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Passing The Flame

Naomi Epel

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Tool Kit for Writers

"Offers inspiration and practical advice from today's greatest writers ... secrets to approaching work with renewed creativity --Container.

Observation Deck

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Ysolda

A Collection of Twelve Sweater Patterns, Stories, and More

Ysolda and Friends Celebrate Sheep and Wool with the Rhinebeck Sweater

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Jan Eaton

Crochet Squares to Mix and Match

From Art Deco-inspired geometric designs to traditional checkerboard stripes and elaborate motifs, this guide helps crafters rediscover crochet with more than 200 fabulous block patterns. Employing traditional styles and contemporary colors, crocheted blocks inspire crafters to create a dynamic palette of color, pattern, and texture by mixing, matching, and combining. Step-by-step instructions accompany each pattern, along with stunning photographs that encourage crocheters to explore a range of color combinations and coordinates. A directory of blocks is cross-referenced with symbols that describe the techniques used and the degree of difficulty, and each pattern is designed so that finished blocks are the same size when they are worked in yarn of the same weight. A useful refresher course of crochet stitches and techniques is included, as are patterns for edgings and instructions on making fringes to finish off afghans in style.

200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets, Throws, and Afghans

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Graham Hancock

The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

A search for evidence of a prehistoric, advanced civilization speculates about an Atlantis-like world buried beneath Antarctic ice and makes predictions about forthcoming geological disasters. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Fingerprints of the Gods

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Steven Church

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

My Atomic Angst

Steven Church grew up in the 1970s and ’80s in Lawrence, Kansas, a town whose predictable daily rhythms give way easily to anxiety—and a place that, since Civil War times, has been a canvas for sporadic scenes of havoc and violence in the popular imagination. Childhood was quiet on the surface, but Steven grew up scared—scared of killer tornadoes, winged monkeys, violent movies, authority figures, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, and most of all in Reagan’s America, nuclear war. His fantasies of nuclear meltdown, genetic mutation, and post-apocalyptic survival find a focal point in 1982 when filming begins in Lawrence for The Day After, a film which would go on to become the second-highest Nielsen-rated TV movie. Despite cheesy special effects, melodramatic plotlines, and the presence of Steve Guttenberg, the movie had an instant and lasting impact on Church, and an entire generation. Combining interview, personal essay, film criticism, fact, and flights of imagination, Church’s richly layered and darkly comic memoir explores the meaning of Cold War fears for his generation and their resonance today.

The Day after the Day After

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Gregory L. Blackstock

Darold A. Treffert

Karen Light-Pina

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Drawings of an Artistic Savant

Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings, vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do with all the data? Gregory L. Blackstock, a retired Seattle pot washer, draws order out of all the chaos with a pencil, a black marker, and some crayons. Blackstock is autistic and an artistic savant. He creates visual lists of everything from wasps to hats to emergency vehicles to noisemakers. In the spirit of the Outsider art of Henry Darger and Howard Finster, Blackstock makes art that is stirring in its profusion and detail and inspiring in its simple beauty. He has never received formal artistic training, yet his renderings clearly and beguilingly show subtle differences and similaritiesenabling the viewer to see, for example, the distinctive features of a dolly varden, a Pacific Coast steelhead cutthroat, and fourteen other types of trout. Each collection is lovingly captioned in Blackstock's unique hand with texts that reflect facts from his research as well as his passions and preferences. Blackstock's Collections contains over 100 extraordinary examples of his splendidly original taxonomy, offering a unique look inside the mind of a man making sense of life through art. Monsters of the Deep Major Forestry Pests The Great Cabbage Family The Spatulas The World War II U.S. Bombers The Buoys King Sized Jails Monsters of the Past Classical Clowns Great Italian Roosters Our State Lighthouses The Irish Joys

Blackstock's Collections

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Jeffrey Weeks

Meaning, Myths and Modern Sexualities

Sexuality and Its Discontents

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Stephen Skinner

Deciphering the Code

A fascinating and inspirational look at the vital link between the hidden geometrical order of the universe, geometry in nature, and the geometry of the man-made world. The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined. Sacred Geometry offers an accessible way of understanding how that connection is revealed in nature and the arts. Over the centuries, temple builders have relied on magic numbers to shape sacred spaces, astronomers have used geometry to calculate holy seasons, and philosophers have observed the harmony of the universe in the numerical properties of music. By showing how the discoveries of mathematics are manifested over and over again in biology and physics, and how they have inspired the greatest works of art, this illuminating study reveals the universal principles that link us to the infinite.

Sacred Geometry

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Ariel Gore

A Memoir

At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she's always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But life's happy endings don't always last. If it's not one thing, after all, it's your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And she's here to announce that she's dying. ?Pitifully, Ariel,” she sighs. ?You're all I have.” Ariel doesn't want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. It's the right thing to do, isn't it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? ?Don't worry,” Eve says. ?If I'm ever a burden, I'll just blow my brains out.” Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, Ariel's own ten-year relationship begins to unravel. Darkly humorous and intimately human, The End of Eve redefines the meaning of family and everything we've ever been taught to call ?love.”

The End of Eve

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Angela Y. Davis

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.

Women, Race and Class

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Angela Davis

An Autobiography

The political activist reflects upon the people and incidents that have influenced her life and commitment to global liberation of the oppressed.

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Mark Ovenden

"Transit Maps of the World" was an unexpected success and is now a cult favorite. In his irresistible follow-up, Ovenden has produced a mesmerizing compendium of historical and contemporary railway maps and posters from around the world.

Railway Maps of the World

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Robert Lawlor

Math

Philosophy and Practice

The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and the form of both man-made and natural structures, from Gothic cathedrals to flowers, from music to the human body.

By also involving the reader in practical experiments, he leads with ease from simple principles to a grasp of the logarithmic spiral, the Golden Proportion, the squaring of the circle and other ubiquitous ratios and proportions.

This book is part of the Art and Imagination series, gloriously illustrated paperbacks which cover Eastern and Western religion and philosophy, including myth and magic, alchemy and astrology. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking and accessible writing to each intriguing subject.

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John C. Armor

Ansel Adams

Photographs of the western national parks complemented by a history of the defunct Mural Project.

The Mural Project

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Paul Harris

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Harris, creator of the black rage defense, traces its origin. Emphasizing that the black rage defense must be enlisted responsibly and selectively, he skillfully distinguishes between applying an environmental defense and simply blaming society in the abstract for individual crimes. He also addresses the possibilities of a white rage defense and the more recent phenomenon of cultural defenses. He illustrates how a person's environment can and does affect his or her life and actions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Black Rage Confronts the Law

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Scarlot Harlot

The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot

Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist and artist, is a brazen, brainy hooker. Since the late seventies, Scarlot Harlot (a.k.a. Carol Leigh) has written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues and on her experiences in the sex industry. Book jacket.

Unrepentant Whore

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Margo St. James

The International Movement for Prostitutes' Rights

Brings together the complaints, opinions, and experiences of prostitutes throughout the world in an effort to speak out for the rights of prostitutes.

Vindication Rights of Whor

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Ann Snitow

The Politics of Sexuality 

This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues-abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights-but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the struggle for sexual freedom a complement to other struggles for liberation, or will it detract from them? Has the sexual revolution diminished or enriched the lives of women?

Powers of Desire

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Walter Kaufmann

With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic. Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published. Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.

The Gay Science

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Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Features: Detailed easy-to-follow format and photographs to help homeowners to learn wiring techniques and electrical safety; Includes projects to rewire lamps, install switched fans, add circuits, repair cords, install security systems and more; No-nonsense resource outlines practical advice, code requirements, and product recommendation for replacement and new installation.

Wiring Step-by-Step

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Louise Mehaffey

Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft

Step-by-step color photos teach basic techniques for 22 projects making beads of all shapes and sizes.

Glass Beads

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Ben Kissel

Marcus Parks

Henry Zebrowski

Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history's most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left

The Last Book on the Left

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Fashion sewing as an art form can be compared, in some ways, to the classic art of sculpture. Sewing demands the same involvement with a medium-touching, appraising and working with fabric that will be molded and shaped into a three-dimensional design. This is an all encompassing how-to-guide focusing solely on fashion sewing aimed at allowing you to create clothes you can wear and sell.

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The Vogue Sewing Book

Carol Ford

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Passing The Flame

Naomi Epel

Observation Deck

Ysolda

Ysolda and Friends Celebrate Sheep and Wool with the Rhinebeck Sweater

Jan Eaton

200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets, Throws, and Afghans

Graham Hancock

Fingerprints of the Gods

Steven Church

The Day after the Day After

Gregory L. Blackstock; Darold A. Treffert; Karen Light-Pina

Blackstock's Collections

Jeffrey Weeks

Sexuality and Its Discontents

Stephen Skinner

Sacred Geometry

Ariel Gore

The End of Eve

Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race and Class

Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Mark Ovenden

Railway Maps of the World

Robert Lawlor

Sacred Geometry

John C. Armor; Ansel Adams

The Mural Project

Paul Harris

Black Rage Confronts the Law

Scarlot Harlot

Unrepentant Whore

Margo St. James

Vindication Rights of Whor

Ann Snitow

Powers of Desire

Friedrich Nietzsche; Walter Kaufmann

The Gay Science

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Wiring Step-by-Step

Louise Mehaffey

Glass Beads

Ben Kissel; Marcus Parks; Henry Zebrowski

The Last Book on the Left

Editors of Vogue

The Vogue Sewing Book

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