Books from City Lights Books
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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
By Todd MillerThis is no drill, but it is a test, and it will be graded pass-fail"—Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet "As Todd Miller shows in this important and harrowing book, climate-driven migration is set to become ...
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Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
By Todd Millerwere Jordan. Through the U.S. government's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a “combat support agency,” Raytheon Corporation was contracted to construct a massive border surveillance system on Jordan's borders with both Syria and Iraq.
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Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
By Paul Garon, Beth GaronWallace penned “Trigger Slim Blues” about a Memphis gunman, James Goodlin, whose crimes had achieved recent notoriety. Jimmie Gordon recorded the song for Decca on June 4, 1940. Reporters for the Memphis Press-Scimitar and Delta ...
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Behind the Moon
By Madison Smartt BellShe didn't quite know what the others had brought. Marko ducked and weaved like a paparazzo, pursuing Karen with the camera's metallic eye, as Julie took a small sip from the red glowing bottle. There was no bite of vodka or ...
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Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
By Paul Garon, Beth GaronCushing, Brewer Phillips interview; Zeldin, Brewer Phillips interview. ... Further, it is possible that Phillips has conflated Minnie's appearances on WDIA and KFFA. 45. ... “She wasn't doing too good when she come to Detroit.
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The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour
By Bill MorganThe ultimate literary guide to San Francisco, packed with fabulous photos and scintillating anecdotes.
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Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City
By Bill Morgan“ Howl ” was originally dedicated to Carr , William Burroughs , Kerouac , and Neal Cassady , but Carr objected , and his name was dropped . Cassady , Carolyn . Writer , artist , and wife of Neal Cassady and intimate friend ...
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You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac
By Edie Kerouac-ParkerCollects vignettes written by Jack Kerouac's first wife remembering her marriage to the American novelist during the 1940s and their subsequent life-long friendship.
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White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
By Peter ConnersThis book wins a well deserved spot on my shelf, and belongs with anyone who wants an intimate view of the Sixties-Seventies spinning of the Great Wheel of the Dharma." —Peter Coyote, actor/author, Sleeping Where I Fall "Peter Conners has ...
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Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and Future
By Alan HirschThis is a sober, precise, and carefully argued analysis that should be read by every member of Congress—and every president."—David K. Shipler, former reporter for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize recipient "Alan Hirsch brings ...
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Paper Conspiracies
By Susan DaitchSusan Daitch. Steenbeck editing table whose teeth are designed to accommo- date only film with the standard square sprocket holes. Unless the teeth are filed down, the machine will only shred the film. Prints have to be matched to the ...
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
By John GiblerThe Mexican Treasury Secretary said in a press conference on June 15, 2010, that the forty-one banks operating in Mexico have “ten billion dollars that cannot be explained within the proper dynamics of the country's economic activity.
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No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements
By James Tracy, Hilary MooreIn Austin, Evans and Duke held leadership positions, and Laughlin described the Committee's decision-making process as “trickle down.” Evans and Duke would meet with the leadership of the Task Force and Brown Berets to discuss their ...
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Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
By Richard Wolff, David BarsamianFrom prominent economist Richard Wolff and David Barsamian, a hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of capitalism to deliver public good.
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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
By Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia... Aldo Arturo Della Maggiorra, Joseph Bolden and Charles Pitts; other POOR staff & family: David Smith, ... Mary and Willie Ratcliff, Marie Harrison, J.R. and the Bayview Newspaper for being my other family and always being there, ...
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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
By Michael ParentiHit pieces in the Washington Post and New York Times and on network television and PBS assured us that there was no evidence of CIA involvement, that Gary Webb's Mercury News series was “bad journalism,” and that Webb was irresponsibly ...
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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)
By Raymond Borde, Etienne ChaumetonLast Warning , The Univ 1929. Prod : Carl Laemlle . Dir : Paul Leni . Scr : A.A. Cohn , J.G. Hawks , R.F. Hill , T. Reed . Cast : Laura La Plante , Montagu Love , Roy D'Arcy . Laura Fox 1944. Prod : Otto Preminger .
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ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
By Sesshu Foster, Arturo Ernesto RomoI will buy a subscription [percussive clanging resounding through titanium struts, weird twanging like a Nels Cline guitar solo] ... It's really blasting ... no control of glider ... visibility lim ... [hissing of static slashed by ...
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The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
By Edgar Allan Poe"An anthology of fugitive writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with appreciations by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, J.K. Huysmans.
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Concerning the Angels
By Rafael AlbertiNo aquel que barre cielos sin defensas , luceros sin cabañas , lunas sin patria , nieves . Nieves de esas caídas de una mano , un nombre , un sueño , una frente . No aquel que a sus cabellos ató la muerte . El que yo quería .