![]() America's biggest LSD popularizer, the disgraced former Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, stressed that your reaction to acid depends on "set and setting": the attitudes you bring to the experience and the environment surrounding you. As an old acidhead joke goes, LSD is a highly volatile drug that can induce heart palpitations, panic, and paranoia-in those who have never taken it.Īcid's most hideous wisdom is that it can and will be as beatific, as grinding, as exalted, or as depraved as whatever is within you. ![]() Imagined by different advocates as a tool for spiritual reawakening, for political revolution, or for military mind control, LSD has a mysterious power in our bodies that is reflected in its mysterious power in our body politic. ![]() ![]() Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, by Nicholas Schou, Thomas Dunne Books, 304 pages, $24.99 ![]()
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![]() ![]() Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. ![]() In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar to the recent hit collected hardcover edition, Bad Weekend, the upcoming Cruel Summer hardcover will collect a complete story installment from the ongoing Criminal series and incorporate bonus behind-the-scenes content. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? Find out in this must-have thriller from one of comics’ most acclaimed creative teams, perfect for fans of The Fade Out and Criminal. It follows Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, who finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word-tales of a wild west outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. A celebration of pulp fiction, set in a world on the brink. Both graphic novel hardcovers will be available from Image Comics this Summer, in July and August respectively.Ī darkly mysterious meditation on a life of violence, Pulp is unlike anything the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips have ever done. The multiple Eisner Award winning creative powerhouse behind such hits as My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies and Bad Weekend- Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips-are back with twice the content in the forthcoming original graphic novel tale of ’30s era crime- Pulp-and the upcoming Criminalcollected edition Cruel Summer. ![]() ![]() Print the material out to help you identify what’s happening internally for you. Reading through the information that follows please take your time. I’ve no doubt if you’re here reading, you also want answers. ![]() His book was only published 4 years ago, but I’ve personally longed for this information for decades. Predominantly with ourselves first, then with others.Īs someone who’s been married twice and adamant I will not get married again unless I know I’m completely well plus can identify any challenges in the relationship up front, Pete’s work is like a miracle in my life. I’m including his entire article here and recommending you buy his book or check out his website as it is full of information to help us regain our lives, understand ourselves more deeply and to have healthy relationships too. I try to make lite of mine, and it has improved over the years, however now I’m challenged by Pete Walker’s work. ![]() ![]() Complex PTSD comes hand in hand with our very own inner critic. ![]() ![]() I think he understood.”Įileen’s self-obsession is spectacular. “Here was the crux of my dilemma: I felt like killing my father, but I didn’t want him to die. It’s a story about control and Moshfegh uses every available element to explore the theme – from Eileen’s workplace (the jail) and her toxic but dependent relationship with her alcoholic father, to her lewd fantasies about co-worker, Randy, her preoccupation with her body and the fact that she drinks excessively – every detail contributes to the theme. She’s judgmental, seething, and filthy, and I couldn’t tear my eyes from the page. ![]() ![]() Her bitterness, resentment, and her self-obsessed monologue doesn’t waver for an instant. Moshfegh has created a remarkable character in Eileen. When glamorous Rebecca Saint John arrives at Eileen’s workplace (Eileen is a secretary at a juvenile correctional facility for boys), Eileen is infatuated and unable to resist anything Rebecca asks of her. The reader is quickly exposed to Eileen’s dark, repulsive and disconcerting thoughts.Īlthough very little happens for the first three-quarters of the book, Moshfegh manages to create exquisite tension – you know that Eileen will become unhinged and she doesn’t disappoint. The similarities end there.Įileen is a character study, written in the first person. ![]() I imagine that the reference was made because both books have a female character that is not very nice. Anyone who’s picked up Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen because they’ve heard that it’s ‘the next Gone Girl‘ should chill. ![]() ![]() Very Good: Might have some creases on the spine no hard cracks maybe slight forward lean and short inscription inside perhaps very minor bumping on the corners of the book inside clean but the page edges might be slightly yellowed. We are very proud of the condition of the books we sell (please read our testimonials to find out more!)Īs New: Pretty much new but shows small signs of having been read inside it will be clean without any inscriptions or stamps might contain a remainder mark. ![]() ![]() As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, bears, and wolves. "The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command," begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gary Keller and Jay Papasan dig through years of research to make a compelling case for a perspective that should be obvious, but isn't: you accomplish more when you channel a disproportionate amount of energy to a few things that matter the most. How to find happiness and fulfillment by pursuing meaning and engagement. ![]() The disruptive habits that undermine the efforts of industrious, success-minded people.How to set functional goals, build momentum towards your vision, and live the fullest version of your life.How to see through the clutter, eliminate distractions, and protect your time.The single success habit that will bring you extraordinary outcomes.How asking the right question can dramatically increase the quality of your life.The myths that keep people from accomplishing their most important work.Why some people get more done than others in the same timeframe.What will you learn from listening to this book? This FastReads summary includes complete chapter synopses with key takeaways and analysis, and will change the way you approach your day! Keller and Papasan's methods will give you the drive you need to accomplish what's most important to you in the fastest way possible! Don't miss the revolutionary wisdom of Gary Kelley and Jay Papasan's New York Times best-selling book, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. ![]() ![]() The idea of exploring the effects of the depopulating of the Earth is an old one, having been a regular trope in science fiction novels for decades. ![]() It ranked #1 on Time and Entertainment Weekly 's top 10 non-fiction books of 2007. It was successful in the U.S., reaching #6 on the New York Times Best Seller list and #1 on the San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers list in September 2007. The book has been translated and published in many countries. ![]() He used quotations from these interviews to explain the effects of the natural environment and to substantiate predictions. The author of four previous books and numerous articles for magazines, Weisman traveled to interview academics, scientists and other authorities. Weisman concludes that residential neighborhoods would become forests within 500 years, and that radioactive waste, bronze statues, plastics, and Mount Rushmore would be among the longest-lasting evidence of human presence on Earth. Written largely as a thought experiment, it outlines, for example, how cities and houses would deteriorate, how long man-made artifacts would last, and how remaining lifeforms would evolve. It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". ![]() The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regina Spektor's "Lady" is related to this song.Holiday was in rough shape when she worked with Dufty on the project, and she claimed to have never read the book after it was finished. Some of the material in the book, however, must be taken with a grain of salt. ![]() Studio session #75 New York City, June 6, 1956, Tony Scott & His Orchestra ( Verve), with Charlie Shavers on trumpet, Tony Scott on clarinet, Paul Quinichette on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Aaron Bell on bass, Lenny McBrowne on drums, and Billie Holiday on vocals. Her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (1956), was written in collaboration by William Dufty. The song was also chosen to be the title of the 1956 autobiography by Holiday and author William Dufty, and the 1972 movie starring Diana Ross as Holiday. It is the title song to her 1956 album, released on Clef/Verve Records (MGC 721/Verve MV 2047). " Lady Sings the Blues" is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday and jazz pianist Herbie Nichols. June 6, 1956, New York City, Fine Sound Studios Taken from sessions taped during 195456, Lady Sings the Blues features. Single by Billie Holiday "Lady Sings the Blues" Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday released in December 1956. ![]() |