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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

A sobering forecast of a potentially lethal virus known as H5N1, currently affecting the poultry and wild bird populations of East Asia, evaluates the World Health Organization's concerns that the virus is on the brink of mutating into a pandemic illness and cites the ecological and political factors that are contributing to the threat. 35,000 first printing.

By Mike Davis

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9781595580115 | New Pr, August 12, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A sobering forecast of a potentially lethal virus known as H5N1, currently affecting the poultry and wild bird populations of East Asia, evaluates the World Health Organization's concerns that the virus is on the brink of mutating into a pandemic illness and cites the ecological and political factors that are contributing to the threat.

Twilight Of Empire: Responses To Occupation

Product Description: Activists, ambassadors, and award-winning journalists offer their incisive analysis of the American occupation of Iraq in this timely collection of essays, featuring the arresting photography of Lynsey Addario. Topics include American economic interests in the war, the mainstream media coverage that made it politically feasible, escalating abuse of Muslim women by both American troops and an increasingly fundamentalist Middle East citizenry, the profiteering of multinationals like Halliburton and Bechtel, and more...read more

By Mike Davis and Howard Zinn (foreword by)

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9780976300908 | 2 edition (Perceval Pr, May 16, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Activists, ambassadors, and award-winning journalists offer their incisive analysis of the American occupation of Iraq in this timely collection of essays, featuring the arresting photography of Lynsey Addario.

Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

Product Description: An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike. For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side...read more

By Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller

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9781565848320 | New Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A history of class and power in San Diego, an anti-tourist guide that debunks the sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike.

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9781565849808 | New Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike.

Heavy Metal Freeway: California's Season in Hell

An examination of current California politics offers a ground-level view of the changes that are sweeping the state, the causes and effects of the controversial recall elections, and the role California will play in national politics in the future.

By Mike Davis

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9780805076875 | Metropolitan Books, December 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An examination of current California politics offers a view of the changes that are sweeping the state, the causes and effects of the controversial recall elections, and the role California will play in national politics in the future.

Reading the Text That Isn't There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-century Novel

By Mike Davis

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9780203006054 | Routledge, November 1, 2004, cover price $123.00

Pirates, Bats, And Dragons: A Science Adventure

Having traveled to Socotra with Dr. Hasan to examine local fauna, students Jack, Conor, and Julia find themselves in a dangerous adventure where they are befriended by a witch, encounter Delta Force commandos, and stumble upon the delivery of deadly cargo that is powerful enough to destroy the entire world.

By Mike Davis and William Simpson (illustrator)

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9780974707822 | Perceval Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: On a trip to the island of Socotra with Dr.

Land of the Lost Mammoths: A Science Adventure

While working with a famous scientist in the Arctic, four award-winning teen-aged scientists stumble upon a mysterious find that transports them to the Valley of the Runes where they encounter marooned Vikings, evil sorcerers, Arctic hurricanes, and other dangerous adventures and now, regardless of their personal issues, have to stick together to find their way back home.

By Mike Davis and William Simpson (illustrator)

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9780974707808 | Perceval Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: While working with a famous scientist in Greenland, four teenage scientists stumble upon a mysterious find that transports them to the Valley of the Runes where they encounter marooned Vikings, Arctic hurricanes, and other dangerous adventures.

Dead Cities: And Other Tales

Product Description: A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment. The storm is here, crushed dams no longer hold, the savage seas come inland with a hop.—Jacob van Hoddis As Mike Davis shows, prophecies of urban doom too often come true...read more

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9781565847651 | New Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Using environmental science as his methodology, the MacArthur fellow peels the lid off the nation's urban battle zones, exposing the extent of white flight, deindustrialization, segregation, and federal policy failure.

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9781565848443 | New Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment.

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

Product Description: “Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.”—Tariq AliExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781859847398 | Verso Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Shows how the droughts affecting northern Africa, China, and India in the 1870s and 1890s are consistant with El Nino effects, and discusses the economic, racial, and political forces that allowed 50 million people to starve.

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9781859843826 | Verso Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: “Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.

9789990047820 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago : A History of Our Future

Product Description: D'Eramo presents an invigorating history that transforms the way we think about the city and the development of American capitalism.Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco d’Eramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Davis (foreword by), Marco D'Eramo and Graeme Thomson (trans)

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9781859846247 | Verso Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: D'Eramo presents an invigorating history that transforms the way we think about the city and the development of American capitalism.

The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Product Description: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mike Davis (editor) and Hal Rothman (editor)

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9780520205291 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside.

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9780520225381 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside.

How to Get Ssi & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step

Product Description: More people are denied SSI and Social Security Disability than are allowed benefits the first time they apply. This includes children and adults. Appeals can take a year or more. In a simplified step by step guide Mike Davis gives disability applicants the crucial information they need to know and exactly what to do to make the best case the first time around...read more

By Mike Davis

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9780595125746, titled "How to Get Ssi & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step" | Writers Club Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: More people are denied SSI and Social Security Disability than are allowed benefits the first time they apply.

Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class

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By Mike Davis

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9781859842485 | Verso Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $21.95

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

A powerful glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, both real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the many movies and books depicting this city as a veritable hotbed of riots, fires, floods, and earthquakes as well as an apocalyptic locale. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. NYT. (view table of contents)

By Mike Davis

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9780805051063 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the movies and books depicting the city as a hotbed of riots and natural disasters

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9780375706073 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles--both natural and man-made, real and fictional--documents the danger created by forces of nature, greed, and politics

Ecology of Fear: Burning Our Illusitons Tonight

By Mike Davis

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9780805051070 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $10.01

99 Surefire Ways to Stay Unemployed

Product Description: Using cartoons and anecdotes, job counselor Mike Davis illustrates how people sabotage their own efforts to find and keep a job. From the ever-popular "That's not in my job description," to the never-ending wait for the perfect job, this funny and insightful book highlights the well-worn excuses and attitudes that keep the novice unemployed...read more

By Mike Davis

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9781880090534 | Galde Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Using cartoons and anecdotes, job counselor Mike Davis illustrates how people sabotage their own efforts to find and keep a job.

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960-1997

Product Description: Artistic production in L.A., while certainly influenced by the international currents which have defined New York, has always retained a distinct affinity. Sunshine & Noir takes an indepth look at the art and the artists that define art in L.A. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Helle Crenzien (editor), Mike Davis, William R. Hackman, David Hockney, Louisiana (other contributor) and Lars Nittve (editor)

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9788790029197 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Artistic production in L.

All American

By Reinaldo Arenas, Mike Davis, Diamela Eltit, Doris Salcedo, Peter Sellars and William Vollmann

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9781885490124 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $12.95

Grand Street 59: Time

By William S. Burroughs, Mike Davis, Naguib Mahfouz, Charles Ray and John Szarkowski

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9781885490100 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.95

Grand Street 56: Dreams

By Luis Bunuel, Mike Davis, George Herms, Adobe La, Edward Ruscha and William T. Vollmann

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9781885490070 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.95

9 To 5 Beats 10 to Life: How to Reenter Society

By Mike Davis

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9781569910412 | Amer Correctional Assn, November 1, 1995, cover price $15.00

Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America

By Mike Davis

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9780860912637 | Verso Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $69.95

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9780860919766 | Verso Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $22.00

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles

Product Description: The hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the city's money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots.

By Mike Davis

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9780860913030 | Verso Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The hidden story of L.

Reshaping the Us Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s

By Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker (editor)

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9780860911937 | Verso Books, August 1, 1988, cover price $50.00

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