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Junky - $235

Junky  A short and attention-grabbing novel you should pick up before summer is over is William S. Burroughs’ JUNKY (originally published as JUNKIE and was referred to as JUNK by Burroughs before...

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Hippie – $395

Biographer of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and the Beat Movement itself, Miles broadens his scope to the years 1965 through 1971, a time that “really was about sex and drugs and rock...

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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a...

Faced with “a flying wedge of white toughs coming at him” as he interviewed a black woman after the 1955 Emmett Till lynching trial, NBC reporter John Chancellor thrust his microphone toward them,...

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The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-65 – $395

Television emerged as the dominant mass medium in the United States during the era that President John F. Kennedy termed the New Frontier. Although television would soon be decried as ‘a vast...

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1959: The Year Everything Changed – $185

Slate columnist Kaplan takes a contrarian view to the common wisdom that the ’60s were the source of the cultural shift from pre-WWII traditions to the individualistic, question-authority world of...

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Evguénie Sokolov – $215

“Fue nuestro Baudelaire, nuestro Apollinaire… Elevó la canción a la categoría de arte”, dijo en su entierro François Miterrand, y la comparación con los malditos le siente bien a Serge Gainsbourg....

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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection [Audiobook, Box Set] [Audio CD] – $395

Beginning in February 1952, Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact, Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label,...

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Toyland. Made in Spain – $520

Toyland Made in Spain es un homenaje a las muñecas españolas de los años 70 y 80, como la Nancy de Famosa, Baby Mocosete, Luchy Mamá, Hogarín o los juguetes de la Señorita Pepis. Los que fueron niños...

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SO FAR SO GOUDE – $990

Representing Jean-Paul Goude‘s life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude’s years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine...

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PIERRE PAULIN – $390

A legendary figure in French design, Pierre Paulin reached the height of celebrity with his interiors of George Pompidou’s Elysee and his furniture display at the Louvre. A champion of unified design,...

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The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat...

Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat...

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Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 – $245

The women’s liberation movement that began in 1967 is an absorbing study in political struggle. Radical women rejecting male dominance also rejected conventional political and organizational...

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There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall...

Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere...

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and...

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain‘s exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it...

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Curso de filosofía moral – $320

La moral es el horizonte que define la acción del hombre y, como tal, es totalitaria y se define por sí sola. Nada humano le es ajeno, puesto que junto a la pregunta ontológica fundamental entorno al...

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Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman’s Anarchist Writings – $295

  Painting a vivid picture of 1960s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman‘s essential anarchist writings—from utopian essays to practical proposals—reveals how he inspired...

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The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations – $845

This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the...

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Free Jazz (The Roots of Jazz) – $255

  When originally published in 1974, Ekkehard Jost’s Free Jazz was the first examination of the new music of such innovators as Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jost studied...

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Portland in the 1960s: Stories from the Counterculture – $395

  In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of...

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The Freeing of the Dust – $230

  In the sixty poems that comprise The Freeing of the Dust, Denise Levertov continues to explore the personal and public themes that have threaded through her work in the past several years. The...

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