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Silkscreen Basics - Matteo Cossu (Contributor) and Claire Dalquié (Contributor)
Pairing instruction with inspiration, Silkscreen Basics provides a multifaceted view of screen printing, from its roots in ancient China to its place in a digital era, and is the perfect primer for anyone intrigued by this popular printing method. Far from a dry instructional manual, this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to create budget-friendly, successful screen prints at home and is dot...
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One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed & Fixed Gear Bicycles - Matteo Cossu (Contributor)
One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed.

One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern co...
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The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups - Starhawk
The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive manual for groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability, and responsibility. This desperately needed toolkit provides keys to:
· Understanding group dynamics
· Facilitating communication and collective decision-making
· Dealing effectively with difficult people.|
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Teaching With Voices of a People's History of the United States By Howard Zinn And Anthony Arnove - Gayle Olson-Raymer (Editor)
In this Teaching Guide, Gayle Olson-Raymer provides insight into how to use this remarkable anthology in the classroom, including discussion, exam, and essay questions, creative ideas for in-class activities and group projects, and suggestions for teaching Voices alongside Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
"Pick up the book, open it to any page, and start reading. It's impossib...
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Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike - William Fotheringham
Finally a book about bicycles that isn't how to fix them!

From the preface: "The particular joy of cycling is in its infinite variety, its seemingly boundless history. Get on a bike and you can go anywhere, literally and metaphorically. Unlike a football or a tennis racket, a bike has multiple uses. It is simultaneously a piece of high-tech sports gear, a means of transportation to work or the store...
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Dwelling Portably Collection #5 - Bert Davis
As usual, Dwelling Portably crams in way too much information to easily sum up—from practical advice about being homeless or low-budget in-motion by choice—camping on the edges, living simply, getting by on the road and loving it. Decades of collective experience have gone into creating this zine, so you know it is full of useful and tested information.This fifth collection contains Dwe...
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Zinester's Guide To Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide To Visiting And Living In Portland, Oregon - Nate Beaty (Editor) and Shawn Granton (Editor)
Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) and Nate Beaty (Brainfag Comics) edited a really comprehensive guide of things to do in Portland, OR. Features tons of information on various neighborhoods, bridges, eateries, hangouts, bars, places that sell zines, and how to navigate through Portland. A crucial resource for those visiting the city or those that have lived here for years. Also includes great line drawings by Na...
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A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse - Colin Foran (Illustrator) and Margaret Killjoy
From the horse's mouth:
"So you've decided to survive the Apocalypse. Congratulations! Your fierce unyielding Determination has already put you Head and Shoulders above your Competition. And your Appreciation of the less subtle Technologies and Yesteryear shall put you even farther above. Hundreds of Meters above, in fact, ifyou manage to get yourself a Dirigible!

"Consider this Book to be your boo...
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Nontoxic Housecleaning - Raleigh Briggs
From the Zine Archive and Publishing Project's series of DIY Academy workshops, we present to you:how to clean your house while avoiding gross and dangerous chemicals! You get: a lesson about the value of DIY cleaning, basic ingredients, some sample cleaners, and various cleaners for various surfaces. What more could you ask for?
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Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets - Joanne N. Smith, Mandy Van Deven, Meghan Huppuch, and Girls for Gender Equality
At every stage of education, sexual harassment is common, and often considered a rite of passage for young people. It's not unusual for a girl to hear "Hey, Shorty!" on a daily basis as she walks down the hall or comes into the school yard, followed by a sexual innuendo, insult, come-on, or assault. But when teenagers are asked whether they experience this in their own lives, most of them say it's not happen...
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