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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408890615 | ISBN 10: 1408890615
A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. Â Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a o ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780708898765 | ISBN 10: 0708898769
By the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad. In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the he ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780867196733 | ISBN 10: 0867196734
In this autobiography-meets-graphic-novel, Beirut-born lecturer and writer Toufic El Rassi illustrates the daily prejudice and discrimination experienced by Muslims and Arabs in modern American society. Drawing from his personal history, Tou ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781933368559 | ISBN 10: 1933368551
A seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, art, transience and the culture and politics that surround it. A mix of storytelling, journalism, and original research on a broad range of topics like suburban sprawl, hip-hop culture, wiggers, ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780393330892 | ISBN 10: 0393330893
A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society. A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846590191 | ISBN 10: 1846590191
A whole world seems to orbit within Nobody's Home. It's a world that looks familiar but strange. Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives on lit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747586050 | ISBN 10: 0747586055
This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul in America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man Without a Country i ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780142437537 | ISBN 10: 0142437530
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in povery and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580689 | ISBN 10: 1595580689
Black, opinionated, and from a working-class background, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years working for The Guardian newspaper in New York, Younge has aquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoug ... more
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