books by City Lights Publishers     books:     City Lights Publis...      Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Open Media) Joseph Nevins City Lights Publishers, 2008 Compelling and important With the recent debates about immigration in the news, I felt compelled to get a good handle on the topic. This book is well-written, and also features amazing photography to illustrate the points. I got a comprehensive overview of the history of immigration ...             Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader Michael Parenti City Lights Publishers, 2007 Readable, fascinating, more needed than ever.... This book is a wonderful addition to Parenti's body of work. I sat down and started reading and found myself reading every article. Touching on many of the areas Parenti has examined for years, it brings together his usual sharp, readable critique and an extraordinary ...             Notes of a Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski City Lights Publishers, 1981 Living it straight up This is the one that made me think Bukowski wasn't just another pretentious scruffy looking poet-writer. And the impression it made on me was inestimable. It was the same reaction I had when I read those other `notes' from that other 'sky, the man himself, Fyodor ...             Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 19441990 Charles Bukowski City Lights Publishers, 2008 Charles Bukowski (19201994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging works, most of which have been unavailable since ...             A Power Governments Cannot Suppress Howard Zinn City Lights Publishers, 2006 Validates my choice to oppose Cheney & attack on Iran Earlier today I reviewed The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America by Peter Dale Scott, and coined a new term of praise, "erudite patriot." That was one of many reviews from my long recent trip to the Middle East that I could finally post. I would ...             Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Allen Ginsberg City Lights Publishers, 1956 Howl, And Other Pocket Poems Howl, And Other Poems-Allen Ginsberg ***** When originally released in the 1950's Howl was one of the most contraversial works in literature up to that point even rivaling that of Ulysses. Filled with shocking imagry and what some may concider to be distasteful ...             The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege Robert Jensen City Lights Publishers, 2005 Very Good Exploration of Racism The author does a very good job of bringing to the attention of the reader one of the major sources of racism: white privilege. While it is understandably rejected by those who benefit from racist practices and beliefs, the book does provoke people (who are open about ...             Tales of Ordinary Madness Charles Bukowski City Lights Publishers, 1984 Tales of Ordinary Madness Charles Bukowski, brutally honest, as usual. This book was pretty good but not as good as his poetry.             The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda City Lights Publishers, 2004 A New Translation "I became saturated with his poetry and began to translate his poems. Although there were many beautiful existing translations, many others did not flow as I felt they should and I often had interpretive differences with them." ~ Mark Eisner, translator "The ...             Story of the Eye Georges Bataille City Lights Publishers, 1987 Not for Kids! I found this book looking through my wife's "recently viewed" list and thought it would be an excellent gift for our 12 year old niece who loves R.L. Stein's "Goosebumps" and "Fear Street" series. Boy, was I wrong! I thought the spooky cover, title, and foreign name ...             Spinoza: Practical Philosophy Gilles Deleuze City Lights Publishers, 1988 Great Companion to the Ethics Not only is this a great companion to the Ethics, but I would go as far as to recommend this as the only companion that one use when first tackling the Ethics. Working through the different concepts of the Ethics and working out how they form an interrelated system on ...             Secrets of Voodoo Milo Rigaud City Lights Publishers, 1985 Useful & Informative While most books on voodoo major on 'curses' 'voodoo dolls' spells and other Hollywood-prescribed stereotypes, this book is a very informative and helpful study of roots practices and one of only a handful I would really recommend on voodoo - the others being Voodoo ...             All Over Coffee Paul Madonna City Lights Publishers, 2007 A coffee buzz for your eyes! I have been a big fan of Paul Madonna's exquisite drawings and thought-provoking captions since All Over Coffee debuted in the SF Chronicle. I left SF nearly 3 years ago and his strip on the web kept me connected to home. The book was very enjoyable because it ...             Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media) David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky, ... City Lights Publishers, 2007 Interviews on the Past, Present & Future of the U.S.-Iran Relationship The war drums in Washington beat ever louder, to the accompaniment of saber-rattling rhetoric toward Iran. Although daily talk of the Islamic Republic fills our newspapers and TV screens, many vital questions remain unaddressed in the mainstream media. Is the tough ...             Interventions (City Lights Open Media) Noam Chomsky City Lights Publishers, 2007 Very informative, as ever This is the complete collection of Chomsky's opinion pieces written between 2002 and 2007 and distributed by the New York Times Syndicate. Chomsky is one of the world's best-informed and most astute commentators on current affairs. His consistent theme is the need for ...          products you might be interested in search for books confronting, governments, immigration, interventions, uncollected, wine-stained we recommend Howl, And Other Pocket Poems randomly chosen book: Sacred Ground