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Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In
Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences by Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, Allen Ginsberg, Winona Ryder, William Burroughs, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Terence McKenna, Ken Kesey, Huston Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
A memorial volume to one of this century's most colorful and pioneering figures in the consciousness movement
• A wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life provides a comprehensive view of the man and his impact on American culture
One of the most influential and controversial...
Impromptu Man
J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Impromptu Man captures the remarkable impact of a singular genius, J.L. Moreno, whose creations-the best-known being psychodrama-have shaped our culture in myriad ways, many unrecognized. The record will be set straight for all time by this can’t-put-down biography, a tribute by Jonathan D. Moreno...
Facing Leviathan
Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
There are two styles of leadership at war in the world.
On one side the mechanical leader casts a vision of heroic action aided by pragmatism, reason, technology, and power.
On the other side the organic leader strives to bring forth creativity, defying convention, and relishing life...
Rapture Ready!
Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel Radosh went searching for the answers and reached...
Shopping for God
How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen?...
The Mormonizing of America
How the Mormon Religion Became a Dominant Force in Politics, Entertainment, and Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Stephen Mansfield, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, has highlighted the growing popularity of Mormonism-a belief system with cultic roots-and the implications of its critical rise. Mormons are moving into the spotlight in pop culture, politics, sports, and entertainment via presidential...
by Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television—shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas regarding gender, family, race, marital roles, and sexual identity, and now serve as time capsules of U.S. history.
• Identifies the reason each...
The Bigger They Are, The Harder We Fall
An Opinion Piece
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This work explores the culture of greed, and how Australia has lost much of its culture to Americanisation and capitalism.
This is a work of opinion theat encourages a return to real free-thinking, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
It also encourages debate, as opposed...
Against the Machine
Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development...
Futurenatural
Nature, Science, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.
Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of...
What Women Really Want
How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
An invigorating and inspiring take on the new ways American women are changing and improving our culture and the way we live from Kellyanne Conway, counselor to president Donald Trump, and Celinda Lake, a leading political strategist for the Democratic party.
Women are the most powerful force...
Status Update
Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations...
by Kumar, Srini
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Advertising is Pollution!, or so says a popular bumper sticker. So what does that make stickers?SMASH PROCRASTINATIONMUTE THE COMMERCIALSUNCLICKABLEMIX BUSINESS WITH PLEASURENOBODY OWNS YOUCOLLABORATEI REFUSE TO BE A VICTIMWE LEARN BY TEACHINGDONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READDEBUG THE VOTESrini...