Hungry Hollow Book Tank: A Lexiconigraphic Omnibus Digitalis

Loompanics & Other Unusual Books For Sale!

2010-03-19T08:40:00.000-07:00

THIS IS OUT OF DATE AND SORT-OF OBSOLETE... THOUGH I HAVE (OR HAVE ACCESS TO) MOST, IF NOT ALL OF THE BOOKS ON THIS LIST AND NOW WE HAVE EVEN MORE. PLEASE CHECK WWW.LASTEARTHDISTRO.NET AND WWW.EARTHLIGHTBOOKS.COM FOR A MORE UPDATED SELECTION OF OUR INVENTORY. Or E-mail me for a more current list of specifically Loompanics titles we have or can get. THANKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS!

OUR MAIL ORDER CATALOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE, 1500 radical titles you won't find in most bookstores: Last Earth Distro Catalog

Feel free to e-mail us at earthlightbooks(@)gmail(dot)com for more details.

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I have updated this list as of Spring 2008, though some books are getting scarcer and scarcer and prices may vary quickly on remaining copies. At the end of the list of Loompanics, I have attached a list of the other odd books we have access to or stock in our growing warehouse of all things counter-culture. Enjoy! Drop me a line with any questions.

These are retail prices, please feel free to contact us for wholesale discounts, plus the more you buy the cheaper they get! We have additional Loompanics titles available from our myriad contacts so if you don't see it on the list ask anyway and I will quote you a price or give you additional contact information. Stay free. Loompanics website was down for a spell... now their old site is back up with bare bones but none of their contact info works... smell a conspiracy?

21st Century Revenge: Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium $30.00
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture $30.00
Anarchists Guide to the BBS $14.95
Armed Defense: Gunfight Survival for the Householder and Businessman $14.95
Backyard Catapults $10.00
Baffling Murder Mysteries: Famous Unsolved Homicides $12.95
Beating the Check: How to Eat Out Without Paying $25.00
Be Your Own Dick: Private Investigating Made Easy $15.00
Biz: How to Get Rich with "Business Opportunity" Frauds and Scams $26.00
Black Collar Crimes: An Encyclopedia of False Prophets and Unholy Orders $15.00
Blood-Lust Chickens and Renegade Sheep: A First-Timer's Guide to Country Living $19.95
Boxing’s Dirty Tricks and Outlaw Killer Punches $15.00
Build a Catapult in Your Backyard $30.00
Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam $15.00
Check Fraud Investigation $35.00
Close Shaves: The Complete Book of Razor Fighting $75.00
Combat Knife Throwing $25.00
Combat Knife Throwing $15.00
Community Technology $12.95
Comparative Data: State and Provincial Licensing Systems $49.95
Cop Killers $12.95
Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy $20.00
Country Living Is Risky Business $19.95
Crimes Involving Poisons $125.00
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days $15.00
Deep Inside the Underground Economy $24.95
Defeating Industrial Spies $25.00
Directory of U.S. Mail Drops 1989 $15.00
Directory of U.S. Mail Drops 1991 $16.95
Disruptive Terrorism $15.00
Don't Be a Victim! : How to Protect Yourself from Hoaxes, Scams, and Frauds $12.95
Don't Let Them Psych You Out! $15.00
Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom $40.00
Drink As Much As You Want and Live Longer $14.95
Economic Sodomy: How Modern Frauds Work and How to Protect Yourself $12.95
Eddie’s Iron: Best New Lock Pick Design in More Than 20 Years $14.95
Espionage: Down and Dirty $27.50
Everything's a Racket $19.95
Exotic Weapons: An Access Book $25.00
Fake Id by Mail and Modem $275.00
Fraudulent Credentials $15.95
Free Space: Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space $12.95
Gaslighting: How to Drive Your Enemies Crazy $27.50
Genitology: Reading the Genitals $27.50
Getaway: Driving Techniques for Escape and Evasion $20.00
Great Hideouts of the West: An Idea Book for Living Free $16.95
Guns Save Lives $15.95
Handbook of Vital Records Information for Attorneys and Welfare Workers $15.00
Hitchhiker’s Handbook $15.00
Holy Homicide: An Encyclopedia of Those Who Go with Their God and Kill $13.95
Home Workshop Explosives $19.95
Home Workshop Professional Lock Tools $21.95
Homemade Guns and Homemade Ammo $14.95
Homicide Investigation: A Practical Handbook $25.00
How To Be An Ass-Whipping Boxer $18.95
How to Build Your Own Log Home for Less Than $15,000 $17.95
How to Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long-Term Underground Storage $10.00
How to Buy Land Cheap (1st edition) $14.95
How to Buy Land Cheap (3rd edition) $25.00
How to Collect Illegal Debts $30.00
How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food Storage System $10.00
How to Do Business “Off the Books” $10.00
How to Do Business "Off the Books" (shrinkwrapped bundles of five copies) $20.00
How to Earn $15 to $50 an Hour and More With a Pickup, Truck or Van $16.95
How to Find Missing Persons $25.00
How to Get Your Filipina Fiancee to the U.S. $150.00
How to Hide Things in Public Places $15.00
How to Kill the Job Culture Before it Kills You $12.95
How to Live Without Electricity and Like It $35.00
How to Make Cash Money Selling at Swap Meets, Flea Markets, Etc. $15.00
How to make your own professional lock tools volume 1 $25.00
How to make your own professional lock tools volume 3 $25.00
How to make your own professional lock tools volumes 1-4 $75.00
How to Publish a Fan-Zine $ 25.00
How to Screw the Post Office $10.00
How to Sneak Into the Movies $14.95
How to Start Your Own Country $12.95
How to Steal Food From the Supermarket $10.00
Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers $70.00 (hardcover)
I Am Not A Number $17.95
Identity Theft: The Cybercrime of the Millennium $12.95
Interrogation: A Complete Manual $16.95
Invisible Marijuana and Psychedelic Mushroom Gardens $125.00
Jobs Your Mother Never Wanted You to Have: An Alternative Career Guide $12.00
Kill-As-Catch-Can: Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting $16.95
Killer Cops $ 12.95
Late Great Loompanics Compilations $29.95
Living Naked and Frugal: A Handbook for Parsimonious Nudity $8.95
Loompanics Greatest Hits: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World (1st edition) $50.00
Lucifer’s Lexicon $15.00
Mail Order I.D. : A Consumer's Guide $24.50
Making Crime Pay $30.00
Methods of Disguise $17.95
Modern Frauds and Con Games $15.00
Native American Anarchism $12.95
Natural Law: Or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy $15.00
Opium for the Masses $27.50 (all out)
Our Vanishing Privacy and What You Can Do to Protect It $14.95
Out of Business: Force a Company, Business or Store to Close Its Doors For Good $14.95
Part-Time Diplomacy: For Fun, Profit & Prestige $20.00
Personal Defense Weapons $25.00
Personal Privacy Through Foreign Investing $17.50
Pirate Radio Operations $14.95
Poison Pen Letters: Using the Mails for Revenge $20.00
Political Trashing $14.95
Practical Guide to Photographic Intelligence $15.00
Practical LSD Manufacture $75.00
Principia Discordia $15.00
Private Investigation Strategies and Techniques: The World's Greatest Private Eye Reveals Her Secrets $17.50
Professional Killers: An Inside Look $20.00
Protect Yourself Against Terrorism $12.00
Protective Services $29.95
Psychedelic Chemistry $20.00
Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants $49.95
Rancho Costa Nada: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead $14.95
Reborn in the USA $25.00
Reborn with Credit $14.95
Renacer En Estados Unidos: Guia Completa Para Obtener Una Identidad Estadounidense $15.00
S.W.A.T. Team Operations $45.00
Satellite Imagery for the Masses $20.00
Scram: Relocating Under a New Identity $20.00
Second-Hand Success: How to Turn Discards into Dollars $12.95
Secrets of a Super-Hacker $7.95
Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture (5th edition) $75.00
Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture (6th edition) $115.00
Sell Yourself to Science $14.95
Serial Slaughter: What's Behind America's Murder Epidemic? $35.00
Shadowing and Surveillance: A Complete Guidebook $15.00
Silent Death (1st ed.) $15.00
Silent Death (2nd ed.) $20.00
Snitch: A Handbook for Informers $15.00
Speak up speak out and be heard: how to protest and make it count $13.95
Stoned Free: How to Get High Without Drugs $14.95
Subway Survival! The Art of Self-Defense on American Public Transit Facilities $59.95
Successful Armed Robbery $49.95
Survival Bartering $18.50
Surviving Major Chemical Accidents: And Chemical/Biological Warfare $50.00
Surviving on the Streets $14.95
Take No Prisoners: Destroying Enemies with Dirty and Malicious Tricks $25.00
Techniques of Burglar Alarm Bypassing $50.00
Techniques of Revenge $25.00
Techniques of Safecracking $80.00
The $51 Fantasy: Legal Prostitution for American Men $10.00
The B & E Book: Burglary Techniques and Investigation $25.00
The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places $14.95
The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend $15.00
The Code Book $ 35.00
The Complete Guide to Lock Picking $14.95
The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (1st edition) $75.00
The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (2nd edition) $50.00
The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook: 179 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution $20.00
The Gas: A Novel of Sex and Violence $12.95
The Hydroponic Hot House $35.00
The I.D. Master $19.95
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy: Cartoons $50.00
The Muckraker's Manual: How to Do Your Own Investigative Reporting $25.00
The New Bullwhip Book $45.00
The New Bullwhip Book $12.95
The New Zealand Immigration Guide $35.00
The Person-Number Systems: Of Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Israel $25.00
The Poisoner's Handbook $60.00
The Police Sniper: A Complete Handbook $50.00
The Policeman is Your Friend and Other Lies $8.95
The Politics of Consciousness $25.00
The Real Work: Essential Sleight of Hand for Street Operators $300.00
The Scourge of the Dark Continent $8.95
The Sling $8.95
The Sunstone Superstove $12.95
The Temp Worker’s Guide to Self-Fulfillment $8.95
The Wild and Free Cookbook $8.95
Theatre of Hell: Dr. Lung's Complete Guide to Torture $15.00
Think Free to Live Free $14.95
Techniques of Revenge $25.00
Uberhacker! : How to Break Into Computers with CDROM $32.95
Understanding U.S. Identity Documents $18.95
Uninhabited and Deserted Islands $19.50
Uninhabited Ocean Islands $16.50
Waging War From Canada $12.95
Wide Open to Terrorism $14.95
Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance: Commision Studies $15.00
You Are Going to Prison $125.00
Your Revenge is in the Mail $12.95

Anarchic Harmony: The Spirituality of Social Disobedience - Signed by author on 1/2 title page, dated 7/27/92 $75.00

Sex, Drugs, & The Twinkie Murders - signed by author to Mike Hoy, editor of Loompanics, by author Krassner as well as illustrator Koehnline on 1/2 title page! one of a kind! $250.00

Unconditional Freedom: Social Revolution Through Individual Empowerment - Signed by Murray to Loompanics Editor Mike Hoy on 1/2 title page, excellent addition to the collector's shelves! one of a kind! $250.00

Building with Junk and Other Good Stuff: A Guide to Home Building and Remodeling Using Recycled Materials - signed by Broadstreet on FFEP: "To my very special friends-Paul, Beverly, Sarah and Adam Reichert---Fellow Scroungers/Builders" $50.00

Psychedelic Shamanism – signed by the author to Mike Hoy, editor of Loompanics, one of a kind! - $250.00

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New Inventory as of Spring 2008

Activism, Rebellion & Politics

Bodyhammer: Tactics and Self-Defense for Protesters - $3.00

Cops! Media Vs. Reality $13.95

Free America - $12.95

How Nonviolence Protects the State $10.00

Manifesto $15.95

Rape of the American Constitution - $18.95

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman $15.95

Alternative Health and Medicine

DITCH MEDICINE Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies by Hugh L. Coffee $25.00

DO-IT-YOURSELF MEDICINE How to Find and Use the Most Effective Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics, and Other Miracle Drugs . . . Without Costly Doctors' Prescriptions or Hospitals by Ragnar Benson $20.00

FIRST-RESPONSE MEDICINE FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS What to Do in the First 10 Minutes by Barry M. Miskin $15.00

POCKET MEDIC The Indispensable First Aid Guide $9.00

Survival Medicine - 15.95

Where There Is No Doctor - $22.00

Anarchism

Anarchist Morality by Peter Kropotkin – $5.00

Dangerous Woman: A Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman – $17.95

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarchism, But Were Afraid to Ask by Simon Read - $8.00

Living My Life by Emma Goldman – Volumes I & II - $15.95 each

Native American Anarchism - $14.95

The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey - $9.95

Audio

Our Word is Our Weapon Subcommandante Marcos Zapatista CD - $14.95

Art of Emceeing by Stic Man - $35.00

Bukowski Reads His Poetry (LG) - $14.99

Charles Bukowski Underwater Poetry Festival CD - $10.00

Come September – Arundhati Roy - $14.99

Lenny Bruce Originals (LG) - $18.99

Now This War Has Two Sides CD – Derrick Jensen - $19.99

Beats, Bukowski & Poetry

,Said the Shotgun to the Head by Saul Williams - $12.95

On the Road by Jack Kerouac - $16.00

Junky by William S. Burroughs - $14.00

The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso - $9.95

Howl by Allen Ginsberg - $6.95

World on Fire by Michael Brownstein - $14.00

Bounty Hunters, PIs and Dicks

BAIL ENFORCER The Advanced Bounty Hunter by Bob Burton $20.00

Be Your Own Dick - $14.95

BOUNTY HUNTER by Bob Burton $15.00

Electronic Surveillance Equipment Suppliers Catalog - $12.00

How to Be Your Own Detective - $30.00 (Eden)

How to Find Anyone Anywhere - $20.00 (Eden)

How to Find Missing Persons - $16.95

Investigate by Computer - $50.00 (Eden)

INVESTIGATORS LITTLE BLACK BOOK III Hundreds and Hundreds and Hundreds of Inside Sources for Investigative Professionals -- Updated and Expanded Edition by Robert Scott $22.95

MODERN BOUNTY HUNTING A Real-Life Guide for the Bail Fugitive Recovery Agent by Rex Vanator $25.00

PEOPLE TRACKING (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) You Can Find Anyone by Lee Lapin $19.95

PI A Self-Study Guide on Becoming a Private Detective by Roger J. Willard $18.00

A Practical Guide to Photographic Intelligence - $16.95

PRIVATE EYES What Private Investigators Really Do by Sam Brown and Gini Graham Scott $30.00

Private Intelligence Secrets - $20.00 (Eden)

PRIVATE INVESTIGATION IN THE COMPUTER AGE Using Computers to Revolutionize Your Work and Maximize Your Profits by Bud Jillett $25.00

Private Investigator’s Catalog - $12.00 (Eden)

PUBLIC RECORDS ONLINE, 6TH ED. The National Guide to Private and Government Online Sources of Public Records by M. Sankey & P. Weber $21.95

SERIOUS SURVEILLANCE FOR THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR – 20.00

Sex Crimes Investigation - $16.95

Shadowing and Surveillance - $16.95

USI Corporation – Surveillance Equipment - $10.00 (Eden)

Buttons and Pins

Collectible & Vintage

Coloring Books

Cannabis Cool Coloring Book - $9.95

The Cunt Coloring Book - $8.95

Pat Robertson & Friends Coloring Book - $9.95

Gangsta Rap Coloring Book - $8.95

Dr. Sketchy’s Rainy Day Colouring Book - $20.00

George Bush Coloring Book - $8.95

Comic Books & Graphic Novels

As the World Burns by Derrick Jensen - $14.95

Dangerous Woman: A Graphic History of Emma Goldman - $17.95

Flood by Eric Drooker - $14.95

Prisoners of the War on Drugs - $5.00

Wobblies Graphic History - $25.00

Crimethinc

Days of War, Nights of Love - $8.00

Evasion – $5.00

Off the Map - $5.00

Expect Resistance - $8.00

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook - $10.00

Rusty String Quartet - $8.00

The Secret World of Terijian - $10.00

Pickaxe DVD - $10.00

Drugs

Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture – by Uncle Fester - $30.00

Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture – SIGNED – by Uncle Fester - $50.00

Amphetamine Synthesis by Otto Snow - $35.00

Ayahuasca & Shamanism - $5.00

The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend - $14.95

Build This Bong - $12.95

DEA NARCOTICS INVESTIGATORS MANUAL $60.00

DEA STASH AND HIDEOUT HANDBOOK $12.00

DRUG SMUGGLING The Forbidden Book by K. Hawkeye Gross $20.00

Harm Reduction Guide for Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs - $5.00

Just Say No to Drug Tests: How to Beat the Whiz Quiz - $15.00

Love Drugs by Otto Snow - $36.00

LSD by Otto Snow - $36.00

Oxy by Otto Snow - $31.95

Practical LSD Manufacture by Uncle Fester - $20.00

Practical LSD Manufacture by Uncle Fester – SIGNED - $40.00

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture 7^th edition by Uncle Fester - $30.00

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture 7^th edition by Uncle Fester – SIGNED - $50.00

Sources by Strike - $50.00

Stoned Free: How to Get High Without Drugs - $14.95

THC & Tropacocaine by Otto Snow - $31.00

Total Synthesis II by Strike - $50.00

Erotica

Explosives

Advanced Homemade Fireworks - 19.95

Chemistry of Powder and Explosives - 27.95

Explosives and Propellants - 19.95

Field Expedient Hand Grenades - 21.95

Firecracker Cookbook - 19.95

Home Workshop Explosives by Uncle Fester - $20.00

Home Workshop Explosives by Uncle Fester – SIGNED - $40.00

How to Destroy Bridges - $29.95

Improvised Batteries and Detonating Devices - $19.95

Improvised Munitions From Fertilizer - $19.95

Improvised Munitions Handbook I - $12.95

Improvised Munitions Handbook II - $12.95

Improvised Shaped Charges - 19.95

Nitroglycerine and ... Explosives - 29.95

Principles of Improvised Explosive Devices - $50.00

Professional Homemade Cherry Bombs - 15.95

PROFESSIONALS GUIDE TO PYROTECHNICS Understanding and Making Exploding Fireworks by John Donner $20.00

Simple Salutes - 14.95

Special Forces Demolitions - 19.95

Terroristic Explosives Handbook - 19.95

Two Component High Explosives Mixtures - 19.95

Fiction

The Brothers K - $17.00

The Day Philosophy Dies by Casey Maddox – Published by Derrick Jensen - $20.00

Dave Eggers

Fight Club - $13.95

Foer

Foster Wallace

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - $19.95

McSweeney’s

Murakami

Philip K. Dick

Minority Report - $12.95

PK Dick Reader - $15.95

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $13.95

Man in the High Castle - $12.95

A Scanner Darkly - $12.95

The River Why - $14.95

Field Guides, How-To Manuals & Reference

The $50 and Up Underground House Book - 21.95

21^st Century Fraud - $15.95

21^st Century Revenge - $19.95

ADVANCED FUGITIVE Running, Hiding, Surviving, and Thriving Forever by Kenn Abaygo $20.00

Art and Science of Dumpster Diving - $14.95

Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell - $29.95

B AND E: A to Z, (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) How to Get in Anywhere, Anytime $59.95

B AND E: A to Z, Volume II (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) $59.95

The B & E Book - $16.95

Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters With Law Enforcement - $14.00 (Micro)

Beyond the Law: A U.S. Citizen’s Guide to Extradition - $20.00 (Eden)

The Big Black Book of Sex Havens – 30.00 (Eden)

BODY FOR SALE An Inside Look at Medical Research, Drug Testing, Organ Transplants and How You Can Profit from Them by Ed Brassard $18.00

BOOK ON BOOKIES An Inside Look at a Successful Sports Gambling Operation by James Jeffries/Charles Oliver $18.00

Brown's Alcohol Motor Fuel Cook Book - 24.95

BUILDING A LOG CABIN RETREAT A Do-It-Yourself Guide by Michael Mulligan $15.00

BYTE ME! Hayduke’s Guide to Computer-Generated Revenge by George Hayduke $19.95

Camouflage - 14.95

CARE AND FEEDING OF TENANTS by Andy Kane $18.00

CIA FLAPS AND SEALS MANUAL – How To Spy On Someone’s Mail $12.00

Cigarette Smuggling for Fun and Profit - $10.00

CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO STOPPING SUICIDE ATTACKERS Secrets of an Israeli Counterterrorist by Itay Gil and Dan Baron $19.00

Clear Your Record and Own a Gun - 24.95

Code Making and Code Breaking - $12.95

CONCERNED CITIZENS GUIDE TO SURVIVING NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL TERRORIST ATTACK by Fred H. Lane $15.00

COUNTERAMBUSH DRIVING SKILLS & EVASION TECHNIQUES (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) $19.95

DECEPTION DETECTION Winning the Polygraph Game by Charles Clifton $20.00

Defeating Industrial Spies - $16.95

Disk Detective - $20.00

Divorce Dirty Tricks - $20.00 (Eden)

DONT GET MAD - GET EVEN The Fine Art of Revengemanship by Jane Inder and Hilary Eyre $22.95

DUMPSTER DIVING:THE ADVANCED COURSE How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power by John Hoffman $20.00

Elementary Field Interrogation - 9.95

Espionage: Down and Dirty - $17.95

Execution Tools and Techniques - $14.95

Flea Market Extravaganza - $10.00 (Eden)

Foreign Entry Requirements for All Countries - $10.00 (Eden)

Frauds, Rip-Offs & Con Games - $15.95

Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook – 179 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution – $20.00

Fugitive: How to Run Hide and Survive - $16.00

Genitology - $10.00

GET EVEN The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks by George Hayduke $22.95

GET EVEN 2 More Dirty Tricks from the Master of Revenge by George Hayduke $22.95

Get Even – The Video of Dirty Tricks - $19.95

HANDBOOK FOR VOLUNTEERS OF THE IRA Notes on Guerrilla Warfare $12.00

HARD-CORE COLLECTIONS Brutal but Effective Techniques for Getting the Money by David DeMercurio $15.00

HARD-CORE POACHING by Ragnar Benson $18.00

HARD-WON WISDOM FROM THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS How To Avoid a Fight and Things to Do When You Can't or Don't Want To by Alain Burrese $25.00

HIGH-SPEED ENTRY (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) Instant Opening Techniques $39.95

HIGH-TECH HARASSMENT How to Get Even with Anybody, Anytime by Scott French $30.00

Hitchhiker’s Handbook - $14.95

Houses to Go - $18.95

HOW TO AVOID A SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT ...And what to do if you can't! by Andy Kane $18.00

HOW TO BE A GOOD COMMUNIST by Liu Shao-Chi $12.00

How to Become a Gigolo - $10.00 (Eden)

HOW TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL CON ARTIST by Dennis M. Marlock $20.00

How To Build Flash/Stun Grenades - 19.95

HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage by Eddie the Wire $8.00

HOW TO CIRCUMVENT A SECURITY ALARM IN 10 SECONDS OR LESS An Insider's Guide to How It's Done and How to Prevent It by B. Andy $20.00

How to Clear Your Criminal Record - $20.00 (Eden)

How to Collect Illegal Debts - $15.00

HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR AND MORE WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN by Don Lilly $16.95

How to Get a Green Card: Legal Ways to Stay in the U.S.A. – $30.00 (Eden)

How to Get Paid for Watching T.V. - $10.00 (Eden)

HOW TO HAGGLE Professional Tricks for Saving Money on Just About Anything by Max Edison $15.00

HOW TO HIDE ANYTHING by Michael Connor $16.00

HOW TO HIDE THINGS IN PUBLIC PLACES by Dennis Fiery $15.00

HOW TO KILL THE JOB CULTURE BEFORE IT KILLS YOU Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society by Claire Wolfe $12.95

HOW TO MAKE $100,000 A YEAR AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR by Edmund J. Pankau, CLI, CPP, CFE $21.95

HOW TO OPEN LOCKS WITHOUT KEYS OR PICKS $10.00

How to Publish Your Own Newsletter - $10.00 (Eden)

HOW TO RAISE UP A KID OR TWO by Dr. Andy Kane $15.00

How to Sneak Into the Movies - $8.00 (FS Books)

HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY by Edwin S. Strauss $12.95

How to Steal Food From the Supermarket - $14.95

How To Train a Guard Dog - 16.95

INDIVIDUALS GUIDE FOR UNDERSTANDING AND SURVIVING TERRORISM by U.S. Marine Corps $12.00

INSIDE LOOK AT OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE GANGS $15.00

INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE Secrets of Clandestine Travel Overseas by Kenn Abaygo $20.00

Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World by Jefferson Mack - $20.00

Instant Aristocracy: How to Buy Noble Titles - $25.00 (Eden)

International Pharmaceuticals - $20.00 (Eden)

INVOLUNTARY REPOSSESSION In the Steal of the Night by John Russell - $15.00

Jobs Your Mother Never Wanted You to Have - $14.95

LICENSE TO STEAL Traveling Con Artists: Their Games, Their Rules — Your Money by Dennis Marlock and John Dowling $29.00

LIVING IN TROUBLED LANDS Beating the Terrorist Threat Overseas by Patrick Collins $25.00

LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING Revised and Updated Edition by Edward H. Romney $27.00

MAKE EM TALK Principles of Military Interrogation by Patrick McDonald $18.00

Making Stuff and Doing Things - $14.95

MANTRAPPING by Ragnar Benson $20.00

MASTERING THE ART OF MALE SUPREMACY Training Techniques for the Home Front by Andy Kane $10.00

MASTERING THE ART OF PICKPOCKETING (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard by James Coats $24.95

Methods of Long-Term Underground Storage - 9.95

Military Ground Rappelling Techniques - 15.95

MODERN FRAUDS AND CON GAMES by Tony Lesce $15.00

MORE PVC PROJECTS FOR THE OUTDOORSMAN Building Inexpensive Shelters, Hunting and Fishing Gear, and More Out of Plastic Pipe by Tom Forbes $15.00

MORE SCAMS FROM THE GREAT BEYOND! How to Make Even More Money Off of Creationism, Evolution, Environmentalism, Fringe Politics, Weird Science, the Occult, and Other Strange Beliefs by Peter Huston $24.00

MOST DANGEROUS GAME Advanced Mantrapping Techniques by Ragnar Benson $15.00

MUG SHOTS A Police Artist's Guide to Remembering Faces by Douglas P. Hinkle $20.00

Naturalization Requirements for All Countries - $7.00

NEVER SAY LIE How to Beat the Machines, the Interviews, the Chemical Tests by Scott French and Paul Van Houten, Ph.D. $25.00

NO WAITING! How to Get What You Want, When You Want It by Andy Kane $17.00

OUT OF BUSINESS Force a Company, Business, or Store to Close Its Doors…For Good! by Dennis Fiery $14.95

PAWNBROKER'S HANDBOOK How to Get Rich Buying and Selling Guns, Gold, and Other Good Stuff by V. Alexander Cullen $20.00

Perpetual Traveler - $40.00

Political Trashing - $12.95

PROFESSIONAL GAMBLERS HANDBOOK Beating the System by Hook and by Crook by Weasel Murphy $18.00

PVC PROJECTS FOR THE OUTDOORSMAN Building Shelters, Camping Gear, Weapons, and More Out of Plastic Pipe by Tom Forbes $14.00

QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO LEARNING LANGUAGES FAST by A.G. Hawke $20.00

Rebel Bookseller: How to Improvise Your Own Indie Store and Beat Back the Chains - $14.95

The Rip-Off Book - $14.95

RUNNING A RING OF SPIES – 26.00

SAFE HOUSE – 14.00

Satellite Imagery for the Masses – 20.00

Satellite Surveillance - $21.95

SCIENTIFIC SELF-DEFENCE – 20.00

Second-Hand Success - $14.95

Secrets of a Super-Hacker - $19.95

Shoplifting and Employee Theft Investigation - $14.95

SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE Professional Secrets for Mastering Foreign Languages – 19.00

STARTING A NEW LIFE IN RURAL AMERICA 21 things You need to Know Before You Make Your Move by Ragnar Benson – 20.00

STEALTH JUROR The Ultimate Defense Against Bad Laws and Government Tyranny – 15.00

SURREPTITIOUS ENTRY – 25.00

Survival Bartering - $12.95

Take No Prisoners - $19.95

TEMP WORKER'S GUIDE TO SELF-FULFILLMENT – 8.95

Travel-Trailer Homesteading - $12.00 (Eden)

Uberhacker!: How to Break into Computers - $30.00

Uberhacker II - $39.95

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – 18.00

Under the Table and Into Your Pocket – 12.95

Underground Car Dealer - $30.00 (Eden)

Uninhabited Ocean Islands - $16.95

You and the Police - $20.00 (Eden)

Food and Booze

99 Cent a Meal Cook Book - $14.95

ALASKAN BOOTLEGGERS BIBLE Makin' Beer, Wine, Liqueurs and Moonshine Whiskey--An Old Alaskan Tells How It's Done by Leon W. Kania $21.95

Anarchist Teapot Mobile Kitchen’s Guide to Feeding the Masses - $3.00

Another Dinner Is Possible – $25.00

Aunt Bessie's Wood Stove Cookbook - 9.95

Backyard Meat Production - $14.95

Brew It Yourself Brew Not Bombs Zine - $4.00

The Chemistry of Corn into Alcohol - 19.95

The Compleat Distiller - $25.00

Designing and Building Automatic Stills - $25.00

Drink As Much As You Want and Live Longer – 14.95

EATING CHEAP by Ragnar Benson $15.00

Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World - $18.95

Food Not Bombs - $11.95 (AK Press $8.95)

Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed by Vandana Shiva & Others - $10.00

GOOD BOOZE RECIPE AND COOKBOOK by James C. Krohn, Ph.D. $15.00

How To Build a Junkyard Still - 15.95

How To Develop A Low-Cost Family Food Storage System - $12.95

Making Pure Corn Whiskey - $25.00

Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers - $19.95

Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva - $14.00

Vandana Shiva

Wild and Free Cookbook - $14.95

Wild Fermentation - $25.00

Graffiti & Hip-Hop Culture

Art of Emceeing by Stic Man - $35.00

Bomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt - $13.95

Graffiti Women - $29.95

Graffiti World - $34.95

No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt - $13.95

Street Art and the War on Terror - $35.00

Identification & Disguise

100 Ways to Disappear and Live Free - $7.00

ACQUIRING NEW ID How to Easily Use the Latest Technology to Drop Out, Start Over, and Get On With Your Life by Ragnar Benson $20.00

Birth Certificate Fraud - $14.95

COVER YOUR TRACKS WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR IDENTITY How to Disappear Until You WANT to Be Found by B. Wilson $15.00

DISGUISE TECHNIQUES Fool All of the People Some of the Time by Edmond A. MacInaugh $18.00

Fraudulent Credentials - $15.00

Heavy Duty New Identity - $14.95

How to Change Your Identity and Erase Bad Credit - $29.95

How to Disappear in America - $20.00 (Eden)

How to Make Driver’s Licenses & Other ID on Your Home Computer - $16.00 (Eden)

I AM NOT A NUMBER! Freeing America from the ID State Revised and Expanded by Claire Wolfe $17.95

ID by Mail - $25.00 (Eden)

The ID Forger: Homemade Birth Certificates & Other Documents Explained - $18.00 (Eden)

ID Master: Little Known Tactics of Identity Change Professionals by John Q. Newman - $19.95

IDENTITY, PRIVACY, AND PERSONAL FREEDOM Big Brother v. The New Resistance by Sheldon Charrett $40.00

METHODS OF DISGUISE Revised and Expanded by John Sample $17.95

MODERN IDENTITY CHANGER How to Create a New Identity for Privacy and Personal Freedom, Revised and Updated Edition by Sheldon Charrett $25.00

NEW ID (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) How to Create a Complete New Identity $19.95

NEW ID IN AMERICA by Anonymous $18.00

The Passport Report - $40.00 (Eden)

Reborn in Canada - $16.00 (Eden)

Reborn in the U.S.A. - $18.00 (Eden)

Reborn Overseas - $16.00 (FS)

Reborn With Credit - $12.00 (FS)

RENACER EN ESTADOS UNIDOS - $15.00 (FS)

Understanding U.S. Identity Documents - $27.95 (FS)

Kids, Education & Parenting

A Kid’s Herb Book - $19.95

The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others by China Martens - $16.95

Last Child in the Woods

Teenage Liberation Handbook - $20.00

Montessori

A.S. Neil

Waldorf

Emilia Reggio

Lockpicking

ADVANCED LOCK PICKING SECRETS by Steven Hampton $20.00

CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT KEY CASTING MANUAL $15.00

COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING by Eddie the Wire $14.95

EDDIE'S IRON Best New Lock Pick Design in More Than 20 Years by Eddie the Wire $14.95

EXPERT LOCK PICKING (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) State-of-the-Art Lock Picking Secrets $59.95

Home Workshop Professional Lock Tools - $29.95

How To Fit Keys By Impressioning - $9.95

HT Open Handcuffs W/O Keys - 13.95

IMPROVISED LOCK PICKING Secrets from the Master by Steven Hampton $25.00

Improvised Lock Picks - 17.95

LOCKS, PICKS, AND CLICKS $12.00

MODERN HIGH-SECURITY LOCKS How to Open Them by Steven Hampton $20.00

OPENING COMBINATION PADLOCKS No Tools, No Problem by Carl Black $15.00

PICK GUNS Lock Picking for Spies, Cops and Locksmiths by John Minnery $20.00

Techniques for Burglar Alarm Bypassing - 16.95

Techniques of Safe & Vault Manipulation - 13.95

Techniques of Safecracking - $39.95

Loompanics

Advanced Investigative Techniques - $35.00 (limited)

Bad Girls Do It - $14.95

Beating the Check - $14.95

Black Collar Crimes - $14.95

Bodyguarding - $30.00 ($19.95 – FS)

Cao Dai Kung-Fu - $14.95

Community Technology - $9.95

Cop Killers - $16.95

Country Living Is Risky Business - $16.95

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days - $12.95

The Gas: A Novel of Sex and Violence - $14.95

Hitchhiker’s Handbook - $14.95

How to Make $$ Selling at Flea Markets - $14.95

Identity Theft: The Cyber-Crime of the Millennium - $12.95

Killer Cops - $14.95

Killer Kids - $14.95

Last Suppers - $16.95

LATE GREAT LOOMPANICS COMPILATIONS Loompanics Greatest Hits, Loompanics Golden Records, Loompanics Unlimited Live in Las Vegas and Loompanics Unlimited Conquers the Universe $29.95

The New Zealand Immigration Guide - $14.95

Pirate Radio Operations - $14.95

POLICEMAN IS YOUR FRIEND AND OTHER LIES by Ned Beaumont $8.95

Rancho Costa Nada - $14.95

Sell Yourself to Science - $9.95

Snitch - $16.95

They’re Watching You - $15.95

Undercover Work - $14.95

Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance - $12.95

Martial Arts, Fighting & Self-Defense

ADVANCED DIM-MAK The Finer Points of Death-Point Striking by Erle Montaigue $35.00

ADVANCED DRAGON'S TOUCH 20 Anatomical Targets and Techniques to Take Them Out by Master Hei Long $22.00

ALL-IN FIGHTING by Capt. W. E. Fairbairn $15.00

AMERICAN COMBAT JUDO by B.J. Cosneck $16.00

AMERICAN POLICE JIU-JITSU by S.J. Jorgensen $12.00

ANCIENT ART OF STRANGULATION by Dr. Haha Lung $20.00

ARWROLOGY All-Out Hand-to-Hand Fighting for Commandos, Military, and Civilians by Gordon E. Perrigard, M.D. $25.00

ASSASSIN! The Deadly Art of the Cult of the Assassins by Dr. Haha Lung $22.00

BARROOM BRAWLING (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) The Art of Staying Alive in Beer Joints, Biker Bars, and Other Fun Places $19.95

BLACK MEDICINE I The Dark Art of Death by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. $17.00

BLACK MEDICINE II Weapons at Hand by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. $16.00

BLACK MEDICINE III Low Blows by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. $16.00

BLACK MEDICINE IV Equalizers by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. $15.00

BLACK MEDICINE: THE VIDEO (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) Vital Targets, Maximum Punishment $29.95

THE BLACK SCIENCE Ancient and Modern Techniques of Ninja Mind Manipulation by Dr. Haha Lung and Christopher B. Prowant $17.00

Bodyguarding - $19.95

BOUNCERS GUIDE TO BARROOM BRAWLING Dealing with the Sucker Puncher, Streetfighter, and Ambusher by Peyton Quinn $21.95

Boxing’s Dirty Tricks and Outlaw Punches - $14.95

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU FIGHTING STRATEGIES by Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti, Mark Van Schuyver, PhD $30.00

BRUTAL ART OF RIPPING, POKING & PRESSING VITAL TARGETS by Loren W. Christensen $25.00

CHAMPIONSHIP STREETFIGHTING Boxing as a Martial Art by Ned Beaumont $20.00

CHEAP SHOTS, AMBUSHES, AND OTHER LESSONS A Down and Dirty Book on Streetfighting and Survival by Marc "Animal" MacYoung $25.00

CHOKE 'EM OUT 65 Chokes to End Any Fight Fast by Burton Richardson $35.00

COMBAT WITHOUT WEAPONS by Capt. E. Hartley Leather, R.C.A. $6.00

COMPLETE FIGHTER (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) Adapting Your Techniques to the Street by Joe Maffei $39.95

COMPLETE JUJITSUAN by W.H. Garrud $15.00

COMPLETE SCIENCE OF WRESTLING by George Hackenschmidt $18.00

COUNTER-BLADE CONCEPTS (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) Realistic Empty-Hand Tactics Against Edged-Weapon Attacks by Michael D. Janich $79.95

COUNTER SNIPER GUIDE $12.00

DEATH TOUCH The Science Behind the Legend of Dim-Mak by Michael Kelly , D. O. $20.00

DESPERATE MEASURES Unarmed Self-Defense against Guns, Knives, and Clubs by Michael Vassolo $15.00

DIM-MAK Death-Point Striking by Erle Montaigue $25.00

DIM-MAKS 12 MOST DEADLY KATAS Points of No Return by Erle Montaigue $25.00

EXECUTIVE PROTECTION A Professional's Guide to Bodyguarding by Benny Mares $15.00

EXTREME SELF-DEFENSE (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) Counterterrorist Tactics for the Unarmed Civilian by Vince Morris $44.95

EXTREME WING CHUN (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) A Complete Guide to Hard-Core Mook Jong, Partner, and Full-Contact Training Drills by Joseph Simonet & Addy Hernandez $89.95

FIGHTING ARTS OF INDONESIA (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) Combat Secrets of Silat and Kuntao by Bob Orlando $39.95

FIGHTING POWER How to Develop Explosive Punches, Kicks, Blocks, and Grappling by Loren Christensen $22.00

Fighting Secrets of Muay Thai DVD 3 Volume Set – $89.95

Flashlight Fighting - $10.00

Floor Fighting Stompings, Maimings, and Other Things to Avoid When a Fight Goes to the Ground - $25.00

HANDS OFF! SELF DEFENSE FOR WOMEN by Maj. W.E. Fairbairn $15.00

HOSTILE GROUND Defusing and Restraining Violent Behavior and Physical Assaults by Edward Lewis $20.00

HOW TO BE AN ASS-WHIPPING BOXER by Champ Thomas, Jay C. "Champ" Thomas $18.95

HOW TO BOX by Terry McGovern, James Corbett, J Gardner Smith and Gus E. & Artie R. Keeley $18.00

HOW TO BREAK INTO PRO WRESTLING Judo Gene LeBells Insider Guide to the Biz by "Judo" Gene LeBell with Mark Jacobs $20.00

HOW TO FIGHT TOUGH by Jack Dempsey $15.00

INDONESIAN FIGHTING FUNDAMENTALS The Brutal Arts of the Archipelago by Bob Orlando $40.00

INTERROGATION Techniques and Tricks to Secure Evidence $14.00

Into the Primitive: Advanced Trapping Techniques - $20.00

KILL-AS-CATCH-CAN Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting by Ned Beaumont $16.95

Knuckles and Gloves - $29.95

LOW KICKS Aiming Low for Maximum Punishment in Unarmed Combat by Fred Hutchinson $14.00

MASTER'S GUIDE TO BASIC SELF-DEFENSE Progressive Retraining of the Reflexive Response by Master Hei Long $18.00

MODERN FENCING A Comprehensive Manual for the Foil, the Épée, the Sabre by Clovis Deladrier $35.00

MUAY THAI KICKBOXING The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning Training and Fighting by Chad Boykin $45.00

NO SECOND CHANCE! Disarming the Armed Assailant by Bradley J. Steiner $18.00

ON COMBAT The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Combat in War and in Peace by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen $24.95

ONE STRIKE, ONE KILL (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) The Deadliest of Karate's Deadly Blows by Vince Morris $49.95

ONE-STRIKE STOPPING POWER How to Win Street Confrontations with Speed and Skill by Frank Albert $20.00

100 DEADLIEST KARATE MOVES by Dr. Ted Gambordella $18.00

1,001 STREET FIGHTING SECRETS The Principles of Contemporary Fighting Arts by Sammy Franco $42.00

POOL CUES, BEER BOTTLES, AND BASEBALL BATS Animal's Guide to Improvised Weapons for Self-Defense and Survival by Marc "Animal" MacYoung $20.00

PRESSURE POINT JUJITSU (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) Secrets of Integrating Vital-Point Striking and Grappling into the Ultimate Martial Art by Kyoshi Cardo Urso $39.95

PROFESSIONALS GUIDE TO ENDING VIOLENCE QUICKLY How Bouncers, Bodyguards, and Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations by Marc "Animal" MacYoung $22.00

RESTRAINT AND CONTROL FOR SECURITY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS – 39.95

RIOT A Behind-the Barricades Tour of Mobs, Riot Cops, and the Chaos of Crowd Violence – 25.00

RIOT PREVENTION AND CONTROL A Police Officer's Guide to Managing Violent and Nonviolent Crowds – 20.00

Silent Death by Uncle Fester - $20.00

Media, Law & Philosophy

Derrick Jensen

A Language Older Than Words - $20.00

Welcome to the Machine - $18.00

As the World Burns - $14.95

Endgame Vol. I - $20.95

Engame Vol. II - $20.95

Culture of Make Believe - $25.00

Culture of Make Believe SIGNED - $35.00

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution - $15.00 paperback

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution SIGNED - $35.00

Listening to the Land - $20.00

Listening to the Land SIGNED - $25.00

Strangely Like War - $15.00

Strangely Like War SIGNED - $25.00

How Shall I Live My Life – by Derrick Jensen & Others - $20.00

Now This War Has Two Sides CD - $19.99

John Zerzan

EMERGENCY RADIO Scanning News as It Happens by Norm Schrein $19.95

Myth of Natural Rights - $12.95

Natural Law by Robert Anton Wilson - $14.95

Popular Guide to Building a Community FM Broadcast Station - $6.00

Pirate Radio Operations - $14.95

RADIO MONITORING The How-To Guide – 21.95

Resist Not Evil by Clarence Darrow - $12.95

SCANNERS & SECRET FREQUENCIES – 24.95

Unconditional Freedom - $16.95

Robert McChesney

Neil Postman

Bell Hooks – Teaching Community - $22.95

Foucault

Baudrillard

Virillio

Money & Business

A Guide to Business Credit for WOmen, Minorities, and Small Businesses - $5.00 (Eden)

ART AND SCIENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING Inside the Commerce of the International Narcotics Traffickers by Brett F. Woods $25.00

Bankruptcy for Profit - $10.00 (Eden)

BEAT THE BILL COLLECTOR How to Obtain Freedom from Your Debt by Max Edison $14.00

Black Market Operations - $14.95

Book Dealers’ Dropship Directory - $15.00 (Eden)

Complete Guide to Offshore Money Havens - $30.00 (Eden)

Complete Tax Audit Guide - $15.00 (Eden)

Disinherit the IRS - $10.00

Ditching Your Debts - $14.95

Economic Sodomy - $14.95

Getting Started in the Underground Economy - $14.95

Hidden Economy - $12.95

How Not to Pay Your Bill Collectors - $16.00 (Eden)

How to Avoid Foreclosure - $3.00 (Eden)

How to Cut Your Property Taxes - $10.00 (Eden)

How To Do Business Off the Books by Adam Cash - $14.95

How to Get Free Publicity for Your Business - $9.00 (Eden)

How to Legally Hide Your Money in Switzerland - $10.00 (Eden)

How to Make Any Expense Tax-Deductible - $10.00

How to Open a Foreign Bank Account Close to Home - $29.00 (Eden)

How to Open a Tax-Free Swiss Money Market Account - $15.00 (Eden)

How to Say Goodbye to Debt Forever - $15.00 (Eden)

Internet Auctions: A Guide for Buyers and Sellers - $5.00

INVESTING OFFSHORE Secrets of Asset Protection by Robert Forbush Sr. $15.00

The Irish Advantage - $15.00 (Eden)

KEEP WHAT YOU OWN Protect Your Money, Property, and Family from Courts, Creditors, and the IRS by Adam Starchild $18.00

LIFE AFTER DEBT The Complete Credit Restoration Kit by Bob Hammond $35.00

The Limited Liability Company - $10.00 (Eden)

National Wholesale Buying Catalog - $9.00 (Eden)

Nevada as Your Corporate Home - $10.00 (Eden)

Personal Privacy Through Foreign Investing - $12.95

PORTABLE WEALTH The Complete Guide to Precious Metals Investment by Adam Starchild $14.00

Ragnar’s Guide to the Underground Economy - $18.00

Shadow Merchants - $12.95

U.S. Government Auction Sales: An Insider’s Guide - $10.00

War-Tax Resistance - $15.00

World Buyer’s Guide to Unusual and Innovative Products - $15.00 (Eden)

Mushrooms

Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets - $45.00

Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets SIGNED - $60.00

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets – $35.00

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets SIGNED – $50.00

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets - $32.50

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets SIGNED - $50.00

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts - $16.95

Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home by Paul Stamets - $34.95

Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home by Paul Stamets SIGNED - $50.00

Occult

COP’S GUIDE TO OCCULT INVESTIGATIONS Understanding Satanism, Santeria, Wicca, and Other Alternative Religions by Tony M. Kail $25.00

Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader - $16.95

PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA Or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst $10.00

Aleister Crowley

Prisons

BEHIND PRISON WALLS The Real World of Working in Todays Prisons by Tom Martin $20.00

The Big House: Life in American Prisons - $19.95

The Convict Cookbook - $24.95

Prison-ese - $12.95

Privacy and Security

Affordable Security - $39.00

BASEMENT BUGGERS BIBLE The Professional's Guide to Creating, Building, and Planting Custom Bugs and Wiretaps by Shifty Bugman $50.00

BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES by Jack Luger $14.95

BUG BOOK Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Electronic Eavesdropping . . . But Were Afraid to Ask by M.L. Shannon $35.00

Construction of Secret Hiding Places - 15.95

DON'T BE A VICTIM! How to Protect Yourself from Hoaxes, Scams, and Frauds by Michael Chesbro $12.95

The Eden Directory of Private Maildrops - $20.00 (Eden)

ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE AND WIRELESS NETWORK HACKING Protecting Your Privacy in a Wired and Wi-Fi World by M.L. Shannon & Steve Uhrig $25.00

HOW BIG BROTHER INVESTIGATES YOU Keeping Your Trail Clean $15.00

LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING How It's Done and Simple Ways to Prevent It by Tom Larsen $18.00

Maritime Terror: Protecting Yourself, Your Vessel and Your Crew Against Piracy - $14.00

POOR MANS FORT KNOX Home Security with Inexpensive Safes by Duncan Long $15.00

PRIVACY FOR SALE How Big Brother and Others Are Selling Your Private Secrets for Profit by Michael E. Chesbro $20.00

PRIVACY HANDBOOK Proven Countermeasures for Combating Threats to Privacy, Security, and Personal Freedom by Michael Chesbro $25.00

Privacy: How to Get it, How to Enjoy It - $20.00 (Eden)

Stickers

Survival & Emergency

BEST OF THE BACKWOODSMAN by Charile Richie $15.00

Big Book of Self Reliant Living - 19.95

COMMUNICATIONS FOR SURVIVAL AND SELF-RELIANCE by Michael E. Chesbro $30.00

CONTINGENCY CANNIBALISM Superhardcore Survivalisms Dirty Little Secret by Shiguro Takada $20.00

EXTREME SURVIVAL ALMANAC Everything You Need to Know to Live Through a Shipwreck, Plane Crash, or Any Outdoor Crisis Imaginable by Reid Kincaid $50.00

FISTS, WITS, AND A WICKED RIGHT Surviving on the Wild Side of the Street by Marc "Animal" MacYoung $20.00

Internet Guide to Survival and Self-Reliance - $20.00

LIFE AFTER DOOMSDAY by Bruce D. Clayton, Ph.D. $29.95

LIFE AFTER TERRORISM What You Need to Know to Survive in Today's World by Bruce D. Clayton, Ph.D. $21.95

LIVE OFF THE LAND IN THE CITY AND COUNTRY by Ragnar Benson $25.00

LONG-TERM SURVIVAL IN THE COMING DARK AGE Preparing to Live after Society Crumbles by James Ballou; Foreword by Ragnar Benson $22.00

MODERN SURVIVAL RETREAT A New and Vital Approach to Retreat Theory and Practice by Ragnar Benson $16.00

NEVER SAY DIE The Canadian Air Force Survival Manual $20.00

Poor Man’s James Bond Volume I - $34.95

Poor Man's James Bond Vol. II - 34.95

Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival - 24.95

Protect Yourself Against Terrorism - $14.95

Ragnar’s Action Encyclopedia – 40.00

Ragnar’s Action Encyclopedia Vol. II – 40.00

RAGNAR'S URBAN SURVIVAL A Hard-Times Guide to Staying Alive in the City – 20.00

RECOGNIZING AND TREATING EXPOSURE TO ANTHRAX, SMALLPOX, NERVE GAS, RADIATION, AND OTHER LIKELY AGENTS OF TERRORIST ATTACK – 15.00

SAFE IN THE CITY – 25.95

Secrets of Street Survival: Israeli Style - $30.00

SELF-RELIANCE DURING NATURAL DISASTERS AND CIVIL UNREST – 26.00

Street Smarts for the New Millennium - $15.00

SURVIVAL AT SEA – 17.95

SURVIVALIST'S MEDICINE CHEST by Ragnar Benson – 14.00

Wilderness Evasion - $20.00

Sustainability, Environment & Gardening

Bloodlust Chickens and Renegade Sheep - $16.95

Building Green - $29.95

Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva - $15.00

Green Hermeticism: Alchemy & Ecology - $20.00

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades - $21.95

Guerilla Gardening: A Manual-festo - $19.95

Home Composting Made Easy - $3.95

Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West - $22.50

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka - $19.95

Plants of the Pacific Northwest by Pojar & McKinnon - $24.95

Warfare

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military - $14.95

AUSTRALIAN GUERRILLA The Scout by Ion L. Idriess $15.00

COUNTERINSURGENCY FM 3-24 (2006) by U.S. Army $35.00

FIGHT AT NIGHT Tools, Techniques, Tactics, and Training for Combat in Low Light and Darkness by Andy Stanford $22.00

KILLING ZONE A Professional's Guide to Preparing or Preventing Ambushes by Gary Stubblefield and Mark Monday $27.00

KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS Secrets of the World's Deadliest Night Fighters by Dr. Haha Lung $16.00

MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER A Guide to Mercenary War, Money, and Adventure by Paul Balor $25.00

MINIMANUAL OF THE URBAN GUERRILLA by Carlos Marighella $10.00

Night Movements - 17.95

150 QUESTIONS FOR A GUERRILA by Gen. Alberto Bayo $12.00

Science of Revolutionary Warfare - 16.95

SELECTIVE ASSASSINATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POLICY – 20.00

Silencing Sentries - $14.95

Weapons and Tactics - $14.95

Working in a War Zone - $20.00 (Paladin)

Weaponry & Tools

.45 ACP Super Guns - $29.95

ADVANCED BOWIE TECHNIQUES The Finer Points of Fighting with a Large Knife by Dwight C. McLemore $35.00

AK47 The Complete Kalashnikov Family of Assault Rifles by Duncan Long $20.00

Armed Defense - $16.95

ARMED-CITIZEN SOLUTION TO CRIME IN THE STREETS So Many Criminals, So Few Bullets by Mack Tanner $25.00

ART OF THE RIFLE by Jeff Cooper $22.00

Art of Throwing Weapons – 14.00

BACKYARD CATAPULTS How to Build Your Own by Bill Wilson $10.00

BALISONG The Lethal Art of Filipino Knife Fighting by Sid Campbell, Sonny Umpad and Gary Cagaanan $16.00

BASIC MANUAL OF KNIFE FIGHTING by William L. Cassidy $6.00

BAZOOKA How to Build Your Own by Anthony Lewis $10.00

BEYOND PEPPER SPRAY The Complete Guide to Chemical Agents, Delivery Systems, and Protective Masks by Michael E. Conti $34.95

Black Book of Improvised Munitions Vol. I - $17.95

Black Book of Improvised Munitions Vol. II - $17.95

Black Book of Improvised Munitions Vol. III - $17.95

Blademaster - $14.00

Bloody Brazilian Knife Fightin’ by Uncle Fester - $20.00

Bloody Brazilian Knife Fightin’ by Uncle Fester SIGNED - $35.00

BLOWGUNS The Breath of Death by Michael D. Janich $15.00

Book of the Pistol and Revolver – $24.95

BROADSWORD AND SINGLESTICK With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking Stick, Umbrella, and Other Weapons of Self-Defense by R.C. Allanson-Winn, C. Phillipps-Wolley $16.00

CIA CATALOG OF CLANDESTINE WEAPONS, TOOLS, AND GADGETS by John Minnery $20.00

CODEX WALLERSTEIN A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling by Grzegorz Zabinski with Bartlomiej Walczak $45.00

COLD STEEL by John Styers; text by Karl Schuon $19.95

The Colt .45 Auto Pistol - 13.95

COMPLETE BLADESMITH Forging Your Way to Perfection by Jim Hrisoulas $42.95

COMPLETE BOOK OF KNIFE FIGHTING by William L. Cassidy $25.00

CONCEALABLE POCKET PISTOLS How to Choose and Use Small-Caliber Handguns by Terence McLeod $14.00

COWBOY ACTION PISTOL SHOOTING Secrets of Fast and Accurate Gunplay by Charles Stephens $15.00

CUTTING TARGETS WITH THE JAPANESE SWORD Practical Tameshigiri and Battodo for the Modern Swordsman by Richard W. Babin, BS, M.D. $30.00

David's Tool Kit - 29.95

DISGUISED WEAPONS The Law Enforcement Guide to Covert Guns, Knives, and Other Weapons by Craig S. Meissner $25.00

DIY Gunpowder - 17.95

DO-IT-YOURSELF GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK by Don McLean $12.00

DUELING WITH THE SWORD AND PISTOL 400 Years of One-on-One Combat by Paul Kirchner $29.95

Exotic Weapons of the Ninja – 25.00

FBI GUIDE TO CONCEALABLE WEAPONS $15.00

THE FILIPINO FIGHTING WHIP Advanced Training Methods and Combat Applications by Tom Meadows $20.00

FINGERTIP FIREPOWER Pen Guns, Knives, and Bombs by John Minnery $20.00

FLEXIBLE WEAPONS by John Sanchez $12.00

GUERRILLA GUNSMITHING Quick and Dirty Methods for Fixing Firearms in Desperate Times by Ragnar Benson $20.00

HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK Quick and Dirty Homemade Silencers by George Hayduke $15.00

HOME WORKSHOP KNIFEMAKING (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) Making Utility and Defensive Knives on a Budget by Wally Hayes $79.95

Home Workshop Silencers - 24.95

HOME WORKSHOP SPY Spookware for the Serious Hobbyist by Nick Chiaroscuro $25.00

HOME WORKSHOP WEAPONRY (video - VHS, NTSC/U.S. standard) A Video Guide to Building Your Own Guns by Bill Holmes $29.95

HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO by Ronald B. Brown $14.95

HOMEMADE MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING EQUIPMENT A Do-It-Yourself Guide by Michael D. Janich $20.00

HT Build Your Own Bazooka - 11.95

Improvised Weapons of the American Underground - 14.95

Jane's Gun Recognition Guide - 24.95

KNIFE FIGHTING A Practical Course by Michael D. Janich $20.00

KNIVES, KNIFE FIGHTING, AND RELATED HASSLES How to Survive a Real Knife Fight by Marc "Animal" MacYoung $15.00

KNUCKLE DUSTERS AND KNUCKLE KNIVES $24.95

Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance - $50.00

LOGIC OF STEEL A Fighter’s View of Blade and Shank Encounters by James LaFond $24.00

MAKING IT STICK (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard) How to Throw Edged and Improvised Weapons for Sport and Self-Defense by Michael D. Janich $39.95

MASTER BLADESMITH Advanced Studies in Steel by Jim Hrisoulas $46.00

MASTER OF THE BLADE Secrets of the Deadly Art of Knife Fighting by Richard Ryan $20.00

MEDIEVAL COMBAT A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer; Translated by Mark Rector; Introduction by John Clements $29.95

MEDIEVAL SWORDSMANSHIP Illustrated Methods and Techniques by John Clements $40.00

MODERN SWORDSMAN Realistic Training for Serious Self-Defense by Fred Hutchinson $22.00

MODERN WEAPONS CACHING A Down-to-Earth Approach to Beating the Government Gun Grab by Ragnar Benson $15.00

NEW BULLWHIP BOOK by Andrew Conway $12.95

PANANANDATA History and Techniques of the Daga, Yantok, Balisong, and Other Traditional Weapons of the Philippines by Amante P. Marinas, Sr. $25.00

PEPPER SPRAYS Practical Self-Defense for Anyone, Anywhere by Doug Lamb $16.00

Poor Man's RPG - 24.95

Potato Bazooka - 15.95

Ragnar's Action Encyclopedia Vol. I - 44.95

Ragnar's Action Encyclopedia Vol. II Revised - 44.95

Ragnar’s Ten Best Traps - $20.00

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS – 22.00

SCOURGE OF THE DARK CONTINENT – 8.95

Secret Guide to Making Ninja Weapons - 15.95

The Sling for Sport and Survival - $8.95

SPECIALTY POLICE MUNITIONS The Hottest New Specialty Ammunition, Weapons Platforms, Devices, and Chemical Agents for Real-World Law Enforcement – 35.00

TOMAHAWKS – 15.00

Whole Spy Catalog – 44.95

Workbench Silencers - 18.95

Zips Pipes and Pens - $19.95

Zapatistas

Our Word Is Our Weapon – Subcommandante Marcos - $17.95

Zines & Pamphlets

20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity - $2.00

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance - $6.00

A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance - $1.00

A Warning to Students of All Ages by Raoul Vaneigem - $10.00

A Zine About Women’s Self Defense - $3.00

Anarchism: Ideology and Same-Sex Desire - $2.50

Anarchism Vs. Primitivism - $3.50

Anarchism: What It Is and What It Isn’t - $1.00

Anarchist Individualism and Amorous Camaraderie - $10.00

Anarchist Organisation - $2.50

Art and Science of Billboard Improvement - $3.00

Art and Subversion by Thomas Gentry - $10.00

Basic Bakunin - $2.00

Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism - $3.00

Capitalism is Not Free Enterprise - $2.00

Capitalist System by Michael Bakunin - $3.00

Commune in Chiapas - $5.00

For Community - $2.00

I Ask That A Small Piece of Your Heart Be Zapatista - $2.00

Introduction to Anarchist Feminism - $3.00

Libertarian Communism - $2.50

Mapping Our Green Anarchist Future - $3.00

Noam Chomsky Raps w/ Michael Albert - $3.50

On the Poverty of Student Life - $3.00

Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - $3.00

Power and Liberty by Leo Tolstoy - $3.00

Prison Industrial Complex - $3.00

Stolen Sharpie Revolution - $6.00

Story of a Proletarian Life by Vanzetti - $2.50

The Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest - $3.50

Thoughts on Liberation – An Anarchist Dictionary - $3.00

Why I Am Not A Mormon - $2.50

Women in the Zapatistas - $3.50

World Behind Bars – Expansion of the American Prison Sell - $3.00

Interviews and Articles on Alibris

2007-05-03T20:47:00.000-07:00

It's always good to research the people you're doing business with. That's one thing the internet gives the independent bookseller that the big corporate dogs don't get, anonymity. To them we're just little insects they make pennies off of but we can see them for the towering, teetering giants that they are.

How about a little Online Independent Booksellers Union to drive down the percentages the big corporate bookstores steal from us just for being the middleman. Since when does the middleman get to call all the shots? If all the independent stores banded together and withdrew their inventories from the web in a concerted effort on the same day, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Borders, all the big guys would lose millions of dollars. Just think of it!

When they force my account closed I'm going to use this post as evidence in court.

http://journal.bookfinder.com/archives/category/alibrisinterloc/

Interview with Michael Schaffer, CTO, Alibris
10/27/2006 04:41 mins

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WEATHERFORD, FOUNDER, AND MARTY MANLEY, PRESIDENT AND CEO, OF ALIBRIS

A Conversation with Dick Weatherford of Alibris

Industry Interview
Brian Elliott, Chief Operating Officer, Alibris, Inc.

An Interview with Alibris' A.J. Kohn

This is from back in 1999 from http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/net-news/99-11/99-11-23/0006.html

USED-BOOKSELLER ALIBRIS TO PLEAD GUILTY TO INTERCEPTING AMAZON.COM'S E-MAIL
Issue: E-commerce
Alibris (www.alibris.com), a rare-book dealer based in Emeryville,
California, said it will plead guilty to intercepting e-mail messages
from Amazon.com, the Seattle-based industry leader. According to court
documents filed by federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Boston
yesterday, Alibris captured and stored more than 4,000 e-mail messages
in an attempt to collect intelligence on the market. The interceptions
were possible because Alibris provided e-mail service for the book dealers.
Marty Manley, Alibris' chief operating officer, expects to pay a $250,000
fine to end the case. Manley admits his firm violated the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act, but denied that the information was taken for
a devious purpose or was ever misused. Amazon says they will still use
Alibris, as they need its services.
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Glenn R. Simpson]
(http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB943305134720688183.htm)

Postage Hikes

2007-04-19T10:07:00.000-07:00

Small presses and Zinesters could be royally fucked.

more at:

Last Word Books

&

Earthlight Books

12th Annual Anarchist Book Fair

2007-03-29T22:24:00.000-07:00

Damn, I wanted to make it to this year's conference. Ah well. We'll drop the Loompanics bomb on them next year I suppose. This article isn't all that great but I couldn't find many reports on how the Fair actually went. Here's an entry about the first day from The SF Book Fair's website, complete with the first day's interviews on video with some radical individuals. See you there?

by Jen Thomas, staff writer for The Golden Gate Express Online.

Hundreds of anarchists, socialists, and activists gathered at the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park this weekend for the 12th annual Anarchist Book Fair.

Attendees, mostly in all black attire and some sporting blue mohawks, began pouring into the park at 10 a.m. on Saturday, where thousands of books were available for purchase. Titles included everything from the uncensored version of "The Jungle" to "Chomsky on Anarchism".

The fairground’s cafeteria also housed a medley of free controversial literature. Entire books were photocopied and touched on topics such as homemade guns and ammunition, driving techniques for escape and evasion and setting fires with electrical timers.

“I bought some cheap Dostoevsky, but I’m here more for the free stuff,” said Neil Smith, 24, a first time attendee of the anarchist event. “But I avoided the free bootleg books on how to make home explosives.”

Bookstores, college outreach programs and other volunteer groups sold books at the fair, for a profit or to raise money for a positive cause.

Students from Sonoma State University manned a booth and sold literature on issues they deemed underreported on in the media.

“The genocide in the Congo is neglected by journalists,” said Andy Roth, professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. “Serious business interests are protected by suppressing this issue.”

Keith McHenry passed out free pamphlets to promote his all-volunteer organization, Food Not Bombs, which provides food and supplies to survivors of terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

“We were the people who fed Katrina,” said McHenry. “We had a kitchen set up in New Orleans two days after the hurricane.”

The event, which spanned both Saturday and Sunday, doubled as a forum for panelist discussions.

Author Josh MacPhee held a discussion on his book, "Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority", in the cafeteria, which served as the auditorium for the event. MacPhee views his book as an instrumental conceptual tool, and hopes it will incite discussion on anarchist art.

“There are very few people involved in the dialogue,” said MacPhee. “And I think that needs to broaden and change.”

Despite the events' name, not all in attendance considered themselves anarchists.

“I definitely hold some anarchist beliefs,” said Kevin Stolle, 22, communications major at Sonoma State University. “But I don’t know if I fit the anarchist definition.”

Anarchism was widely viewed, at the event, as the absence of an oppressive government. Attendees sought to dispel the common conception that anarchy definitively equates to lawlessness.

“[Anarchism] is not necessarily about chaos,” said MacPhee. “It’s largely about organization. The society we live in now is actually more chaotic.”

College Fraternities vs. the Textbook Industry

2007-03-21T23:54:00.000-07:00

This site's rather odd but they have some interesting material. http://www.lewrockwell.com/

"If you were an executive with a large book publishing company, and you were in charge of the college textbook division, how would you deal with this multi-phase problem?

(1) The bid/ask arbitrage opportunity: College students must pay 10 to 15 cents per page to buy new textbooks that cost a penny a page to print and deliver. College bookstores receive a mere 10% to 15% discount. This is the most captive market in publishing. It is the ultimate cash cow, and has been since 1946. Cash cows are tempting to milk.

(2) The technological revolution: A scanner costs $70. A copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro costs $450, but about $250 in a campus bookstore. With these two products, you can make a clear digital copy of any book: a PDF file.

(3) The World Wide Web: A document can be posted on-line, anywhere on earth, and can be accessed in seconds from anywhere on earth. Server space is cheap. For example, I have almost 100 books on-line, which costs me $5/month (www.freebooks.com). I could have 500 or 1,000 books on-line for that price. My server is in Germany, I think: www.1and1.com. All it takes for a search engine to find a searchable PDF file is an HTML link to the file. This can be posted anywhere on the site.

(4) The division of labor: A fraternity member could scan in a textbook in about 8 hours, depending on the speed of the scanner. Recently initiated members could be required to do this as part of initiation week. There are lots of campuses and lots of fraternities. They are bound by oaths of silence.

...

There are about 15 million full-time college students in the United States. They would no longer be a captive audience. How long would it take for word to get out? There would be blog sites monitoring the appearance of new sites, updated sites, moved sites, and the latest textbooks.

As a book-publishing executive, what could you do to stop this?

If companies are not forthright with investors about a practical counter-strategy, investors should conclude that the stocks of these firms are likely candidates for shorting.

There would be one great winner. Hewlett-Packard's toner cartridge division would become even more profitable.

CONCLUSION

The copyright laws are not going to survive in their present form. Neither is the publishing industry.

Read More...

The Dragon's Take on Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

2007-03-15T14:11:00.000-07:00

I always like the Dragon's 'tude when he posts. Plus Anthony Bourdain kicks ass. Word up to Tod and his chef buddies in Seattle for turning me onto his delectable culinary arts and nefarious wit. Oh, and Dragon? Don't ever mention Borders again or we'll dismember you and flavor some sea water with yer bones. Arrrrhhh!

...By way of explaining my personal aesthic to other creative friends, I use to say that I wanted to be the love child of Captain Kangaroo and William S. Burroughs. I want to synthesize a certain sense of whimsy, with a darker, edgier side. In the culinary arts, Alton Brown represents the geeky, playful side of that equation. The edgier, more punk side is best represented by Anthony Bourdain. And fortunately for me, Borders had his Les Halles Cookbook in stock.
Now, I've never really had any aspirations to master French cuisine. I always viewed it as hoity-toity and pretentious. My predilictions have always been towards simple, basic peasant fare, with perhaps a little something extra added, but built on a solid working class foundation. Of course, the more I have managed the kitchen in our household, the more this working class frugality has led me to do things like save every bone that comes off a plate. I'm using more and more stock in my cooking, and it seems ridiculous to pay the exorbitant prices grocery stores ask for what tastes like sea water with a hint of meat flavor...Read More...

Big Postal Changes Don't Sit Well With This Independent Bookseller

2007-03-08T10:38:00.000-08:00

This does not bode well for the independent book world, good old HR6407, Bush's Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act: Bush's Postal Signing Statement - Great, so now they can just open our mail without a judge's warrent?

" No letter of such a class of domestic origin shall be opened except under authority of a search warrant authorized by law, or by an officer or employee of the Postal Service for the sole purpose of determining an address at which the letter can be delivered, or pursuant to the authorization of the addressee.

The intent of Congress seems to be to ensure that domestic mail remains a private communication. But in the signing statement, President Bush said he would ignore the law and 'conduct searches in exigent circumstances.'

What is an "exigent circumstance"? It's a legal term, and it means, in lay terms, "emergency." Interestingly, Attorney General Gonzales noted in 2005 that only in a rare circumstance could the government open mail in 'an emergency.' "

Could you be a little more confusing?

More here: Fight Bush & management's attacks on postal workers!

Add to that Boing Boing's disturbing/funny reportage of the sudden absence of clocks in 37,000 of our nation's post offices and I smell an over-arching conspiracy. Or maybe my girls just have shit in their diapers again.

But I've always considered postal employees to be the pinnacle of government workers and members of the least corrupt and most efficient government organization on the planet. No wonder Bush wants to take power away from them too, he must be jealous!

Seriously though, when my rebellion gets rollin' I'm recruiting all the postal employees right off the bat. Get them and the dock workers and the young parents and you've got yourself a revolution!

Darwin's Origin of Species now an Audiobook!

2007-03-03T17:38:00.000-08:00

Thanks Boing Boing.

All hail the flying spaghetti monster!

Etymonline - An entertaining word game

2007-02-21T00:34:00.000-08:00

A shout out from Honky Tonk Dragon

2007-02-09T17:11:00.000-08:00

Thanks Ben!

"

Last of Loompanics' Books

Gotta make sure you get your Harry Potter fix ASAP, so you pre-ordered using the link below? But now, you're feeling a little guilty because that purchase took money away from an independant bookseller who is just barely scraping by?

Well bruthas and sistas, Rev. Dragon has the route for the absolution of your literary sins!

The Dragon's good buddies over at the Hungry Hollow Book Farm, have managed by hook and crook to get their hands on what remains of the now defunct Loompanics Press's stock.

I know for sure they still have copies of the Loompanics' edition of the Principia Discordia, and here's just a small taste of some of the titles in their stash:

Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam $14.25

Check Fraud Investigation $22.50

Close Shaves: The Complete Book of Razor Fighting $75.00

Combat Knife Throwing $25.00

Community Technology $10.00

Comparative Data: State and Provincial Licensing Systems $49.95

Complete guide to science ficiton conventions $14.50

That's right kiddoes, instructions on building a new identity, building siege engines, hacking computers, all kinds of forbidden information is available from Pirate Papa and his book pirate cronies. Proceeds go to feed and shelter these lovely ladies, so don't hesitate to go purchase some titles that will make your mother and George Bush cringe.

And if you tell 'em that the Dragon sent ya, they just might send a little love my way...

(Yes, many of these titles are for informational purposes only, as well as not intended for minors, all other disclaimers apply. Your mileage may vary.)

"Alternadad" Leads Daddy Book Deluge

2007-02-09T17:03:00.000-08:00

"I'm a new dad. I can type. I used to be cool (if you count watching Lorelai totally tear Emily a new one, that is). I'm trying to figure it all out. I want a book deal! According to the Boston Herald, daddy books are the new black. Or at least the new mommy books. Neal Pollack's new and so-far excellent "Alternadad" is at the top of the diaper heap."

Thanks Strollerderby and Pirate Papa!

Free Episodes of Black Books!

2007-02-07T15:15:00.000-08:00

Dug up a link to the British sitcom Black Books where you can stream all the episodes for free! If yer into that sort of thing then check out the mother of all such sites. As a bookseller I found the parts of this show dealing directly with the bookstore hilarious and much of the rest a little silly, with the exception of Bernard's brilliant character, quirky vocabulary and body language. Judge for yourself, but overall a funny show that touches on the book world with memorable cynicism.

Wiki's list of essential anarchist books

2007-01-31T12:24:00.000-08:00

Here's Wiki's page on my favorite anarchist printer/author, Fredy Perlman.

and an excerpt from his book Against His-Story, Against Civilization:

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night. (M. Arnold)

Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain...(T.S. Eliot)

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France....

And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliations.

Hic Rhodus! This is the place to jump, the place to dance! This is the wilderness! Was there ever any other? This is savagery! Do you call it freedom? This is barbarism! The struggle for survival is right here. Haven't we always known it? Isn't this a public secret? Hasn't it always been the big public secret?

It remains a secret. It is publicly known but not avowed. Publicly the wilderness is elsewhere, barbarism is abroad, savagery is on the face of the other. The dry sterile thunder without rain, the confused alarms of struggle and flight, are projected outward, into the great unknown, across the seas and over the mountains. We're on the side with the angels...Read More..."

as well as an online collection of some of his writings

and Black and Red Books

Strange Books

2007-01-11T01:09:00.000-08:00

Links courtesy of Provence Unknown

Museum of Weird Books

Amazon's list of the strangest books ever written

Book on Educational Wooden Toys

2006-12-23T19:59:00.000-08:00

It's only $75.00, shit. But it's a beautiful book!

Edu-Toy: Edutainment Toy Series vol. 1 wood
Naef and European Wooden Toys

Author & Publisher: Mikado Koyanagi, Co Ito, Japan
Pages: 160
Edition: Softcover
Year: 2004
Text: Japanese
Size: 8 1/4"
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated in color.
Condition: New

Wonderful rare book published in Japan about the best educational wooden toys that were ever made. Includes current- and out of production toys by Naef, Antionio Vitali, Kathrin Kiener, Selecta, Keller, Breitschwerdt, Creative Playthings, Dusyma, Carstens, Profuond and many more! Fabulous book for collectors and parents who want to give their kids the best educational toy available!

2006-12-12T04:28:00.000-08:00
Slap together bookshelves at Target, approx. 3 for $100, twice over now. Boards from Lumberman's, six 6'ers for $46, milk crates swiped and bartered for from gas stations across this bioregion we call Cascadia.

Eamon works his little pitooty off every few weeks and enters another hundred books. I build shelves, push papers and email around, add links to existing websites, shirk duties and responsibilities like a duck dislikes water off its back. Slowly, slowly, we build this empire-to-be. Stay tuned. I will one day hire all the readers of this blog, how's that for a carrot to be dangled in the face of racing life?

Breaking News from the clandestine book front!

2006-09-21T20:24:00.000-07:00

LOOMPANICS LIVES!

Loompanics' website is still up with all their old articles and offers links to 13 places you can still acquire their books! Sky Cosby of Earthlight Books and Last Word Books has almost 200 titles stockpiled if you're looking for somethin' scarce. e-mail earthlightbooks(at)gmail.com for a full list.

Paladin acquires 40 titles from the late, great Loompanics Unlimited

The news that Loompanics Unlimited had decided to close its doors after 30 years in business caught us as much off guard as it did everyone else. Founder Mike Hoy chalks up his decision to increased competition from such giants as Amazon and Barnes & Noble as well as simple burnout. He is ready to retire.

We at Paladin Press have always admired the fearless Loompanics. After all, there just aren’t that many publishers in the country who produce books that even we wouldn’t touch! But when we heard the news, it didn’t take long for us to strike a deal to acquire the rights to publish 40 titles we considered good fits for the Paladin catalog.

Paladin welcomes Claire Wolfe, Eddie the Wire, and all the other Loompanics authors to our house, and we extend our best wishes to our good friends Mike Hoy and the entire Loompanics staff. Here is a complete list of Loompanics titles being revived by Paladin . . .

THE LATE GREAT LOOMPANICS COMPILATIONS
BACKYARD CATAPULTS
THE BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
BOXING'S DIRTY TRICKS AND OUTLAW KILLER PUNCHES
COMBAT KNIFE THROWING
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
DEEP INSIDE THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
DON'T BE A VICTIM!
DRINK AS MUCH AS YOU WANT AND LIVE LONGER
EDDIE'S IRON
THE FREEDOM OUTLAW’S HANDBOOK
GUNS SAVE LIVES
HOME WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
HOW TO BE AN ASS-WHIPPING BOXER
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR
HOW TO HIDE THINGS IN PUBLIC PLACES
HOW TO KILL THE JOB CULTURE BEFORE IT KILLS YOU
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
I AM NOT A NUMBER!
THE ID MASTER
KILL-AS-CATCH-CAN
LIVING NAKED AND FRUGAL
METHODS OF DISGUISE
MODERN FRAUDS AND CON GAMES
THE NEW BULLWHIP BOOK
OUT OF BUSINESS
THE POLICEMAN IS YOUR FRIEND AND OTHER LIES
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
RANCHO COSTA NADA
SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR THE MASSES
THE SCOURGE OF THE DARK CONTINENT
THE SLING
THE SUNSTONE SUPERSTOVE
SURVIVING ON THE STREETS
TECHNIQUES OF SECRET WARFARE
THE TEMP WORKER'S GUIDE TO SELF-FULFILLMENT
THINK FREE TO LIVE FREE
ÜBERHACKER II MORE WAYS TO BREAK INTO A COMPUTER
UNDER THE TABLE AND INTO YOUR POCKET
THE WILD AND FREE COOKBOOK

TAKEOVER! - Big Money Moves into the Small Press World

2006-09-12T17:19:00.000-07:00
In a civilization run by wealth and dominated by monopolies, should one small section of culture remain independent; free from the influence of a growing plutocracy?

THE FACTS
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) was founded in 1967 as the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, with a mission to advocate for independent publishing endeavors. As recently as 2004 CLMP's Board of Directors consisted chiefly of actual representatives from the small press world, including the editor of an obscure poetry journal in California; the publisher of Graywolf Press; a buyer from City Lights Books; and a poet from Queens College in New York.

Already, though, the board showed signs of a change in direction in the person of Constance B. Sayre, a former VP at Simon & Schuster and current President of Market Partners International. MPI is "consultant to the ten largest U.S. trade book publishers and three of the largest U.S. magazine publishing companies."

Was this someone to represent the small press?

Two years later the CLMP board is dominated by VIPs from the most monied segments of America. A few of the current board members:

JAMES L. BILDNER: Owner of New Horizons Partners, a venture capital firm. Bildner, trustee of the Kresge Foundation, is former chairman of a chain of food stores.

ELLIS B. LEVINE: Corporate lawyer for Cowan, DaBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard, Levine is described as a "lawyer for the book publishing industry." he's former VP and board member of the publishing giant Random House.

SUZANNE DE BACA: President of Private Capital Solutions, a financial and investment services firm "that specializes in helping high net worth individuals plan for and manage financial change."

JULIE SCHAPER: President of Consortium Book Sales, a book distributor which was bought in 2001 by investment banker Don Linn, then sold to Perseus Books Group in July 2006. Perseus, which comprises seven imprints, is a portfolio company of Perseus LLC, "a merchant bank and private equity fund management company." "Perseus manages six investment funds with capital commitments totaling $1.3 billion. . . ."

JENNIFER BLUESTEIN: VP at Mirram Global, a big bucks political consulting firm in New York City which received more than $900,000 to manage Fernando Ferrer's recent mayoral campaign. Mirram's questionable behavior was addressed by Michael Slackman in the March 10, 2005 New York Times.

GERALD HOWARD: Executive Editor at Doubleday Books, a division of Random House.

NICOLE DEWEY: Assistant Director of Publicity at Doubelday Books.

The board also includes Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief at Publishers Weekly, a magazine for insiders in the conglomerate publishing industry, and Ira Silverberg, a major figure at Donadio & Olson literary agents, whose job is to serve said industry.

Compared to this array of heavyweight names, remaining boards members David Lynn of Kenyon Review; Johnny Temple of New York-based Akashic Books, and "freelance editor" Elizabeth Bogner appear to be tokens. (Ms. Bogner is in fact married to Jesse Sheidlower, principal North American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, hardly a home of small press outsiders. Elizabeth's main qualification for board membership seems to be that she's good at throwing Manhattan parties attended by literary Insiders. Maybe she's produced some zeens I don't know about.)

My conclusion about this list: The foxes are running the henhouse!

TO READ MORE, a full report, including what this takeover means, and why it occurred, click on the "ULA's Monday Report" at Literary Revolution

For background and updates go to "Attacking the Demi-Puppets" at King Wenclas

2006-08-04T10:41:00.000-07:00
Anarchist Librarians on the Web!

Sorry it's been so long since a post. I've been focusing on other aspects of my life and am just getting back into blogging several blogs instead of just Pirate Papa.

Rebel Bookseller: How to Improvise Your Own Indie Store and Beat Back the Chains

2006-05-15T00:22:00.000-07:00
by Andrew Laties

Found this little number down at Powell's about a month ago... it looks decent, a little trad/posh standard for my tastes but hey, at least it's out there. Plus the author also founded Poverty Fighters.com:

A bit about the author Andy Laties: PovertyFighters.com’s co-founder/CEO, has been agitating for power to the people since he grew his hair long as a nine-year-old to protest the Vietnam War. After a stint co-editing his high school underground newspaper, FightForward, he co-founded the Yale Summer Children Theatre, then dropped out to study free-jazz with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and improvisational theatre at Second City Players Workshop, in Chicago. He then studied shakuhachi in Tokyo at Soke Chikayusha and saxophone in Paris at the American School of Modern Music. He spent two years performing original stories by children across the USA, with Child’s Play Touring Theatre.

In 1985, he co-founded The Children’s Bookstore in Chicago, with Christine Bluhm. Their innovative special events captured them the Women’s National Book Association’s 1987 Lucille Micheels Pannell Award. Over the next ten years Chris and Andy sold a million children’s books, presented 2,000 free special events, and raised $300,000 for the Chicago schools. Andy taught bookselling for the American Booksellers Association and was the Dean of the Soros Foundation Latvia’s International Booksellers School, co-hosted by Janis Roze Bookstore.

The Children’s Bookstore was forced out of business by the book superstore chains in 1996, shortly after Andy and Chris opened the nation’s first privatized children’s museum store, at Chicago Children’s Museum. The Children’s Museum Store has generated $700,000 for the museum in the past six years.

Whittling Away at Ray Carver

2006-04-22T18:56:00.000-07:00

Just finished all 159 pages of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver's biting portrait of 20th century American Love. If brevity was a commodity, Carver would have the trademark. He captures with picturesque horror the everyday nuances of sour relationships and alcoholic love, the twisted sheets of stories. Carver paints the underbelly of working-class America through a masterful use of the repetition of minor details and seemingly unimportant snippets of hauntingly realistic dialogue which make the characters leap off the page and into our hearts. He seems to me a polaroid camera made of words.

If you haven't read any Carver I highly recommend Fires and A New Path to the Waterfall. There's also an excellent adaptation of some of the stories from this book that was made into a movie starring, among others, Tom Waits! Check it out, it's called Short Cuts

I've been a fan of Carver's poetry for years now and am just getting deeper into his fiction these past few months. A few years ago I had the privilige of cataloguing my father's Carver collection, one of the most extensive in existence. Quite an amazing feeling handling those old signed broadsides and first editions, like there's a bigger piece of him there than in this Vintage paperback.

Interview with Pablo Neruda

2006-03-23T14:56:00.000-08:00
"I insist on telling you that I am not a political poet. I detest that classification which insists on designating me as the representative of an ideologically committed poetry. My ambition as a writer, if there is an ambition, is to write about all the things that I see, that I touch, that I know, that I love, or that I hate. But in pointing out to me “the world of the workers” you make me, in an unconscious and generous way, the spokesman for the anxieties of the masses or of the legions of organized workers, and that’s not the case. I am only the echo in a certain part of my poetry of the anxieties of the contemporary world, of the anxieties of the Latin American world. But I refuse to be classified as a political poet."

Courtesy of Memorius 5: A forum for new verse and poetics.

A Tribute To The Best Book Catalog In The World

2006-03-19T21:34:00.000-08:00
Okay, so I know all these links are broken now since Loompanics redid their website upon closing, but most of the articles are still available via this page, I'm just too lazy to go back and fix all this html code. R.I.P. Loompanics, thanks for all the books!

Thirty Years of Loompanics Unlimited has left this country a free-er crazier place.

I rustled up some excellent articles & links on Loompanics & wanted to draw some attention to them before the doors close on the most clandestine book publishers/distributors of all time.

Why Corporations Are Not People, And The Unsavory Consequences of Pretending That They Are

Covert Censorship on the Web

How to Escape the Tyranny of the Social Security Number

Which Corporation Owns Your Vote?

“The Undisputed Power of the Jury to Acquit” - The Gutting of the Sixth Amendment

Fake ID After 9-11

Rape in Prison

INDUSTRIAL HEMP: Fiber, Food and Fuel for the Future

Your Car Will Tell On You

Delta Press
Eden Press
New Falcon
Paladin Press
The Libertarian
Ronin Publishing
The Gun Room

Happy terrorizing, hiding, obfuscating and profiting! And if you hurry they've still got a 75% off sale going on!!!

Interview with Henry Miller

2006-03-15T16:23:00.000-08:00
from The Art of Fiction No. 28
Paris Review
Interviewed by George Wickes
Issue 28, Summer-Fall 1962

Book a gift for the ages: Man donates 300-year-old Latin volume to library

2006-03-05T12:02:00.000-08:00
Brought to you by one of the world's shittiest newspapers, The Olympian or The Daily Zero as we refer to it.

By Jennifer Latson

The Olympian

Dale Riepe has more books than he needs at home, so he’s been slowly shedding tomes during the past six months.
The Olympian - Click Here

Every week, the 87-year-old retired philosophy professor takes a few to the Olympia library, some because they’re too heavy for him to enjoy, others because he just doesn’t plan to read them again.

The Friends of the Library group takes them off his hands and puts them on its sale shelf to raise money for the library.

But the group was surprised last week when Riepe produced a 300-year-old Latin volume librarians say won’t go on the $1 table: it’s likely worth as much as $1,000.

Group members will meet with rare book dealers to find its true value, and then auction it off and spend the proceeds on library programs.

Riepe, long a benefactor of the arts — he’s been active with a half-dozen galleries and museums, the Washington State Historical Society and The Evergreen State College library — suddenly is something of a library celebrity.

‘De Rerum Natura”

The book, an edition of the poem “De Rerum Natura” (On the Nature of Things) by the Roman author Lucretius, has generated a buzz.

“We were all very excited when we got it here last week,” said librarian Cheryl Heywood, cradling the gold-embossed, calf-skin-bound volume, published in 1712. “It’s fun to touch history.” Read More...

Iran Bookshop

2006-02-24T12:53:00.000-08:00
An excellent resource I've only just discovered, let me dig more and I'll report back to base.

Stories Care Forgot

2006-02-17T12:49:00.000-08:00

Last Word is hosting the "Stories Care Forgot" book/zine tour on March 16th. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many of the original zines collected in this anthology were lost or destroyed, and this may be your only opportunity to see them.

Discarded: Surplus or Obsolete

2006-02-02T13:57:00.000-08:00

found this stamp inside a batch of books i scored on ebay today... sad, isn't it? that poetry can be surplus or obsolete these days. alas, poor poetry, I knew her well once.

'It's like a book, I think, this blooming world Which one can read and care for just so long.'

2006-01-31T05:16:00.000-08:00

from the title page of 'The Way of a Transgressor' by Negley Farson

the mad rush was foiled by a lack of internet in eastern washington this past weekend hairy what with snow and fog and rains and wine and old friends and older friends becoming friends under my umbrella of words. packed the trailblazer full of books and books-on-tape

(barelyworthmytimeonline,bytheway),

hands dusty but nothing, nothing can beat whiskey in a bookstore after hours. as usual my father's store plows onward in its chaotic beautiful waltz, as my hairline, like his, recedes slowly to allow more room for my brain (and ego) to swell. stay tuned on this blog for exclusive reports of the actions, inactions and revelations surrounding the Hungry Hollow Book Tank Project. as for now, i will keep punching ISBNS until the sun rises, wake my daughters and do the morning dance, sell books at Evergreen until early afternoon and then come home to play until early evening. i push books and strollers, therefore i am.

New Trails in Mexico - Gorgeous Book, hate to part with ones like this but hey, $800 bucks is $800

2006-01-26T00:13:00.000-08:00

Dear Sir,
I will do my best to describe this book in detail but my terminology may be somewhat lacking...

This copy has 141 pages with several blank pages following the 141st page

the map is actually bound inbetween the 140th and 141st pages and is in excellent shape beyond some slight discoloration which is typical of such thin paper from this era

I don't know for certain but I do not think that the covers are the original, at least no one else seems to have a copy that matches this one... but they are very professionally done and are obviously nearly as old as the book itself... beautiful leather working, now I don't know how to say this but the covers are only leather over about an inch bordering the spine and the two corners have little leather triangles wrapping them, leaving an area in the middle of each cover like 1/2 a stop sign which is green cloth... i believe that if i am correct in assuming these covers were a custom job then it stands to reason that the gorgeous purple marbled endpapers are also of customized origin but hey, that just makes this baby one of a kind

if you'd like I can e-mail some photos over or post them on one of my sites and you could examine the book for yourself, just give the word

the slipcase I believe was made by a man named John Brunt, one of my father's oldest customers at his store in Walla Walla (of which I am the Western Washington online extention)
the man had a phenomenal western americana collection that he has parted with slowly over the years to my father... unfortunately the internet has devalued a lot of the old antiquarian stuff but some of these gems will never go down in value, anyway, he made the slipcase for it I'm alpost positive and his craftsmanship is superb. almost his entire library of several thousand books came with handmade slipcases

overall size of book is: 6 inches by 9 inches

there are 6 chapters, the titles of which are:

Omaha and the Platte Valley...

Wyoming and the Black Hills...

"Into the American Switzerland"

Westward to Utah

Utah Territory

Northern Utah, Montana and Idaho

and yes, the lengthy summarized chapter descriptions accompany the table of contents

do you have any idea if these covers are original?
let's try the photo thing, I have several blogs I could toss pictures up on easily

kind of strange i just noticed that the table of contents 1st chapter title doesn't match the heading on the facing page... the facing page says To The Rockies Chapter 1 West From the Missouri
don't know if that means anything to you...

Moby Lives Radio - Book News for Book Nerds

2006-01-21T09:17:00.000-08:00
This was a particularly good broadcast, although I do miss their straight blog, this web radio seems to be working well for them. I just pity the folks who don't have time or presence of mind to sit down and listen. Enjoy! Moby Lives is one of the leading alternative literary sites online today.

:: This Week's Show ::

James Moore, author of Bush's Brain, a critical profile of Karl Rove, talks about finding out he'd been placed on a no–fly list after the election, and the latest on Google from librarian Christopher Waldrop. Also, the UK Report from Mark Thwaite and a reading from poet Hal Sirowitz.

In Solidarity with the friends and family of the Catalyst Infoshoppe

2006-01-15T09:35:00.000-08:00

May the truth set us free, eventually. Bill Rodgers seems to have been one of the more respectable folk walking this frail earth. He will be missed regardless of his 'guilt' for if he was the mastermind behind the ELFs 'terror' streak of the past decade then more power to him for pulling the wool over the eyes of corporate america for so long without getting nabbed. Seems a little fishy that a man would kill himself before any charges were even brought against him... maybe one day we will know more than we do now. That is all we may hope.

Catalyst Infoshop in Prescott, Arizona

Excellent article from Arizona's indymedia following Rodger's sad tale.

Earth Liberation Front

and, this funny little bit of right-wing humor i found floating around on the world wide web:

2006-01-10T16:02:00.000-08:00

the beginnings of the Book Tank library at Hungry Hollow Farm... what dreams may come when one is reading, sifting, sorting, writing, seeding.
speculative fiction doesn't stay fiction for long, if we are to learn anything we should learn that much

When you sell a man a book,

2006-01-05T23:02:00.000-08:00
you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-
you sell him a whole new life.
-- Christopher Morley

Bookslut's Interview with Kinky Friedman

2006-01-01T22:55:00.000-08:00

He’s not joking. Novelist Kinky Friedman has a great, completely unique sense of humor, but he’s serious about his independent campaign for governor of Texas. Friedman is best known by the publishing world as the author of several humorous mystery novels, starring himself as the protagonist (with his real-life friend Willie Nelson making an occasional pot-fueled appearance). The latest in the series, Ten Little New Yorkers, is an uncharacteristically dark entry in the series -- chiefly because Friedman (the character) dies at the end.

He’s written over 20 books, but he’s equally well-known for his career as a musician -- he played country music with his band The Texas Jewboys in the ‘70s, offending and amusing fans with songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.” These days, he runs the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, and produces his own line of salsas and olive oil. But he’ll be a lot more busy as the campaign season kicks into gear. Bookslut talked to Friedman by telephone last month.

How’s life at the ranch?

The rescue ranch? That’s going very well, going good. There was word about some greyhounds in New Orleans [after Hurricane Katrina], and we adopted 24 of them. I called my friend, the Reverend Goat Carson, who’s a street preacher in New Orleans -- he got out of there, so he’s my personal evacuee. I talked to him about the 24 greyhounds coming out of New Orleans, that we were waiting for on the rescue ranch. Anyway, he called Aaron Neville and all these people and told them that Kinky had 24 Greyhounds coming out of New Orleans. He thought they were buses, for the evacuation. (Laughs.)

How’s Reverend Goat? Is he doing okay?

He’s doing good, yeah.

What do you think of the way Governor Perry handled the Rita evacuation?

I think Perry did pretty well with that. Of course, we had a wake-up call from Louisiana first. We already kind of knew it was more than anybody could handle. The whole thing’s just a lesson that Texans have got to take care of themselves -- no one’s going to help us. And that you shouldn’t appoint somebody’s roommate as head of FEMA. You know, if there hadn’t been a hurricane, (former FEMA director Michael Brown) would’ve done just fine! He would’ve been great! (Laughs.) But this whole thing kind of exposes what’s wrong with making these appointments out of patronage and out of politics.

Are you still friends with President Bush?

Yeah. I’m friends with President Bush and with Bill Clinton...Read More @

Self-Portrait in a Passport Photo

2005-12-24T01:13:00.000-08:00
by Kaia Sand from Intervals published by Edge Books, Washington D.C. 1-890311-14-6

Today I am the tallest
I have ever been

Now I know what it is
with a cup to the ear of thunder

Now I know how it is to crush
dainty book, do penance,
fast on chatter

From this height, I can hold the moon
close like a hat

I am the tallest I have ever been

I wish to postpone
last month's appointments, understand
the sun, apologize to all
the other countries

I frisk myself, policing
the pickpocket, delighted at all
I confiscate

2005-12-21T00:07:00.000-08:00
spent three days digging thru my father's antiquarian collection, the accumulated silt of thirty-plus years between the covers of the book business piled up to ceilings sagging above the weight of these timeless tomes. eyes spent and watering from hours at the screen: one of life's ironies, bibliophiles forced to make their livings staring at quivering electronic screens instead of the soft skins of paper they adore. at times i wonder if it's worth it all. if i wouldn't have a better appreciation for books if I was homeless and drunk in La Honda or Big Sur or even Yakima. But I suppose these thoughts burn daylight, and there are always more books.

2005-12-17T22:14:00.000-08:00

My friend Eric tipped me off to this new title, recently translated from German. If yer interested I'd grab one, $79 is about as low as this baby is going to get for awhile.

Lifehack Your Books: Dogear, Writing In Books, and Apologizing to Librarians

2005-12-14T15:42:00.000-08:00

First, I want to apologize to librarians and to make clear that what I’m about to say applies only to books you’ve bought for yourself. See, since libraries and books that our parents bought for us are our primary mode of book access in childhood, we grow up with a set of norms for how we interact with books. Because all of those books are expected to remain in as pristine of shape as possible for as long as possible, we have a set of rules in our heads.

1. Never write in books
2. Never dogear pages (fold over the corner)
3. Keep dustjackets on the books and add them via bookcovers if they don’t have them.

And, for textbooks, books that your younger siblings need to use later, and library books, those rules are necessary to ensure that the books last long enough to be useful to as many people as possible. However, for books bought for individual use, these rules aren’t necessary. If you adhere to them religiously for your own books (most of which couldn’t possibly wear out via normal use), you’re missing out on some of the best methods for getting the most out of books.

I personally believe that there is no greater respect that can be shown a book than by using it...Read More at
The Glass is Too Big...

Bigfoot Writes Autobio!

2005-12-13T12:04:00.000-08:00

Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, new from Graham Roumieu Bigfootologist and illustrator Graham Roumieu has collaborated with everyone's favorite hairy man-beast to produce Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir. Me get copy in mail now. Book it crazy ha ha good, oogh. Me love!

Like many reclusive celebrities, Big Foot is misunderstood. In his touching memoir Me Write Book he wants to set the record straight, proving that although he's larger, hairier, and more foul-smelling than most of us, he's really not so different underneath.

Only the most cold-hearted among us could look on without compassion as this hirsute Everyman struggles bravely with parental abandonement, Pringles potato crisps, embarrassing moments with peach schnapps, the desperate loneliness of personal ads, and 'roid rage.

thanks boingboing.

2005-12-12T23:29:00.000-08:00

Postcolonial readings of Curious George — a childhood favorite — have been mixed.

One camp sees George as a resisting monkey, and the story as a parable for the decolonization of Africa. Another charges that the book is a racist manifesto justifying slavery.

I think everyone can agree on one thing, though: the movie is going to be a piece of shit.

Another bit of shrewd dissemination courtesy of

Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason

2005-12-07T14:44:00.001-08:00
This looks promising

by James Kent

Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is a landmark text in the field of psychedelic study. Written by James Kent, former Editor of Psychedelic Illuminations and Publisher of Trip Magazine, Psychedelic Information Theory spans the chasm between science and mysticsm and fully deconstructs the magic of the psychedelic experience in a way that promises to satisfy both skeptics and true believers alike. James Kent has been studying psychedelics, mysticism, neuroscience, and psychedelic culture for over 15 years, and now presents the culmination of his research in one epic volume. In addition to the most complete neurologic deconstruction of various psychedelic mind states ever compiled, Kent also provides an exhaustive analysis of the way information is generated within the psychedelic state, and how that information transcends the personal mind and influences human culture at large. Finally, Psychedelic Information Theory examines the scientific basis of traditional shamanic powers and techniques, and frames a new model for shamanic practice and clinical therapy in the modern world. Destined to become a classic within the field, Psychedelic Information Theory blows the lid off the psychedelic experience and demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt the impact pscyhedelics continue to have on global culture. If you ever wished for a single book that described exactly how psychedelics worked and just why they are so important, then this is the book you have been waiting for!

The Universal Library

2005-12-04T01:35:00.000-08:00
by George Dyson

Books are strings of code. But they have mysterious properties — like strings of DNA. Somehow, the author captures a fragment of the universe, unravels it into a one-dimensional sequence, squeezes it through a keyhole, and hopes that a three-dimensional vision emerges in the reader's mind. The translation is never exact.

The Old Testament prophets of the digital revolution — Thomas Hobbes, John Wilkins, and G. W. Leibniz — dreamed of a universal language: the Ratiocination of Hobbes; the Universall Character of Wilkins; the Calculus Ratiocinator of Leibniz. All three prophets saw that given ones and zeros, coding could do the rest. Two centuries later, the New Testament prophet Alan Turing showed that given any method for making — and remembering — distinctions from one moment to the next, you can build a Universal Machine. And if you build (or even just imagine) a Universal Machine, a Universal Language (and a Universal Library) is an inescapable result.

Given one of Mr. Turing's Universal Machines (by definition, equipped with a finite but unbounded tape) it is trivial to write a program whose output is the exact text of all possible books of a given length. This is the last library you ever have to build. Authors are obsolete! When the program comes to a halt (as we know it must) there will no longer be books that have not been written! There will only be books that have not been read! Now, it may take longer than the age of the universe to reach the volume you are looking for, and long before then every atom in the universe will have been consumed as ink, but those are mere details. There will always be new ways to speed up the printers, conserve resources, and weed out unpopular texts. This seems hopelessly unrealistic — but remember how unrealistic Turing's computer appeared in 1936.

The bound universe has been divided, in recent discussions over the digitization of books, into works in the public domain on one side, works under active copyright on the other, and a vast sea of inactive titles drifting in between. For those who dream of a Universal Library, however, any such classification is deficient, because it neglects the most important sector of the literary universe — books that have not been written yet. Read More...

Thanks for the tip BoingBoing

New Litblog Network Metaxucafe opens!

2005-12-02T23:22:00.000-08:00
MetaxuCafé is devoted to highlighting the best content from the community of bloggers who write about books.

We serve both the writers and readers and intend to drive traffic to member’s sites and create context around and give permanence to their original writing.

Links galore! This could prove to be a very useful resource.

LitBlogs and LitCasting will shake the foundations of the empire of books

2005-11-28T22:46:00.000-08:00
and hopefully rattle corporate publishers and reviewers off their pedestal. Anyone interested in this new wave of knowledge spreading or the freedom of information should check out the following:

LibriVox - accoustical liberation of books in the public domain

Edward Champion's Ultimate List of Literary Podcast - this one includes an excellent links list of audiolit projects and litcasts

info courtesy of:

Ancient Texts as "Fossils": How They Survive

2005-11-28T22:25:00.000-08:00

"Through the ages, ancient texts have survived wars, fires, theft, and neglect.

But so far scholars have only been able to draw upon anecdotal evidence to estimate how many handwritten texts created before the advent of the printing press in the 15th century have survived.

A new study, however, uses population biology to calculate the likelihood that an ancient text has survived from the eighth or ninth century to the present..." Read More

link courtesy of the apparently and unfortunately defunct Reading Room

Herbert Huncke interviewed by Johnny Strike back in the 80s

2005-11-27T23:43:00.000-08:00

the father of the beat generation.
link courtesy of Reality Studio: William S. Burroughs News

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, an Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

2005-11-25T15:20:00.000-08:00
This sounds like a topic which deserves more attention than Gary Geddes was able to give it, judging form the tone of several reviews online, but hey, it's hard to write a frickin' book.

"Geddes is tracking fifth-century Buddhist monk Huishen, who, according to the Liang Shu, the records of the Liang Dynasty, was “a monk from Kabul with a strange tale of adventure, a fantastical voyage to and a forty-year sojourn in lands beyond the eastern sea.” The record says nothing about his missionary work beyond the suggestion that he spread the Word. Some, like Geddes, believe that the lands he lived and maybe proselytized in were the Americas."

by Gary Geddes, Harper Collins, 2005 Hardcover, $34.95 ISBN 0-00-200100-4

reviewed by John Harris of Dooney's Cafe, a phenomenal site and story you should invest some time in checking out.

Badass Republican Poet Dana Gioia Scores Dream Job as Head of National Endowment for the Arts

2005-11-23T00:00:00.000-08:00

A little old poetry news from 2003: This could turn out very well or very ugly...he did already score the Arts another 10 mil but who are we kidding... some of this crap is like the National Book Awards: elitest bullshit back patting sessions for the upper-tier literati and art hounds. Please do write this gentleman a letter (I'm sure he could stand to hear form more radicals, anarchists, and liberals) regarding your personal views of poetry and art and how $132 million dollars should be spent on them! Check out his books Can Poetry Matter and Disappearing Ink, they're quite good. Dana Gioia's pretty cool personal site is here.

"For 15 years, Dana Gioia was a man whose heart was pulled in two directions. As he rose through the marketing ranks at General Foods, resurrecting the Jell-O brand and ultimately reaching the position of vice-president, he also was writing serious poetry. His first collection was published in 1986, and in 1991, when his controversial essay "Can Poetry Matter?" ran in The Atlantic Monthly -- the essay argued that current poetry, trapped in the "intellectual ghetto" of academia, needed to have its "vulgar vitality" restored and made available to all -- it elicited 400 letters from readers and a flurry of media attention." Read More...

Again, thanks Bookslut!

When a library closes, who gets the books?

2005-11-22T23:24:00.000-08:00
Thanks Bookslut Blog!

Random Things of Literary Interest #1

2005-11-21T23:53:00.000-08:00
Cool little article: A Space for the Future - Library Buildings in the 21st Century

and some humor for a dark, dark age:The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society author of the world-renowned
Devil's Dictionary.

From the Devil's Dictionary:
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

and

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor — whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" — although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation — sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion — the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.

God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us — they are mostly out of fashion."
—Sigismund Smith

Sons of god: Darice Moore on Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys

2005-11-19T18:48:00.000-08:00

Excellent review of Gaiman's new book.

"Neil Gaiman’s new novel Anansi Boys is set in the same universe as his 2001 novel American Gods, but where Gods is sprawling, taking on multiple mythologies and creating new ones, Boys is tightly focused. Here we have only one god to deal with, the spider god Anansi, and Gaiman takes advantage of the limited scope to thoroughly explore the ramifications of the trickster-storyteller through a cast of characters who are all, in different ways, finding their voices."

link courtesy of Maud Newton

Establishment Cronyism in the "Independent" Literary Scene

2005-11-18T11:10:00.000-08:00
King Wenclas of Attacking the Demi-Puppets makes some keen insights on the literary industry and its interrelationship with education and government. I enjoy his blog very much, even though he tears David Berman a new one, a poet I hitherto liked the work of. King Wenclas also acts as Publicity Director for the controversial watchdog group Underground Literary Alliance.

Check out these posts for a scathing indictment of Harpers, David Berman of Open City Books, the NY upper-crust overclass writing cliques and the literary industry as a whole as he poses the question Who Owns Literature?: Ben Marcus and Establishment Cronyism and Ben Marcus and Test Tube Literature and the conclusion is here. Enjoy!

The Antipodes; or, a place to Think Upside Down

2005-11-18T03:43:00.000-08:00
This deserves more attention. As does this: Arts and Letters Daily and this blog: Cartoon Brew. Boring commentary, I know, but it's 3:48 in the freakin' morning and I just got done working Geoduck night-tides so I can be a man of few words if it pleases me.

A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us.

2005-11-17T14:22:00.000-08:00
-Franz Kafka

Cartoon Virtual Museum

2005-11-15T05:30:00.000-08:00

A side project of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum (also badass).

check out their phenomenal cartoon collection and forgive the faulty english, i'd like to see you get by in Portugal you monolingual ape. There's some other pretty amazing stuff on this server if you dig around a bit. Like this site on 9-11 Cartoons.

"This museum exists in the ambit of the International Cartoon Gallery and aims the global dissemination of a set of references to point out the importance of the humour drawing worldwide.

It is still on an experimental phases. This Virtual Cartoon Museum must be seen as a dynamic space which will be extended with personalities, themes, galleries, etc., as time goes by.

Its intention is to valorise the universal language of the cartoon, always aiming at the humour excellence. From the past to the present. Being certain that the human capacity of laughing and making laugh will never end and it is older than the signs that had been left in the pre-historical caverns."

Amazon, My Private Library

2005-11-14T05:33:00.000-08:00
by James Stegall

"I'm greedy. I want to walk into my local library and have every type of media available, from vinyl to MP3, Betamax to DVD, hardback to trade paper. I want the media at my command to originate from when it first started getting made, and since I'm also lazy, I want the library to recommend the media best suited to my tastes (based also on my current mood would be outstanding, but that's asking a lot). Once my library presents me with a list of potential, long-tailed media for my consumption, I also want to know whether other people liked it or not – because I put a lot of credence in what others think, and I don't want to get caught listening to unhip music, even if the library thinks I'll like it. If the requirements I just laid down almost sound like a certain online retailer, it's because I'm trying to think of all the ways that Amazon is not like a library. The biggest argument would be They charge for their stuff and that's true – but libraries aren't completely free either, especially when you figure the cost of traveling to them, paying late fees, donating to their underfunded existence, paying taxes, etc..." Read More

Home is also a public library - illiterate man seeks books so poor can read

2005-11-13T20:45:00.000-08:00
By Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
Posted November 12 2005

SAO GONCALO, Brazil · Carlos Leite can barely read a word, but books revolutionized his life.

Two years ago, he was doing construction work for a man who was about to toss out six thick, red encyclopedias. Leite asked if he could have them instead. Thus, a dream was born.

Within days, he hit the pavement, knocking on doors, begging people for more unwanted books. No contribution was too small, too big or too arcane. Skeptical members of Leite's bicycling club were dragooned into helping him collect donations.

His texts quickly multiplied. The original six volumes turned into 100, then 1,000. Soon, his humble home was bursting with 5,000 books of all types, worn classics, chemistry textbooks, dog-eared thrillers.

To Leite, though, nearly all the books are mysteries. Born into a poor family, he dropped out of school after third grade and, at 51, is functionally illiterate.

But books, he knows, are the gateway to a life of greater possibility and more promise than his own. It might be too late for me, a working man, he reasoned, but not for others...read more

link courtesy of Maud Newton

Googlization and You

2005-11-13T20:36:00.000-08:00
An excellent article by Christopher Allen Waldrop on the legality of Google Print and some unexpected outcomes that may not have been thought through all the way... or maybe they were. Waldrop's shrewd book sense comes through in his poignant, studied prose, check out his other writings, also available through Moby Lives.

link via Moby Lives: News & Commentary About Books & Writers

Against Civilization - Feral House

2005-11-13T20:00:00.000-08:00

The best anarchist thought from the king of neo-primitivism himself, John Zerzan. For more anarcho-primitivist philosophy visit Green Anarchy(edited by Zerzan and others & free to prisoners!)

With mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it?

Feral House’s new expanded edition of Against Civilization adds 18 new essays and feral illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing to the contemporary classic that provides 67 thought-provoking looks into the dehumanizing core of modern civilization, and the ideas that have given rise to the anarcho-primitivist movement. The editor of this compelling anthology is John Zerzan, author of Running on Emptiness (Feral House) and Future Primitive.

“I celebrate John Zerzan’s anthology harboring the best of civilized people’s critiques of civilization. Herein the reader will discover the questions that need to be asked and the insights that beg to be nurtured if humankind and the natural world as we know it are to thrive into the future. This book is that important.” — Chellis Glendinning, author of My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization