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Finally in paperback! This critically acclaimed, best-selling insider's account of New York's sneaker culture chronicles the rise of the mighty gym shoe, with the bulk of the book examining nearly 400 models released during the golden years of 1970-1987. Bobbito Garcia, a DJ, a VIBE columnist and the host of ESPN2's "It's the Shoes," describes how a small and dedicated group of consumers in the 1970s and early 80s were instrumental in creating the trends that have made athletic shoes ubiquitous today and in establishing current corporate giants like Nike and Adidas. Information-packed entries for each model include available color combinations, athletic endorsements and often hilarious running commentary and stories from a rogues' gallery of fanatics who weigh in on the pros and cons of each shoe. It's all here, fully illustrated with almost 500 photographs: everything you ever wanted to know about the production, distribution and consumption of sneakers in New York City during the seminal years that set the stage for their worldwide dominance..
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In the graffiti world it's the name that brings the fame, but what about the figural components of this urban typography? Some of the most iconic pieces in the history of graffiti have earned their place in the street art pantheon with the help of masterfully rendered figures that lend additional presence to these works. Mascots & Mugs, brought to you by the publisher of the best-selling sneaker encyclopedia Where'd You Get Those? is the first book to examine figurative elements in graffiti art: It traces the history of key characters from the earliest examples by writers such as Stay High, Cliff 170 and Blade, to those of later masters like Mode 2, Doze and Tack. Drawing inspiration from Saturday-morning television, printed comic strips and the dense urban landscape itself, graffiti writers created characters free from the constraints of their usual letterforms. The result is a host of outlandish visual sidekicks that, over time, have become so prevalent that any would-be king needs at least a few in his artistic arsenal. Filled with never-before-published photographs and rare artist interviews, this chronologically sequenced graffiti bible is a must-have reference work for anyone interested in cartoons, comics, graphic design or the myriad ways in which this self-taught urban street art has influenced today's contemporary art landscape. Also available in a deluxe, clothbound, slipcased limited edition with a signed screenprint of a classic "mug" from graffiti legend Doc TC5..
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Our P/V/G matching folio features all 16 songs from the 2003 compilation by this acclaimed CCM vocal quartet: Adonai * Always Have, Always Will * Can't Live a Day * Don't Save It All for Christmas Day * Everything to Me * Give It Up * The Glory (Of the Blood) * The Greatest Story * I Don't Want to Go * In Not Of * Knockin' on Heaven's Door * New Day * Pray * Take You at Your Word * Testify to Love * Wonder Why..
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Iris Origo's last book, "A Need to Testify", is a memoir of four friends who shared an anti-fascist commitment in Italy during World War II. Two of them, writer Lauor de Bosis and American monologist Ruth Draper, were lovers. The other two, historian Gaetano Salvemini and Ignazio Silone, journalist and author of "Fontamara" and "Bread and Wine", lived in exile. When "A Need to Testify" was originally published in the early 1980s, "New Statesman" called it "a sensitive and beautifully written book by a remarkable writer," and the "New York Times" felt that Origo's portrait of Silone was the best short study of that author ever written. "A Need to Testify" is the third in a series of new editions of significant biographical works by Iris Origo. Books & Co. and Helen Marx Books have previously published both "Leopardi: A Study in Solitude" and "The Last Attachment" to rave reivews.

By Iris Origo. Introduction by Ted Morgan.
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The first in ZUMA Press' BEARING WITNESS Book Series:In Colin Finlay's Testify, the life of a driven photojournalist is revealed in almost equal measure to the lives of those he portrays Facing head-on the conflicts around the world and their aftermath, famine and disease-ridden people, children in prison and indentured, the photographer's persona begins to emerge as clearly as the stories he is seeking to tell. In his poignant opening, Finlay writes, "I embraced the road, and when I looked back, it was too late...my wife was gone and so was my past."COLIN FINLAY is part of a special breed that can thrive in the heat of vigorous documentary photography. He has earned the status of citizen of the world during his 15-year career, as he has endured being assaulted, jailed, interrogated, shot at, and threatened, and has survived the extremes of weather, long flights, dirty accommodations, bad food and water, illness, and loneliness, all as an expense for fulfilling his passion. ZUMA Press' Colin Finlay is one of the foremost documentary photojournalists in the world and a four-time Picture of The Year Award winner. In 2000, his news team won an Emmy award for the FOX documentary "Black & Brown: When Colors Collide," an exploration of interracial tensions between teenagers in Los Angeles. In 1997 he took a first-place Issue Reporting Photography Award for his essay "Child Labor," which was also nominated for the ICP's prestigious Infinity Award. His TIME Online multimedia essay, "Rickshaw Pullers," won first place in 1998 for Best Online Photography and also took the South East Asia Journalism Award..
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Description: FUZZ ONE is the staggering, outrageous, true story of a raucous and wholly unsupervised childhood in the Bronx of the 1970s. Through Vincent Fedorchak's hilarious deadpan narration of a wild existence wrought with adolescent braggadocio, we are taken on a rough journey through a deteriorating Bronx jungle-wonderland where property value was plummeting and kids ruled the streets. Whether executing a bizarre graffiti mission in another borough with all the insanity of a special ops soldier, fearlessly tracking down Satan-worshippers camped out in the old castles in Van Cortlandt Park, or being the first white boy inducted into the infamous Ebony Dukes street gang, Fedorchak never flinches. Filled with hundreds of never-before-published photos of graffiti art and Bronx cityscapes, as well as first-hand accounts of the exploits of legendary graffiti artists such as DONDI, BLADE, COMET, NOC 167, BOOTS 119, and others, FUZZ ONE is a guided tour of a heretofore uncharted Bronx underworld. This epic tale of youth gone awry fully captures an important era of cultural upheaval in New York City's history. It is set apart from other memoirs via the inclusion of more than 300 images, nearly all in color, that give the volume strong historical, anthropological, and cultural appeal..
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