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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | publication date 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 Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c.1840 Lisbeth Haas, Pablo Tac Noted California historian Lisbeth Haas presents the writing of Pablo Tac, a Luiseño Indian born at Mission San Luis Rey in l820, with his biography and an analysis of the unique perspectives he offered on Luiseño language and history during Spanish... 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... What Light Can Do Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Robert Hass Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. the New York Times hailed him as a writer who "is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure." Now, with... Power over Peoples Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Daniel R. Headrick For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed... 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... Mortality Christopher Hitchens Mortality is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous... Jubilee Hitchhiker The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan William Hjortsberg Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in... Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times. Whether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially... Robert Duncan The Ambassador from Venus Lisa Jarnot This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America's great postwar poets. The Voice Is All The Lonely Victory of Jack kerouac Joyce Johnson A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters. In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of the classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away.. The Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code Sam Kean From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table... Virtual Words Language on the Edge of Science and Technology Jonathon Keats The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information)... Fire in the Ashes Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America Jonathan Kozol In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>