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Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen – $285

  George Oppen, a crucial figure in the founding of the Objectivist poetry movement, is considered by many critics and poets to be one of the foremost innovators of 20th-century American poetry....

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Oishinbo: à la Carte, Vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine – $285

  Follow journalist Yamaoka Shiro on a rich cullinary adventure as he hunts for the “ultimate menu”. To commemorate its 100th anniversary the heads of newspaper Tozai Shimbun come up with a plan to...

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You Are Here – $275

  In a New York City where time is chopped up like salad and people finish each others’ sentences, a dozen characters have love affairs and take parts in a one-act play in the summer of 2001, and the...

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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking – $695

Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits...

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“What Is an Apparatus?” and Other Essays – $295

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben’s recent work through an investigation of Foucault’s notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of...

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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others – $255

  The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include...

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Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) [Deluxe Edition] – $285

  She’s back to wreck her own unique brand of havoc! From the depths of the outback she charges, astride her fabulous tank! Run for the Hills! It’s… Tank Girl! Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling,...

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Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits – $285

  In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the...

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David Malin, Ancient Light: A Portrait of the Universe – $675

  This book brings together the finest collection available of star clusters, galaxies, nebulae and other such spectacular phenomena caught on film. Each beautiful image, made from a series of delicate...

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Michael Jackson: A Life in Pictures - $475

A fitting tribute to the undisputed “King of Pop,” this lavishly illustrated book takes us on a visual tour of Michael Jackson’s colorful, highly publicized, sometimes controversial, but exceptionally...

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The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its...

A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author. One of the world ‘s best-known linguists and cognitive scientists, George...

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Collected Poems and Other Verse - $295

Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery,...

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Dan Graham: Rock/Music Writings – $295

  As admired for his writing as for his work in art, photography and architecture, Dan Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for...

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The Environmental Responsibility Reader – $475

This book is for anyone involved with managing environmental decisions making. The book promotes innovative ways of understanding and taking responsibility for actions in the context of our ‘natural’...

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EcoMasterplanning - $995

In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it is vital that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of all human interventions in the natural environment. Finding green design...

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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer - $425

In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his...

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The Gone-Away World – $295

A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. Gonzo Lubitch and his...

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Letters of Ted Hughes - $295

  At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as ‘excellent training for conversation with the world’, and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and...

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Asterios Polyp – $445

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and...

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Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms -$275

  Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms‘...

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