Microcosm Publishing: 34 books
by Bert Davis, Holly Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Full of information about living without a permanent residence, this collection contains helpful and informative tips for biking, tents, showering, and cooking. These zines from 2000 to 2008 show how to live the lifestyle far outside of cities and bereft of technology.
Amica's World
How a Giant Bird Came into Our Heart and Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Amica is a rhea-a flightless bird in the ratite family, related to ostriches, emus, and kiwis. Amica was adopted as a young chick and in turn quickly adopted mother and son Meadow and Washo Shadowhawk as his flock and made himself at home in their living room.Now an adult, Amica stands nearly six feet...
by Bill Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Have you ever wanted to make your own movies, documentaries, music videos, or vlogs? In this easy-to-read and magnificently illustrated volume, you will learn why movies move; how film and video cameras work; how to light and expose your shots to get the best results; how to create eye-pleasing compositions;...
White Elephants
Yard Sales, Relationships, and Finding What Was Missing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
White elephants are the odd, old, and discarded things that end up at yard sales and flea markets—and Katie Haegele loves them all. Well, an awful lot of them, anyway. She lives a few blocks from the house she grew up in, and every summer she and her mother scour the neighborhood tag sales, looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
An homage to the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this encyclopedic, crowd-sourced compilation of essays, resources, information, and advice about the intersection of gender and bicycling covers a lot of ground—bold meditations on body parts, stories about recovery from illness and injury, biking...
Slip of the Tongue
Talking About Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Slip of the Tongue is a love letter to words and the myriad and contradictory ways we use them. Author Katie Haegele is a respected memoirist who makes sense of the world around her by looking at the ways we use language: to communicate, to make art, and simply to survive. She takes us through her...
Sex From Scratch
Making Your Own Relationship Rules
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Modern life calls for modern relationship advice. Sex From Scratch is a love and dating guidebook that gleans real-life knowledge from smart people in a variety of nontraditional relationships. Instead of telling people how to snag a man, seduce a woman, or find “true love,” the book sums up what...
Walking with Ramona
Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s Portland. With this new and most unusual guidebook, readers can walk the very sidewalks that Beverly walked and climb the very school steps that Beverly climbed. You'll see the grocery...
This is Your Brain on Anxiety
What Happens and What Helps
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Anxiety .... it's the worst. Choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out, bad decisions... You're a human being, so you know exactly what's being said here. Dr. Faith lays it all out in her five-minute therapy series: what anxiety IS (did you know that people wrote about...
Unfuck Your Adulting
Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don't Be a Dick, Make Decisions, & Other Life Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Dr. Faith explains the fundamentals of adulting in this handy guide. Spoiler: None of the requirements are about having certain jobs, kids, possessions and debts, or being totally bored and stressed out and hating your life. This book will not teach you to change your oil or fold fitted sheets. Instead,...
This is Your Brain on Depression
Creating Your Path to Getting Better
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
People who have never been depressed have no idea what it's like. And people who have know all too well how tough depression can be to live with. Dr. Faith explains the brain science behind depression (complete with Zuul references) and talks you through the different options out there for getting...
Portland Stair Walks
Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why is it so satisfying to walk up and down stairs? Maybe it's the new layer of discovery with each step up—a new far-off view and a new close-up look at the plants and buildings. Maybe it's the fleeting proximity one has to passing strangers. Maybe it's the great feeling of propelling yourself...
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The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An intimate, never-seen-before examination of the life and death of Lee Harvey Oswald. Where other would-be Oswald biographies focus on the immediate events leading up to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, here we have a full and panoramic look at Oswald's short, conflicted, adventure-filled...
Make It Last
Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love is an illustrated guide to clothes and food and home. Raleigh Briggs bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably. This book teaches you how to extend the lives...