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Steal This Book

by Bert Cohen, Izak Haber, Abbie Hoffman

A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman’s puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold. Outrageously illustrated by R. Crumb, it nevertheless conveys a serious message to all would-be revolutionaries: You don’t... (more)

The Politics of Ecstasy

by Timothy Leary

Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness, written during the period from his Harvard days to the Summer of Love. Includes his early pronouncements on the psychedelic movement and his views on social and political ramifications of psychedelic and mystical experience. Here is the outspoken... (more)

Huerfano: A Memoir Of Life In The Counterculture

Huerfano: A Memoir Of Life In The Counterculture

by Roberta Price

In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning Star, Reality Construction Company, and the Hog Farm. In the summer of 1969, Roberta Price, a recent college graduate, secured a grant to visit these communities and photograph them. When she and her lover David arrived at Libre in the Huerfano Valley of southern... (more)

Autumn Shadows in August

by Robert W. Norris

Modeled roughly on Malcolm Lowry's "Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid," Robert W. Norris's "Autumn Shadows in August" is part homage to Lowry and Hermann Hesse, part mushroom retrospective, and part middle-aged love story. David Thompson is an expatriate American teaching at a Japanese university and suffering from hepatitis C. His wife Kaori is recovering from cancer surgery. Feeling a strong sense of... (more)

Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America

Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America

by Ivan Richmond

A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in California -- offers wisdom for both longtime practitioners and a new generation of students in this fascinating memoir of his Zen upbringing. Over half a century ago, when the first Zen Masters came to America, eager young students in search of enlightenment flocked to hear their teachings. Many, like Ivan Richmond's... (more)

The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture

The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture

by Scott MacFarlane

The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, environmental accountability, spiritual expressiveness, and the justification of war. With roots in the Beat literary movement of the late 1950s, the hippie perspective also advocated a bohemian lifestyle which expressed distaste for hypocrisy and materialism yet did so without the dark, somewhat forced... (more)

Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960's and the Summer of Love

Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960's and the Summer of Love

by John Curl

Memories of Drop City follows a group of people and their radical movement, in the Southwest and on both coasts, in a decade that shaped the rest of the century. “John Curl’s characters in Memories of Drop City aspire to be ‘100 years’ ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows, through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This... (more)

Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid

Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid

by Malcolm Lowry

Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

by Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte

This Season's People: A Book of Spiritual Teachings

This Season's People: A Book of Spiritual Teachings

by Stephen Gaskin

ONE DAY AT A TIME (LTD ED)

by Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling new novel—a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life… Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowers—and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywood’s top... (more)

Drop City.

by Tom Coraghessan Boyle, Werner Richter

Making of a Counter-Culture

by Theodore Roszak

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebelsand their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracythe regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces... (more)

Drop City

by T.Coraghessan Boyle

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. A world away in Boynton, a tiny town in the interior of Alaska, Sess Harder, a pioneer who actually does live... (more)

Living Lightly: Travels in Post-Consumer Society

Living Lightly: Travels in Post-Consumer Society

by Walter Schwarz

In Britain and Europe, Canada and the USA (New England, Philadelphia, Tennessee, Seattle), Australia, India and Japan, the authors share the lives and homes of lifestyle pioneers who believe they have created a better model for the 21st century.

A Summer in the Park: A Journal Written from Diary Notes: June 4th 2000 to October 16th 2000

A Summer in the Park: A Journal Written from Diary Notes: June 4th 2000 to October 16th 2000

by Tony Allen

A Summer in the Park is Allen's account of his career as a government sponsored advocate heckler; available from midday each Sunday, to teach the techniques of banter to newcomers, and heckle on behalf of shyer members of the public. It is an hilarious account of the techniques and vulnerabilities of the art of performance, and a manifesto for Allen's anarchic utopia, in which tolerance and opposition are freely... (more)

Looking for the Summer

by Robert W. Norris

David Thompson is a former Vietnam War conscientious objector in Paris on a quest to find himself in the early days of 1977. When he befriends an Iranian and an Afghan and is invited to return with them to their countries, his quest slowly becomes a descent into his own private hell. On the road from Europe to the East he encounters Kurdish bandits in the eastern mountains of Turkey, becomes involved with an... (more)

The Hippy Gourmet's Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating

The Hippy Gourmet's Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating

by Bruce Brennan

Cooking the Hippy Way: It's as Simple as Following Your Pleasure Bruce Brennan, the host of the hit PBS show The Hippy Gourmet , travels the globe sampling local, healthy cuisines. The show is a global sensation, airing across the U.S. and in-flight international airlines such as Lufthansa and Swiss Air. Now in a cookbook packed with over 150 recipes, Bruce shows how you can make these easy, delicious dishes... (more)

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Steal This Book

by Bert Cohen, Izak Haber, Abbie Hoffman

The Politics of Ecstasy

by Timothy Leary

Huerfano: A Memoir Of Life In The Counterculture

by Roberta Price

Autumn Shadows in August

by Robert W. Norris

Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America

by Ivan Richmond

The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture

by Scott MacFarlane

Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960's and the Summer of Love

by John Curl

Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid

by Malcolm Lowry

Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

by Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte

This Season's People: A Book of Spiritual Teachings

by Stephen Gaskin

ONE DAY AT A TIME (LTD ED)

by Danielle Steel

Drop City.

by Tom Coraghessan Boyle, Werner Richter

Making of a Counter-Culture

by Theodore Roszak

Drop City

by T.Coraghessan Boyle

Living Lightly: Travels in Post-Consumer Society

by Walter Schwarz

A Summer in the Park: A Journal Written from Diary Notes: June 4th 2000 to October 16th 2000

by Tony Allen

Looking for the Summer

by Robert W. Norris

The Hippy Gourmet's Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating

by Bruce Brennan