 | Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
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 | Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey
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 | Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
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 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Vol. 4)
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 | What Is Art? (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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 | A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art in Theatre by Anne Bogart
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 | How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
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 | The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of An American Icon by Ronald K. L. Collins
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 | It's Not Funny by David Cross
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 | Last Night on Earth by Bill T. Jones
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 | Save Your Democratic Citizen Soul!: Rants, Screeds and Other Public Utterances for Midnight in the Republic by Tony Kushner
Non-fiction.
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 | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
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 | David LaChapelle
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 | Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
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 | The Kingdom of God Is within You by Leo Tolstoy
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 | M : The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb
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 | Aristotle's Poetics (Dramabook,) by Aristotle
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 | Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics
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 | The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey
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 | MUSEUMS & COMMUNITIES PB by Karp I
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 | Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display by Steven D. Lavine
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 | The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
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 | Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality by Susan McClary
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 | Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Fredric Jameson
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 | Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita
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