 | Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds by Myrick Land
Buy used from: $0.01 Fascinating and funny stories of literary feuds.
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 | Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $6.24 A pleasure for those who enjoy logical thought and righteous indignation (though believers can't be argued with).
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 | Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney
Buy used from: $36.98 Detailed examination of Victorian subcultures. Could have wished for a bit more on Polari though.
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 | They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life by Oliver James
Buy used from: $1.46 Looks at the ways bad parenting creates unhappy children. (see also ISBN 1569243239)
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 | The Last Journey of William Huskisson: How a Day of Triumph Became a Day of Despair at the Turn of a Wheel by Simon Garfield
Buy used from: $1.03 Kaleidescopic journey through politics and railway engineering of the early 19th Century.
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| Literary Agents: The Novelist As Spy by Anthony Masters
Buy used from: $2.62 Fascinating stories of writers who were also spies.
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 | Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.99 One of Dick's best novels of psychosis as revelation.
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| Medieval Civilization: 400-1500 A.D. ( Le Goff) by Jacques Le Goff
Buy used from: $9.00 |
 | Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal
Buy used from: $43.73 Specifically criticises "postmodern" bad science and pseudoscience, but also reveals the general vacuity of "critical theory". This book is still necessary.
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 | The Paranormal Source Book: The Comprehensive Guide to Strange Phenomena Worldwide by Jenny Randles
Buy used from: $0.99 Fair-minded and thorough listing of phenomena in UFOlogy, the occult and "anomalous events".
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 | Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers by Jim Schnabel
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $0.01 True history of the crop circles phenomenon: like an Ealing comedy crossed with the X-Files.
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 | A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $5.98 Intellectual reviews of imaginary books. Funny and stimulating.
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 | On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.98 |
 | The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.35 A western, a gangster story, a sci-fi epic, a revolutionary tract, an unforgettable dream/nightmare... and a great novel.
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 | Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition by Michael Moynihan
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $10.96 |
 | The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
Buy used from: $11.03 Atmospheric and detailed historical thriller.
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 | The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions by Scott Adams
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 It's all true!
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 | Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Mark Twain Papers) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $80.00 / Used from: $38.50 (A tad expensive!)
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| From the Ruins of the Reich (Meridian) by Douglas Botting
Buy used from: $0.95 Fascinating detail about the horrific aftermath of WW2 in Europe (see also ISBN 004943036X)
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| The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : From A to B and Back Again by Andy Warhol
Buy used from: $8.35 Full of insightful Wildean witticisms.
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 | The Way of All Flesh: A Celebration of Decay (Panther) by Midas Dekkers
Buy used from: $0.56 This Dutch writer has some archaic views on race and women, but this meditation on decay is fascinating and inspiring. (Warning: includes photo of rotting corpse)
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