Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California
If you favor the Occupy Wall Street moment, you might also savor the personal and political flavors of communal living during the 1960s and 1970s. In West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, 13 contributors enlighten us about these alternate living and working arrangements. Of the editorial quartet who oversaw this book, seven years in the making, two are from the city...
Punk Rock: An Oral History
By most accounts, Jon Savage typed the last word on British punk twenty years ago when he published his 600-page history England’s Dreaming. Yet former Membrane John Robb recognized the gap in the tale that appears in any third person telling: the punks didn’t get to tell their side of the story in their own words. So he went to work on picking the brains of over 100 first and...
Read a F*cking Book: No Straight Lines
Okay, let it be known that I love comics and comic books and graphic novels and webcomics. Iread a lot of comics on a daily basis, and I fell in love with my girlfriend the moment I foundshe collected Batwoman. You might say queer comics are the way to my heart. Enter my new love: No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer...
Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward
On the surface, British history during the postwar decades has been a saga of political and economic centralization. But postwar Britain has also witnessed the long-delayed flowering of a small but very influential anarchist movement. Colin Ward, perhaps the leading British anarchist thinker of the period, wrote in his remarkable 1973 book, Anarchy in Action, that "an anarchist...
Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard
Perhaps there is no better place to learn about nature than one’s own backyard. This is one of the takeaways from Secrets of the Garden, a charmingly illustrated romp through a family’s backyard garden. Author Kathleen Zoehfeld leads the young reader through the process of starting, caring for and cultivating a garden, while interweaving throughout information about the...
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