The David Sheen Mybrary
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Reference
| Adams | Sex in the Snow | ... soon ... | |||
| Bergmann | The Logic Book | Improve your ability to effectively criticize the arguments of your ideological opponents | |||
| Bolles | What Colour Is Your Parachute? | Wanna change careers? This book is supposed to help you figure out to what | |||
| Diamond | Guns, Germs & Steel | ... soon ... | |||
| Ewen | PR! A Social History of Spin | How it is that we have been so successfully programmed | |||
| Fisher | Getting To Yes | How to reach win-win solutions | |||
| Frideres | Aboriginal Peoples in Canada | History & analysis of the present conditions of First Nations peoples | |||
| Friedman | The Jewish Image in American Film | To understand Hollywood, you need to understand Hollywood's historical depiction of the Jew | |||
| Goldstein | International Relations | Global socio-political analysis, circa 1993 | |||
| Goust | Measuring Eternity | ... soon ... | |||
| Icke | Lifting the Veil | ... soon ... | |||
| Jenkins | The Humanure Handbook | Give this book a chance! It may be our only chance! I'm serious! We must recycle our shit! | |||
| Malone | Country Music U.S.A. | see title | |||
| Manji | The Trouble With Islam | ... soon ... | |||
| Martin | Africa | Culture & History | |||
| Meretrix | Turning Pro | Ever thought of being a 'ho? For real, I mean! Here's a field guide | |||
| Meyer | Human Impact on the Earth | Not nearly eco enough, but enough to make you realize the fucked-up facts | |||
| O'Grady | Contemporary Linguitic Analysis | Languages are incredibly interesting; unfortunately, 1st-year linguistic classes aren't | |||
| Ponting | A Green History of the World | A MUST-READ if you're capable of, or insist on only, reading academic treatises | |||
| Pryce-Jones | Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs | ... soon ... | |||
| Rubenstein | Kashrus Manual | ... soon ... | |||
| Savage | Savage Love | ... soon ... | |||
| Savage | Skipping Towards Gemorrah | ... soon ... | |||
| Shaw | Honkers and Shouters | History of 20th-century American Rhythm & Blues | |||
| Thoreau | Walden / Civil Disobedience | ... soon ... | |||
| Ward | Rock of Ages | Rolling Stone guide to the history of Rock'n'Roll |
| Bookchin | The Murray Bookchin Reader | ... soon ... | |||
| Carlsson | Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration | ... soon ... | |||
| Crimehinc | Days of War, Nights of Love | ... soon ... | |||
| Crimethinc | Evasion | ... soon ... | |||
| Glendinning | My Name Is Chellis and I'm In Recovery From Western Civilization | ... soon ... | |||
| Guerin | Anarchism | ... soon ... | |||
| Guerin | No Gods No Masters Books 1-2 | ... soon ... | |||
| Hansen | Direct Action | ... soon ... | |||
| Marshall | Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism | ... soon ... | |||
| P.M. | Bolo'Bolo | ... soon ... |
| Alexander | Notes on the Synthesis of Form | Embryonic work that pre-dates Alexander's "pattern language" trilogy | |||
| Alexander | The Timeless Way of Building | Foundational text on architectural "pattern languages" | |||
| Alexander | Pattern Language | ... soon ... | |||
| Brand | How Buildings Learn | ... soon ... | |||
| Canaan | Rebuilding the Land of Israel | ... soon ... | |||
| Ching | Architecture: Form, Space & Order | ... soon ... | |||
| Ching | Visual Dictionary of Architecture | ... soon ... | |||
| Chiras | The Natural House | ... soon ... | |||
| Chiras | The Natural Plaster Book | ... soon ... | |||
| Dover | Japanese Homes & Their Surroundings | ... soon ... | |||
| Frampton | Modern Architecture: A Critical History | see title | |||
| Fuller | The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller | He designed an ingenious eco-house for mass-production, but politics scuttled it | |||
| Har | The Wright Space | Interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings | |||
| Krainsky | Contemporary Native American Architecture | ... soon ... | |||
| Laubin | The Indian Tipi | Bible for modern tipi enthusiasts | |||
| Le Corbusier | Towards a New Architecture | Corb lays out some of his modernist theories | |||
| Lyle | The Book of Masonry Stoves | ... soon ... | |||
| Meller | Buckminster Fuller Reader | Maybe the first to talk about sustainable architecture in the modern era | |||
| Nabokov | Native American Architecture | Tribe-by-tribe compedium of traditional dwellings | |||
| Ockman | Architecture Culture 1943-1968 | ... soon ... | |||
| Oliver | Dwellings | ... soon ... | |||
| Pearson | The New Natural House Book | Comprehensive guide to building healthy homes | |||
| Pearson | Earth to Spirit | ... soon ... | |||
| Porphyrios | Classical Architecture | 2,000-year-old Greek & Roman temples | |||
| Rasmussen | Experiencing Architecture | Great introduction to the art and science of architecture | |||
| Reid | Understanding Buildings | ... soon ... | |||
| Reynolds | Earthship Volumes 1 - 3 | How (& why) to build healthy, happy homes from used car tires and recycled pop cans | |||
| Rifkind | A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture | see title | |||
| Scully | Frank Lloyd Wright | Overview of his life's work | |||
| Soleri | Arcology: The City in the Image of Man | Based on the book, the author is building a city that doesn't sprawl in the middle of the desert | |||
| Watkin | A History of Western Architecture | see title | |||
| Wines | Green Architecture | ... soon ... | |||
| Wojciechowska | Building With Earth | ... soon ... |
| Faerna | Modigliani | Collection of works by the Italian Jewish Anarchist painter | |||
| Fanning | Handcrafted Ceramic Tiles | see title | |||
| Giorgini | Handmade Tiles | see title | |||
| Hazan | 1968 Magnum Throughout the World | ... soon ... | |||
| Hobson | J W Waterhouse | Pre-Raphaelite painter, you've seen his paintings of angels for sale at poster shows | |||
| Kruger | Love For Sale | ... soon ... | |||
| Larson | Rent | Put on a production of the musical, I'll gladly play any character | |||
| Manco | Stencil Graffiti | ... soon ... | |||
| McMorland | Mosaics | see title | |||
| Wissman | Bouguereau | Pre-Raphaelite painter, you've seen his paintings of angels for sale at poster shows |
| Allred | Madman Adventures | The art is all old-school, but the dialogue is totally post-modern | |||
| Madman 3-13 | " | ||||
| Brown | Ed the Happy Clown | Surreal shit, Chester Brown on acid | |||
| I Never Liked You | That memory from childhood that makes you cringe painfully, drawn sympathetically | ||||
| The Playboy | " | ||||
| Louis Riel 1-10 | Sets the record straight on the arch-enemy of Anglo imperialism | ||||
| Brunetti | Schizo 1-2 | Bar none, the most fucked up comic artist out there right now | |||
| Haw! | " | ||||
| Buronson | Strain Volumes 2 - 3 | Japanese Manga series about a hitman who charges only $5 a hit | |||
| Chadwick | Concrete: Complete Short Stories 1986 - 1989 | The environmentally-conscious thinking man's comic book hero | |||
| Concrete: Fragile Creature | " | ||||
| Concrete: Killer Smile | " | ||||
| Concrete: Short Stories 1972-1995 | " | ||||
| The Complete Concrete | " | ||||
| Concrete: Think Like a Mountain 1-6 | " | ||||
| Concrete: Strange Armour 1-5 | " | ||||
| Gifts of the Night 1-4 | NOT about Concrete... still good | ||||
| Clowes | Eightball 10-21 | writer of the film "Ghost World", comix's Todd Solondge | |||
| Cruse | Stuck Rubber Baby | Fictional bio about growing up gay in the southern U.S.A. during the civil rights era | |||
| Wendel on the Rebound | Closest thing to a daily newspaper funny starring a gay guy | ||||
| DeMatteis | Brooklyn Dream Volumes 1 - 4 | Growing up Italian-American in the 1970s, trying to figure out how to be happy | |||
| Doucet | Dirty Plotte 8-12 | autobiographe Quebecoise, honest in the extreme | |||
| Drooker | Street Posters & Ballads | Anarchist art aestehtic originator | |||
| Eisner | A Contract With God | The 1st-ever long-format comic book, or graphic novel | |||
| Ellis | Transmetropolitan: Lust For Life | Probably a very accurate depiction of the 22nd century is going to look like; God help us | |||
| Transmetropolitan 13-24 | " | ||||
| Ennis | Hellblazer: Fear & Loathing | Harry Potter by Quentin Tarantino | |||
| Hellblazer 66-139 | " | ||||
| Goddess 1-8 | Tarantino of comics takes on patriarchy with funny results | ||||
| Preacher 1-66 | Oh, only one of the best comics of all time | ||||
| Hitman 1-39 | slightly more pasteurized Ennis, still hysterical | ||||
| Fingerman | White Like She 1-4 | race-and-gender-bending social commentary | |||
| Minimum Wage 1-10 | thinly veiled autobiography of hysterical hijinks in NYC | ||||
| Otis Goes Hollywood 1-2 | more fictional farce as social commentary | ||||
| Fisher | What Right? | fucking funny | |||
| What's Wrong? | funny fucking | ||||
| Fly | Fuck the Shut Up! | Beautifully chronicling the squatter movement in zine form | |||
| Peops | Portrait-Biographies of really interesting people | ||||
| Fumimura | Sanctuary Volumes 1 - 9 | Japanese Manga series about two war orphans determined to change the world | |||
| Gaiman | Sandman 50-75 | The rebirth of the Myth in Western literature | |||
| Gregory | Naughty Bits 15-20 | Now I know what women think about sex, thank god | |||
| Katchor | The Jew of New York | Historical? Comical? Strange journey through 19th century American physical & social landscape | |||
| Kochalka | Monica's Story | The Monica being Lewinsky, the story being fucking hysterical | |||
| Kuper | New York, New York | World War 3 Illustrated cofounder, not as hard-hitting as Drooker or Tobocman, but strong | |||
| Kuper | The System 1-3 | " | |||
| Laban | Cud 1-8 | Funny Cartoonist | |||
| Muktuk Wolfsbreath 1-3 | Native Noir: new genre, same funny | ||||
| Levine | Lust For Life 1-2 | more autobiography-ish | |||
| March | The Wild Party | Classic poetry illustrated by one of Comics' best | |||
| Markowitz | Introducing Kafka | Great biography illustrated by an artist appropriately at least as fucked up as the subject | |||
| Massey | It's All Lies | Collection of Israeli anarchist propaganda | |||
| Matt | Peep Show 1-13 | Anguished autobiography of a porn addict | |||
| Joe Matt's Jam-Sketch Book | Like a musical jam, but in comic form: 1 person draws the 1st panel, another draws the next, etc. | ||||
| McCloud | Reinventing Comics | Examination of the many changes in the comic art form in the last decade, in comic-book form | |||
| Oak | Theives & Kings 1-31 | Local boy does Dungeons & Dragons, heavy on the words, light on the cliches | |||
| Ryan | Angry Youth Comix 1-3 | 2nd most fucked-up comicker in the biz | |||
| Sacco | Palestine 1-9 | Not unbiased, but an important intimate perspective | |||
| Soba | One story of many from the war in Bosnia | ||||
| War Junkie | Comic-format war correspondence | ||||
| Seth | Palookaville 1-13 | New Yorker magazine illustration, period-piece atmosphere | |||
| Spiegelman | The Narrative Corpse | Like a musical jam, but in comic form: 1 person draws the 1st panel, another draws the next, etc. | |||
| Sturm | The Golem's Mighty Swing | Baseball, Jews, Blacks, America. Hmmm | |||
| Tobocman | You Don't Have To Fuck People Over To Survive | Anarchist art aestehtic originator | |||
| Tommaso | Clover Honey | Adventures of an Italian-American lesbian professional killer | |||
| Tomorrow | The Wrath of Sparky | Killer political satire | |||
| Various | The Big Book of Urban Lengends | Over 200, all illustrated by different artists | |||
| Vellekoop | Vellevision | Lots of sexy gay content | |||
| Walsh | He Is Just a Rat 1-5 | Older brother to Angry Youth's Johnny Ryan |
| Baer | Vectorworks 10: Visual QuickStart Guide | see title | |||
| Golding | Web Designer's Guide To Colour | see title | |||
| Langer | Mac OS Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide | see title | |||
| Riddell | Maya: Visual QuickStart Guide | see title | |||
| Sitter | DVD Studio Pro 1.5: Visual QuickStart Guide | see title |
| Doyle | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 - 2 | The master. The first thing I ever wanted to be was a detective | |||
| Duncan | Calendar | How was time colonized? Who decided the work schedule? We need to know if we want to change it | |||
| Kundera | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Haven't read it yet, but it's by Milan Kundera. Like Kurt Vonnegut, but European, I.e. lots of sex | |||
| LeGuin | Dispossessed | MANDATORY READING #2 - Now that you agree that we need to changeŠ maybe to this? | |||
| Munif | Cities of Salt | ... soon ... | |||
| Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Distopia published in 1948, gave us the term "Big Brother" | |||
| Pavic | Dictionary of the Khazars | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam battle it out! Two different versions of the book, male & female! | |||
| Quinn | Ishmael | MANDATORY READING #1 - 1st book of the Ishmael series | |||
| Quinn | My Ishmael | 2nd book of the Ishmael series | |||
| Quinn | The Story of B | 3rd book of the Ishmael series | |||
| Rhinehart | The Dice Man | Supposed to be one of those life-changin mindfuckers; can't say for sure, haven't read it yet | |||
| Shea | Illuminatus Trilogy | ... soon ... | |||
| Silverstein | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Funny poetry for the young & young-at-heart | |||
| Skinner | Walden Two | They read Thoreau, took it to heart, and went out and created an intentional community | |||
| Starhawk | The Fifth Sacred Thing | 500-page utopic vision of what is possible | |||
| Vonnegut | Timequake | Not really about anything, but lots of little insights about our 21st century lives |
| Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks | Helps you create your own deck of Tarot cards | |||
| Fairfield | Inspiration Tarot | Helps you create your own deck of Tarot cards | |||
| Giles | Chinese Astrology | Just a pocket-size handbook | |||
| Gurdjieff | Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson | Helps you create your own deck of Tarot cards | |||
| Hoffman | The Kabbalah Deck | Meditation cards for the 22 Hebrew letters and 10 Sephirot, similar to my Kabbalah Tarot deck | |||
| Hulse | New Dimensions for the Cube of Space | Transposing of the Tarot deck into 3 dimensions; great idea, but with a faulty, altered deck | |||
| Kaplan | Sefer Yetzirah | Translation and commentary on the oldest book of Kabbalah | |||
| Matt | The Essential Kabbalah | From the "Essential" series, collection of stories that make you think about them for days straight | |||
| Rosenberg | Dreams of Being Eaten Alive | Radical translation of the books of Kabbalah, the Bible on David Lynch | |||
| Scholem | Kabbalah | Academic historical study of Kabbalah | |||
| Wilber | No Boundary | Philosophical work supposed to unify theories of Good (Religion), Truth (Science), and Beauty (Art) |
| Beckman | Rap: Portraits & Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers | Old-school rappers in their glory days, a collector's item | |||
| Cohen | Jerusalem: In the Shadow of Heaven | Tries to present as many facets of Jerusalem as possible, but goes deep as well as broad | |||
| Faber | Between Brothers & Sisters | Warm, fuzzy stories and pictures of siblings | |||
| Hauser | Muhammad Ali: In Perspective | Remember when he was King? The closest we've ever gotten in our time | |||
| Levac | Our Country | Photographs of Israel, circa now | |||
| Milne | Spirit of the Land | The most beautiful and revered places in Native America | |||
| Milne | The Sacred Earth | The most beautiful and revered places on the planet | |||
| Milne | Visions of the Goddess | The most beautiful and revered-by-godess-worshippers places on the planet | |||
| Safdie | The Western Wall | The revered remains of the courtyard wall of the Temple to YHWH in Jerusalem | |||
| Various | A Day in the Life of America | Photographed by some of the world's best photographers on a single day | |||
| Various | A Day in the Life of Australia | Photographed by some of the world's best photographers on a single day | |||
| Various | A Day in the Life of Ireland | Photographed by some of the world's best photographers on a single day | |||
| Various | A Day in the Life of Israel | Photographed by some of the world's best photographers on a single day | |||
| Various | A Day in the Life of Italy | Photographed by some of the world's best photographers on a single day |
| Alcock | A Textbook of Social Psychology | see title | |||
| Bel | Environmental Psychology | see title | |||
| Glass | Statistical Methods in Education & Psychology | I'm holding on to this 'cause Psych. was my major -- it I forget it, can they take away my degree? | |||
| Hagin | Abnormal Psychology | see title | |||
| Matlin | The Psychology of Women | see title | |||
| Santrock | Child Development | Psychology textbook |
| Heinberg | Would You RatherŠ? | Pass the time with a group of friends, some of them are hysterical | |||
| Humphry | Final Exit | Everyone should have the knowledge of how to take their own lives, if need be | |||
| Piven | The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook | see title | |||
| Seager | The State of the Earth Atlas | Not only geological and political maps, but social and economic ones, as well | |||
| Toby | The Art of Hebrew Lettering | Hebrew calligraphy how-to | |||
| Various | Let's Go Italy 2000 | Travel guide for Italy | |||
| Various | Lonely Planet Jamaica | Travel Guide for Jamaica | |||
| Young | The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary | Absolute must for aspiring songwriters |