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<title><![CDATA[Bicycle Diaries]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780670021147</link>
<description><![CDATA[       A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world’s citiesSince the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne’s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, Bicycle Diaries is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bicycle Diaries]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Byrne]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Viking Adult]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780670021147]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[       A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world’s citiesSince the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne’s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, Bicycle Diaries is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780761136910</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life.  Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, here are 1,000 spectacular, compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Corn Palace, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, Chez Panisse and the country's best taco, lush gardens and Holden Arboretum, mountain biking on the Maah Daah Hey trail, historic mansions, vineyards, hot springs, the Talladega Superspeedway, classic ballparks, and more. Includes more than 150 places of special interest to families, and, for every entry, the nuts and bolts of how and when to visit.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Schultz]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Workman Publishing]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780761136910]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life.  Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, here are 1,000 spectacular, compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Corn Palace, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, Chez Panisse and the country's best taco, lush gardens and Holden Arboretum, mountain biking on the Maah Daah Hey trail, historic mansions, vineyards, hot springs, the Talladega Superspeedway, classic ballparks, and more. Includes more than 150 places of special interest to families, and, for every entry, the nuts and bolts of how and when to visit.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Baseball Codes]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375424694</link>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules, some of which are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), and some of which only a minority of players are even aware of (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining.  At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Baseball Codes]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Duca; Jason Turbow]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Pantheon]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375424694]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules, some of which are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), and some of which only a minority of players are even aware of (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining.  At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-03-09T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Zero History]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399156823</link>
<description><![CDATA[The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook   Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of   your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs   into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn't pay the   rent, and right now she's a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend,   twisted genius of global marketing; but there's no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do   with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention. Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the first   time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all   that. Milgrim's idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes   him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck. The   culture of the military has trickled down to the street- Bigend knows that, and he'll find a way to take a cut. What   surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only   with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he's just not used to it staring   back.    Watch a Video]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Zero History]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Gibson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Putnam Adult]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399156823]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook   Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of   your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs   into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn't pay the   rent, and right now she's a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend,   twisted genius of global marketing; but there's no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do   with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention. Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the first   time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all   that. Milgrim's idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes   him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck. The   culture of the military has trickled down to the street- Bigend knows that, and he'll find a way to take a cut. What   surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only   with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he's just not used to it staring   back.    Watch a Video]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-09-07T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375507250</link>
<description><![CDATA[From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the  featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes  his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.  A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging  a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in  Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors;  a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific  Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of  Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies  are changed in ways great and small.  In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell  erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House Trade Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375507250]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the  featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes  his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.  A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging  a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in  Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors;  a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific  Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of  Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies  are changed in ways great and small.  In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell  erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-08-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[This Is Your Brain on Music]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780452288522</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music?its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it?and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: ? How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world ? Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre ? That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise ? How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our heads And, taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. This Is Your Brain on Music is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[This Is Your Brain on Music]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel J. Levitin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Plume]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780452288522]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music?its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it?and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: ? How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world ? Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre ? That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise ? How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our heads And, taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. This Is Your Brain on Music is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-08-28T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780761139638</link>
<description><![CDATA[Drawing from classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, opera, and more, this reference is arranged alphabetically by artist to create unexpected juxtapositions. Dozens of indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions are included.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Moon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Workman Publishing]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780761139638]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Drawing from classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, opera, and more, this reference is arranged alphabetically by artist to create unexpected juxtapositions. Dozens of indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions are included.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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