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    Made In California
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    Made In California

    Tells how dozens of America's best-known restaurants began in California, and how they have shaped the state and country's history and food culture<BR><li>Author is a respected member of the culinary community and speaks at...
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    Stitched & Sewn
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    Stitched & Sewn

    A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her children grew up, the trauma of her youth caught up with her, triggering a paralyzing depression. A...
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    Olive & Thyme
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    Olive & Thyme

    Bursting with fresh recipes and practical entertaining advice, this book is the ingredient every kitchen needs.Melina Davies treats everyone like family. Stop by her house and she'll whip you up a fluffy, buttery vegetable quiche with fresh greens in a...
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    Read Me, Los Angeles
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    Read Me, Los Angeles

    A colorful, lively, and informed celebration of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with current L.A. writers; day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated...
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    Daditude
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    Daditude

    Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it, except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and...
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    Addicted to Americana
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    Addicted to Americana

    Raised on a used-car lot, Charles Phoenix was destined to become the Ambassador of Americana. The photo collector, food crafter, and field tripper is famed for his hilarious live show performances and "theme park" tour of downtown Los Angeles. This...
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    Doorways of Paris
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    Doorways of Paris

    Explore the twenty arrondissements of Paris with Raquel Puig to discover the city's most colorful, awe-inspiring, and historic doors. With more than three hundred photographs of Paris's most enchanting doorways from Raquel Puig, creator of the popular...
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    Blimey, I'm Knackered!
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    Blimey, I'm Knackered!

    Brit Speak for Yanks!Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British...
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    Migratory Birds
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    Migratory Birds

    Winner of the PEN Translation Prize"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."-The New Yorker"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and...
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    Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

    Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity of all social otherness is ceaselessly...
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    Superhumanity:  Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity
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    Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity

    Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of "self-design," ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and...
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    Architecture and Dystopia
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    Architecture and Dystopia

    A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri, this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.As a response to the...
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    Cities & Rivers
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    Cities & Rivers

    A selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism with selected comments on the perspectives of its authors like other independent perspectives in the academic realm, the world of the profession and the users.This is a collection of projects - designed...
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    Cerda
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    Cerda

    This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed center of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of...
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    Money and Class in America

    Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas FrankIn the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous. Consumerism, greed, and the insatiable desire for more are American obsessions. In the native tradition of...
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    Women of Resistance

    One of only a few feminist poetry anthologies in printUniquely intersectional and diverse, with contributors from a wide range of racial, sexual, and gender identitiesTopics range from the immediate political climate to sexuality, motherhood, and...
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    Assuming Boycott
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    Assuming Boycott

    Street protests are one side of a worldwide citizens' movement. Another side is the increasing use of boycotts, one of the most powerful weapons in the organizer's arsenal: it is an effective and moral lever for civil rights, most notably today in its...
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    Pocket Piketty
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    Pocket Piketty

    Although Capital in the Twenty-First Centurydefinitive antidote to lingering poison of Reagan Era "trickle down" theory
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    A Narco History
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    A Narco History

    The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just...
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    Beautiful Trouble
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    Beautiful Trouble

    "Elegant and incendiary." -Naomi Klein.Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists,...
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    Cypherpunks
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    Cypherpunks

    Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk...
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    Kingdom of the Unjust
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    Kingdom of the Unjust

    The diminutive co-founder of Code Pink has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects the left and right studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person--as at President Obama's speech at the National Defense College, or in Egypt, where...
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    Successfully Skipper a Sailboat
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    Successfully Skipper a Sailboat

    Take the first steps to become certified to charter a boat anywhere in the world Imagine having the credentials to charter and skipper a boat in the Caribbean-or anywhere in the world. Grant Headifen and the experts at NauticEd have certified thousands...
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    Raised by Wolves
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    Raised by Wolves

    Incisive and confessional, Raised by Wolves collects the most acclaimed work of Taiwanese poet -filmmaker Amang. In her poems, Amang turns her razor-sharp eye to everything from her suitors ("For twenty years I've loved you, twenty years / So why not say...
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    Offline Journal
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    Offline Journal

    How would you spend a day offline? Nowadays, being offline is a state of mind. It is a choice we can make each day--an opportunity to be present and awake. Artist Jaya Nicely's Offline Journal helps you experience the world around you. Designed...
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    What Future

    One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the Year The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we...
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    Cold Moons

    Magns Sigurdsson spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with...
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  • Adult Coloring Book: Doodle Explorations
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    Adult Coloring Book: Doodle Explorations

    Coloring is one of the simplest arts, but it's not just for children. Adults need to explore their imaginations, too! Take a break and get inspired while coloring these dynamic doodles! Part of the Peaceful Adult Coloring Book Series, the pages of this...
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  • Angela Porter's Zen Doodle Animal Tangles
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    Angela Porter's Zen Doodle Animal Tangles

    Experience the soothing power of adult coloring with these intricate animal tangles created by New York Times bestselling illustrator and master of the abstract Zen style Angela Porter!Zentangle is a fun and relaxing art form that has emerged in the last...
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  • Angela Porter's Zen Doodle Designs
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    Angela Porter's Zen Doodle Designs

    Experience the soothing power of adult coloring with these intricate animal tangles created by New York Times bestselling illustrator and master of the abstract Zen style Angela Porter!Zentangle, a fun and relaxing art form that emerged in the last...
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    Who Killed Bob Crane?

    Can Modern DNA Science Crack this Cold Case?The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Arizona, millions...
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    Toxic Client

    Not every client is a good client! Learn how to avoid problem clients that are more trouble than they're worth...To succeed in business you must learn how to recognize and avoid the Toxic Client. With useful stories everyone can relate to, Toxic Client...
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    #ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis
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    #ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis

    A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a...
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    Mortimer's
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    Mortimer's

    Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimer's, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an international celebrity clientele. Found in these pages is a feast of ephemera, including menus, recipes,...
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    Earth River Sky
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    Earth River Sky

    Georgia O'Keeffe once described her artistic muse New Mexico as "more sky than earth." As photographer Rob Atkins discovered over two decades, beneath that cerulean stretch of ether, the golden sun spills across the sumptuous adobe architecture and the...
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    City of Refugees
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    City of Refugees

    Where should they go? 70 million displaced refugees and asylum seekers with no passport, no money, and no worldly goods. In 380 B.C. Plato wrote about the "Ideal City," but it wasn't until 1516 AD that Sir Thomas More invented the word,...
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    Digital Fabrications
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    Digital Fabrications

    Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-truestories about design software and hardware. Written from the perspective ofarchitectural design, each piece expands on emerging trends, devices, foibles,and phenomena engendered by an...
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    Essence of Shibari
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    Essence of Shibari

    The art of kinbaku, also known as shibari, is an elegant way to connect with a partner or add erotic spice in your life. Japanese-style bondage artist Shin Nawakiri shares his safe, sexy, and beautiful techniques in this newly-translated book, which...
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    When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

    In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family-the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes-all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...
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    Remarkable

    Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in...
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    Uncommon Measure
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    Uncommon Measure

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NPR "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR" SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we...
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    The Flip

    "One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He]...
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    Places of the Heart

    Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine "What to Read" selection "A really great book." -IRA FLATOW, Science Friday "One of the finest science writers I've ever read." -Los Angeles Times "Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure...
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    Los Angeles in the 1970s

    With the tragic and bloody ending to the optimistic 1960s in Los Angeles's fabled hills, the 1970s became a defining decade in the city. Marked by the Manson murders, rampant inflation, and recession, the decade seemed to usher in a gritty and unsightly...
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