 | Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.00 This book is fun, interesting, inspiring, and just all-around cool. Talk about people doing some amazing things, if you're looking to get fired up about changing the world, this will help
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 | Animal Years by Josh Ritter
Buy used from: $7.00 Really a great new step for Josh... a very natural evolution from past work. If you don't know Josh Ritter, please check out "Lillian Egypt."
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 | Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (BK Currents (Paperback)) by Shannon Daley-Harris
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.00 Change the world, here's your guide!
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 | Joby GP1-01EN Gorillapod Flexible Tripod (Grey)
Buy new: $21.95 Everybody who loves taking pictures should have one of these! Everybody! As a side note, this was my brother's gift to his groomsmen, we all appreciated it!
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 | Golden Age of Radio by Josh Ritter
Buy used from: $9.29 Still the best Josh Ritter CD, if you ask me. On this one check out "Me & Jiggs" or the title track.
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 | Amplified by Q-Tip
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.38 Great fun, interesting rhymes, good all-around
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 | Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
Buy new: $17.33 / Used from: $9.78 This book changed my thinking in so many ways, and is something I would recommend anyone check out in a store... check it out first, because it's certainly not for everybody. The power and persistence of metaphorical thought is amazing once you start looking at it.
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 | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.64 She don't use jelly... I think this was one huge jolt that got me moving towards listening to music outside top 40. Talk about the one-hit wonder that keeps on giving.
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 | Things Fall Apart by The Roots
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $3.88 Just plain great. Any CD will do from the Roots crew, but this one stands out for me
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 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.86 To my mind, this album is when the Flaming Lips really came into their own
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 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.49 I really could not put this book down, and think it is one of the best novels I've encountered in years.
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 | Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Stephen Mitchell (trans)
Wow... sad that this is apparently rare, this has a great translation of Keeping Quiet, a poem I heard Billy Collins read in New York in October of 2001. As such, the poem entered my life at such a strange and mixed up time for everyone I knew, but it was such a beautiful ray of light. Perhaps you can track down a good translation in a more readily available book!
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 | Daisies of the Galaxy by Eels
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $3.71 My first Eels CD... and such a happy pickup!
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 | Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $1.96 Amazing for any circumstances, but just beyond amazing on a sunny drive of any kind.
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 | Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work by Kevin Carroll
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.97 Kevin Carroll is a singular phenomena, I really can't explain it, but it's true.
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 | Pause by Four Tet
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.65 A soundtrack for dreams makes for fun and interesting waking time listening
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 | Questions About Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins
Buy new: $16.80 / Used from: $16.77 My favorite poet, one of a couple books that are truly just full of greatness, quietness, beauty.
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 | Rounds by Four Tet
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.42 ditto the above for this CD and the next two
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 | The Night In Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.50 Full of great, jarring, amazingly well crafted stories, certainly worth it for Bullet in the Brain, one of the best short stories I've encountered. Just read it again recently and it's as good as it ever was.
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 | Up in Flames by Caribou
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.77 |
 | Unearthed (5CD) by Johnny Cash
Buy new: $53.97 / Used from: $27.99 It's not all great, in fact some of this stuff is a little sad, but there are tons of fun, interesting, and generally cool things in this box
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 | At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.69 Classic
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 | Arrhythmia by Antipop Consortium
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $0.01 Absolutely worth your time and $ if you like smart rhymes and good beats. This is fun, sharp, and completely original.
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 | Madvillainy by Madvillain
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $6.96 So good! "First and last step to playing yourself like an accordian."
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 | The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.24 Full of good stuff, and great for headphones listening
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Hey... fiction, memoir, either way the immediacy of Frey's writing is remarkable
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.19 A wonderful read, truly a great and intriguing book.
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 | Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.50 Like blackalicious in that it's good almost anytime anywhere, but great driving through the countryside.
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 | Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.60 Another great Lakoff read!
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 | Leading Causes of Life by Gary, Gunderson
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $9.99 An intriguing new paradigm for thinking about health
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 | Stankonia by OutKast
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.30 Some things just don't get any worse no matter how many times they get played on the radio.
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 | Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe by Pavement
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.75 40 MILLION DOLLARS!
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 | Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.25 An interesting read about an interesting conflict
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 | Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.92 My favorite poet, one of a couple books that are truly just full of greatness, quietness, beauty.
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 | Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.85 My favorite poet, one of a couple books that are truly just full of greatness, quietness, beauty.
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