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by Louise Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents nine walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane's footsteps to her publisher's doorstep and the Prince Regent's vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs...
Wait Till I'm Dead
Uncollected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I’m dead.-Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.
The first new Ginsberg collection in over fifteen years, Wait Till I’m Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan and introduced by...
Bagua and Xingyi
An Intersection of the Straight and Curved
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Baguaquan and xingyiquan are two styles that complement each other as yin does yang. Bagua is known for its circular movements and its practice of “circle walking.” Xingyi embodies characteristic linear movements said to be derived from the logical strategies for using...
by Walt Whitman, Allen Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Whitman's most beloved poem, "Song of Myself," illustrated, illuminated, and presented like never before.
Walt Whitman’s iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use...
The Best Minds of My Generation
A Literary History of the Beats
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION is a very unusual new addition to the oeuvre of Beat writing. Based on a series of lectures that Allen Ginsberg gave at the Naropa Institute in Colorado and then at Brooklyn College, the book is many things at once: literary primer for those new to the Beats; unique...
Journals
Early Fifties, Early Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams,...
Women of Color Pray
Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer
Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Prayer has been the prevailing force behind the education of our children, protection and courage...
by Andrea Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Excerpt from the first chapter: Encounter
My name is Brian Blackdeath.
Of course it is not my real name. It’s a self -imposed pseudonym. What grew inside of me as a child I simply refer to it as the Urge. What the Urge really is, a story unto its self, hard to explain in just a few...
The Time Is at Hand!
The Rosicrucian Nature of Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily and the Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
In 1795 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe produced his tale of talesThe fairytale of "The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily," an extraordinary masterwork that is unique among Goethe's works. An initiatory fable of transformation, the tale arose out of the Rosicrucian, alchemical impulses that play an important...
by Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with...
Wow, What a Day!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
On August 16, 1938 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, a tiny boy opened his mouth and cried for the first time. As Germany persecuted Jews and Orson Wells prepared for his infamous War of the Worlds radio program, Edgar Allen Moore began his life as the second of three boys in a Scottish-Irish family who...
by Carl Allen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The UK has produced some of the most original, exciting and influential bands in the world and most of them have cut their teeth in one of the myriad music venues that criss-cross the capital. In this comprehensive and compelling book, author and photographer Carl Allen, the ‘Pevsner of Rock ‘n’...
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Concise advice on hunting down the personal culprits that sabotage sobriety and personal happiness.
To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there...
12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone
Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
The author of the classic 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery offers a fresh list of "smart" things to do to attain and sustain emotional sobriety.
Whether it's called "dry drunk" or "white knuckle sobriety," it's that stage in recovery when we realize that "putting the plug in the jug"...