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Peace: 50 Years of Protest

By: Miles, Barry

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Readers Digest: April 2010

Seller ID: 320549

ISBN: 1606521101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"An explanation of how the peace symbol-that upside-down V with a vertical column running through the middle, all surrounded by a circle-came to be."
-The Washington Post

The peace sign is probably the most commonly used symbol of protest in the world. Instantly recognizable as the universal sign for peace, in 2008 it turned 50 years old. With accounts from around the world, this book tells the story of the enduring power of the line drawing that began life as the official sign for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Tracing the roots of Gerald Holtom's design, ...
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963

By: Miles, Barry

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Grove Press: July 2001

Seller ID: 276203

ISBN: 0802138179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Called "a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . and] fun reading" by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition -- Ginsberg's "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; an...
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The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

By: Barry Miles

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Abrams Image: September 2016

Seller ID: 228610

ISBN: 1419722212

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This is the first full-length look at Zapple--the Beatles' label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group's determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the Zapple label manager and has written an engaging and slightly gossipy you-arethere review of this fascinating period in Beatles history. The book provides insight into the lives and working methods of leading literary and cultural figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Richard Bra...
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William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible

By: Miles, Barry

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hyperion: August 1993

Seller ID: 303702

ISBN: 1562828487

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Author:Barry Miles

Peace: 50 Years of Protest

The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963

The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible

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