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Basic Beats for the Working Drummer

By Mike Davis

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Paperback:

9780769233536 | Warner Bros Pubns, November 1, 1983, cover price $6.95

The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook

By Mike Davis and Fred Pfeil

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Hardcover:

9780805272666 | Verso Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $32.95

The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook, 1985

By Mike Davis, Fred Pfeil and Michael Sprinker (editor)

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9780805272673 | Schocken Books, November 1, 1985, cover price $10.95

Prisoners of the American Dream

Examines the development of the American working class and analyzes the changing role of labor unions in politics

By Mike Davis

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9780860918400 | Verso Books, March 1, 1986, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Examines the development of the American working class and analyzes the changing role of labor unions in politics

The Year Left 2: An American Socialist Yearbook

By Mike Davis

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Paperback:

9780860918837 | Verso Books, April 1, 1987, cover price $20.00

The Year Left II: Towards a Rainbow Socialism Essays on Race Ethnicity Class and Gender

By Mike Davis

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Hardcover:

9780860911715 | Verso Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $50.00

Reshaping the Us Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s

By Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780860911937 | Verso Books, August 1, 1988, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780860919094, titled "Reshaping the Us Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980's" | Verso Books, August 1, 1988, cover price $20.00

Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America

By Mike Davis

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Hardcover:

9780860912637 | Verso Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $69.95

Paperback:

9780860919766 | Verso Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $22.00

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles

Product Description: No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias...read more

By Mike Davis

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9780860913030 | Verso Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: No metropolis has been more loved or more hated.

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

A work of social criticism shows how Los Angeles's history, hidden power structure, and disparity of wealth will effect the city's future and the future of urban America in general

By Mike Davis

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9781844675685 | New edition (Verso Books, September 1, 2006), cover price $22.95

9780679738060 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A work of social criticism shows how Los Angeles's history, hidden power structure, and disparity of wealth will effect the city's future and the future of urban America in general

9 To 5 Beats 10 to Life: How to Reenter Society

By Mike Davis

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Paperback:

9781569910412 | Amer Correctional Assn, November 1, 1995, cover price $15.00

Grand Street 56: Dreams

Product Description: Book by Stockhausen, Karlheinz

By Luis Bunuel, Mike Davis, George Herms, Adobe La, Edward Ruscha and William T. Vollmann

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9781885490070 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Grand Street 59: Time

Product Description: Book by Berberova, Nina, Szarkowski, John

By William S. Burroughs, Mike Davis, Naguib Mahfouz, Charles Ray and John Szarkowski

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9781885490100 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Berberova, Nina, Szarkowski, John

All American

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By Reinaldo Arenas, Mike Davis, Diamela Eltit, Doris Salcedo, Peter Sellars and William Vollmann

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9781885490124 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960-1997

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By Helle Crenzien (editor), Mike Davis, William R. Hackman, David Hockney, Louisiana (other contributor) and Lars Nittve (editor)

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Hardcover:

9788790029197 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February 1, 1998, cover price $49.95

99 Surefire Ways to Stay Unemployed

Product Description: Using cartoons and anecdotes, job counselor Mike Davis illustrates how people sabotage their own efforts to find and keep a job. From the ever-popular "That's not in my job description," to the never-ending wait for the perfect job, this funny and insightful book highlights the well-worn excuses and attitudes that keep the novice unemployed...read more

By Mike Davis

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9781880090534 | Galde Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Using cartoons and anecdotes, job counselor Mike Davis illustrates how people sabotage their own efforts to find and keep a job.

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

A powerful glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, both real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the many movies and books depicting this city as a veritable hotbed of riots, fires, floods, and earthquakes as well as an apocalyptic locale. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. NYT. (view table of contents)

By Mike Davis

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9780805051063 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the movies and books depicting the city as a hotbed of riots and natural disasters

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9780375706073 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles--both natural and man-made, real and fictional--documents the danger created by forces of nature, greed, and politics

Ecology of Fear: Burning Our Illusitons Tonight

By Mike Davis

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9780805051070 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $10.01

Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class

Product Description: Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davisâs brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the worldâs most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Davis

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9781859842485 | Verso Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davisâs brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the worldâs most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

How to Get Ssi & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step

By Mike Davis

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9780595125746, titled "How to Get Ssi & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step" | Writers Club Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95

The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Product Description: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Davis (editor) and Hal Rothman (editor)

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9780520205291 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside.

Paperback:

9780520225381 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $33.95

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago : A History of Our Future

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By Mike Davis (foreword by), Marco D'Eramo and Graeme Thomson (trans)

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9781859846247 | Verso Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $30.00

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

Shows how the droughts affecting northern Africa, China, and India in the 1870s and 1890s are consistant with El Nino effects, and discusses the economic, racial, and political forces that allowed 50 million people to starve.

By Mike Davis

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9781859847398 | Verso Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Shows how the droughts affecting northern Africa, China, and India in the 1870s and 1890s are consistant with El Nino effects, and discusses the economic, racial, and political forces that allowed 50 million people to starve.

Paperback:

9781859843826 | Verso Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $25.95

9789990047820 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

Dead Cities: And Other Tales

Product Description: In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable...read more

By Mike Davis

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9781565847651 | New Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Using environmental science as his methodology, the MacArthur fellow peels the lid off the nation's urban battle zones, exposing the extent of white flight, deindustrialization, segregation, and federal policy failure.

Paperback:

9781565848443 | New Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature.

Land of the Lost Mammoths: A Science Adventure

While working with a famous scientist in the Arctic, four award-winning teen-aged scientists stumble upon a mysterious find that transports them to the Valley of the Runes where they encounter marooned Vikings, evil sorcerers, Arctic hurricanes, and other dangerous adventures and now, regardless of their personal issues, have to stick together to find their way back home.

By Mike Davis and William Simpson (illustrator)

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9780974707808 | Perceval Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: While working with a famous scientist in Greenland, four teenage scientists stumble upon a mysterious find that transports them to the Valley of the Runes where they encounter marooned Vikings, Arctic hurricanes, and other dangerous adventures.

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