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    Reggae Disco 45 BOOKReggae Disco 45 BOOK
    BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES EVER!Reggae Disco 45 is a personal journey through author Martin Skyjuice's collection of 12" and 10" singles. A tribute to the...
      A Thousand Threads
      Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant....
        There And Black Again
        By Don Letts and Mal Peachey Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
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            Women In Revolt!Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90
            A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives,...
              Subcontinental SynthesisElectronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972
              The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.Subcontinental Synthesis...
                The Great Psychic OutdoorsEssays on Low Fidelity: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism
                Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical...
                  Invisible Man
                  Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published...
                    The South London Cultural Review Volume 2On Feminist Films
                    This collection of essays celebrates the work of international feminist filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Featuring contributions from leading...
                      One Hundred Years of Solitude
                      Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little...
                        Radio Phonics LaboratoryTelecommunications, Speech Synthesis & The Birth of Electronic Music
                        The Radio Phonics Laboratory delves into the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating...
                          A Messy History of Women in Printing and TypographyThe Natural Enemies of Books
                          'Natural Enemies of Books' is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication 'Bookmaking on the Distaff Side', which brought together contributions...
                            The Women Who Changed Architecture
                            A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion...
                              Things Fall Apart
                              Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally...
                                August Blue
                                At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
                                  The Haunted TrailClassic Tales Of The Rambling Wild
                                  A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than...
                                    A NovelGirls Against God
                                    Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice...
                                      Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen Radicals
                                      At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
                                        Is It My Body?
                                        Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kim Gordon-widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth - produced a series of writings on...
                                          Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
                                          According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries....
                                            Terminal Boredom
                                            On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
                                              The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
                                              Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
                                                The Power Of Words
                                                The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
                                                  Things I Don't Want To Know
                                                  Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life....
                                                    What Is Existentialism?
                                                    How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity...
                                                      The In Crowd: The Story of the Northern and Rare Soul SceneBy Mike Ritson and Dave Godin
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                                                        Don Cherry BOOKEternal Rhythm
                                                        The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive.When he...
                                                          A Book Of Days
                                                          With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and...
                                                            Women, Art and IdeologyOld Mistresses
                                                            Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With...
                                                              The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJWelcome To The Club
                                                              Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career,...
                                                                SassieThe Life Of Sarah Vaughan
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