megawords booklist

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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

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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

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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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