Joe Boyd

some wear to the cover but pages are bright and clean 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vermont

Making Music in The 1960s

"Joe Boyd's first proper job at 21 was bringing Muddy Waters to Britain in 1964. When Dylan went electric at Newport the following year, Boyd was the stage manager. His first session as a record producer was Eric Clapton's original 'Crossroads'. A year later, he had produced Pink Floyd's first single and installed them in the UFO Club, the heart of psychedelic London in 1967. With the help of the Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention, he arranged the brief but intense marriage between pop music and British folk. He discovered, produced and managed Nick Drake. He loved the Swedish songwriters he heard on a trip to Stockholm in 1970 - two years before they created ABBA - but not enough to turn down a job in California where he produced soundtracks for Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange and the definitive documentary on Jimi Hendrix."--BOOK JACKET.

White Bicycles

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Jonathan Lethem

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. "Men and Cartoons" contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a dizzying array of styles that shows the remarkable range and power of Lethem's vision. Sometimes firmly grounded in reality, and other times spinning off into utterly original imaginary worlds, this book brings together marvelous characters with incisive social commentary and thought provoking allegories. A visionary and creative collection that only Jonathan Lethem could have produced, the Vintage edition features two stories not published in the hardcover edition, "The Shape We're In" and "Interview with the Crab.

Men and Cartoons

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Jeanette Winterson

Stories

With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.

The World and Other Places

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Noel Botham

A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (but Probably Don't)

Bigger, better, and more useless than ever!

In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating, hilarious, and wholly trivial findings. The Ultimate Book of Useless Information includes such "did you knows" as:

- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
- The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing
- And giraffes have no vocal cords

The Ultimate Book of Useless Information

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Jeremy Holt

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Bassist-turned-junkie Jonny Wells is addicted to his past, and the only way to get there is through the music. The bassist of a breakout '90s punk band, Jonny falls apart when his band mate and best friend Kirk commits suicide. Twenty years later he struggles with heroin addiction, lost in the songs they created and desperate to relive the past, when he discovers that he can—literally. With the aid of a mysterious guitar, Jonny begins to make trips back in time, searching for the roots of Kirk’s unraveling. At Nar-Anon meetings and in conversations with his sponsor Emily, he starts to cope with the events that led to Kirk’s death. But by the time Jonny realizes that his visits can’t change the present, he might be too addicted to stop.

Skip to the End

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Maria Golia

excellent condition all around, dust jacket is slightly creased on the spine 

The Territory and the Adventure

Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues tradition, he and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare of big band swing gave way to bebop—a faster music for a faster, postwar world. At the luminous dawn of the Space Age and New York’s 1960s counterculture, Coleman gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some, maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called “the new thing” or “free jazz.” Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America’s most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing world.

Ornette Coleman

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Donald Antrim

some light, stray pencil marks throughout 

A Novel

WithThe Verificationist, Donald Antrim, acclaimed author ofThe Hundred Brothers, confirms his place as one of America's strangest and fiercely intelligent young writers. One April night, a group of psychologists from the Krakower Institute meet at a pancake house, where they order breakfast foods and engage in shop talk and the occasional flirtation. At the center of this maelstrom of pyschobabble and unrequited lust sits Tom, program coordinator for the Young Women of Strength, who has been known to sob uncontrollably at meetings. When Tom tries to initiate a food fight, a rival psychologist bear hugs him into submission, resulting in an out-of-body experience that leaves our Tom hovering over his colleagues. In the hands of Donald Antrim, this unique perspective becomes an exuberantly funny riff on our culture that does nothing less than expose the core of emotions underlying the most basic of human needs.

The Verificationist

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Ul De Rico

George Solti

Gottfried Wagner

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Ring of the Nibelung

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Howard Dean

Igor Volsky

Faiz Shakir

How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer

Howard Dean-the physician and former governor widely credited with reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections-brings his unique, no-nonsense perspective to the healthcare debate. At a time when healthcare reform finally is within reach, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform is a riveting call to action that explains both the obstacles to reform and what it will take to achieve real healthcare reform.

Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform

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Iwona Blazwick

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Handbook

A beautiful oversized book that celebrates Tate Modern--the building and the collection--London's first national gallery of modern and contemporary art, opening May 2000.

Tate Modern

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Rob Haskins

American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as well as Sonatas and Interludes not only established Cage as a leading figure in the postwar avant-garde movement, but also cemented the enduring controversy surrounding his work. In this new biography, Rob Haskins explores Cage’s radical approach to art and aesthetics and his belief that everyday life and art are one and the same. Scrutinizing Cage’s emphasis on chance over intention, which rejected traditional artistic methods and caused an uproar among his peers, Haskins elucidates the ideas that lay behind these pillars of Cage’s work. Haskins also demystifies the influence of Eastern cultures, particularly Zen Buddhism, on Cage, including his use of the Chinese text I Ching as his standard composition tool in all his work after 1951. Adding to our understanding of the art, music, and ideas of the twentieth century, this book provides an engaging look at a man who continues to challenge and inspire artists worldwide.

John Cage

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Helen Whybrow

Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900

For intensity of geographical exploration and wealth of first-rate adventure writing by intrepid men and women, the 19th century stands alone. This definitive collection contains thirty-five stories from the most compelling odysseys of the century. The excerpts are as varied as the voyages themselves ? some humorous and lighthearted, others desperate and thrilling ? but all are examples of adventure, and adventure writing, at the highest level. Several long-forgotten classics are reprinted here for the first time in one hundred years.

Dead Reckoning

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Carl Loeffler

Source Book of California Performance Art

Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.

Performance Anthology

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Jeanne Larson

A Catologue of Quotations

Seeds of Peace

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Caroline Myss

The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

Describes a seven-step process for promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual healing, offering a detailed introduction to the new field of energy medicine

Anatomy of the Spirit

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Todd Winkler

Techniques and Ideas Using Max

Composing Interactive Music

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Barbara Kingsolver

Steven L. Hopp

Camille Kingsolver

A Year of Food Life

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

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Robert Finch

John E. Elder

W. W. Norton is pleased to announce that The Norton Book of Nature Writing is now available in a paperback college edition.

The Norton Book of Nature Writing

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall's graphic novel Bernie explores the personal and political development of Bernie Sanders, a man who looks set to shake up the 2016 US presidential campaign and redefine the left wing of the Democratic Party. America's answer to Jeremy Corbyn, Sanders - a self-identified socialist - has been relentlessly marginalized and ridiculed by the national political power brokers and the media that supports them. But who is this man? And what accounts for his sudden rise in popularity?

Bernie

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James Ball

Serious Answers to Deep Questions Posed in Songs

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uses data, facts, and science to deliver hilarious, fascinating answers to some of the most famous questions in pop music history.
 
"Is there life on Mars? Where have all the flowers gone? Pop songs can pose excellent questions and James Ball has given them the answers they deserve."--The Times (UK)
 
Some of the most famous questions of our time have come to us in pop songs. "What is love?" "How soon is now?" "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" But do you know the answers?
 
Breaking down lyrics from Bob Dylan, Queen, Rihanna, the Ting Tings, Billy Joel, and a variety of other genre- and decade-spanning artists with colorful graphs and Venn diagrams,Pop Science reveals the exact points where lowbrow pop culture and the highest science and philosophy meet. By revealing the economic status of doggies in windows, what war is good for, and what becomes of the brokenhearted, James Ball uncovers what we have always known--that pop music is the key to life itself.

Pop Science

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David M. Huber

Robert E. Runstein

A manual, reference, and teaching tool, offering thorough coverage of each topic, this book will be useful for recording workshops, sound engineers, musicians and electronic musicians, producers, multimedia developers, audio for video professionals, universities, schools, and audio enthusiasts in general. Includes a glossary, up-to-date bibliography, and an extensive index.

Modern Recording Techniques

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Jerilyn L. Brandelius

Grateful Dead Family Album

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Denise Linn

Gateway Oracle Cards

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James Tate

Terrance Hayes

Poems

An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with an introduction by Terrance Hayes Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry's future. With a new introduction by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers, new and old, a lasting collection of favorites to be treasured for years to come.

Hell, I Love Everybody: the Essential James Tate

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