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1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Absence of the Hero Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with more boozy tales of extraordinary madness 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... Banksy The Man Behind the Wall Will Ellsworth-Jones While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the... Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights... Blue Nights Joan Didion From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan... Bob Dylan Like a Complete Unknown David Yaffe Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the singer-songwriter has crafted his unique brand of music... 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. Both Flesh & Not Essays David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was beloved for his inimitable voice and wit-and, for many of his readers, admired as much for his astonishingly perceptive and inventive essays as he was for his fiction. Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal... The Capitalism Papers Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System Jerry Mander The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. 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 Detroit An American Autopsy Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Fredrik Logevall The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world's powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States... 1 2 3 4 5 >>>