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NO CHOPSTICKS REQUIRED
My Family's Unexpected Year In Shanghai
ISBN: 9781921462290
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My Family's Unexpected Year In Shanghai
NO CHOPSTICKS REQUIRED is Walkley-award winning journalist Katrina Beikoff's memoir of the year she and her young family spent living and working in Shanghai (after she and her husband accepted contracts to work at The Shanghai Daily).
During their year, Katrina and her family witnessed a range of major events: a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, a devastating earthquake which killed over 80,000 people, the Tibetan uprising, the enormous cover up of incidents at the Beijing Olympics, the melamine-tainted milk scandal and the crippling global financial crisis. These events were accompanied by a range of more run-of-the-mill situations: being scolded daily by complete strangers for not dressing her children in warm enough clothes, the struggle to find bread that looked like bread, milk that came from a cow and eggs that came from chickens, and the ability to cope with corruption and political spin in their newspaper workplaces.
Written in a highly amusing and warmly appealing tone, Katrina's personal observations of daily life in contemporary China are insightful as they are as fascinating.
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During their year, Katrina and her family witnessed a range of major events: a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, a devastating earthquake which killed over 80,000 people, the Tibetan uprising, the enormous cover up of incidents at the Beijing Olympics, the melamine-tainted milk scandal and the crippling global financial crisis. These events were accompanied by a range of more run-of-the-mill situations: being scolded daily by complete strangers for not dressing her children in warm enough clothes, the struggle to find bread that looked like bread, milk that came from a cow and eggs that came from chickens, and the ability to cope with corruption and political spin in their newspaper workplaces.
Written in a highly amusing and warmly appealing tone, Katrina's personal observations of daily life in contemporary China are insightful as they are as fascinating.
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£24.00
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NOTHING IS TRUE - EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED HB
The Life of Brion Gysin
ISBN: 9781932857122
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The Life of Brion Gysin
The multimedia artist, poet and novelist Brion Gysin may be the most influential cultural figure of the twentieth century that most people have never heard of.
Gysin (1916-1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.
Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."
It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed--with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine--a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.
Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.
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Gysin (1916-1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.
Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."
It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed--with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine--a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.
Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.
ISBN: 9781932857122
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ON THAT DAY EVERYBODY ATE
One Woman’s Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
ISBN: 9780977333899
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One Woman’s Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
Following her husband's untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extreme poverty and touched by the warmth and resilience of those she met, she in partnership with a local community developed a programme that now serves thousands of meals a week to those in need. ON THAT DAY, EVERYBODY ATE tells the story of her remarkable journey.
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OUR HOUSELESS HOME
A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780855724030
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A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression
Lyle Courtney, the youngest of eight siblings, was born into a comparatively well-off family in Maryborough, a Victorian goldfields town, during The Great Depression. His mother died three weeks after he was born.
When Lyle was five years old the family lost their house, causing their father to throw convention to the wind and retreat with the children to a tent-camp in the bush.
Set against an ever-changing background of the beauty, wonders and vagaries of nature, OUR HOUSELESS HOME is a warts and all narrative. It portrays the challenging and whimsical lifestyle of a poverty-stricken family making do in those hard times.
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When Lyle was five years old the family lost their house, causing their father to throw convention to the wind and retreat with the children to a tent-camp in the bush.
Set against an ever-changing background of the beauty, wonders and vagaries of nature, OUR HOUSELESS HOME is a warts and all narrative. It portrays the challenging and whimsical lifestyle of a poverty-stricken family making do in those hard times.
ISBN: 9780855724030
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£10.99
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN
Bittersweet Tales of Stumbling Into Adulthood
ISBN: 9781921462078
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Bittersweet Tales of Stumbling Into Adulthood
Covering the hilarious, the heartbreaking and the tragic, these stories by talented young writers encompass what it really means to 'grow up'. In turns heartfelt, powerful and confronting, the wide range of stories reveals that no-one escapes unscathed during the transformation into adulthood.
Some of the topics include:
· A young prison inmate, who had been passed from home to home
since he was three, writes a heartbreaking apology to his foster
parents.
· A young woman struggles with an eating disorder that tears apart
the lives of those she loves.
· One man recalls 'coming out' as gay to his Christian family.
· Another confesses to years of chaotic dates caused by his
seemingly incurable anxiety around women.
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Some of the topics include:
· A young prison inmate, who had been passed from home to home
since he was three, writes a heartbreaking apology to his foster
parents.
· A young woman struggles with an eating disorder that tears apart
the lives of those she loves.
· One man recalls 'coming out' as gay to his Christian family.
· Another confesses to years of chaotic dates caused by his
seemingly incurable anxiety around women.
ISBN: 9781921462078
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£21.00
PALM TREES ON THE HUDSON
A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating
ISBN: 9780757003516
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A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating
Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his motel, he was one of Manhattan’s leading interior designers. Then Elliot’s career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland and the Mob.
In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York’s rich and famous--politicians, financiers and even Elliot’s icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including rented palms, Elliot’s event turned into financial disaster. Things couldn’t get any worse--or so it seemed until the Mob paid a visit.
By turns comic and tragic, PALM TREES ON THE HUDSON is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.
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In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York’s rich and famous--politicians, financiers and even Elliot’s icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including rented palms, Elliot’s event turned into financial disaster. Things couldn’t get any worse--or so it seemed until the Mob paid a visit.
By turns comic and tragic, PALM TREES ON THE HUDSON is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.
ISBN: 9780757003516
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£22.00
PERILOUS PASSAGE
The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words
ISBN: 9780907791423
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The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words
This story is an account of Wilson's lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, "He is the only man I respect." The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin's death in 1986. This book details the extreme psychic "Third Mind" effects known as The Process and includes transcribed audio hallucinations, notes, cut-ups, the interview format and collaged material.
PERILOUS PASSAGE is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and carried into the future.
PERILOUS PASSAGE finalises Wilson's Green Base Trilogy which commenced with Dreams of a Green Base and "D" Train.
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PERILOUS PASSAGE is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and carried into the future.
PERILOUS PASSAGE finalises Wilson's Green Base Trilogy which commenced with Dreams of a Green Base and "D" Train.
ISBN: 9780907791423
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PERSIAN GIRLS
A Memoir
ISBN: 9781585426232
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A Memoir
For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America.
When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, she travelled back to Iran - now under the Islamic regime - to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood and, ultimately, hope.
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PRODIGAL GENIUS
The Life of Nikola Tesla
ISBN: 9781931882859
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The Life of Nikola Tesla
Tesla’s eccentric personality gives his life story the quality of the strangest romance. He made his first million before he was forty, yet gave up the royalties on his profitable invention as a gesture of friendship, and died almost in poverty. In this penetrating study of the life and inventions of a scientific superman, the life of Tesla is revealed.
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PROSPERITY LOVE STORY
Rags to Enrichment: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780875167879
ISBN 10: 087516787X
Rags to Enrichment: A Memoir
For the first time in her 50 year career best-selling prosperity and inspirational writer Catherine Ponder shares with you the step-by-step account of her Rags to Enrichment story that details every chapter of a life filled with twists and turns that ultimately lead to prosperity happiness and success. In her countless books magazine articles and numerous lectures she has used other people and students as examples to illustrate her Gold Dust Prosperity principles. Now after many years of answering questions and letters from readers yearning to hear her story Catherine offers her own life as an example of how the prosperity techniques work. The result is a timely and eloquent memoir over-flowing with the wisdom and experience of a resilient pioneer whose wit and charisma reflects a woman who truly walks her talk Just as her books have withstood the test of time.
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ISBN: 9780875167879
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RADHAS STORY DVD
A Biography of Swami Sivananda Radha
ISBN: 9781932018394
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A Biography of Swami Sivananda Radha
Discover the fascinating life of Swami Sivananda Radha, a Western woman who travelled to India in the 1950s, became a swami and went on to establish the first ashram in Canada, which endures to this day.
Radha's Story follows the journey of this remarkable woman - from her privileged childhood in Berlin and her career as a glamorous concert dancer, to her wartime experiences of love, loss and tragedy and her post-war immigration to Montreal. Her deep desire for meaning eventually leads her to the banks of the Ganges and onto the spiritual path that would transform her life.
Featuring rare footage from her time in India and candid interviews, this biographical portrait celebrates the unique life of spiritual seeker and great teacher.
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Radha's Story follows the journey of this remarkable woman - from her privileged childhood in Berlin and her career as a glamorous concert dancer, to her wartime experiences of love, loss and tragedy and her post-war immigration to Montreal. Her deep desire for meaning eventually leads her to the banks of the Ganges and onto the spiritual path that would transform her life.
Featuring rare footage from her time in India and candid interviews, this biographical portrait celebrates the unique life of spiritual seeker and great teacher.
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ISBN: 9781932018394
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£8.99
RONNIE GILBERT ON MOTHER JONES
Face to Face with the Most Dangerous Woman in America
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ISBN: 9780943233482
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Face to Face with the Most Dangerous Woman in America
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ROSWELL LEGACY
The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
ISBN: 9781601630261
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The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
THE ROSWELL LEGACY is the story of Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomber Group (famous for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan) and the first military officer to reach the scene of one of the most famous and enduring UFO events in the recorded history of mankind. This book documents the recovery of debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial craft and how the Marcel family became forever linked to the event. It details what the debris looked like, how it greatly differed from that of the “weather balloon” that was supposedly recovered and the physical characteristics that prove it could have only come from a technology that was not available in the 1940s (or, perhaps, even now).
“The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. Truth is an excellent curative for false proclamations. The Roswell crashed saucer retrieval is one of the most important UFO cases ever, anywhere. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a good deal of important new material.”
—Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist
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“The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. Truth is an excellent curative for false proclamations. The Roswell crashed saucer retrieval is one of the most important UFO cases ever, anywhere. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a good deal of important new material.”
—Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist
ISBN: 9781601630261
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£17.99
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SEE MY BRIGHTNESS FACE TO FACE
A Celebration of the Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and the First 25 Years of His Divine Revelation-Work
ISBN: 9781570970382
ISBN 10: 1570970386
A Celebration of the Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and the First 25 Years of His Divine Revelation-Work
A lavishly illustrated year-by-year documentation of the extraordinary Spiritual saga of Avatar Adi Da’s Work with His devotees. Covering the years 1972 to 1997, See My Brightness Face to Face includes abundant excerpts from Avatar Adi Da’s Talks and Essays, as well as numerous stories about Him told by His devotees—with a wealth of photographs on every page.
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SEXUAL OUTLAW, EROTIC MYSTIC
The Essential Ida Craddock
ISBN: 9781578634767
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The Essential Ida Craddock
Sex, Magick, Aleister Crowley, Orgasms, Erotic Dances, Angelic Beings, Revolutionary Activism, Liberation, Persecution, Defiance, and Suicide.
Persecuted by Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice, this turn-of-the-century heroine was also a spiritualist who learned many secrets of high magick through her claimed wedlock to an angelic being. Born in Philadelphia in 1857, Ida Craddock became involved in occultism around the age of thirty. She attended classes at the Theosophical Society and began studying a tremendous amount of materials on various occult subjects. She taught correspondence courses to women and newly married couples to educate them on the sacred nature of sex, maintaining that her explicit knowledge came from her nightly experiences with an angel named Soph. In 1902, she was arrested under New York’s anti-obscenity laws and committed suicide to avoid life in an asylum.
Now for the first time, scholar Vere Chappell has compiled the most extensive collection of Craddock’s work including original essays, diary excerpts, and suicide letters--one to her mother and one to the public.
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Persecuted by Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice, this turn-of-the-century heroine was also a spiritualist who learned many secrets of high magick through her claimed wedlock to an angelic being. Born in Philadelphia in 1857, Ida Craddock became involved in occultism around the age of thirty. She attended classes at the Theosophical Society and began studying a tremendous amount of materials on various occult subjects. She taught correspondence courses to women and newly married couples to educate them on the sacred nature of sex, maintaining that her explicit knowledge came from her nightly experiences with an angel named Soph. In 1902, she was arrested under New York’s anti-obscenity laws and committed suicide to avoid life in an asylum.
Now for the first time, scholar Vere Chappell has compiled the most extensive collection of Craddock’s work including original essays, diary excerpts, and suicide letters--one to her mother and one to the public.
ISBN: 9781578634767
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£9.99
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SHADOWS IN CAGES
Forgotten Women and Children in Indias Prisons
ISBN: 9780893892593
ISBN 10: 0893892599
Forgotten Women and Children in Indias Prisons
This book relates the unbelievable personal accounts of women and children in India's prison system. Readers who are parents will shudder at what they read in SHADOWS IN CAGES. This sobering book overflows with stories of mothers in prison who along with their very young children exist in the most dismal conditions. These prisons are often filthy fly-infested severely overcrowded and stiflingly hot. Bharucha paints a grim picture. But it's not without sparks of hope. His coverage of the recently reformed Tihar prison - complete with a well-run nursery in which children learn and play - illustrates a heartening solution other prisons can adopt. He shows readers that the gift of freedom is one that should not be taken for granted. Learn about the positive marked effect non-governmental agencies have made to the system - jobs housing hygiene and education. It concludes with an in-depth interview with Kiran Bedi on her accomplishments and outline for future progress.
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ISBN: 9780893892593
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SILENT VIOLENCE
Excerpts From a Diary Covering A Period of 50 Years
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ISBN: 9781577331216
ISBN 10: 1577331214
Excerpts From a Diary Covering A Period of 50 Years
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