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An introduction to DIY home cheese making made simple and accessible. From the concepts, equipment and ingredients needed, to both simple and complex recipes to create interesting and tasty cheeses at home. Blume offers clear instructions, humorous stories, dozens of recipes and troubleshooting tips as well as…
Intimacy isn’t always easy to talk about, which is why this deck offers approachable, bite-size prompts that you can use to jump-start conversations, gain new insights, and improve your romantic and sexual relationships. Use the cards with one or more partners, among friends, in therapy, or for your own personal…
Meal Deal With The Devil combines a five-song CD EP (including two ’story-songs’) from the devious San Francisco Bay Area musical satirists, Bobby Joe Ebola, with an accompanying read-along storybook. An adult version of a children’s book with a record that let you know when to turn the page, Meal…
Kategorier: Feminism och feministisk teori Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
In 1971, as part of their work with their feminist reproductive collective, Lorraine Rothman and Carol Downer invented menstrual extraction (ME), a suction process to pass the entire period all at once and abort an unwanted early pregnancy. An underground network of providers has kept ME alive ever since, and in a…
Author Emilie Bahr draws on her experience as an everyday cyclist and a transportation planner in New Orleans to demystify urban bicycling in this visually-compelling and fun-to-read field guide. What does it mean for a city to be bike-friendly? What makes cycling a women’s issue? What does it take to feel safe…
This is the story of Julia Alekseyeva and her great-grandmother Lola. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for…
This Illustrated book about Shanghai’s weird sights, streets and culture is the perfect accompaniment to a travel guide. Alexander Barrett’s This is Shanghai is a first-hand account of expat life in China’s (and the world’s) largest city. Like a guidebook, it helps newcomers and visitors…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Entreprenörskap Företagsekonomi och management
Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing and co-author of Unfuck Your Business, talks you through honing your idea, figuring out your market, and describing your business so the right people will immediately understand its value. Under Joe’s tutelage, you’ll make sure the numbers are sustainable, create…
Kategorier: Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Sociala grupper: alternativa livsstilar
Bert and Holly Davis have lived a nomadic lifestyle for over 30 years, making them perfectly qualified to guide others through the process. They have crammed this guide full of information about living without a permanent residence, and the perks of doing so! There are helpful and informative tips for biking, tents,…
Deepen and improve your communication in your intimate relationships with these simple, accessible, inclusive cards designed to help couples learn about each other and spark conversations and closeness. Open-ended card prompts are divided into three categories: Hot & Juicy cards provide erotic prompts, like…
Ben Snakepit’s latest collection of daily diary comics takes place in the town of Manor, a suburb of Austin, Texas. Ben buys a house with his wife and adjusts to slow-paced country living. He also turns 40 and gets a new job, and then gets another job. Along the way, every day without fail, he draws a three-panel…
Once you’ve collected every 7” from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to learn, what’s a punk to do? Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren. No, really. Suren, who wrote Crate…
When scientists finally discover the Ultimate Secret of the meaning of life, existence, and everything, it’s time for the universe to do some Reshuffling on Earth. Reshuffling is a fairly standard procedure for momentous times likes this – destroy order by moving some minds to different bodies, hit the…
Joshua Ploeg is the travelling chef. A vegan alchemist whose recipes are filled with winged horses and white doves – metaphorically of course. These are vegan recipes. Sometimes strange, experimental, a little crazy; flavours explode in each unique dish which is a journey in its own right. Ploeg passionately…
A visually dynamic and factual collection on all matters of preventative health care from a wide range of contributors advising on matters from DIY health care to advice on dealing with corporate systems. Alive with Vigor has a special focus on young people as well as queer and transgendered people, recognising…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar Tecknade serier och tecknade romaner: amerikansk / brittisk stil
Henry and Glenn are very good ’friends.’ They are also ’roommates.’ Daryl and John live next door. They are Satanists. What unfolds is ultra-metal violence and cryfest diary entries, cringing self-doubt and mega-hilarious emo-meltdowns. Who knew Danzig was such a vulnerable, self-conscious…
Everyday Bicycling is a guide to everything you need to know to get started riding a bike for transportation. Elly Blue introduces you to the basics, including street smarts, bike shopping, dressing professionally, carrying everything from groceries to children to furniture and riding in all weather. With its positive,…
Kategorier: Konst
Everyday Ben White draws his life in three comic panels. There are punk shows, drinking binges, rotating girlfriends, some outstanding days and some where little happens. But each is chronicled by Ben into comic art. Jimmi Payne’s Punk Zine summarises his work saying Taken individually, each strip resembles what…
Build your own culture and resist! Making sourdough bread can be intimidating for most of us. The idea that we need to have exact measurements, unforgiving nature and fear of failure drive many of us from even attempting the time-consuming process. In this zine, Tess Morrison walks you through how to make sourdough…
Kategorier: Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
Tiffany Lam fell in love with cycling while living in Washington, DC, revelling in the freedom to get around the city, liberation from street harassment, and connecting with her community and with other cyclists, especially as part of her local advocacy group’s ’Roll Model’ program. After writing her…
Kategorier: Illustrationskonst och kommersiell konst Illustrationskonst: tecknade serier Kommersiell konst och design Konst
Eventually you have to accept that it’s time to take responsibility. Snake Pit Gets Old sees our hero transitioning from the pants-pooping idiocy of youth to the responsibilities of adulthood. Join Ben as he quits his band, gets a real job, has a kidney stone removed and much more! We see him interacting with…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Spå i kort Spådomskonst Tarot
Reflecting earth-honoring spiritualities, Tarot Through the Witch's Year presents divination in a welcoming, inclusive, non-judgmental, and informative way. Readers, novice and proficient alike, are invited to dive headfirst into the spirituality involved in the witch's year and to approach divine energy as it…
In the modern age, many of us crave a healthier, simpler diet and a closer connection to our food sources, and sprouting can help us to bridge those divides. Farmer and food activist Ian Giesbrecht’s straightforward and easy-to-understand theory of sprouting is accompanied by practical instructions,…
Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bike enjoying the little things about everyday life, while also dealing with loss, trauma and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical.…
A simple guide to being self-sustainable in either the city or the countryside for both the beginner gardener and the well-seasoned farmhand. Robyn Jasko provides a step by step guide through all the stages of crop growing, with helpful drawings throughout. A recipe section suggests delightful and nourishing ways to…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel
The only really interesting thing about the little port town of Eyeless is that once every ten years, the mysterious Ship of the Dead arrives, carrying a crew of skeletons who dance and drink on shore before sailing away once more. No one is more excited for this event than thirteen-year-old India Bones, who, having…
The first cookbook to feature creative and delicious vegan recipes that match the quality and presentation of a five-star restaurant whilst never straying from self-parody and humour about punk rock culture and history. While exploring and improving the favourite foods of historic punk rockers through exclusive…
Kategorier: Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude and safety pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and aesthetic. Since the 1970s, punks have built their music, fashion and lifestyles around core values of social justice, creative freedom,…
As you ride down the intergalactic bike path, you come to a crossroads. Which path will you take? Your choice could determine your future, or the future of all humanity, forever. These twelve stories explore a variety of intersections set in distant, outlandish, or disturbingly realistic futures and dimensions –…
Zack is unemployed, overweight, recently divorced, and lives with his mother. Whilst a lesser man would wither away in emo-laden angst, Zack has found inspiration during this difficult stretch of life. A renaissance man, Zack conjures up brilliant ideas (soap on a rope, a Sammy Davis, Jr. biopic starring Tom Cruise,…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: genrer Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: memoarer och sanna berättelser Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
The second edition of a popular, sellout title about how to turn one’s home into a T-Shirt Factory; perfect for the DIY, rough-around-the-edges hipster look currently sweeping the nation.
This is a practical field guide for creative people with great ideas for independent projects who want to achieve success and find sustainable work. Whether their projects are based in independent publishing, music, food, art, crafts, activism or community work, Eleanor Whitney’s work enables readers to clarify…
Outlines the key methodologies for the two most common home brewing techniques: extract and all-grain brewing. Erik Spellmeyer provides professional advice on how to get started, introducing readers to the industry jargon and terminology, while giving clear instruction on the formalities of home brewing. The guide then…
A beautifully illustrated vegan cookbook packed with delicious recipes and entertaining essays. The ingredients used are available everywhere not just in fancy health food stores. Recipies include basic white sauce, cornbread and cookies. For committed vegans, there are exciting variations like stuffed shells, dirty…
A first-hand look at a city that people can’t seem to stop talking about. It’s a guidebook of sorts, but not to restaurants and sightseeing. Instead, Alexander Barrett is your friendly guide to the quirky characters and atmosphere of Portland, Oregon, and how fun, beautiful, and ridiculous it can be. With…
Chocolatology takes you through the precolonial and sometimes bloody colonial history of cacao, and takes a close look at the chocolate industry and its history, and introduces readers to a variety of trade initiatives and suppliers that are working to improve the lives of cocoa growers and their employers. Unlike many…
Punk Rock Entrepreneur is a guide to launching your own business using DIY methods that allow you to begin from wherever you are, right now. Caroline Moore talks (and illustrates!) you through the why and how of business operations that she learned over years booking bands, organizing fests, sleeping on couches and…
In this turn-based card game, the ghosts of Simone De Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, and Karl Marx have returned from beyond the grave to complete a bit of unfinished business. Become the spectre of one of these four great (but deceased) thinkers as you seek to recruit your last great protege from the ranks…