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<<< 1 2 3 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Just Kids Patti Smith Winner of the National Book Award. Just Kids illuminates the impressive lover of literature that Patti Smith is. Her memoir will be of particular interest to City Lights enthusiasts as she is our quintessential reader, a fan of the Surrealists... Just My Type A Book About Fonts Simon Garfield "Comic Sans walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'We don't serve your type here.'" This is probably the most fluid, engaging book about fonts you'll ever read. Whether you're a professional designer or just your everyday type enthusiast, you will... Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Little Red Riding Hood Brothers Grimm " . . . what big eyes you have!" Originating in seventeenth-century French folklore, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has long been one of the world's most memorable tales of childhood, with its haunting journey into the dark woods, tumultuous... On Photography Susan Sontag Susan Sontag has written four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five books of... Phantoms on the Bookshelves Jacques Bonnet The enthralling memoir on the art of living with books Phantoms on the Bookshelves considers how our personal libraries reveal our true natures: far more than merely crowded shelves, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. 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 River of Shadows Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Rebecca Solnit The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating... 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. Secret Exhibition Six California Artists Rebecca Solnit Secret Exhibition chronicles a vital California art movement, focusing on six artists – Wallace Bergman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, and George Herms – who broke new ground with provocative work, especially in assemblage and... 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... Shock Treatment (Signed) First Edition Karen Finley San Francisco: City Lights., (1990) First Edition. 8vo, 145 pages. Signed by Finley on the title page. Fine in pictorial wrappers. 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 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 >>>