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1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | publication date The Works Anatomy of a City Kate Ascher Kate Ascher could not have chosen a much drier topic for a book than water mains, parking meters, railroad classification yards, and the other doodads of city infrastructure. But in Ascher's captivating book, The Works, the innards of New York City... Wall and Piece Banksy The collected works of Britain's most wanted artist. Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting in the Tate... The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades... Ways of Seeing Based on the BBC Television Series John Berger John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series... Sex Press The Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press 1965-1975 Vincent Bernière, Mariel Primois From 1965 to 1975, an array of journals, magazines, fanzines, and underground presses were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. In Europe and the United States, this "sex press" consisted of publications such as Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, Actuel... Shoot An Iraqi Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun Wafaa Bilal, Kari Lydersen An award-winning Iraqi artist's life story and the impact of his highly provocative interactive art piece Prison/Culture Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, Rebeka Rodriguez Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community Fire in the Belly The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz Cynthia Carr The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death. In December 2010, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!' Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, inspiring children of all ages... San Francisco Chinatown A Guide to Its History and Architecture Philip P. Choy Both a history of America's oldest Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind, written by someone born and raised there. Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Bibliodeath My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) Andrei Codrescu Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu's Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades, The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of... The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have... 1 2 3 >>>