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  • The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History

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    2025 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARDS WINNER: EUROPEAN HISTORY

    In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province o

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    • Author: Machielsen, Jan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: October 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1350441503
    • Language: English
  • Zero Point

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    The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it – questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of ele

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    • Series: Zizek’s Essays
    • Author: Zizek, Slavoj
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: March 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1350537845
    • Language: English
  • Saxophone

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    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

    The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture

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    • Series: Object Lessons
    • Author: Hawkins, Mollie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798765114773
    • Language: English
  • Yo La Tengo’s and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

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    Hailed as a “quiet masterpiece” upon release, Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music. Released at a time when the music industry was chang

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Simpson, Elliott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: February 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798765106679
    • Language: English
  • Sinead O’Connor’s Universal Mother

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    With Universal Mother, Sinead O’Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.

    Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Bertei, Adele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798765106914
    • Language: English
  • John Cale’s Paris 1919

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    John Cale’s enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Doyle, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 9.79877E+12
    • Language: English
  • Sketching for Animation: Developing Ideas, Characters and Layouts in Your Sketchbook

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    Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of exam

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    • Series: Required Reading Range
    • Author: Parr, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 22 2018
    • ISBN10: 1350087092
    • Language: English
  • Shoegaze

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    What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss-take given by the no

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    • Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
    • Author: Pinkard, Ryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798765103418
    • Language: English
  • Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

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    As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a

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    • Author: Provost, Claire
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: September 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 1350464562
    • Language: English
  • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

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    PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024

    The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come

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    • Author: Jarvis, Jeff
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798765115862
    • Language: English
  • Modest Mouse’s the Moon & Antarctica

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    In 1999, Modest Mouse struck out for Chicago to record their major-label debut for Epic Records. Amid indie circle cries of “sellouts,” a largely untested producer, and a half-built studio, the trio r

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Petit, Zachary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 14 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798765106754
    • Language: English
  • Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love

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    Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Kardos, Leah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: November 14 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798765106990
    • Language: English
  • Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen

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    A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly’s self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre.

    White Limozeen
    (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton’s first major failure two years prev

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Easton, Steacy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 31 2024
    • ISBN10: 1501390406
    • Language: English
  • Woman at Point Zero

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    Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi’s landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword.

    Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. B

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    • Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: June 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 0755651480
    • Language: English
  • Carole King’s Tapestry

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    Carole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album’s historic s

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    • Series: 33 1/3 #153
    • Author: Glass, Loren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 1501355627
    • Language: English
  • Britney Spears’s Blackout

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    Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Lasky, Natasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1501377590
    • Language: English
  • Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II

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    Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Weidenbaum, Marc
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1623568900
    • Language: English
  • Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Graves, Kirk Walker
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: June 19 2014
    • ISBN10: 1623565421
    • Language: English
  • Death Metal

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    Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the his

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    • Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
    • Author: Coles, T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1501381016
    • Language: English
  • Shiner

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    In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experim… [more below]

    • Author: Nelson, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: January 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1350360066
    • Language: English
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