby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553236911 (0-553-23691-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot Forty-Nine'Book summary:The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mindby Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915229 (0-922915-22-9)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind'Book summary:The editor of Apocalypse Culture returns with another collection of anti-essays of his own authorship, plus a few from his disgruntled friends. Not even sacrilege is sacred to Adam Parfrey as he aims his poison pen at targets ranging from Andrea Dworkin to G.G. Allin. Articles on the sex lives of freaks, amputees, and Nazis are sure to offend someone you know, and they're oddly compelling reading as well. In fact, there's not a clunker in this volume of politically astute if overly nasty pieces. Not to be missed are the interesting series of articles on the militia movement and the Oklahoma City bombing, which defy easy categorization on the standard political chart by attacking the media's biases as well as the narrowness of the militia movements.Cult Rapture is fine reading for a cozy night around a post-nuclear hell pit. [via]
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Mustby Kalle LasnISBN 0688178057 (0-688-17805-7)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must'Book summary:America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs the advertising culture and our fixation on icons and brand names. And he shows how to organize resistance against the power trust that manages the brands by "uncooling" consumer items, by "dermarketing" fashions and celebrities, and by breaking the "media trance" of our TV-addicted age.
A powerful manifesto by a leading media activist, Culture Jam lays the foundations for the most significant social movement of the early twenty-first century -- a movement that can change the world and the way we think and live.
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Culture of Counter-Culture: The Edited Transcriptsby Alan WattsISBN 0804831971 (0-8048-3197-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Deathtripping: Illustrated History of the Cinema of Transgressionby Jack SargeantISBN 1871592291 (1-871592-29-1)
Softcover, Creation Pub Group
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Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1417628596 (1-4176-2859-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hell'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two classic texts in one volume reveal Huxley's explorations into the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. [via]
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Dr. Ratby William KotzwinkleISBN 1569247145 (1-56924-714-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Drop Cityby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670031720 (0-670-03172-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drop City'Book summary:With Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle offers proof that he has become one of America's most prolific, gifted storytellers. Set in the 1970s, Boyle entertains readers with the denizens of "Drop City," a counterculture California commune that welcomes anyone wanting to live off the grid, use drugs, and practice free love. Boyle sublimely captures the sociology of its rebellious members, who doubt the sincerity or beliefs of newcomers, express some insecurity about nonconformity, and chastise outsiders while remaining oblivious to their own hypocrisy. Marco, Pan, Star, and other "cats" and "chicks" live hassle-free until dissention and cries of racism mount amid increasing run-ins with the local government (a young girl is raped, installation of a sewage system is mandated, a mother lets her toddlers drink LSD-laced juice). Seeking refuge, the citizens move north, to Alaska, to reinvent their utopia, but soon learn the natural environment is more unforgiving of a lackadaisical lifestyle.
Drop City is funny, evocative, and well-paced, shifting between the hippies and the Alaskan locals--primarily Sess and his new bride Pamela (a city dweller who arranged stays with several trappers over a few weeks to determine whom she would marry)--until the two cultures collide. Balanced between plot and character, Boyle excels at describing the physical world and his characters' interaction with it, whether portraying the harshness (or sheer beauty) of the Alaskan wilderness, the simple survival routines of its grizzled inhabitants, or the sounds wafting through Drop City: "the goats bleating to be milked or fed, the single sharp ringing note of a dog surprised by its own hunger, the regular slap of the screen door at the back of the house--and underneath it all, like the soundtrack to a movie, the dull hum of rock and roll leaking out the kitchen windows." Truly American in spirit, Drop City is a strong novel of freedom and those in pursuit of lives of liberty. --Michael Ferch [via]
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380648 (0-553-38064-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Existentialism and Human Emotionsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0806509023 (0-8065-0902-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism and Human Emotions'Book summary:[via]In this provocative philosophical analysis, Sartre refutes the idea that existentialism drains meaning from human life, by claiming that the philosophy instead gives man total freedom to achieve his own significance
Sartres Existentialism and Human Emotions is a stirring defense of existentialist thought, which argues that existence precedes essence. While attacks on existentialism claim that the philosophy leads to a kind of nihilistic gloom, Sartre contends that instead existentialism is the only path toward giving man meaning. Sartre ultimately argues that by the very absence of a priori meaning, an individual can discover and shape his or her own significance and place in the world.Sartre turns the typical nihilistic definition of existentialism on its head in this optimistic take on his best-known theory.More editions of Existentialism and Human Emotions:
Existentialism and Humanismby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0838321488 (0-8383-2148-8)
Softcover, Haskell House Pub Ltd
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560252758 (1-56025-275-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gangs of New York : An Informal History of the Underworld'Book summary:The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. A universal history of infamy [that] contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.... Jorge Luis Borges The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery. The New York Times Book Review The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city.... Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books[via]More editions of The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld:
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Gauntlet 5: Porn in the USAISBN 0962965944 (0-9629659-4-4)
Softcover, Gauntlet Pr
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Gone to Croaton an Anthologyby Ron Sakolsky, James KoehnlineISBN 0936756926 (0-936756-92-6)
Softcover, Autonomedia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone to Croaton an Anthology'Book summary:Lost history viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including tri-racial isolate communities, buccaneers, white Indians, black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural hippie communes, and many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures. A festschrift honoring late historian Hugo Leaming Bey of the Moorish Science Temple. [via]
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Haunted: A Novelby Chuck PalahniukISBN 1400032822 (1-4000-3282-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hell's Angelsby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 067960331X (0-679-60331-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell's Angels'Book summary:"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
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In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilizationby Stanley DiamondISBN 087855582X (0-87855-582-X)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Info-Psychology: A Revision of Exo-Psychologyby Timothy LearyISBN 1561841056 (1-56184-105-6)
Softcover, New Falcon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Info-Psychology: A Revision of Exo-Psychology'Book summary:Dr. Leary explores the real issues of our time--Space Migration, Intelligence Increase and Life Extension--in this "Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous System according to the Instructions of the Manufacturers."
"The Info-Worlds our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future will not be reached from launch pads alone, but also through our personal computer screens." [via]
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It's Me, Eddieby Edward LimonovISBN 0802130070 (0-8021-3007-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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John Peel: Margrave of the Marshesby John Peel, Sheila RavenscroftISBN 1556526520 (1-55652-652-0)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Babyby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380583 (0-553-38058-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby'Book summary:The "streamline baby" in Tom Wolfe's 1965 debut book is a hot rod, but the car's candy colors and wild lines can't match the prose style Wolfe devised to describe them. The title essay--Wolfe's first magazine article--launched the New Journalism, partly because its original title was "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." His voice was more shocking than any subculture he uncovered. Until Wolfe (Ph.D., Yale), nobody struck gold by applying Ph.D.-speak to lowbrow subjects. Kurt Vonnegut famously called this an "excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention."
Now that everybody does what Wolfe did, his early essays smack less of genius. But attention must be paid to this pioneering peek into King Pop's tomb. The most startling thing is how soberly sensible most of the prose now appears, except for the title of the first essay, "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!" which anticipates the far superior Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Mostly, these articles seem like straightforward introductions to some of the signal figures of the early '60s: hot-rod designer Big Daddy Roth, surf guitarist Dick Dale, teen recording tycoon Phil Spector, Andy Warhol debutante Baby Jane Holzer, the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali. We even glimpse the Beatles in a profile of the yappy DJ Murray the K in "The Fifth Beatle."
The last half of the book focuses more on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social status. The last piece, "The Big League Complex," is like a 1964 warm-up exercise for The Bonfire of the Vanities. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'Book summary:The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
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Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
- The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
- The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. [via]
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The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Oppositionby Theodore RoszakISBN 0520201221 (0-520-20122-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society--all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian."More editions of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition:
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Margrave of the Marshesby John Peel, Sheila RavenscroftISBN 0593052528 (0-593-05252-8)
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York Cityby Jennifer TothISBN 155652241X (1-55652-241-X)
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 1568490836 (1-56849-083-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life Of Brion Gysinby John GeigerISBN 1932857125 (1-932857-12-5)
Hardcover, Disinformation Co
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Gysin (1916-1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.
Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."
It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed--with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine--a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.
Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.
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Pacifism As Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North Americaby Mike Ryan, Ward Churchill, Ed MeadISBN 1894037073 (1-894037-07-3)
Softcover, Arbeiter Ring Pub
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Pacifism As Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North Americaby Ward Churchill, Mike Ryan, Derrick JensenISBN 1904859186 (1-904859-18-6)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Rapid Eye 1by William S. Burroughs, Colin Wilson, Kathy Acker, Charles Manson, Hubert Sedley, Simon DwyerISBN 1871592224 (1-871592-22-4)
Softcover, Creation Pub Group
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Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theoryby Herbert MarcuseISBN 157392718X (1-57392-718-X)
Softcover, Humanity Books
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Roughneckby Jim ThompsonISBN 0445406739 (0-445-40673-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Satan Burgerby Carlton MellickISBN 0971357234 (0-9713572-3-4)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theoryby Carol J. AdamsISBN 0826411843 (0-8264-1184-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Tasteby John WatersISBN 1560250925 (1-56025-092-5)
Softcover, Avalon Publishing Group
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The Situationist International: A User's Guideby Simon FordISBN 1904772056 (1-904772-05-6)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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The Sixties: Years of Hope Days of Rageby Todd GitlinISBN 0553372122 (0-553-37212-2)
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The Soft Cage: Srveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terrorby Christian ParentiISBN 0465054854 (0-465-05485-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Soft Machine: Nova Express ; The Wild Boys Three Novelsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802143342 (0-8021-4334-2)
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Threat by Example: A Documentation of Inspirationby Martin SprouseISBN 0962709115 (0-9627091-1-5)
Softcover, Pressure Drop Pr
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Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boysby William BurroughsISBN 0802130844 (0-8021-3084-4)
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Videohound's Cult Flicks & Trash Picsby Carol A. Schwartz, Jim OlenskiISBN 1578591139 (1-57859-113-9)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolutionby Derrick JensenISBN 1931498784 (1-931498-78-4)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industryby John MarkoffISBN 0670033820 (0-670-03382-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wild Thing: The Backstage, on the Road, in the Studio, off the Charts Memoirs of Ian Copelandby Ian CopelandISBN 0684815087 (0-684-81508-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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You Can't Winby Jack BlackISBN 1902593022 (1-902593-02-2)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can't Win'Book summary:[via]The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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1968by Mark KurlanskyISBN 8423337065 (84-233-3706-5)
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Antes Que Anochezcaby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 8472234851 (84-7223-485-1)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores
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El Existencialismo Es UN Humanismoby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392054 (950-03-9205-4)
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Der Gangs Von New Yorkby Herbert AsburyISBN 3453186826 (3-453-18682-6)
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