East Timor: Genocide in Paradise

Matthew Jardine

Since 1974, Indonesia has exterminated one-third of the population, with U.S. complicity. Here’s the how and why of this disaster. Introduction by Noam Chomsky. AK

Publisher: Odonian
Paperback: 110 pages
Illustrated

Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia and the Dallas-Watergate Connection

Peter Dale Scott

A small masterpiece which renders understandable a Byzantine picture of internecine rivalries among government agencies and the intelligence apparatus, and the whole shabby interlinkage of conspiracy within conspiracies. From the master expert on the political, underworld and labor-union interrelationships in the complex framework of the assassinations in Dallas and elsewhere. AK

Publisher: Open Archive
Paperback: 80 pages

Skins

Gavin Watson

The first photo book to capture the spirit of the skinhead cult. Taken by a skinhead who went on to become a professional photographer, these are largely culled from the glory days of 2 Tone and Oi!. AK

Publisher: S.T.
Paperback: 144 pages
Illustrated

Spirit of ‘69: A Skinhead Bible

George Marshall

The definitive book on the British skinhead phenomenon. From the late ‘60s to the present, this book gives it straight: style, music, football, aggro, from SHARP to the scourge of the neo-Nazis. A wealth of photographs, graphics and cuttings makes this an indispensable guide. AK

Publisher: S.T.
Paperback: 176 pages
Illustrated

Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography and Censorship

Edited by the Feminists Against Censorship Task Force

Amazing collection of feminist essays and explicit visual commentary on pornography, censorship and sexuality. A bold and provocative history of pornography and the feminist debates surrounding its use, control, effects and attitudes. A groundbreaking and crucial collection. AK

Publisher: Long River
Paperback: 96 pages
Illustrated

Critical Vision: Random Essays and Tracts Concerning Sex Religion Death

David Kerekes and David Slater

A collection of the best articles from the early issues of Headpress magazine, from the “Savoy Wars” to the Sunset Strip Murders, Punch and Judy to the Black Plague. This edition is fully updated and revised, including new material, and offers the very best of sex crime, porn goddesses, religious mania, outlaw publishing and morbid curiosities. AK

Publisher: Headpress
Paperback: 251 pages
Illustrated

Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry

Jeremy Seabrook

Explores the cultural, economic and social pressures which lead young men and women to offer their bodies on the open tourist market, and how the sex workers really feel about what they do. Asks the question: What sort of regulation/control of the industry do they want and need? A collection of interviews with sex workers and performers as well as those who travel halfway round the world for the sake of experiences not available at home. AK

Publisher: Pluto
Paperback: 176 pages

The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: A Fairy Tale Containing the Dish on Cockettes, Punks and Angels

Bambi Lake and Alvin Orloff

In this tell-all autobiography, Bambi Lake, glamour queen chanteuse, stripper and film star, exposes deeply hidden secrets of she-male America. Her evolution from innocent, suburban Johnny Purcell into fabulous, sophisticated Bambi Lake covers San Francisco’s psychedelic ‘60s, gay revolution in the ‘70s, and the punk rock scene in the ‘80s. Absolutely nothing is off-topic in this sexy, revealing drama. AK

Publisher: Manic D
Paperback: 157 pages
Illustrated

Whore Carnival

Shannon Bell

A collection of interviews, pleasure texts and “cunceptual” essays on the feminist genealogy of prostitution—from the ancient Greek courtesan to the sex-industry workers of postmodern Babylon. AK

Publisher: Autonomedia
Paperback: 286 pages