Matthew Sweet: 3 books
Inventing the Victorians
What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
"Suppose that everything we think we know about the Victorians is wrong." So begins Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet, a compact and mind-bending whirlwind tour through the soul of the nineteenth century, and a round debunking of our assumptions about it. The Victorians have been...
Operation Chaos
The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment
Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war...
Peacock in the Poison Grove
Two Buddhist Texts on Training the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Geshe Sopa offers insightful commentary on two of the earliest Tibetan texts that focus on mental training. Peacock in the Poison Grovepresents powerful yogic methods of dispelling the selfish delusions of the ego and maintaining purity in our motives. Geshe Sopa's lucid explanations teach how we...