 | Give the Anarchist a Cigarette by Mick Farren
Buy used from: £11.99 Mick Farren Deviants singers autobiography great history of the late 60s/early 70s London music underground
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 | Simplicissimus (European Classics) by Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen
Buy used from: £25.00 Hilarious satire-novel of a Thirty Years war maverick. Written at the time.
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 | The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu
Buy new: £11.60 / Used from: £0.01 bit of classic Chinese Philosophy. How to manage affairs.
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 | Stop Thinking, Start Living: Discover Lifelong Happiness by Richard Carlson
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.30 Cos life's too short to worry unduly. Read this yesterday, feel better already
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 | Anatomy Of A War: Vietnam, the United States and the Modern Historical Experience by G. Kolko
Buy used from: £10.97 Great thorough history of Vietnam. From the early years of the 20th century through US leaving
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 | A New Voyage Round the World: The Journal of an English Buccaneer by William Dampier
Buy used from: £14.95 Dampier's 17th century travel journal. The book that Gullivers tRavels and Robinson Crusoe were both heavily influenced by. other versions are in print.
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 | From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-punk History for the Post-punk World by Clinton Heylin
Buy used from: £5.00 The US pre-punk alternative scene. This is now going for absurd prices, bout time for a reprint innit?
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 | Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.54 Chaos of a different kind. This is the history of the mathematical theories. starts with a geezer living by a 26 hour clock. lumme
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 | The McDonaldization of Society: New Century Edition by George Ritzer
Buy used from: £1.21 And this is order? the gradual erosion of choice comes in aluring flavours
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 | Taliban: The Story of Afghan Warlords by Ahmed Rashid
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Disorder replaced by rigid/wrong order. Rashid's history of the Afghan religious(?) group. Pretty fast read but insightful.
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 | Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) by Ludovico Ariosto
Buy used from: £4.50 New prose translation of the 16th century satirical poem. Pretty funny really.
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 | Are You Ready for the Country by Peter Doggett
Buy used from: £6.59 Doggett's history of country into rock. Made me run out and buy half the records talked about
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 | Who on Earth Is Tom Baker? by Tom Baker
Buy used from: £13.29 autobiography of the best DR Who. Dashed funny, very inventive writing.
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 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.39 beginnings of comparative mythology. also the book that triggered Lucas's Star Wars
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 | The American West: A New Interpretive History by RV Hine
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £14.86 history of the west from the beginnings. traces through from pre Colombian times
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 | And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Buy used from: £5.25 Finally read this after being shown it by the author back when it was a film script
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 | Language by Bloomfield
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £19.95 Leonard Bloomfield's classic tome. The development of language
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 | Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-54 (The Broadway travellers) by Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Batutah
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £41.75 The Arabic (superior) equivalent of Marco Polo. Young Morrovccan geezer who travelled miost of the known world in the 14th century
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 | Tapestry of Delights: Comprehensive Guide to British Music of the Beat, R & B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras, 1963-76: Update Section to 3r.e by Vernon Joynson
Brit psych. Been sleeping with this next to the bed. Can you trip through osmosis?
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 | How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory by James Monaco
Buy used from: £2.87 Just in the middle of this. Been reading Philosophy opf Language etc so pretty interesting.
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 | Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Universe by F.David Peat
Buy used from: £0.10 Well known physicist steps out of the western episteme. Compares it to the native american one. interesting.
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 | Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.70 Post apocalyptic fable. bit of a detective story as you have to work through the text to find out what's going on. Riddley finds the ansa.
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 | The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.98 Getting this on Thursday, meant to read it for ages. Read one of the trilogy several years back. All your favourite conspiracy theories looked melded into the plot.
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 | The Seas of Language by Michael Dummett
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £43.47 Philosophy omnibus of Dummett's work in metaphysics and language
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 | Cahiers Du Cinema: 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave v. 1 (Harvard Film Studies) by J Hillier
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £12.97 French film stuff, been interested in reading this stuff for years. Just found out it was readily available.Now I'm an expert of course.
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