Alan

 

"I like to look at pictures. Books about art, architecture, photography, and design are my first love. When it comes to books without pictures, I want most to read about lives lived outside the mainstream, not to see how others live, but to gain greater understanding of how I’ve lived there, on the fringes."

 

...And here is some more inspiration.

 

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Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Way to Grow Healthy Food, Build Thriving Communities, and Give Back to the Earth Cover Image
By Daron Joffe, Rinne Allen (Photographer)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781617691010
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Published: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang - March 18th, 2014

Let's save the planet! Let's save ourselves! In this book, Daron "Farmer D" Joffe focuses on the biodynamic approach to gardening, which means looking at all aspects, from the soil to the seeds to the sun and stars. There is a strong emphasis on gardening as a communal act and Joffe shows how plants nourish us, heal us, and give back to the earth. This book was the big hit at the 2014 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.


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Nightswimmer Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781451667196
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 13th, 2011

Two young men bond in college while swimming at night in the Santa Barbara channel. It’s more than a little risky, but is it accidental or intentional when one of them goes missing after their friendship is on the brink of becoming something more? The survivor’s story begins 10 years later in New York City where he is shadowed by his friend’s disappearance. It’s about longing and loss intertwined with the AIDS epidemic in the foreground and left me pondering the what-ifs for a long time after I put it down.


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The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9781600850479
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Published: Taunton Press - September 23rd, 2008

As a student the architect author spent a significant amount of time on a sailboat where she learned that there was only space for that which was vital. What was revealed to her is that this was not only just enough, but that it was actually quite comfortable for the people living in it. Her book shows us how to use what she learned to create homes which favor smaller, more thoughtful spaces whose inhabitants feel comfortable compared with McMansions whose inhabitants are left with wanting more than square footage. (Note: there are a series of the books addressing more detailed aspects of home design following her thesis)


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Just Kids Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco Press - November 2nd, 2010

We all wanted to run away to New York City and make it there, right? Patti Smith actually did it and remembers it for us in this honest and unpretentious memoir. The story is equally that of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe whom she met soon after arriving in 1967. Their brief love affair became a deep and loving friendship between two artists struggling to express their creativity. Mapplethorpe died in 1989. Patti has lived on to bring us their fabled story of the arts scene in New York in the early 60‘s/late 70’s.


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Crime and Punishment Cover Image
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780679734505
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Published: Vintage - March 2nd, 1993

Raskolnikov is an impoverished student living in St. Petersberg. The story lives largely in his head where delusion and madness reign. His deliberation over a plan to kill an elderly moneylender and his wavering between justification and deep remorse after committing the act left me wanting to turn away from the horror. But the story is too gripping to put down. Knowing what I know now, I’d have put it on my list of books that I am too afraid to read. And I would have been sorry to have missed a story that has impossible to forget.


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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer Cover Image
By David Roberts, Jon Krakauer (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307591777
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Published: Broadway Books - June 26th, 2012

Everett Ruess was only twenty when he disappeared under a cloud of mystery in southeastern Utah in 1934. Decades later we still find his story as potent as other disappeared adventurers like Amelia Earhart or Chris McCandless of Into the Wild fame. Eschewing city life, he was sixteen when he set out on the first of his many solo hikes along the coast of California and the southwestern US. But he wasn't antisocial and made friends everywhere he trekked including photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange. This biography (one of three recent books about Ruess) uses his journals, letters, poetry, and art to show us how he loved life, wilderness, and beauty. What Roberts also wants to answer, but ultimately cannot is if his disappearance was due to an accident, foul play, or was it planned. We are left to draw our own conclusions. (Note: in a testament to the interest in this young adventurer, there are two other recent books detailing his life from slightly different angles. One is Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W. L. Rusho and another is Everett Ruess: his Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife by Philip L. Fradkin)
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