Tom Waits

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

A collection of works by the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, actor, and composer showcases lyrics from his first ten albums, from his first, Closing Time in 1973, to his experimental works from 1980 in Heartattack and Vine, and beyond. 40,000 first printing.

The Early Years

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Ann Powers

Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

NPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today’s web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism—not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy—became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect—a magnum opus over two decades in the making—Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.

Good Booty

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Tim Riley

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How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America

Riley takes an insightful look at how rock and roll has changed the way men and women think about themselves--and each other.

Fever

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Dave Navarro

Neil Strauss

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro

One day, Dave Navarro decided to open the doors of his house in the Hollywood hills to the chaos of the valley below. The only rule was, "come in the house, you get in the photo booth." The result is a diary, a sociology experiment, a documentary of Hollywood, and an exercise in exhibitionism: strippers, Kurt Loder, Marilyn Manson, pizza delivery boys, Rose McGowan, Keanu Reeves, record executives, Scott Ian, Billy Corgan, hookers, Flea, Billy Zane, drug dealers, Angelyne, Leonardo DiCaprio, the cleaning lady, Leif Garrett, Natalie Imbruglia, and everyone else who came into the house are all caught on film—whether zany, inebriated, naked, hamming it up, looking beautiful, or looking ugly, the photo booth tells no lies. Accompanying the strips are hilarious stories, musings, tell-all anecdotes, and other glimpses into the lifestyle of one of the most decadent rock stars of our time. This chronicle of a year in Navarro's life is also a gritty portrait of his descent into drug use and self-destructiveness, and his struggle to find meaning. Designed by the mad genius who produced Manson's, Motley Crue's and Mankind's books, Don't Try This at Home is a visual masterpiece, a celebrity exposÉ, and a shocking, hilarious and irresistible read.

Don't Try This at Home

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Paul Simon

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A landmark compilation of popular music, this collection contains Paul Simon's lyrics from his first album in 1964 to the present.

Lyrics 1964-2008

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Stephen Bishop

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Rock's Greatest Songs in Rough-Draft Form

A veteran songwriter presents a selection of sixty of rock music's greatest songs in their original, hand-scrawled rough drafts, accompanied by interviews with the songwriters who reveal the stories behind the songs.

Songs in the Rough

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Graham Nash

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Songwriters on Songwriting

"Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard . . ."In 1970, "Our House" was recorded and released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and immediately became a sentimental favorite for millions of fans. Its honest, romantic, homespun lyrics expressed a sentiment felt by all of us. To this day, the song remains a classic and is one whose melody and lyrics can be sung and repeated by the millions of people whose lives it touched.Songs like these and many others have created landmark moments in all of our lives, marking and celebrating key events, past and better times, current relationships, and hopes for the future. Now, Manuscript Originals has compiled the stories behind a collection of 25 of the world's most celebrated songs in Off the Record, a stunning book and CD collection that will commemorate the impact these classic songs have had in our contemporary world.Original handwritten images of the lyrics from these classic songs rendered by their original authors and accompanied by the songwriter's own artwork will be displayed in each of the book's 25 chapters. In addition, readers will find historical, social, and "off the cuff" personal insights about these fascinating people and the music they produced. Illuminating photographs-some from the writer's or performer's personal archive that have never been seen before-will also document the journey of each artist's individual songwriting path. While the names of some of the songwriters included in Off The Record are better known to the general public than others, the songs these artists are associated with are some of the most famous titles in the world. Among the songwriters included are Graham Nash, David Crosby, Grace Slick, Ben E. King, Jimmy Davis ("You Are My Sunshine"), John Lee Hooker, Waylon Jennings, Randy Bachman, Peter Yarrow, and many, many more.The CDs enclosed in Off the Record include individual audio interviews

Off the Record

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Journeys into Fame and Madness

You can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them. Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep MÖtley CrÜe out of jail & gets kidnapped by Courtney Love Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with… you’ll find out who inside And many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world’s number one stars in Everyone Love You When You’re Dead.

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

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Chuck Klosterman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the ground-breaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story—all recontextualized in Chuck’s unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes. Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts: Things That Are True—Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant—all with new introductions and footnotes. Things That Might Be True—Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancement—all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes. Something That Isn’t True At All—This is old fiction. There’s a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there’s a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.

Chuck Klosterman IV

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Jared M. Diamond

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The Fates of Human Societies

Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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James W. Loewen

What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of American history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate. Originally published as Lies Across America. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Lies Across America

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Stephen Jay Gould

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

Mismeasure of Man

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Slipcover has shelf wear with sticker over back barcode. Some sticker residue on front. 

Reflections in Natural History

Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history. From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution. Illustrations.

Dinosaur in a Haystack

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Linda Tirado

All intact but water damage to back cover and last 30 ish pages. See photo

Living in Bootstrap America

Originally published in hardcover in 2014 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Hand to Mouth

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Andrew Roach

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

History

Heresy and Society 1100-1300

Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries, this is a thorough examination of the threat that heresy presented to both Church and lay powers.

The Devil's World

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All slipcovers yellowing and showing age. Solid hardbacks underneath with the one of black and white photos and cast /awards information.

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Vol 26-29, 1975-1978

John Willis' Screen World - 4 volumes 

Three books with varying degrees of wear on slipcovers. Solid hardback underneath with b/w pages with lots of photos. Some yellowing on edges 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

1975-75, 1976-76, 1976-77

John Willis' Theater World - 3 Volumes

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American Films of the 1970's

The Stewardess is Flying the Plane!

Jeremiah Tower

How I Began a Food Revolution in America

AS SEEN IN THE NEW DOCUMENTARY JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT Newly revised and reissued to coincide with The Last Magnificent, a documentary feature produced by Anthony Bourdain, the indelible and entertaining memoir from Jeremiah Tower which chronicles life at the front lines of redefining modern American cuisine. Widely recognized as the godfather of modern American cooking, Jeremiah Tower is one of the most influential cooks of the last forty years. In 2004, he rocked the culinary world with a tell-all story of his lifelong love affair with food, and the restaurants and people along the way. In this newly revised edition of his memoir, retitled Start the Fire, Tower shares with wit and honesty his insights into cooking, chefs, celebrities, and what really goes on in the kitchen. Above all, Tower rhapsodizes about food—the meals choreographed like great ballets, the menus scored like concertos. No other book reveals more about the seeds sown in the seventies, the excesses of the eighties, and the self-congratulations of the nineties. With a new introduction by the author, Start the Fire is an essential account of the most important years in the history of American cooking, from one of its singular personalities.

Start the Fire

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Anaïs Nin

From a Journal of Love -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)

A year in the life (1931-1932) of writer Anais Nin when she met Henry Miller and his wife June.

Henry and June

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Paul Monette

National Book Award-winner Paul Monette presents a transcendent, powerful novel of three AIDS widowers who have seen each other through the worst of times -- and have found the courage to hope for the best. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Afterlife

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The Long Shot

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The acclaimed author of Afterlife and Borrowed Time tells the story of two Irish-Catholic brothers, one gay and one straight, one living with AIDS and one living in fear, whose fates collide on the California coast. Dramatic, darkly comic, and strongly plotted, this is a novel of families--those we are born into and those we select.

Halfway Home

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Two male lovers, a legendary movie goddess, a caretaker, and a polyestered Beverly Hills agent mount an incredible scam in this witty and wicked novel.

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Tom Waits

The Early Years

Ann Powers

Good Booty

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Fever

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Don't Try This at Home

Paul Simon

Lyrics 1964-2008

Stephen Bishop

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Graham Nash

Off the Record

Neil Strauss

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman IV

Jared M. Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel

James W. Loewen

Lies Across America

Stephen Jay Gould

Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

Dinosaur in a Haystack

Linda Tirado

Hand to Mouth

Andrew Roach

The Devil's World

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John Willis' Screen World - 4 volumes

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John Willis' Theater World - 3 Volumes

Ron Hogan

The Stewardess is Flying the Plane!

Jeremiah Tower

Start the Fire

Anaïs Nin; Anaïs Nin

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Halfway Home

Paul Monette

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