Green Design
Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Marcus Fairs
Price: $25.00
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In this timely book, author Marcus Fairs helps readers understand the shift of green design from marginal to mainstream by featuring products and buildings that address immediate concerns about global warming and environmental degradation. Through vast architectural projects to modest one-off pieces of salvaged furniture, the book shows how the design...
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Wild Design
Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
Written by Alan Marshall
Price: $18.95
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In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of...
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The 27s
The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll
Written by Eric Segalstad, Illustrated by Josh Hunter
Price: $27.00
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Excess and tragedy are the stuff of music legend, but it is only with hindsight that deeper patterns emerge. None of these is more striking than the deaths at age 27 of some of the greatest musicians of our time.
Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Brian Jones. Kurt Cobain. Founding bluesman...
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Migraine Art
The Migraine Experience from Within
Written by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson, Foreword by Oliver Sacks M.D.
Price: $35.00
Hardcover
Migraine Art includes more than 300 powerful illustrations and paintings created by migraine sufferers from around the world. It provides a thoroughly unique window into the subjective world of the migraine sufferer. The idea of collecting migraine art started with a number of public competitions in the 1980s, which encouraged artists...
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Art Psalms
Written by Alex Grey
Price: $24.95
Hardcover
The power of art as a transformative path is the theme of this inspiring collection from internationally known artist Alex Grey. Art Psalms combines poems, artwork, and "mystic rants" that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. Grey’s oracular poetry declares that art, both its creation and its observation, can be a spiritual...
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The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch
Written by Kurt Falk
Price: $29.95
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The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, The Last Judgment, found by...
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Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawaii
Written by Sid Campbell
Price: $39.95
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Until recently, the cultural lore of the ancient warriors of Hawaii was considered lost. This absorbing history documents the complex customs and military traditions of the ancient koa warriors, and the deadly tools they used in battles among the rival chieftains and kings. The warriors employed a wide array of deceptively...
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Damanhur
Temples of Humankind
Text by Esperide Ananas, Photographed by Roberto Benzi, Foreword by Alex Grey
Price: $50.00
Hardcover
Nearly three decades ago, Italian spiritual leader Oberto Airaudi had a vision of sacred temples built inside a mountain near Turin. As artists, artisans, and builders excavated the equivalent of a five-story subterranean building, it remained a secret from even its closest neighbors. Twenty years after the project began, the Italian...
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Axial Stones
An Art of Precarious Balance
Written by George Quasha, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff
Price: $30.00
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George Quasha’s extraordinary sculptures unite natural stones in a state of breathtakingly improbable balance. The stones are not altered physically or bonded in any way; rather, Quasha discovers an unknown axis that brings them into radical alignment. The stones "learn" this state of levity in contrast to their ordinary state of...
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Spiritual Tattoo
A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
Written by John Rush
Price: $18.95
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Say "body modifications" and most people think of tattoos and piercings. They associate these mainly with the urban primitives of the 1980s to today and with primitive tribes. In fact, as this fascinating book shows, body mods have been on the scene since ancient times, traceable as far back as 1.5...
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Berkeley
The Life and Spirit of a Remarkable Town
Commentaries by Ellen Weis, Photographed by Kiran Singh
Price: $16.95
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Berkeley is as much a concept as a city, resonating powerfully with those on all sides of the political spectrum. But insiders know it as one of the most exciting cities in the country, where eclectic neighborhoods, a sparkling waterfront, and world-class festivals coexist happily with radicals, hippies, and political correctness...
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Ayahuasca Visions
The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Written by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Luna
Price: $35.00
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The mythologies and cosmology of Amazonian shamanism materialize in fantastic color and style in this unique, large-format volume, representing the fruit of several years of collaboration between a Peruvian folk artist/shaman and a Colombian anthropologist/filmmaker.
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Graffito
Written by Michael Walsh
Price: $27.50
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The graffiti phenomenon taking place in urban America has erupted into a full scale war. The main weapons: aerosol spray paint versus hundreds of taxpayer-funded abatements programs. To the graffiti writer, graffiti is a secret language, an empowering form of self-expression, a screaming voice against an unjust, alienating society. To the...
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The Knowing Body
The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance
Written by Louise Steinman
Price: $20.00
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Steinman's book really stands alone among performance art books. While there are many that document what particular artists are doing, this one offers a way in for a person who wants to perform (or know more about how performance artists work). Must reading for anyone interested in performance art, it will...
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Action Theater
The Improvisation of Presence
Written by Ruth Zaporah
Price: $29.95
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Each chapter of this book presents a single day of the twenty-day training which Ruth Zaporah developed into Action Theater, her investigation into the life-reflecting process of improvisation. This book shows through exercises, stories, anecdotes, and metaphors how to focus attention on the body's awareness of the present moment, moving away...
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Oakland Rhapsody
The Secret Soul of an American Downtown
Written by Richard Nagler, Introduction by Ishmael Reed
Price: $35.00
Hardcover
Oakland Rhapsody unites the talents of Richard Nagler, an award-winning photographer, and Ishmael Reed, a respected American novelist, essayist, and poet. Through photography and prose, they focus on Downtown Oakland and create a compelling visual and literary portrait of a major American city as it nears the turn of the century.
Downtown...
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Oakland Rhapsody
The Secret Soul of an American Downtown
Written by Richard Nagler, Introduction by Ishmael Reed
Price: $22.95
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Oakland Rhapsody units the talents of Richard Nagler, an award-winning photographer, and Ishmael Reed, a respected American novelist, essayist, and poet. Through photography and prose, they focus on Downtown Oakland and create a compelling visual and literary portrait of a major American city as it nears the turn of the century.
Downtown...
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Quonset Huts on the River Styx
The Bomb Shelter Design Book
Written by ADPSR
Price: $12.95
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This collection of beautiful, humorous, ridiculously serious blueprints and drawings is the outcome of a national competition for a "radiation-proof emergency operation center," - a nuclear bomb shelter for government officials. The book follows the exhibit "Give Them Shelter: It's Not for Everyone," and is made up of 80 photos of...
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Talking Feet
Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
Written by Mike Seeger
Price: $12.95
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Compiled by musician/folklorist Mike Seeger and dancer Ruth Pershing, Talking Feet introduces us to dancers from the Appalachian, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Mountain regions of the South. In its various forms—flatfooting, buckdancing, hoedown, rural tap or clogging—Southern dancing involves a great deal of personal style and innovation as dancers create the...
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