Here are some details about the books that Destination Books has listed at its Alibris store at destination.alibrisstore.com.
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Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked and Songbook.
I went to see Hornby at the Highland Ballroom in Atlanta while he was on tour promoting the paperback version of Juliet, Naked, I waited in to get these books signed and give him a copy of my own book about books The Book Shopper: A Life in Review since Hornby has a book column in Believer magazine. He was gracious and signed everything, but I was disappointed that the never wrote about The Book Shopper (sigh). The Songbook copy is the original hard copy book and has the accompanying CD with 11 of the songs that Hornby writes about. See the blog posting from June, 2010.
Richard Thomson - Seurat
This is a quality, large, trade paperback from Phaidon Press that deserves a good home.
Marshal McLuhan on the Nature of Media: Essays, 1952-1978 edited by Richard Cavell
This is a book for the McLuhan junkie, but some of his observations are still relevant: "There is not possible protection from technology except by technology" or "The small child does more data processing -- more work than any child in any previous culture in the history of the world."
Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire by Murray Browne
The video says it all.
Remediation: Understanding New Media
Written for media junkies, this trade paperback (including color photographs) from MIT Press makes the argument that new media borrows quite a bit from old media. ($4) plus shipping. The authors are Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin.
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher
Taschen GMBH publishers celebrated its 25th anniversary by reissuing these 76 M.C. Escher prints in a single book in 2008. Did you forget to save the posters from your dorm room in the 1970s? Now you can relive that decor for only $6 (plus shipping) while playing music of J.S. Bach.