Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music
By: Matt Anniss
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weigh…
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
By: Dan Sicko
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The first authoritative American chronicle of the most innovative trend in contemporary music, this… read more
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3. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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4. Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
By: John Godfrey , Matthew Collin
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Altered State tracks the development of Ecstasy culture from its roots in the psychedelic uudergrou… read more
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5. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Eating Animals
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more
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8. Among the Thugs
By: Bill Buford
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more
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9. Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
By: Ken Liu , Chen Qiufan , Xia Jia , None , Hao Jingfang , None , Cheng Jingbo , Liu Cixin
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from… read more
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10. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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11. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
By: William MacAskill
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem … read more
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12. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
13. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
By: Simon Reynolds
5.00
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-milleniu… read more
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14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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15. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more
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16. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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17. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
18. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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19. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
20. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
21. Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop
By: Ian Livingstone
4.11
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
It never seems like the right time to start a business. The idea to start our own company first cro… read more
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22. Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass
By: Ben Murphy
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original intervi… read more
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23. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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24. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
By: Uwe Schütte
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the … read more
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25. Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today
By: Simon Reynolds
3.89
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds, a collection of thought-provoking essays that expl… read more
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26. Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
By: Emma Warren
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite… read more
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27. I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
By: Audrey Golden
3.95
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many… read more
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28. Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music
By: Matt Anniss
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weigh… read more
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29. Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
By: Matthew Collin
4.28
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the ac… read more
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30. A Darker Electricity: The Origins of Spiral Tribe Sound System
By: Mark Angelo Harrison
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
At the time, it was unclear why the UK government targeted the Spiral Tribe travelling sound system… read more
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31. Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
By: Nate Patrin
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through c… read more
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