![]() ![]() Then there's also PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, by Alexander Shulgin. ![]() Meanwhile, the key contemporary account of the 1960s acid explosion must be Thomas Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, where the man in the white suit follows Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on a very unusual bus trip … although Hunter S Thompson's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is far more fun.įor a more sober account, try LSD – My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann, in which the great bicycling chemist discusses his difficult legacy. There's also Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream by Jay Stevens, another history of LSD following the drug from Albert Hofman's laboratory to Timothy Leary's college to Ken Kesey's bus and then across the world. It's a social history of LSD, the 1960s counterculture and the CIA's strange foray into psychedelic experimentation. It's also well worth looking at Island – a late novel marking the culmination of Huxley's philosophical and psychotropic investigations.Īcid Dreams by Martin A Lee gives a good idea of the influence of Huxley's ideas. Huxley's anti-utopia also displays plenty of the obsessions that would lead him to The Doors Of Perception – particularly in the form of the drug Soma. Meanwhile, if you haven't already, you must also read Brave New World – JG Ballard says it's more prophetic than 1984 and few would argue that its influence is huge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the help of ex-SEAL, David “Trojan” Morris, Steel takes on the fight of his life, one he's familiar with-taking down the bad guys. When Letty witnesses something she shouldn't, she'll lose more than the race. An ailing mother, a failing ranch, and her World Champion title on the line, she must win the purse at the finals, or she'll lose everything. LeTeisha "Letty" Stephens' life is circling out of control faster than her horse running barrels at the rodeo. Steel's never been anything but a military man, and the thought of a civilian life, especially in Great Falls-the place he couldn't wait to get out of at eighteen-is not the way he wants to go. His folks urge him to take over the family blacksmith business back home in Montana. ![]() He has a life choice to make.re-up or retire. Malik "Steel" Thompson is staring down his twenty-year mark as a Navy SEAL. ![]() ![]() Low effort posts, such as those that consist of a single sentence or meme without any significant content will be removed.
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One copy found in OCLC as of December 2021.Ĩvo, 48pp + 15 black and white plates. ![]() Designed to be easy to follow, literally and figuratively, Shepard’s guide serves as a walking tour including the locations and wordings of various plaques and suggested street car routes with estimated fares. ![]() Published in the same year as the death of American chemist and antiquarian researcher Eben Norton Horsford, “it is the purpose of this little volume to guide all who may wish to follow his footsteps over the ground he has opened and prepared for us, and enjoy the fruit of his labor and research.” Specifically, it distills Horsford’s theory of Leif Erickson’s arrival in Watertown, Massachusetts in the year 1000 and offers detailed maps, area photographs and walking routes to track the remnants of what he called, “Norumbega, the Seaport of the Northmen in Vineland,” including wharves, walls, an amphitheater and what Horsford believed to be Erickson’s house. A Guide Book to Norumbega and Vineland Or, The Archaeological Treasures Along Charles River. An extremely scarce and well-detailed guide to the supposed New England Viking port Norumbega and its surrounding area dedicated to its then-late discoverer Eben Norton Horsford. ![]() ![]() But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare. 1At some point in the 1590s, Shakespeare discovered Sir Thomas Norths translation of Plutarchs Lives of the Noble Grecians. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. ![]() But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. “A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a. ![]() ![]() He never saw a lawyer or a therapist, but some think Kircoff was lucky. His sentence was extended to 28 years, nearly all of it in Farview. ![]() He hesitated at the jailhouse door the jailer gave him a shove. One inmate, Paul Kirchoff, when charged with disturbing the peace after an argument with his brother, had been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Nonfiction becomes a horror tale, "a litany of neglect, of men the world, and maybe God, had forgotten about." Treatment turns to terror, punishment is the crime, and shelter becomes a warehouse for dead storage. first wrote of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. Now "Cold Storage" tells the chilling story of how the State of Pennsylvania hides some of its criminally insane in a hideous corner of hell. "Snake Pit" and "Cuckoo's Nest," for example. ![]() ![]() A therapeutic society coins the most gruesome euphemisms for its monstrous failures. ![]() ![]() I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.". ![]() From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters.the list goes on. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. ![]() The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some barangays were well-organized independent villages, consisting of thirty to a hundred households. ![]() These sociopolitical units were sometimes also referred to as barangay states, but are more properly referred to using the technical term " polity", rather than "state", so they are usually simply called "barangays", but evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as a type of "city states" ruled by datus, rajahs and lakans and sultans. The term originally referred to both a house on land and a boat on water, containing families, friends and dependents. In early Philippine history, barangay is the term historically used by scholars to describe the complex sociopolitical units : 4–6 which were the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago in the period immediately before the arrival of European colonizers. ![]() ![]() His maternal grandfather, John McCarthy, said of the boy, “It’s frightening. On his eighth birthday, Frank stood on top of the breakfast table at his family home and announced, ”I wanna be a author.” Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]() He loved Rover Boys adventures, as well as the stories of H.G. He carried around a Boy Scout pack with books in it, and he was always reading. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies.Īs a child growing up in Washington state, Frank Herbert was curious about everything. Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. ![]() His magnum opus is a reflection of this, a classic work that stands as one of the most complex, multi-layered novels ever written in any genre. ![]() He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind. Frank Herbert author of the Dune Chronicles-the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Timeįrank Herbert (1920–1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune. ![]() ![]() Octogenarian, Myrtle Clover fills her yard with her favorite garden gnomes as a sign of her displeasure with her across the street neighbor, Red, who is also her son and their small North Carolina's town police chief. This time Myrtle finds a body in her own yard, and later another one, so Red can't really keep her out of the investigation. Myrtle's relationship with her neighbor Erma and her dislike of and frustration with Myrtle always adds to spice to a Myrtle Clover book. ![]() ![]() She is feisty and doesn't let her age of in the eighties get in her way and in fact at times uses it to her advantage by actually pretending that she is more frail than she is. Myrtle can't cook and the fact that everyone in Bradley knows that always makes me laugh.īehind all the laughter we have a really clever sleuth. Myrtle's relationship with her friend Miles - Miles recognizes her clever ability to put the pieces together, he's sidekick but he also finds Myrtle to be annoying at times. Red's objections to Myrtle's sleuthing and her responding with the number of gnomes in her yard just to get to him The humor in this book is a bit more subtle than in the first in the series but there are certain things I look forward to: It's not that the books are repetitive but I've come to look forward to the same things I find in each book. ![]() ![]() After reading five of the Myrtle Clover mysteries it is hard to review each new one. ![]() |