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  • Peter Jefferies – The Other Side of Reason
    Peter Jefferies – The Other Side of Reason
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    Hozac Books is proud to present another foundational brick in the pantheon of New Zealand underground music with Peter Jefferies – The Other Side of Reason, a career-spanning biography by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
    Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
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    “Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
    Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This striking and original book is an attempt to describe the true and false cultures of mass death in this century. On the battlefields of the World Wars, in the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Niels Bohr – Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge
    Niels Bohr – Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge
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    “These essays and speeches by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist date from 1934 to 1958. Rather than expositions on quantum physics, the articles are philosophical in nature, exploring the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Gribbin – The Omega Point
    John Gribbin – The Omega Point
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    “Is the universe infinitely expanding? Or at some point in the future will it finally reach its limit—and contract upon itself in one catastrophic reversal of the Big Bang? The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
    Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
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    “Imagine being able to “walk” into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s science fact. Surgeons now rehearse [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Downwind: A People’s History Of The Nuclear West
    Downwind: A People’s History Of The Nuclear West
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    “Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Survive The Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen’s Guide To Nuclear Survival
    Survive The Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen’s Guide To Nuclear Survival
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Attention, citizens and fellow travelers of the Cold War: Survive the Bomb is your family’s ultimate fallout shelter companion. Keep this book at the ready next to the emergency drinking [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William James – The Varieties Of Religious Experience
    William James – The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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    “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
    The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    A selection of eye-witness reports from both Hiroshima & Nagasaki, categorized by proximity to blast radius. English Translation Group, 1989 Softcover edition. Some corner & edgewear to wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
    Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The first book to reveal the locations of nuclear weapons around the world and introduce the concept of the infrastructure behind war.” Harper & Row, 1989 Softcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: The Report of the British Medical Association’s Board of Science and Education
    The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: The Report of the British Medical Association’s Board of Science and Education
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    A non-biased guidebook on what the medical effects of nuclear attack would be on the general populace. British Medical Association, 1983 Softcover edition. Some rubbing and discoloration to both [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
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    “Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
    Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
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    “How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Larry Kramer – Faggots
    Larry Kramer – Faggots
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    “Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
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    “Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Complete Guide To The Street Drug Game
    The Complete Guide To The Street Drug Game
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    A guide drug legality, use & drug-dealer culture. Lyle Stuart, 1980 Softcover edition, third printing. Some wear to edges of wraps & spine. Staining at edges of pages. Crack in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
    Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    A survey of incest & its meaning in literature. Julian Press, 1963 Hardcover edition. Wear & discoloration to dustjacket. Staining to upper edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
    The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
    The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “From the Globe and Mail reviewer – “The life story of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a cautionary tale about the twin dangers of becoming a drug addict and writing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
    Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
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    “Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
    Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
    Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This book traces the development of the major themes in the work of the essential modern poet-playwright, Antonin Artaud. As a young man, Artaud complained that he could neither find […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
    Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Moxley’s detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to marriage. Consistently focused on poetry and poets, it dwells [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Celine: A Biography
    Celine: A Biography
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “”A very solid achievement, a book that deserves to be ready by anyone interested in modern French literature””The Financial Times. “McCarthy has written the best [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
    Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of ‘frightening’ either the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The contents of this compendium, which presents a bit of the history of the racial prejudice against the Chinese, are organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, “Institutionalization of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Architectural designs accompany a discussion of the various aspects of and recent improvements in building homes and businesses underground” Self-published, 1977 staple-bound [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Megamurals & Supergraphics
    Megamurals & Supergraphics
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Mushrooms Of North America
    Mushrooms Of North America
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms, with pictorial keys and illustrated glossary.” Dutton, 1979 Softcover edition, third printing. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
    The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Examines the use of male and female imagery in the Bible and argues that the Bible does not describe God in only masculine terms” Crossroad, 1991 Softcover edition. Light [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A self-help book that is targeted for three major groups. First, the contents of the book is designed to encourage those that are incarcerated to utilize the positive resources that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
    Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Exhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
    Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Dr. Timothy Leary’s passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. Flashbacks, Leary’s own account of his career as “an accomplished clinical [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
    David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – The Killing Game
    Gary Webb – The Killing Game
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
    Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
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    “This biography of the Constructivist leader Laszlo Moholy-Nagy illustrates his difficult yet victorious struggle for a total approach to seeing-teaching-creating. The account encompasses [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
    Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Mind Control is a little known and a highly controversial topic today. Veteran author and investigator Jim Keith uncovers a surprising amount of information on the technology, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
    Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
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    “Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    “In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
    Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “No other writer of the fin-de-siècle period undertook a more elaborate exploration of perversities and abnormalities than Jean Lorrain, and no one else went as far afield in the search [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Barthes – Incidents
    Roland Barthes – Incidents
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    “In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping “with a view to publication,” Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
    The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “”Mae’s work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
    The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit. Complete Suicide Manual) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi. He is the writer on the problem of [...]

    GENRE:
  • Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
    Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
    $60.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
    Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the ’60s. Owsley “Bear” Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
    Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
    Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Brings together the testimony of psychiatrists, theologians, an FBI agent, and two survivors of ritual abuse to provide a balanced look at the network of satanic cults in existence [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
    Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
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    “In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
    Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
    Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
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    “Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Snuggly Satanicon
    The Snuggly Satanicon
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    “The current volume, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, brings together fourteen stories composed in the thriving tradition of “literary Satanism” that was pioneered [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
    Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
    $20.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    Following the critically acclaimed first Annual, Korm Plastics is very proud to present The Second Annual, which has more pages and more authors and covers a wide selection of musical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
    Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
    $20.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    *Ships Late Dec* English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction