New #paperback collection of full-color #photos taken at #SDCC of real female #cosplayers, with #interviews and a few fold out images. Inspiring, with full representation that proves cosplay is for everyone. From a smoke-free home. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Photographs of costumed women at the San Diego Comic-Con International in 2007.

Wonder Women of America

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense

This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defence, exploring how it has been used by marginalised and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a 'how-to' manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defence efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation.

Setting Sights

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#paperback #nonfiction #humor #celebrity #interviews #funny #essays #juddapatow 

Utah

Conversations about Life and Comedy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB • Includes new interviews! From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years—including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Harold Ramis, Seth Rogen, Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham. Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club—just so he could watch endless stand-up for free. At sixteen, he was hosting a show for his local high school radio station in Syosset, Long Island—a show that consisted of Q&As with his comedy heroes, from Garry Shandling to Jerry Seinfeld. They talked about their careers, the science of a good joke, and their dreams of future glory (turns out, Shandling was interested in having his own TV show one day and Steve Allen had already invented everything). Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd—and he’s still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do. Sick in the Head gathers Apatow’s most memorable and revealing conversations into one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career but his entire adult life. Here are the comedy legends who inspired and shaped him, from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. Here are the contemporaries he grew up with in Hollywood, from Spike Jonze to Sarah Silverman. And here, finally, are the brightest stars in comedy today, many of whom Apatow has been fortunate to work with, from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer. And along the way, something kind of magical happens: What started as a lifetime’s worth of conversations about comedy becomes something else entirely. It becomes an exploration of creativity, ambition, neediness, generosity, spirituality, and the joy that comes from making people laugh. Loaded with the kind of back-of-the-club stories that comics tell one another when no one else is watching, this fascinating, personal (and borderline-obsessive) book is Judd Apatow’s gift to comedy nerds everywhere. Praise for Sick in the Head “I can’t stop reading it. . . . I don’t want this book to end.”—Jimmy Fallon “An essential for any comedy geek.”—Entertainment Weekly “Fascinating . . . a collection of interviews with many of the great figures of comedy in the latter half of the twentieth century.”—The Washington Post “Open this book anywhere, and you’re bound to find some interesting nugget from someone who has had you in stitches many, many times.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “An amazing read, full of insights and connections both creative and interpersonal.”—The New Yorker “Fascinating and revelatory.”—Chicago Tribune “Anyone even remotely interested in comedy or humanity should own this book.”—Will Ferrell

Sick in the Head

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#business #interviews #honesty #confidence #relaxation #silenceandpower #sex #decisions #anthonymedley #1978 

California

The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed

Describes the methods whereby both the interviewer and interviewee can improve thier techniques.

Sweaty Palms

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#paperback #humor #nonfiction #juddapatow #interviews #entertainment 

Texas

#paperback #socialchange #society #interviews #capitalism

On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change

This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by theNew York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive."

In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted forTruthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses his views on the "war on terror" and the rise of neoliberalism, the refugee crisis and cracks in the European Union, prospects for a just peace in Israel/Palestine, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the dysfunctional US electoral system, the grave danger posed to humanity by the climate crisis, and the hopes, prospects, and challenges of building a movement for radical change.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. He is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages worldwide.

C. J. Polychroniou is a regular contributor toTruthout as well as a member ofTruthout's Public Intellectual Project. He has published several books and his articles have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and popular news websites.

Optimism over Despair

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#music #woodstock #musichistory #history #biography #1960s #interviews #culture #rocknroll #paperback 

Alabama

Interviews with a fascinating cross-section of attendees-from audience members and musicians to doctors and electricians-at the world's most famous rock concert.

Woodstock The Oral History

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#paperback #autographed #gay #adult #stars #interviews #1990s

Interviews with Gay Adult Stars

Twenty of the baddest boys in gay porn open up like never before. Interviewed by porn legend Mickey Skee, they are candid, controversial, and absolutely captivating. This, the second volume of a popular title, Bad Boys of Video 2 is a no-holds-barred look at the lives, loves, and fantasies of the hardest-working hunks in gay porn. Accompanied by gorgeous nude photos of all the stars, this book will keep readers up all night.

Bad Boys of Video

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#paperback #nonfiction #philosophy #politics #theory #noamchomsky #chonsky #politicalscience #essays #interviews 


Arizona

Why Ideas Matter

At its core, this exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade or more previous is about the simple concept that ideas matter. And not only that ideas matter. But that ideas in this case, through the lens of two engaged intellectuals mutate, inform, inspire, and ultimately provide more fuel for thought, the actions that follow such thought, and for carrying on, and doing the work.

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime

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#paperback #gay #pornstar #interviews #erotica #signed

Interviews with Gay Porn Stars

Bad Boys of Video 3

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#paperback #history #interview #casino #gambling #harrahs #nevada #reno #interviews #rarebooks

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

Bill Harrah and His Clubs Remembered

Every Light Was On

Dialogues on the Spirit Molecule with Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Jeffrey Kripal, Whitley Strieber, Angela Voss, and Others

* Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke

* Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality

Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, and may be released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title "the spirit molecule." When taken as a psychedelic, either via ayahuasca or in pure form, DMT is experientially considered to be one of the strongest and strangest of all entheogens. The majority of high-dose users report visions of unknown yet curiously familiar alien worlds and encounters with sentient nonhuman presences.

At a four-day symposium at Tyringham Hall in England in 2017, twenty of the world's psychedelic luminaries gathered to discuss entheogenic entity encounters, consciousness expansion, visionary experiences, and the future of research in this field. Contributors to the talks and discussions include many leading thinkers, including the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Je rey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke.

This book distills the potent exchange of ideas that occurred at Tyringham Hall, including discussions about DMT beings, encounter experiences, alien abduction, plant sentience, the shamanic use of ayahuasca, neuroscientifi c DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality.

Ruth Wiggins; Russell Waterman

Wonder Women of America

scott crow (Editor); Ward Churchill (Foreword by)

Setting Sights

Judd Apatow

Sick in the Head

H. Anthony Medley; H. Anthony Medley

Sweaty Palms

Judd Apatow

Sick in the Head

Noam Chomsky; C. J. Polychroniou

Optimism over Despair

Joel Makower

Woodstock The Oral History

Mickey Skee

Bad Boys of Video

James Kelman; Noam Chomsky

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime

Mickey Skee

Bad Boys of Video 3

R.T. King, Mary Larson, Dwayne Kling

Every Light Was On

David Luke (Editor); Rory Spowers (Editor); Anton Bilton (Introduction by)

DMT Entity Encounters