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Why We Drive: The Past, Present, and Future of Automobiles in America
by Andy Singer Author
Today, we're married to our cars. But life behind the wheel of an automobile didn't come naturally to Americans. Crooked…
$13.95 8 comments
View Details Quick ShopCatalog (Fall/Winter 2022)
by Various Author
Want to get off the internet? For many years we've been trying to create a catalog that simultaneously meets the needs…
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Add to CartThis Is Shanghai: What It's Like To Live In The World's Most Populous City
by Alexander Barrett Author
This is Shanghai is a firsthand account of expat life in China's (and the world's) largest city! Like a guidebook, it…
$7.95
View Details Quick ShopJuggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America's Weirdest Music Scene
by Craven Rock Author and Damon Thompson Illustrator
WHOOP! WHOOP! The Insane Clown Posse calls itself "the most hated band in the world," but with 11 million albums sold,…
$16.95 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting: Dark Deeds & Derring-Do from 1950 to Today
by Joe Biel Author with Gena Mason and Abner Smith, Keith Rosson Contributor with Scott Satterwhite
These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical…
$9.95 2 comments
View Details Quick ShopMostly True: The West's Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine
by Bill Daniel Author
In Texas in the early 1900s, a little chalk drawing started to appear on boxcars: a minimalist sketch of a figure with a…
$14.95 19 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe Magic of Pockets: Why Your Clothes Don't Have Good Pockets and How to Fix That
by Jess Driscoll Author
Transform your wardrobe with this step-by-step guide to sewing pockets into your favorite clothes. With simple…
$12.95
View Details Quick Shop2024 Slingshot Organizer (large)
by Slingshot Collective Author
The large Slingshot is a spiral-bound calendar and day planner. It includes space to write your contact information, a…
$20.00 $17.00 3 comments
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Author
Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two…
$14.95 15 comments
View Details Quick ShopWalking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
by Laura O. Foster Author
This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s…
$9.95 12 comments
View Details Quick ShopPortland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways
by Laura O. Foster Author
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…
$16.95 2 comments
View Details Quick Shop2023 Slingshot Organizer (large)
by Slingshot Collective Author
Any activist's necessity for over 25 years, the large Slingshot organizer is a spiral-bound 2023 day planner that lies…
$20.00 $17.00 4 comments
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
by Julia Alekseyeva Author
Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the…
$14.95 33 comments
View Details Quick ShopFirebrands: Activists You Didn't Learn About in School
by Justseeds Illustrator, Shaun Slifer Editor, Bec Young Editor, Josh MacPhee Contributor and Alec Dunn Contributor
This illustrated history celebrates American changemakers and revolutionaries that are often left out of public…
$15.95 10 comments
View Details Quick ShopNotes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
by Stephen Duncombe Author
"Zines and underground culture offer up an alternative, a way of understanding and acting in the world that operates…
$19.95 35 comments
View Details Quick ShopPunk USA: The Roots of Green Day & the Rise & Fall of Lookout Records
by Kevin Prested Author and Jesse Michaels Foreword
Updated and revised second edition with new interviews and photographs. Through hundreds of exclusive and original…
$18.95 16 comments
View Details Quick Shop2022 Slingshot Organizer (small)
by Slingshot Collective Author
Any activist's necessity for 25 years, the large Slingshot organizer is a spiral-bound 2021 day planner that lies flat…
$10.00 $9.00 4 comments
Culpeper's Complete Herbal: A Compendium of Herbs and Their Uses, Annotated for Modern Herbalists, Healers, and Witches
by Nicholas Culpeper Author and JJ Pursell Contributor
Description of Microcosm's Fall 2022 edition: For the last 350 years, since the reign of Elizabeth I, Nicholas…
$24.95
View Details Quick ShopUrban Revolutions: A Woman's Guide to Two-Wheeled Transportation
by Emilie Bahr Author
Urban Revolutions is a different kind of cycling book. Author Emilie Bahr draws on her experience as an everyday cyclist…
$14.95 9 comments
View Details Quick ShopSix Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
by Dan Méndez Moore Author
This is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the…
$11.95 19 comments
View Details Quick ShopWomen on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold Histories of Women in Bicycling
by April Streeter Author
A feminist history of bicycling for sport and adventure spans a century of women who changed the world from two…
$16.95 5 comments
View Details Quick ShopPunk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock
by David A. Ensminger Editor and Katy Otto Foreword
In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass…
$16.95 4 comments
View Details Quick ShopReclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists
by Catherine Marie Jeunet Author
A guide for practiced herbalists and midwives to better serve their communities with herbal abortion options.…
$7.00
View Details Quick Shop2024 Slingshot Organizer (small)
by Slingshot Collective Author
Any activist's necessity for over 30 years, the small Slingshot organizer is a day planner that fits in your pocket.…
$10.00 $9.00 7 comments
Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
by Joe Biel Author
In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…
$4.95 2 comments
View Details Quick ShopXtra Tuf: The Strike Issue
by Moe Bowstern Author
Meet Moe Bowstern: writer, fisherwoman, and tough cookie. Moe is a woman working in the male-dominated commercial…
$7.95 11 comments
View Details Quick Shop$100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest
by Joe Biel Author, Nickey Robo Author and Rev Phil Sano Author
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of…
$12.99 35 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s
by John Potash Author
Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon…
$18.95 11 comments
View Details Quick ShopThe Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon
by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Dixon Foreword
In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…
$14.95 1 comment
View Details Quick Shop13 Years of Good Luck: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler
by Julia Alekseyeva Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, Moe Bowstern Contributor, Alexander Barrett Contributor, Nate Beaty Contributor, 32 more
To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary of publishing books and zines about self-empowerment, we put together this…
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