Chi and Creativity
Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist
Written by Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching
Price: $24.95
Blue Snake Books
Most people tend to idealize artists, writers, and others of the “creative class” as uniquely gifted. But the capacity to create is part of being human–whether that means writing, making art, cooking, gardening, sewing, dancing, acting, singing, or virtually any activity. In Chi and Creativity, Kaleo Ching and Elise Dirlam Ching...
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Inspired Madness
The Gifts of Burning Man
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
In part a nonfiction discussion of the Burning Man festival, in part a poetic romp through Nevada’s Black Rock desert, Inspired Madness is both an irreverent introduction for those curious about the notorious event and an exhilarating reminiscence for veteran "burners." Loosely structured around a week at Burning Man, the book...
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Damanhur
Temples of Humankind
Text by Esperide Ananas, Photographed by Roberto Benzi, Foreword by Alex Grey
Price: $50.00
North Atlantic Books
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
North Atlantic Books
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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Cook Until Desired Tenderness
Written by Cleo Papanikolas
Price: $19.95
Frog Books
Food, Love, Desire ... and More Food.
An intimate, beautifully illustrated peek into the fictional journal and sketchbook of a culinary artist.
Cook Until Desired Tenderness is an enchanting journey of reminiscences, drawings, and morsels of prose in which food is a love story, and love is a food story. Filled with vivid...
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Spiritual Tattoo
A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
Written by John Rush
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
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 Weise, Photographed by Kiran Singh
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
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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The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks
Written by Perditus Pedale, Edited by Harry Robins
Price: $9.95
Frog Books
Is there anything more mysterious—and frustrating—than the disappearance of a sock? Investigating this common phenomenon from a quasi-scientific perspective, Dr. Perditus Pedale postulates a number of explanations, with many theoretical, historical, and contemporary asides. Though written in jest, the book addresses a conundrum that genuinely puzzles many. Included are interviews with...
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Brando Rides Alone
Written by Barry Gifford
Price: $10.95
North Atlantic Books
Part critique, part witty polemic, this revisiting of one of the 1960s' most tortured and misunderstood productions finds a flawed masterpiece that survived multiple writers (including Stanley Kubrick), an egomaniacal star with no previous directing experience, and a virulent critical reaction to become, in retrospect, a crucial rethinking of the Western...
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
An Account in Words and Pictures
Written by Phoebe Gloeckner
Price: $22.95
Frog Books
So begins the wrenching diary of Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old girl longing for love and acceptance and struggling with her own precocious sexuality. Minnie hates school and she wants to be an artist, or maybe a speleologist, or a bartender. She sleeps with her mother's boyfriend, and yet is too shy...
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Ayahuasca Visions
The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Written by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Luna
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
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
North Atlantic Books
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 Printer's Catch
An Artist's Guide to Pacific Coast Edible Marine Animals
Written by Christopher Dewees
Price: $22.50
Frog Books
This classic book on the Japanese art of fish printing known as Gyotaku gives information on 32 of the most commercially important fish and shellfish families. There is at least one full-page Gyotaku fish print for each family. It also includes background on fish structure, biology, ecology, and commercial fishing for...
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The Knowing Body
The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance
Written by Louise Steinman
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
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
North Atlantic Books
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
North Atlantic Books
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
North Atlantic Books
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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Jonah Who Will Be Twenty-Five in the Year 2000
Written by John Berger and Alain Tanner, Translated by Michael Palmer
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
The screenplay for the 1976 Best Screenplay winner from the National Society of Film Critics. As a metaphor for the changing political climate in Europe in the late 60's, "Jonah..." is a story of a former political activist and his contemporaries learning to live with the materialism of their age. Max's...
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Quonset Huts on the River Styx
The Bomb Shelter Design Book
Written by ADPSR
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
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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Ayahuasca Visions
The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Written by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Luna
Price: $60.00
North Atlantic Books
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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Talking Feet
Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
Written by Pete Seeger
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
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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