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MEGAWORDS BOOK SHOPIn our book shop you will nd shelvesstocked with new and used books andmagazines. These books will be for sale,but commerce is not the point. Our aim isto dene a cultural space and to positionthe books as objects of discussion,
exploration, explanation and departure.
The books weve chosen cover a widerange of topics: music, lm, urban aairs,photography, ction, philosophy, cycling,etc.. They are a living, breathing readinglist that encourages the contemplationof dierent world-views and are animportant source of inspiration for us.We hope that by sharing these books, we
can demonstrate the direct link betweenbeing excited by the work of others andproducing ones own work.
30 Energy Efcient Houses You Can BuildAlex Wade and Neal Ewenstein
Floor plans, drawings, specications, and descriptions are
provided or efciently and ecologically designed amily
houses, studio living spaces, hillside homes, and underground
and passive solar-tempered houses.
98.6 - The Art o Keeping Your Ass AliveCody Lundin
Cody Lundin, director o the Aboriginal Living Skills School
in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand o wilderness wis-
dom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense,
modern survival skills or the backcountry, the backyard, or
the highway. This is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-
based on the principal o keeping the bodys core tempera-
ture at a lively 98.6 degrees.
In his entertaining and inormative style, Cody stresses
that a human can live without ood or weeks and withoutwater or about three days or so. But i the bodys core
temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree
mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept
that many dont take seriously or even consider, but know-
ing what to do to maintain a sae core temperature when
lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your lie. Lundin
delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty
o backcountry expertise.
Ari Marcopolis: DirectoryNeville Wakefeld (Author), Ari Marcopoulos (Photographer
Inuential to both art and ashion, Ari Marcopouloss unique
style o raw immediacy has made him one o the most
important contemporary photographers. For thirty years,
photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contem-
porary photography by documenting subcultures such as
skateboarders and grafti artists, as well as landscapes and
his own amily and riends. Since his days printing photo-graphs or Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body o
work marked by its arresting and unsentimental intimacy
that has been inuential to the worlds o art, ashion, and
photography.Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marco-
poulos: Directory presents a collection o approximately
1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakeeld
providing insightul commentary on some o Marcopouloss
singular images.
The Art o Not Being GovernedJames C. Scott
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now
reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size o Europe
that consists o portions o seven Asian countries) have ed
the projects o the organized state societies that surround
themslavery, conscription, taxes, corve labor, epidemics,
and warare. This book, essentially an anarchist history, is
the rst-ever examination o the huge literature on state-
making whose author evaluates why people would deliber-
ately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies
employed by the people o Zomia to remain stateless are
physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices
that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to
prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance o a largely
oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and
genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide
as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and
agrarian studies, tells the story o the peoples o Zomia and
their unlikely odyssey in search o sel-determination. He
redenes our views on Asian politics, history, demograph-
ics, and even our undamental ideas about what constitutes
civilization, and challenges us with a radically dierent ap-
proach to history that presents events rom the perspective
o stateless peoples and redenes state-making as a orm o
internal colonialism. This new perspective requires a radicalreevaluation o the civilizational narratives o the lowland
states. Scotts work on Zomia represents a new way to think
o area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, ugi-
tive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks,
tribes eeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
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The Art o Shen-KuZeek
What is Shen Ku? Roughly translated: Pure Traveler
or Phantom Passenger. What exactly is the art o?
Mastering the skill and knowledge o practically everything
anyone comes across while on Earth, including:
* Tying knots and enhancing sex
* Numerology and sel hypnosis* Herbal therapy and orecasting weather
* Curing nosebleeds and removing stains
* Kung u and magic tricks
* Isometric and breathing exercises o monks
* Sel deense and catching sh
And this is only the beginning. Irreverent and quirky, seri-
ous and 100% straightorward, TheArt of Shen Ku explores
hundreds o topics rom a broad spectrum o lie situations,
and gives ingeniously simple advice on how to cope with
them, overcome them, use them, and benet rom them.
AtmospheresPeter Zumthor
What really constitutes an architectural atmosphere, Peter
Zumthor says, is this singular density and mood, this eeling
o presence, well-being, harmony, beauty under whose
spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience
in precisely this way. Zumthor s passion is the creation o
buildings that produce this kind o eect, but how can one
actually set out to achieve it?
In nine short, illustrated chapters ramed as a process o
sel-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his
mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere o his houses.
Images o spaces and buildings that aect him are every
bit as important as particular pieces o music or books that
inspire him. From the composition and presence o the ma-
terials to the handling o proportions and the eect o light,
this poetics o architecture enables the reader to recapitulate
what really matters in the process o house design.
Bicycle DiariesDavid Byrne
Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever asrecession- strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent
basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/
musician David Byrne-who has relied on a bike to get around
New York City since the early 1980s-relates his adventures
as he pedals through an engages with some o the worlds
major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range
o people both amous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on
art, ashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many
places are becoming more bike-riendly. Bicycle Diaries is an
adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity,
and humanity.
Bike CultDavid B. Perry
A bike anatics ultimate trip, this comprehensive tour o bike
culture is packed with inormation on every aspect o bikes
and cyclingrom bedrock to high-tech, rom Leonardo
to Schwinn, rom rickshaws to rollerbladesspanning the
golden age o bicycling (the 19th century) to the present.
Black SwanNassim Taleb
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three prin-
cipal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive
impact; and, ater the act, we concoct an explanation that
makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it
was. The astonishing success o Google was a black swan;
so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie
almost everything about our world, rom the rise o religions
to events in our own personal lives.
Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon o black
swans until ater they occur? Part o the answer, according toTaleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specics when
they should be ocused on generalities. We concentrate on
things we already know and time and time again ail to take
into consideration what we dont know. We are, thereore,
unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the
impulse to simpliy, narrate, and categorize, and not open
enough to rewarding those who can imagine the impossible.
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The
Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb
is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and
unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command o
subjects ranging rom cognitive science to business to prob-
ability theory. The Black Swan is a landmark bookitsel a
black swan.
Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Grafti in Los AngelesFrancois Chastanet, Howard Gribble
Howard Gribble, an amateur photographer rom the city o
Torrance in the South o Los Angeles County, documented
Latino gang grafti rom 1970 to 1975. These photographs o
various Cholo handletterings, constituted an unique opportu-
nity to try to push orward the calligraphic analysis o Cholo
writing, its origins and ormal evolution.A second series o photographs made by Francois Chas-
tanet in 2008 rom East LA to South Central, are an attempt
to produce a visual comparison o letterorms by nding the
same barrios (neighborhoods) and gangs group names more
than thirty ve years ater Gribble s work. Without ignoring
the violence and sel-destruction inherent to la vida loca (or
the crazy lie , reerring to the barrio gang experience), this
present book documents the visual strategies o a given sub-
culture to survive as a visible entity in an environement made
o a never ending sprawl o warehouses, reeways, wood
ramed houses, ences and back alleys.
The two exceptional photographic series and essays are a
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tentative or the recognition o Cholo writing as a major inu-
ence on the whole Caliornian underground cultures.
Clock o the Long Now - Time and ResponsibilityStewart Brand
Using the designing and building o the Clock of the Long
Nowas a ramework, this is a book about the practical use
o long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how tokeep it in and out o sight. Here are the central questions it
inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and
common instead o difcult and rare? Discipline in thought
allows reedom. One needs the space and reliability to
predict continuity to have the condence not to be araid o
revolutions Taking the time to think o the uture is more es-
sential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability
to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by
countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically
orced to be extraordinary; ction is not allowed this reedom
This is a potent book that combines the chronicling o antas-
tic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.
Common GroundJ. Anthony Lukas
The climax o this humane account o 10 years in Boston that
began with news o Martin Luther Kings assassination, is a
watershed moment in the citys modern historythe 1974
racist riots that ollowed the court-ordered busing o kids to
integrate the schools. To bring understanding to that mo-
ment, Lukas, a ormer New York Times journalist, ocuses
on two working-class amilies, headed by an Irish-American
widow and an Arican-American mother, and on the middle-
class amily o a white liberal couple. Lukas goes beyond
stereotypes, careully grounding each perspective in its
historical roots, whether in the antebellum South, or amine-
era Ireland. In the background is the cast o public gures-
-including Judge Garrity, Mayor White, and Cardinal Cushing-
-with cameo roles in this disturbing history that won the 1986
Pulitzer Prize or nonction.
The Creative HabitTwyla Tharp
All it takes to make creativity a part o your lie is the willing-ness to make it a habit. It is the product o preparation and
eort, and is within reach o everyone. Whether you are a
painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual
yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit
provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the
lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-ve-
year career.
In Wheres Your Pencil? Tharp reminds you to observe
the worldand get it down on paper. In Coins and Chaos,
she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In Do
a Verb, she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In
Build a Bridge to the Next Day, she shows you how to clean
the clutter rom your mind overnight.
Tharp leads you through the painul rst steps o scratch-
ing or ideas, nding the spine o your work, and getting out
o ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm o
possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how
to take a deep breath and begin
Crowds and Power
Elias Canetti
Crowds and Poweris a revolutionary work in which Elias
Canetti nds a new way o looking at human history and
psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it
explores Shiite estivals and the English Civil war, the nger
exercises o monkeys and the eects o ination in Weimar
Germany. In this study o the interplay o crowds, Canetti
oers one o the most proound and startling portraits o
the human condition.
Delirious New YorkRem Koolhaas
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has
attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edi-
tion, this inuential cultural, architectural, and social history
o New York is even more popular, selling out its rst printing
on publication. Rem Koolhaass celebration and analysis o
New York depicts the city as a metaphor or the incredible
variety o human behavior. At the end o the nineteenth
century, population, inormation, and technology explosions
made Manhattan a laboratory or the invention and testing
o a metropolitan liestylethe culture o congestionand
its architecture.
Dumbo: Acts o Vandalism, Stories o LoveBarry McGee, Federico Sarica, Kyri Chenven
I dare anyone who has been to Italy, and especially Milan, in
the past 10 years to claim that they have never seen the word
DUMBO written on the city walls. Its impossible! Here, the
artist behind those ve obsessively repeated letterswho
has brought the question art or vandalism to a country bet-
ter known or its Renaissance painting and streamlined de-
signreveals himsel and the enigmatic art underground that
has nurtured him over the last decade. Photographs depict-ing the clandestine routines o grafti writing or Italys most
popular street artist accompany almost 200 color pictures o
Dumbos work all over Italy and Europe. Artist Barry McGee-
-who honored Dumbo in a piece done or the European
opening o the American street art show Beautiul Losers
says in a preace here, Dumbo represents everything right in
this world by doing everything we are told is wrong.
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The Elements o Typographic StyleRobert Bringhurst
Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings
clarity to the art o typography with this masterul style
guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this
edition is completely updated, with a thorough exploration
o the newest innovations in intelligent ont technology, and
is a must-have or graphic artists, editors, or anyone working
with the printed page using digital or traditional methods.
Everything is Cinema - The Working Lie oJean-Luc GodardRichard Brody
When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals o lmmaking to the
realities o autobiography and current events, he changed
the nature o cinema. Unlike any earlier lms, Godards work
shits uidly rom ction to documentary, rom criticism to
art. The man himsel also projects shiting imagescultural
hero, erce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by lmmak-
ers as ai not thekey inuence on cinema, Godard hasentered the modern canon, a gure as mysterious as he is
indispensable.
In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed
hundreds o interviews to demystiy the elusive director and
his work. Paying as much attention to Godards technical in-
ventions as to the political orces o the postwar world, Brody
traces an arc rom the directors early critical writing, through
his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision o
his later years. He vividly depicts Godards wealthy conserva-
tive amily, his uid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with
women and ellow New Wave lmmakers.
Everything Is Cinema conrms Godards greatness and
shows decisively that his lms have let their mark on screens
everywhere.
Factory Records: The Complete Graphic AlbumMatthew Robertson
A creative juggernaut o the post-punk era, Factory Records
was the catalyst behind the U.K. music explosion o the late
70s through the 90s with groups like Joy Division (soon to
be the subject o an Anton Corbijn movie), New Order, and
Happy Mondays leading the New Wave. At Factory, musi-
cians and designers commingled creatively, with innovatorssuch as Peter Saville, Den Kelly, Mark Farrow, 8VO, and Bar-
bara Kruger elevating album covers to a new art orm. The
label broke urther ground when it opened its own disco, the
legendary Hacienda. Factory Records is the ultimate and only
collection o Factorys complete graphic output, including
every single piece it produced: extremely rare record sleeves,
club yers, and posters all gathered together or the rst
time. A must or collectors and enthusiasts, Matthew Rob-
ertsons meticulous compilation o underground ephemera
is poised to introduce a new generation o music and design
ans to the creative genius o Factory.
The Future o the ImageJacques Rancire
A leading philosopher presents a radical maniesto or the
uture o art and lm.
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancire develops a
ascinating new concept o the image in contemporary art,
showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically
intertwined. Covering a range o art movements, lmmakers
such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault,Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancire
shows that contemporary theorists o the image are suering
rom religious tendencies.
He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can
either reinorce a radical democracy, or create a new reac-
tionary mysticism. For Rancire there is never a pure art: the
aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.
The Golden Age o CyclingBrett Horton, Shelly Horton, Owen Mulholland (Authors),
Eddy Merckx (Foreword)
There is no better way to appreciate the history o a sport
than to experience it through a collectors treasures. Cyclings
Golden Age takes readers inside the extraordinary Horton
Collection or an intimate look at one o the sports most
memorable eras, 19461967. From the commanding victories
o Fausto Coppi to the rise o Jacques Anquetil, the Hor-
ton Collection boasts never-beore-published photographs
and countless jerseys, trophies, posters, and other artiacts.
Cycling historian Owen Mulholland weaves it all together with
the tales o each rider, their admirable eats, and the nostal-
gia o each piece in the collection. Featured items include
Fausto Coppis maglia rosa and Tour de France podium sash;
Hugo Koblets personal treasure trove, including his Tour de
France trophy, maillot jaune, maglia rosa, and Giro dItalia tro-
phy; and Gino Bartalis maglia rosa and Tour de France stage
winners trophy. Each painstakingly preserved piece evokes
the dramatic history o this popular world-class sport.
Grey GardensSara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles and Albert Maysles
One o the strangest and subtlest lms ever made, the May-
sles Brothers 1975 documentary Grey Gardens today boasts
as devoted a ollowing as One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nestor Harold and Maude. Shot at Grey Gardens, the dilapidated
East Hamptons mansion o Big Edie and Little Edie Beale,
aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, this classic o cinema ver-
ite tracks the Beales eccentric and sequestered liveswhich
consist mostly o doing nothing, but with a mesmerizing zest
and volubility. Little Edies magical aphorisms (Raccoons
and cats become a little bit boring, she sighs towards the
end o the lm, I mean or too long a time ) are gems o
unwitting camp, and between her observations, her cos-
tumes, the incredibly bizarre mother daughter tensions, the
cats, raccoons and the beautiul ruins o Grey Gardens itsel,
doing nothing amounts to everything; indeed, it amounts to
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a tragicomedy o enormous emotional punch.
This eclectic volume oers a myriad o collaged illustra-
tions, photographs, lm stills, production notes and other
archival materials alongside transcripts o the Beales own
stories and conversations edited rom unreleased Grey
Gardens sound recordings. Structured to mirror the Maysles
own approach to the world o the Beales, it closely resembles
the enchanting clutter o the mansion, a sel-contained world
littered with mementos and telling ephemera. It also repro-
duces unpublished photographs by both Albert and DavidMaysles. With an introduction by Albert Maysles, drawings
and illustrations by Alberts daughter, Rebekah Maysles and
an appendix with the ull transcript o Grey Gardens, as well
as an audio CD o sound recordings capturing the Beales at
their best, this book is the essential companion to the lm
and a beautiul testimony to its legacy. The 60-minute CD
that comes with the book contains conversations with the
Beales and their riends, songs and poetry recited by the two
Edies and audio o the Beales during and ater watching the
lm or the rst time.
How to Cook a WolM. F. K. Fisher
Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes
shortages, How to Cook a Wolfcontinues to rally cooks during
times o plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance
requires more than putting ood on the table. M. F. K. Fisher
knew that the last thing hungry people needed were hints on
cutting back and making do. Instead, she gives her readers
license to dream, to experiment, to construct adventurous and
delicious meals as a bulwark against a dreary, meager present.
Her ne prose provides reason in itsel to draw our chairs close
to the hearth; we can still enjoy her company and her exhorta-
tions to celebrate lie by eating well.
Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson
Imagined Communities, Benedict Andersons brilliant book
on nationalism, orged a new eld o study when it rst
appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter o a
million copies and is widely considered the most important
book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edi-
tion, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question:
what makes people live and die or nations, as well as hateand kill in their name?
Anderson examines the creation and global spread o the
imagined communities o nationality, and explores the
processes that created these communities: the territorializa-
tion o religious aiths, the decline o antique kinship, the
interaction between capitalism and print, the development
o secular languages-o-state, and changing conceptions
o time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism
born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements
in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the movements o
anti-imperialist resistance in Asia and Arica.
The Inormation BombPaul Virilio
Virilios exploration o the relationship between technology,
speed, war and inormation technology weaves together a
breathtaking worldview o horror, exhilaration and hope.
Civilization or the militarization o science?
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question
as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion o
techno-science, cyberwar and the new inormation technolo-gies over our livesand deaths. Ater the era o the atomic
bomb, Virilio posits an era o genetic and inormation bombs
which replace the apocalyptic bang o nuclear death with the
whimper o a subliminally reinorced eugenics. We are enter-
ing the age o euthanasia.
These exhilarating bulletins rom the inormation war ex-
tend the range o Virilios work. The Information Bomb spans
everything rom Fukuyama to Larry Flynt, the Sensation exhi-
bition o New British Art to space travel, all seen through the
optic o Virilios trenchant and committed theoretical position.
La Jete: cin romanChris Marker
La Jete, the legendary science ction lm about time and
memory ater a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964
and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest
experimental lms ever made. (It provided the basis or Terry
Gilliams 1995 lm 12 Monkeys.) Chris Marker, who is the un-
disputed master o the lm essay, composed this postapoca-
lyptic story almost entirely o black-and-white still photo-
graphs. The story concerns an experiment in recovering and
changing the past through the action o memory, yet the lm
can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image,
which in its context becomes one o the supreme moments
in the history o lm.
Landlords CyclingDan Murphy and Tim Walkiewicz
World renowned cycling and literary impresario Phil Legit de-
livers another compelling title, this time delving deep into the
world o bike messenger lie and leisure. Its shattered ocus
centers sharply on a known group o couriers called Land-
lords Cycling Club. This unique publication travels ar above
and beyond the traditional portrait o a person standing inront o a bicycle bike messenger book, actually taking you
inside the collective consciousness o this clandestine crew.
The Layout BookGavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
Most books just tell how to do layout. The Layout Book
explains the hows, whys, and why nots o layout. A historical
overview o layout, rom the early scribes to today, is ol-
lowed by a systematic look at key theoretical principles and
practical applications. A selection o great layout designs and
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more than 300 illustrations in ull color and black-and-white
provides ideas and insight. Invaluable or design students,
helpul to working designers looking or a better understand-
ing o layout design.
Manchild in the Promised LandClaude Brown
Manchild in the Promised Land is a seminal work o modernliterature published during a literary era marked by the as-
cendance o black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph El-
lison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley. This thinly ctionalized
account o Claude Browns childhood as a streetwise criminal
trying to survive the toughest streets o Harlem has been
heralded as the denitive chronicle o everyday lie or the
rst generation o Arican-Americans raised in the Northern
ghettos o the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was rst published in 1965, Manchild in the
Promised Landwas praised or its realistic portrayal o
Harlemthe children, young people, hardworking parents;
the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers run-
ners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The New YorkTimes Book Reviewdeclared that it was written with brutal
and unvarnished honesty in the plain talk o the people, in
language that is erce, uproarious, obscene and tender.
The book continues to resonate generations later, not only
because the struggles o urban youth are as deeply elt today
as they were in Browns time but also because o its inspiring
message. Here is the story about the boy who made it.
Massive ChangeBruce Mau
Massive Change is a modern illustrated primer on the new in-
ventions, technologies, and events that are aecting the hu-
man race worldwide. The book is a part o a broader research
project by Bruce Mau Design intended to provoke debate and
discussion about the amiliar objects and techniques that
are transorming our lives. In essays, interviews, and pro-
vocative imagery aimed at a broad audience, Massive Change
explores the changing orce o design in the contemporary
world, and in doing so expands the denition o design to
include the built environment, transportation technologies,
revolutionary materials, energy and inormation systems, and
living organisms. The book is divided into 11 heavily illustrated
sections covering major areas o change in contemporary so-ciety - such as urbanism and architecture, the military, health
and living, and wealth and politics.
Morrissey and Marr, The Severed AllianceJohnny Rogan
The Severed Alliance is one o the most controversial rock
biographies ever written. Universally acclaimed by critics,
its contents outraged Morrissey, who denounced the book
and called or the death o author Johnny Rogan, saying
Personally, I hope Johnny Rogan ends his days very soon in
an M3 pile-up. This paperback edition eatures a provoca-
tive preace as well as many important amendments to the
original text, previously unpublished photos and an updated
comprehensive discography.
Mostly TrueBill Daniels
From the director o the underground documentary lm WhoIs Bozo Texino?comes a rollicking rail zine o boxcar grafti
and obscure railroad nostalgia: the result o a 25-year obses-
sion with hobo and railworker olklore. Freight riding stories,
interview with hoboes and boxcar artists, historical oddities,
and tons o photos o modern day boxcar tags are all pre-
sented in the guise o a vintage rail anzine.
The New TypographyJan Tschichold
Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschicholds
The New Typography has been recognized as the denitivetreatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First
published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by
Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a oreword by Rich
Hendel, who considers current thinking about Tschicholds
lie and work.
Notes on Book DesignDerek Birdsall
In a career spanning more than orty years, Derek Birdsall has
achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This
practical and inspirational book distils a lietimes proes-
sional experience. It presents and discusses nearly ty books
he has designed, showing 360 spreads and covers, all in ull
color and to scale.
The designs range rom Penguin paperback covers in the
1960s to a recent complete redesign o The Church o Eng-
lands book o Common Worship. Among Birdsalls projects
are award-winning art catalogues, catalogues raisonn on
such major artists as Mark Rothko and Georgia OKeee,
and books on wine, chess, astronomy, architecture, and ne
paper. Birdsall discusses and illustrates the process o book
design, rom brie to deadline (which he calls the designers
muse). He includes specimen settings o his avorite textaces as well as an innovative metric grid system or design-
ing books. In addition, he lists books he himsel has ound
useul or inspiring. For every reader curious about the design
or production o books, this is a uniquely inormative and
instructive book.
Operating Manual or Spaceship EarthBuckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was an architect, engineer,
geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, uturist, inventor
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o the amous geodesic dome, and one o the most brilliant
thinkers o his time. Initially published in 1969, and one o
Fullers most popular works, Operating Manual for Space-
ship Earth is a brilliant synthesis o his world view. In this very
accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges
acing humanity, and the principles or avoiding extinction
and exercising our option to make it. How will humanity
survive? How does automation inuence individualization?
How can we utilize our resources more eectively to realize
our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questionsthe concept o specialization, calls or a design revolution
o innovation, and oers advice on how to guide spaceship
earth toward a sustainable uture.
Pathways to Unknown Worlds Sun-Ra El Saturnand Chicago Aro-Futurist Underground 1954-1968Anthony Elms, John Corbett, Terri Kapsalis (Eds), Glenn
Ligon, Adam Abraham, Camille Norment (Contributors)
Philosopher, Aro-uturist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (191493)
constructed much o his complicated public persona duringhis sojourn in Chicago in the mid-1950s. Working with a still-
shadowy underground raternal organization, Ra amassed
a library o books on the occult, Egyptology, race studies,
Theosophy, and religionall in service o drawing elliptical
connections between these disparate bodies o knowledge.
This work became the oundation o the personal mythology
Ra employed in the 1960s when he began ronting his Myth-
Science Arkestra and started drawing attention rom more
mainstream jazz ans.
Pathways to Unknown Worlds presents a kaleidoscopic
range o materials rom those years, including original record
cover designs and production materials, paper ephemera,
and photographs. These materialsmost previously unseen
dramatically esh out the story o Sun Ras mystical journey
o discovery and his loty goals or the dissemination o his
new knowledge; they are certain to ascinate and delight Ras
legion o ans.
A Pattern LanguageChristopher Alexander
Two hundred and ty-three archetypal patterns consisting
o problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solu-
tions provide lay persons with a ramework or engaging inarchitectural design You can use this book to design a house
or yoursel with your amily; you can use it to work with your
neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can
use it to design an ofce, or a workshop, or a public building.
The Nature o Order: An Essay on the Art oBuilding and the Nature o the Universe, Book 1 -The Phenomenon o LieChristopher Alexander
What is happening when a place in the world has lie? And
what is happening when it does not? In Book 1 o this our-
volume work, Alexander describes a scientic view o the
world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees o
lie, and sets this understanding o living structure as an intel-lectual basis or a new architecture.
He identies teen geometric properties which tend to
accompany the presence o lie in nature, and also in the
buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over
and over in nature, and in cities and streets o the past, but
have all but disappeared in the deadly developments and
buildings o the last one hundred years.
The Secret Sense o Japanese Magazine DesignYasushi Fujimoto
Featuring the various outstanding graphic designs andart directors, this book presents the basis o the modern
Japanese magazine design today.
ShelterLloyd Kahn, Bob Easton, eds.
Shelteris many things - a visually dynamic, oversized com-
pendium o organic architecture past and present; a how-to
book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth
Catalog-type sourcebook or living in harmony with the earth
by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973,
Shelter remains a source o inspiration and invention. Includ-
ing the nuts-and-bolts aspects o building, the book covers
such topics as dwellings rom Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents
to Togos tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters rom tipis
to housecars; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even
treehouses.
The authors recount personal stories about alternative
dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems as-
sociated with using materials ound in the environment - with
ascinating, oten surprising results.
In the Sweet Bye & ByeMargaret Killgalen
This is the catalogue accompanying the show at
REDCAT, designed by Michael Worthington and Jon Sueda
documenting and contextualizing the hundreds o works the
artist produced during Margaret Killgalens prolic career.
The catalogue includes essays by Gallery at REDCAT Director
& Curator Eungie Joo and Pennsylvania Academy o Fine Art
Curator Alex Baker as well as excerpts rom an interview with
the artist by Susan Sollins, Executive Producer and Curator
oArt: 21.
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A Thousand PlateausDeleuze and Guattari
A Thousand Plateaus is part o Deleuze and Guattaris
landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and
Schizophrenia a project that still sets the terms o
contemporary philosophical debate.A Thousand Plateaus
provides a compelling analysis o social phenomena and
oers resh alternatives or thinking about philosophy
and culture. Its radical perspective provides a toolbox ornomadic thought and has had a galvanizing inuence on
todays anti-capitalist movement.
Transportation planning - Bus rapid transit,Congestion pricing, Utility cycling, Segregatedcycle acilities, Transportation in New York City
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of
articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Pages: 176. Chapters: Bus rapid transit, Congestion pricing,
Segregated cycle acilities, Utility cycling, Transportation in
New York City, Public transport, Land use orecasting, Roadpricing, Trafc in Towns, Colorado T-REX Project, San Fran-
cisco congestion pricing, New York congestion pricing, Eco-
pass, Street hierarchy, Accessibility, Trip distribution, Shared
space, Greater Manchester congestion charge, Mode choice,
Southern Caliornia Association o Governments, Route as-
signment, Metropolitan planning organization, Transportation
orecasting, HUD reports, Public transport timetable, Tran-
sims, Trafc calming, Induced demand, Bus lane, Preerential
bidding system, Institute or Transportation and Develop-
ment Policy, Transportation demand management, Bus Rapid
Transit in Brazil, Speed bump, Context Sensitive Solutions,
On-time perormance, Wendell Cox, Mass transit in the
United States, Overspill parking, Bicycle boulevard, Complete
streets, Clock-ace scheduling, Trip generation, 3D Express
Coach, Congestion control, Access management, Alan Voor-
hees, Road diet, Rational planning model, Speed hump, Crew
scheduling, Freightgate, Modal share, 2005 Chesapeake Bay
crossing study, Public Transport Accessibility Level, Transpor-
tation geography, Seating capacity, Short turn, Megaprojects
and Risk, Travel survey, Annual average daily trafc, Travel
behavior, Bus bunching, Living street, National Gateway, Time
use research, Aimsun Online, Travel plan, Metropolitan Travel
Survey Archive, Transit mall, Wooner, Heartland Corridor,
Local transport plan, Transportation Economic Development
Impact System, Desire path, GEH, Sustainable eet manage-ment, Right-in/right-out, Crescent Corridor, Speed table,
Speed cushion, Slowth, Chicane, TSS - Transport Simulation
Systems, Layover, Sump buster, Trafc count, Winnipeg Area
Transportation Study
The Unknown Cratsman: A Japanese Insightinto BeautySoetsu Yanagi
This book challenges the conventional ideas o art and
beauty. What is the value o things made by an anonymous
cratsman working in a set tradition or a lietime? What is
the value o handwork? Why should even the roughly lac-
quered rice bowl o a Japanese armer be thought beautiul?
The late Soetsu Yanagi was the rst to ully explore the tradi-tional Japanese appreciation or objects born, not made.
Mr. Yanagi sees olk art as a maniestation o the essential
world rom which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in
which the barriers between them disappear. The implications
o the authors ideas are both ar-reaching and practical.
The authors proound view o the creative process and his
plea or a new artistic reedom within tradition are especially
timely now when the importance o crat and the handmade
object is being rediscovered.
O Walking in IceWerner Herzog
In the winter o 1974, lmmaker Werner Herzog made a three
week solo journey rom Munich to Paris on oot. He believed
it was the only way his close riend, lm historian Lotte
Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken
her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly
endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and
elt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche
o rants about the extreme cold and utter loneliness, notes on
Herzogs lms and travels, poetic descriptions o the snowy
countryside, and personal philosophizing. What is most
remarkable is that the reading o the book is in continuity
with the experience o watching his lms; its as i, through
this walk, we witness the process in which images are born.
Although he received a literary award or it, this introspective
masterpiece has lingered out o print since 1979. Beautiully
designed and emotionally impressive, Of Walking in Ice is the
rst in a color-coded series o remarkable yet long-orgotten
titles being republished by Free Association.
War and Peace in the Global VillageMarshall Mcluhan
War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage o imagesand text that sharply illustrates the eects o electronic me-
dia and new technology on man.
Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and
ollowing its publication predicted that the orthcoming
inormation age would be a transitional era o proound
pain and tragic identity quest. Marshall McLuhan illustrates
the act that all social changes are caused by introduction o
new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as
extensions or sel-amputations o our own being, because
technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhans ideas and ob-
servations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable
to the world in which we live.
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Ways o SeeingJohn Berger
Seeing comes beore words. The child looks and recognizes
beore it can speak. But there is also another sense in which
seeing comes beore words. It is seeing which establishes our
place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with
words, but word can never undo the act that we are sur-
rounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we
know is never settled.John Bergers Ways of Seeing is one o the most stimulat-
ing and the most inuential books on art in any language. First
published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series
about which the London Sunday Times critic commented:
This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concen-
trating on how we look at paintingshe will almost certainly
change the way you look at pictures. By now he has.
What Is a Designer: Things, Places, MessagesNorman Potter
Combining a wide-ranging discussion o the major issues odesign with detailed and practical inormation, Norman Potter
looks at the possibilities and limits o design, considers the
designer as artisan and as artist, and asks: What is good de-
sign? What is a Designerprompts its readers to think and act
or themselves. The work adds up to a powerul and endlessly
rewarding resource or students o all ages. First published in
1969, the book is now reissued to present the enduring core
o Potters arguments. An aterword by Robin Kinross sets the
work andits author in their contexts.
Whole Earth CatalogStewart Brand
The WHOLE EARTH CATALOG was published regularly rom
1968 to 1972, but only intermittently thereater. During its our
years o regular publication, the Catalog earned a reputation, a
ollowing, and a National Book Award, the only time a catalog
has been so honored.
Standing with one oot rmly in the rugged individualism
and back-to-the-land movements o the Sixties counterculture
and the other in the nascent global community made possible
by the Internet, the Whole Earth Catalog oered an integrated,
complex, challenging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive
worldview.Founder Stewart Brand, in his 1968 article, We are as gods
said, At a time when the New Let was calling or grass-roots
political power, Whole Earth eschewed politics and pushed
grassroots direct powertools and skills. At a time when
New Age hippies were deploring the intellectual world o arid
abstractions, Whole Earth pushed science, intellectual endeav-
or, and new technology as well as old. As a result, when the
most empowering tool o the century came alongpersonal
computers (resisted by the New Let and despised by the New
Age)Whole Earth was in the thick o the development rom
the beginning.
WorkingStuds Turkel
Studs Terkel records the voices o America. Men and women
rom every walk o lie talk to him, telling him o their likes and
dislikes, ears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once
again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is
as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartelt as the
meaning o our lives.
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