"JRNLS 80s" recounts the years Sonic Youth spent in used vans and sleeping on floors while waiting for the occasional good show to make it all worthwhile.144 pp.

Journals 80s: The Tour Diaries of Lee Ranaldo, from the Early Days of Sonic Youth

Ranaldo, Lee

Biographies & Memoirs

Soft Skull Pr

Art. FLATNESSISGOD presents a thorough exploration of the basic practiceof seeing and consuming the second dimention. The pages contain paintings, basic design studies, image and type experiments, logo developments, layouts, graffiti converted into corporate logos, art haiku, and mistranslated text from Japanese candy. Ryan McGuinness is an artist who has exhibited his work internationally and has been responsible for numerous events and pranks. His work makes strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. His use of visual codes and signifiers subverts the very systems in which he operates. He has designed music packaging, posters, magazine spreads, and corporate identities for some of today's major bands, publications, and organizations.

flatnessisgod

Arts & Photography

McGinness, Ryan

Individual Artists

Bomb the Suburbs

Wimsatt, William Upski

History & Criticism

Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded with Hitler and Mussolini up to and even during the war. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh's public Hitlerphilia were symbolic of big business's admiration for Hitler's anticommunism.
Using techniques gleaned from modern advertising, the U.S. Office of War Information injected anti-Japanese bloodlust and hysteria into the population. When the U.S. killed 672,000 Japanese through indiscriminate bombing, even Secretary of War Henry Stimson wondered why "there has never been a protest over...such extraordinarily heavy loss of life. There is something wrong with a country where no one questions that".
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation are cashing in on the revived interest in World War II. But time's up for the trafficers of cheap nostalgia. The media elite have sold us the myth about the U.S.'s noble role in the "Good War" for too long and the facade is beginning to crack. The recent release of John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope is only the beginning. Saving Private Power digs deeper, to find the truth about the this war and the world it left in its wake.

Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "the Good War"

History

Michael Zezima

Americas

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

Rosen,Robert

Arts & Literature

Part love story, part indictment, debut novel Outline of My Lover traces our society's damaging obsession with celebrity. 
In the sleepy town of Athens, Georgia, a young man goes off to a college miseducation and is drawn into a world of rich vicarious living. The unspoken relationship between this adolescent and his luminous rock star boyfriend fast becomes the marking tale of world tours and plush continental hotel rooms. However, the relationship falters under celebrity's harsh, shape-shifting light. Real life fills in the outline of the boy's expectations.

Outline of My Lover

Literature & Fiction

Martin, Douglas A.

Literary

Examines the history of the Washington D.C. punk rock music scene that led to the rise of such bands as Positive Force, Riot Grrrl, Fugazi, and Bikini Kill.

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

JENKINS, Mark

Andersen, Mark

Music

Fortuate Son juxtaposes Bush's accomplishments as Governor of Texas with the specters of his past, including accusations of draft-dodging Vietnam and cocaine abuse. Fortuate Son provides the full research on these and other allegations, including anti-Semitism in the Bush family and a possible connection to the BCCI Scandal. Originally published by St. Martin's Press, this bio was recalled after revelations about the author's criminal past.

Fortunate Son: George W. Bush And The Making Of An American President

J.H. Hatfield

Leaders & Notable People

Ron English first gained fame in 1982 by surreptitiously reworking billboards to critique American society, risking arrest in the process. English’s career has had a wide trajectory, incorporating neosurrealist paintings, staged photographs, street art, and music. Popaganda covers the full range of his achievements, including his most recent work. Includes 160 pages in full color, with over 200 illustrations.

Popaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English

English, Ron

The 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle sparked significant clashes between government and corporate forces and activists. This anthology thoroughly documents the event and includes essays by such authors as Alexander Cockburn and Medea Benjamin.

The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization

Business & Money

Eddie Yuen

Daniel Burton Rose

George Katsiaficas

International

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