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1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author Salinger David Shields, Shane Salerno Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company—Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the... Behind the Shock Machine The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments Gina Perry When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that... The Trauma of Everyday Life Mark Epstein Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. In The Trauma of Everyday Life renowned psychiatrist and... Cool Gray City of Love 49 Views of San Francisco Gary Kamiya Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site... My Lunches with Orson Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles Peter Biskind There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage... A Colossal Wreck A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, And American Culture Alexander Cockburn Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation. His writing stemmed from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken and Tom Paine. A Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his... Wear Your Dreams My Life in Tattoos Ed Hardy This is a fascinating look into the life of a legend – his beginnings, his rise to fame in the 60's and 70's, and beyond. Written in a stream of consciousness type of format, it’s easily digestible and provides valuable insight into the world of tattooing. If you’re a tattoo fanatic, this is a must-MUST-read. —Recommended by Anah, City Lights The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her... One Thousand and One Nights A Retelling Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and... 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... Tesla Inventor of the Electrical Age W. Bernard Carlson Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the... 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. 1 2 3 4 5 >>>