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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author 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... Woolgathering Patti Smith Patti Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early Work... 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... Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson, Jann S. Wenner The definitive collection of the king of gonzo journalism's finest work for Rolling Stone "Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling... Alfred Jarry A Pataphysical Life Alastair Brotchie When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as... Charlie Chan The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: "An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping... Debt The First 5,000 Years David Graeber An history of debt written by an anarchist-sympathizing anthropologist (and a respected one, mind you)—who better to dig beneath the assumptions taken for granted by the Western science of Economics? From blood debts in moneyless societies to the... 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... An Empire of Ice Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science Edward J. Larson Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of... The Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its... Confessions of a Young Novelist (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) Umberto Eco Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions," the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist... The Next American Revolution Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America... 101 Quantum Questions What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See Kenneth W. Ford Ken Ford's mission is to help us understand the "great ideas" of quantum physics—ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fundamental concepts provide the structure for 101 Quantum... The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) Siva Vaidhyanathan Vaidhyanathan offers a tempered critique of the ubiquity of the company that is increasingly becoming the lens through which the internet is viewed globally and, true to the title, points out why this monopoly of web use matters now and what the... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>