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Summary: a vision of a utopian society beyond our current wage-slave capitalism, one that incorporates growing independent movements.
Rating: 5/5
Available at: Processed World, Amazon, etc. I bought my copy at City Lights in San Francisco.
Are you ready for post-capitalist society? In Nowtopia, author and Critical Mass founder Chris Carlsson looks at growing movements across society [...]

Summary: A look at the growing urban bike culture in the United States and Europe, with a special emphasis on the personalities involved.
Rating: 5/5
Availability: Order it from Powell’s if you want to feel authentic. Otherwise you could go for the usual, Amazon.
“I often saw cyclists running red lights, riding the wrong direction on one-way streets, [...]

Just received at A2W headquarters is our very own copy of Pedaling Revolution, by former Oregonian reporter Jeff Mapes.  Bike Portland is where I learned about this book first, and decided to order my own copy from their initial review. There’s a bit more on the OregonLive site. This book is a broad, but detailed [...]

Summary: Following up on The Golden Age Of Handbuilt Bicycles, Jan Heine teams up again with photographer Jean-Pierre Pradéres in the The Competition Bicycle to create a great photographic history of handbuilt racing bikes from pennyfarthings to the bikes of Coppi, Merckx and LeMond.
Rating: 5/5
Price: $60
Availability: Order directly from Vintage Bicycle Press or purchase at finer local bike shops
As [...]

Summary: Lovingly photographed and well written, The Golden Age Of Handbuilt Bicycles by Jan Heine will satisfy the velo-Francofile and handbuilt framebuilders in every way but may be of limited appeal to general cyclists.
Rating: 3.5/5
Price: $60
Availability: Order directly from Vintage Bicycle Press or purchase at finer local bike shops
Jan Heine, the editor of Bicycle Quarterly [...]

Summary: Released by VeloPress last fall, A Dog in a Hat is a revealing memoir of former American journeyman pro cyclist Joe Parkin.
Rating: 4.5/5
Price: $21.95
Availability: Most bookstores or order online from Velopress

In a genre dominated by “How I won” autobiographies, A Dog in a Hat is a refreshing behind the scenes look at European [...]

We were really excited to talk for a bit with Evan at Tour De Fat 2008 in Austin. Here are his answers to a few questions from us about the origin of Boneshaker, and thoughts on cycling.
Wolverine Farm Publishing’s Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac originated out of a desire to create a book that would somehow [...]