As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond
By: None , Val Wilmer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer.
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1. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
By: Geoff Dyer
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shape… read more
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"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to …"-Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
"In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is prohibited." In such a society there would be no more essays on whet…"-Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
2. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, … read more
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"Love is a skill you learn."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
5. A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
By: Ashley Kahn , Elvin Jones
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John C… read more
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6. The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.09
Format: 129 pages,
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7. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more
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8. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
By: Ashley Kahn
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through… read more
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9. London Fields
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more
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10. Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
By: None
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
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11. Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Capital, Vol 3, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, was prepared by Friedric… read more
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12. As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond
By: None , Val Wilmer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer. read more
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13. A Feast of Snakes
By: Harry Crews
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
3.91
Format: 631 pages,
THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" wit… read more
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16. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
17. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more
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18. Hitchcock
By: Alfred Hitchcock , François Truffaut
4.29
Format: 144 pages,
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's int… read more
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19. 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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20. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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21. 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
