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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author America 1933 The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal Michael Golay during the harshest year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, a top woman news reporter of the day and intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, was hired by FDR's right-hand man Harry Hopkins to embark upon a grueling journey to the hardest-hit areas... Aisthesis Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art Jacques Rancière Aisthesis is Jacques Rancière's long-awaited, definitive statement on aesthetics, art and modernity. The book comprises a string of dramatic and evocative locales, each embodying specific artistic tendencies and together spanning the modern era—from... Robert Oppenheimer A Life Inside the Center Ray Monk Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal... Spectacle of Disintegration Situationist Passages Out of the 20th Century McKenzie Wark Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI's story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context. Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society Spawn of the Suicide Club! Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law This book will prove to be a template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. Sparks-Tastic Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London Tosh Berman In 2008, Tosh Berman — author and publisher of TamTam Books — got on a plane with a single motive: "Sparks Spectacular." The Autistic Brain Thinking Across the Spectrum Temple Grandin A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the... Mingus Speaks John F. Goodman A sun speaks. At times promethean, hilarious, and vexing, this is Mingus as spontaneous combustion. The music is in his words.—Recommended by Scott, City Lights Books Arming Mother Nature The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism Jacob Darwin Hamblin As a Cold War aggressor, the United States, along with its allies, needed to maintain parity, or better yet attain superiority, in ecological warfare. This fascinating book explores how this perceived "unconventional warfare gap" was one of the main... July 1914 Countdown to War Sean McMeekin When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God’s will." Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. The Democracy Project A History, a Crisis, a Movement David Graeber The Democracy Project is an interesting dialogue with Terry Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right, McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto and Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World. —Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books Bolivar American Liberator Marie Arana It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp An Autobiography Richard Hell The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll... 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>