Gegensatz Press: 19 books

Andrew Loog Oldham was the original manager of the Rolling Stones, created their image, and made Mick Jagger and Keith Richards into songwriters. Without Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones would not have become "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World." This is his story.

Brutal, filthy, no-holds-barred imagist poems that use sarcastic honesty, existential tension, and occasional humor to paint stark portraits of the hypocrisy, desperation, loneliness, delusion, and squalor of the substance abuse world.

This book is not about the medical, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, statistical, or even theological aspects of suicide. It does not investigate the pathology of why some people kill themselves and it certainly does not attempt either to prevent or to encourage suicide. It is a book on the...

"Luft’s conception of socialism is far distant from the socialism of the gulag and the secret police; it is a socialism that free people of good will could actually live with and flourish under, and it would certainly be a kinder, more just, and more inspiring social order than we have presently....

This new edition:Adds descriptive titles to each of Burke's five parts.Corrects Burke's inaccurate quotations.Translates Burke's foreign language quotations.Adds accurate citations for all references.Provides a bibliography of scholarly work on Burke's philosophy of art since 1995.Lists...

From the Foreword by Elisabeth Lee Rennie: "The twenty-seven letters in this collection of Civil War era letters connect members of one small community in Walton, New York, near the Pennsylvania border. More than historical correspondence from the battlefield to the home front, this primary collection...

M.G. Piety has written an important social critique in the form of a series of vibrant essays about her chosen sport. Her main point is that figure skating is naturally fun and that those who participate in it ought to be having fun while doing so. She decries the fact that so few people in the figure...

Gentle, thoughtful poetry from an American expatriate in rural Australia.

From the translator's introduction: "Eve, an ingenue, is in love with Robert, a deserving young man. Adam lusts after Eve. Adam wants to send Robert into the army - or at least threaten to do so - to get rid of him. He blackmails Eve with this threat. This reminds us of King David sending Uriah...

Key texts in the history of socialist theory and practice, selections from Victor Berger, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eugene Victor Debs, Ron Dellums, Havelock Ellis, the Fabian Society, William Godwin, Moses Hess, Mother Jones, Dennis Kucinich, Meyer London, Ramsay MacDonald, Cynthia McKinney, Robert Owen,...

Table of Contents:1. Not Necessarily Number One2. Paralysis3. The Imp of the Perverse4. The Impotence of Godlessness5. How to Crush Creativity in One Easy Lesson6. Dichotomous Choices in a Field of Gray7. Counting Coup8. The Seven Ages of Woman9. The Thinking Woman’s Richard Brautigan10. I Saw the...

"There are few books that will both revolutionize your life and also make you laugh so hard that you will nearly choke to death on a peanut while flying from Boston to Cleveland. This is one of those books."-- Jay Wexler, author of Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars (2009).

Self-help for conquering stress, anxiety, and fear. "The Desensitization Hierarchy Method, described in this book, is a tool for managing change, but its users will always be in charge of deciding both what changes they want to make, and how much they want to do at any one time. The method...

From the Translator's Introduction:"The Organs of the Brain is quite representative of the style of farce which was abundantly popular in western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the type epitomized in the Figaro plays of Pierre Beaumarchais, the comic operas of Gioacchino...