Apocalypse Culture

Apocalypse Culture
Author: Adam Parfrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1987
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

""Apocalypse Culture" is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century."-J.G. Ballard

The Modern Hobby Guide To Topps Chewing Gum: 1938 To 1956

The Modern Hobby Guide To Topps Chewing Gum: 1938 To 1956
Author: David Hornish
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1304193284

The true story of Topps Chewing Gum and its founders the Shorin family. This book takes a detailed look at Topps and two prior family businesses: American Leaf Tobacco Company and American Gas Stations. Full checklists and information are presented along with hundreds of informative illustrations. If you collect anything at all from the vintage Topps era, this book is for you!

Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy

Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy
Author: Mary Anne Atwood
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2012
Genre: Alchemy
ISBN: 3849619036

This book is one of the best and most comprehensive about Hermetic philosophy and a perfect textbook for your first steps into alchemy. A real suggestive inquiry into the Hermetic mystery. Contents: Part I An Exoteric View of the Progress and Theory of Alchemy Chapter I A Preliminary Account of the Hermetic Philosophy, with the more Salient Points of its Public History Chapter II Of the Theory of Transmutation in General, and of the First Matter Chapter III The Golden Treatise of Hermes Trismegistus, Concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosopher's Stone. Part II A More Esoteric Consideration of the Hermetic Art & Its Mysteries Chapter I Of the True Subject of the Hermetic Art, & its Concealed Root Chapter II Of the Mysteries Chapter III The Mysteries Continued Chapter IV The Mysteries (Concluded) Part III Concerning the Laws and Vital Conditions of the Hermetic Experiment Chapter I Of the Experimental Method and Fermentation of the Philosophic Subject, According to the Paracelsian Alchemists and some Others Chapter II A Further Analysis of the Initial Principle, and its Eduction into Light Chapter III Of the Manifestation of the First Matter, and its Information by Light. Chapter IV Of the Mental Requisites and Impediments Incidental to Individuals Either as Masters or Students in the Hermetic Art Part IV The Hermetic Practice Chapter I Of the Vital Purification, Commonly Called the Gross Work Chapter II Of the Philosophic or Subtle Work Chapter III The Six Keys of Eudoxus, Opening Into the Most Secret Philosophy Chapter IV The Conclusion

The Laughing Matter

The Laughing Matter
Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448214769

When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house. But soon after they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a child ... who is not fathered by Evan. This news shocks and hurts Evan deeply, but for his children's sake he decides to keep it to himself through the holidays they dreamt of for so long. But a family secret of such calibre is difficult to hide and the curious small-town neighbours begin to notice that something is amiss with the couple. The Laughing Matter, first published in 1953, is a disturbing family drama set against the landscape of a small Californian town, with a close-knit community who embrace new-comers with the curiosity of those hungry for gossip. William Saroyan draws his characters with immense sensitivity for human erring and self-inflicted suffering.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

The Sex-Starved Marriage

The Sex-Starved Marriage
Author: Michele Weiner-Davis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychosexual disorders
ISBN: 9780743252416

'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.

Apocalypse Culture II

Apocalypse Culture II
Author: Adam Parfrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Catastrophical, The
ISBN: 9780922915576

The sequel to one of the most disturbing books ever published which was an international alternative bestseller and an underground classic of the highest order. If you thought the first book transgressed cultural norms, watch out! An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century.' - J G Ballard'

Untangling the Ivy League

Untangling the Ivy League
Author: Marc Zawel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781596585065

Nobody has ever done a book on the Ivy League like this before. We were tired of reading college guides based on one expert's perspective, or from the viewpoint of a major publishing house. So, we set out to create a guide on the Ivy League by Ivy League students and alumni. We figured they would know more from experience, plus they?re probably a whole lot smarter. That is why every section in this book, every expert opinion, and every major insight is from the people who know best. The section on Harvard is by a Harvard student; the admissions advice comes from a Yale admissions officer; and important issues such as affirmative action and legacy admission policy receive attention from no less than an Ivy League university president and a Supreme Court justice.