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Selections from the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci Contains many of the key elements of Gramsci's writings, including 'The Modern Prince' and 'Americanism and Fordism' and observation on the state, Italian history and the role of...

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a prickly, colorful character who wrote maliciously funny short stories for adults (The Best of Roald Dahl) as well as better-known works for children (James and the Giant Peach). As he relates in the introduction, he...

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The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan W. Watts A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical...

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A Book of Surrealist Games Mel Gooding Surrealism is far more than some dead art movement: it is also a collection of tools for perceiving and representing the world in ways that transcend normative perspectives. This delightful little book is packed with word and image games that...

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Book of Blues Jack Kerouac These eight extended poems, composed between 1954 and 1961, offer exuberant forays into language and consciousness that combine rich imagery, complex internal rhythms, and a reverent attentiveness to the moments.

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The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations 2nd Edition This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and...

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Book of Dreams Jack Kerouac "In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about."Excerpt:WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves...

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A Storm of Swords A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3 George R. R. Martin Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven...

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Book of Haikus Jack Kerouac, Regina Weinreich Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included...

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Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteyngart "Vladimir Girshkin - twenty-five-year-old Russian immigrant, "Little Failure" according to his high-achieving mother, unhappy lover to fat dungeon mistress Challah (his "little Challah bread"), and lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant...

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The Book of Jon Eleni Sikelianos With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems and journal entries, Sikelianos creates a loving portrait-and an unblinking indictment-of her father. Jon, a multitalented, eccentric visionary, emerges as a brilliant, charming, irresponsible...

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Book of Sketches Jack Kerouac A never-before-published book of poems by Jack Kerouac—in a deluxe package In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or “sketches” as he called them, on small notebooks that he...

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The Beat Book Writings from the Beat Generation Anne Waldman The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real...

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The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton, Bill Morgan Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the poet’s storied life are captured, his inner thoughts detailed in what the San Francisco...

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Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne Essential uncollected work from one of the most infamous and provocative contemporary American writers.

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