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  • Writers of Wonder
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    Masters of the science fiction story have been advising initiates on the form almost since the birth of the genre. Here some of the earliest such masters from the 1940s and 1950s, both authors and editors, render their commentary and advice on how to write outstanding science fiction stories. Contributors include Robert Bloch, Ross Rocklynne, Leigh Brackett, August Derleth, Fr...
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    23,78 €

  • The End of The Road
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN / Morgan M. Morgan
    They wanted to be free in Amerika. But there was no place for them to be free in Amerika. This is Amerika of the radical 1970s as you’ve never seen it before. ...
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    23,59 €

  • DESPERADA
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    She promised to protect those under her care, even if it meant fighting the Devil himself. ...
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    17,46 €

  • INSIDE THE CASINO
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN / Patrick Morgan
    Patrick Morgan worked in the Las Vegas casino world for 34 years. During that time, he rose from janitor to manager of a casino on the famous Las Vegas strip. He saw it all and, in his memoir, he tells all: The crazy patrons and their crazy addictions; the pimps, their whores, and their customers; the big-time winners and losers; gypsies, street scammers, and street performers;...
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    23,63 €

  • FALLING FURNACES
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    The future of post-industrial America came to Pittsburgh in 1980. As the steel industry collapsed and disappeared in the Steel City, steelworkers, radicals, and activists of all types fought against the falling furnaces. This is the story of their fight against the destruction of industrial America by one who was there. ...
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    24,96 €

  • AMERICAN WORKERS, 1900-2000
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    This book is an overview of the development of the American working class through three major eras in the 20th century. The first era was that of the Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of an immigrant industrial working class, from 1900-1930. The second era was that of the New Deal Political Order. This era began in the 1930s with the New Deal Social Contract, which legi...
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    22,92 €

  • EPICHARUS
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    All that we know of Epicharus comes from a few lines, totaling a short paragraph, in 'The Annals' of the Roman historian Tacitus as he describes her role in the so-called 'Pisonian Conspiracy' of 65 A.D., named after the Senator Gaius Calpurnius Piso. She was a Greek former slave who consorted with senatorial conspirators to assassinate the Roman Emperor Nero. She also urged a ...
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    10,77 €

  • Three Essays on Working Class Literature
    ERIC LEIF DAVIN
    This book discusses three classic examples of working class literature: 'Life in the Iron Mills' by Rebecca Harding Davis, 'The New Masses' magazine, and the 1930s protest literature of Clifford Odets. Rebecca Harding Davis wrote 'Life in the Iron Mills' in 1861. It was the first work of fiction to describe the lives of the new antebellum working class of industrializing Americ...
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    11,92 €

  • American Workers, 1800-1900
    Eric Leif Davin
    This is an overview of the impact of the Industrial Revolution and corporate capitalism on the development of the American working class over the course of the nineteenth century. America went from farms to factories, and most Americans went from economic independence to wage dependency. ...
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    23,26 €

  • Outlaws in Amerika
    Eric Leif Davin
    They wanted to leave Amerika behind. But Amerika wouldn’t let them. ...
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    12,39 €

  • Mundane Meanderings
    Eric Leif Davin
    This book is a potpourri offering. As its title indicates, it is a meandering collection of writings on many topics, from Hispanic communities in the Southwest to KKK rallies in Pennsylvania to seizures of corporate buildings in Rust Belt Ohio with angry steelworkers. The writings explore everything from history and radical politics to science fiction, music, and other aspects ...
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    28,26 €

  • Walk Like A Man
    Eric Leif Davin
    Growing up in a dysfunctional blue-collar family in Arizona during the Fifties and early Sixties, Eric Leif Davin struggled with the idea of what it meant to be a man. It was a long journey away from machismo and toward maturity. A violent coming of age at mid-century in the desert Southwest. ...
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    38,90 €

  • LEFT PROFILES
    Eric Leif Davin
    A collection of profiles and interviews with radical artists and activists who have devoted their lives to creating a more just and humane society. Among those interviewed and profiled are Philip Foner, Meridel Le Sueur, Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Staughton Lynd, Howard Zinn, Dick Gregory, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Crystal Lee Sutton, Germaine Greer, Marge P...
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    23,61 €

  • AMERICAN HER-STORY
    Eric Leif Davin
    This book is meant as a general introduction, a short guide, for everyone, to the work of significant women’s historians concerning some of the major questions in the field. Thus, this is not a book for specialists. Rather, it is a book for the non-specialist who simply wants to understand what women’s history is all about. ...
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    17,68 €

  • MEDIEVAL GENESIS
    Eric Leif Davin
    The transition from medieval feudalism to the modern capitalist world -- like that from ancient slavery to feudalism itself -- is considered to be one of the major historical transitions of humanity. The most common explanations for this passage, however, suffer from being more descriptions for this passage than actual explanations for it. This book offers a more acceptable exp...
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    17,71 €

  • Hope in a Long Winter
    Eric Leif Davin
    Eric Leif Davin was a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Drafted for the war, he refused to be drafted. This is his account of his life in the theater at Harvard, working in the Free School Movement, running for School Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and surviving personally and politically in the swirling chaos of that era. ...
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    32,67 €

  • STREET FIGHTING DAYS
    Eric Leif Davin / LOBO / Morgan M. Morgan
    Lobo and Morgan were legends of the street in the counter-cultural Seventies. Laughing and fighting, they battled the police and the Powers That Be from Berkeley to Cambridge and all points in between. This is their raucous account of their street fighting days in Cambridge, when Harvard Square was one of the spark plugs of the Revolution. ...
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    11,39 €

  • THE DEATH OF DEPUTY DAWG
    Eric Leif Davin
    Deputy Dawg was a member of the STP Family, an informal counter-cultural group of street people in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. On the night of July 17, 1971, the Town Marshal of nearby Nederland, Colorado, arrested him and drove him to a dark and desolate mountain road. There the Town Marshal shot him in the head and left his body hidden in roadside bushes. This is the true...
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    12,39 €

  • EARTH PEOPLE’S PARK
    Eric Leif Davin / Morgan M. Morgan
    Created by Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm collective, Earth People’s Park in northern Vermont was a major waystation of the hippie counter-culture from 1970-1990. This is an account of life there, as well as other waystations, such as Ann Arbor and Cambridge’s Harvard Square, by one who lived the life. It is a unique account of a vanished lifestyle. ...
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    11,29 €

  • DOUBLE GENESIS
    Eric Leif Davin
    Populism is the dominant political ideology in America. This book explores the origins of that ideology and finds a double genesis: The classical Enlightenment liberal republican tradition espoused by John Locke, and the religious tradition of equality and resistance to hierarchy espoused by New England Puritans. Populism is the secular expression of an amalgamation of radical ...
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    17,18 €

  • NOTHING IN THE NIGHT
    Eric Leif Davin
    The massive 1054 Crab Supernova was recorded in ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Arab sources... but there is no mention of it any European or Byzantine source. This book explores what this curious omission might say about what medieval and Byzantine chroniclers thought the important events were on Earth in 1054. In particular, it raises questions about what they thought about t...
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    11,86 €

  • That Fat Cat
    Eric Leif Davin
    Poems for youngsters of all ages. Poems about animals, birds, astronauts and detectives! Poems to read aloud, poems to read silently, poems to shout, poems to sing, poems that ring, poems about almost everything! ...
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    10,93 €

  • Barricades Burning
    Eric Leif Davin
    Political and personal poems by Eric Leif Davin, activist and provocateur. ...
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    10,96 €

  • More Sorrows & Delights
    Eric Leif Davin
    Award-winning author Eric Leif Davin journeys to hell and back in this collection of his fantasy and science fiction stories. His journeys take him from a military base on the Moon to the far reaches of the galaxy, from the death of a dryad to an encounter with Satan himself. And everywhere, as he dances with the ghosts of dead ancestors and witnesses fantastic visions in the n...
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    17,58 €

  • Question Authority
    Eric Leif Davin
    Radical change was everywhere in the early 1970s, including education. The early 1970s Free School Movement was part of the change. As part of the era’s counter-culture, it demanded that a new type of school be created, one that freed the minds of students instead of shackling them to the status quo. It was part of the movement to create an America dedicated to freedom, justice...
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    17,35 €

  • Orphans of the Storm
    Eric Leif Davin
    A shared memoir of street people in the Seventies, the People’s Party, and draft resistance during the Vietnam War. ...
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    45,18 €

  • The Paterson Strike Pageant
    Eric Leif Davin
    The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 was a major struggle in the history of American labor. Over 25,000 Italian and Jewish workers shut down Paterson’s 300 silk mills and dye houses for almost five months over the issue of workers’ control of the rate of production. It was the biggest strike in Paterson’s history. Workers overcame their differences in craft, nationality, and gender...
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    22,82 €

  • The Scarlet Queen
    Eric Leif Davin
    Anne Bonney had sworn eternal vengeance against the British Empire, which had sent a fleet to destroy her. But would the vampire in her own crew be more dangerous? ...
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    23,62 €

  • Picket Line & Ballot Box
    Eric Leif Davin
    In the 1930s, ordinary people moved to create grassroots political movements which saved their communities. This is the story of how they did this in one New Hampshire town. It remains an inspiration to us all. ...
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    13,27 €

  • The Great Strike of 1877
    Eric Leif Davin
    The Great Strike of 1877 was the largest labor upheaval on Earth for the entire century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the beginning of the Great War in 1914. For two weeks America burned. This is that story. ...
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    22,06 €


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