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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

by Robert Anton Wilson, Scott Shea, Carol Ann Wilson, Robert Shea

"The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice.

Principia Discordia: Or How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her

Principia Discordia: Or How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious cases, when in actuality... (more)

Short Stories and The Unbearable Bassington (Oxford World's Classics)

Short Stories and The Unbearable Bassington (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saki

Brilliantly witty, frequently cruel and chilling, Saki's stories imaginatively portray encounters between the wild and the domestic. This selection of Saki's fiction combines a careful choice of his best short stories and his tragi-comic novella, The Unbearable Bassington. Offering an introduction and full notes, this is the only critical edition of Saki's work available.

If you meet the Buddha, eat the Buddha!

by Great, Sawmi Sensei

The Sawmi's book, If You Meet the Buddha, Eat the Buddha is intended to be a contribution to the "Fourth Way" literature. The Fourth Way, also sometimes called "The Work" is a method of developing human potential which has a core of practitioners estimated at several thousand people, scattered around the world. The core ideas of the Fourth Way were popularized in books written by G. I Gurdjieff and P.D.... (more)

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens ’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the... (more)

Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy/the Universe Next Door/the Trick Top Hat/the Homing Pigeons

Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy/the Universe Next Door/the Trick Top Hat/the Homing Pigeons

by Robert Anton Wilson

The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.

Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger)

Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger)

by Robert Anton Wilson

While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, continues along the path set by the original "Cosmic Trigger I--Final Secret of the Illuminati," it also stands solidly on its own. Any reader with an open mind and a sense of humor cannot help but be entertained and enlightened while following Wilson's explorations into such subjects as the future of cyberspace; the peculiarities of Irish jurisprudence;... (more)

The Illuminati Papers

by Robert Anton Wilson

Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the truth - maybe - in the long-awaited new edition of Robert Anton Wilson's classic cult bestseller The Illuminati Papers. Created as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten, the story of the Illuminati has attracted devoted readers world-wide, who have found in it a perfect metaphor for our times. This edition has a new introduction, cover and layout.

Right Where You Are Sitting Now

Further Tales of the Illuminati

by Robert Anton Wilson

Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, human knowledge, robots, and the future.

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

by Margot Adler

Now fully revised—the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient... (more)

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

Well-known as an international bestseller and award-winning film, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is magnificent entertainment. This virtuoso reading by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons is storytelling at its best. Fowles' intricate portrait of Victorian relationships and love, brought to life by Irons' artistry, will haunt you long after the story ends. 2 cassettes.

This Book Will Change Your Life

by Benrik

Is the year ahead looking much the same as the last? Another 365-day grind of meetings, dinner dates, and deadlines? If so, try this book. Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, This Book Will Change Your Life will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine. It contains 365 daily orders, each one of which could turn your humdrum existence... (more)

The Black Swan

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of... (more)

Manalive

by G. K. Chesterton

Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton’s "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to... (more)

The Lost Tales of H. H. Munro ("Saki")

by H. H. Munro ("Saki")

Little-known but excellent tales published in periodicals but never before collected in book form. A must-read collection for all Saki admirers. "The Pond" is a particularly fine example of Munro's stories, with superb plotting and his trademark twist at the end. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Unrest-Cure-Other Beastly Tales

by Saki

The long list of devotees of the barbed and timeless wit of Saki (H.H. Munro) included A.A. Milne, Evelyn Waugh, Noël Coward, and Graham Greene. The Un-Rest Cure now collects the best of Saki¹s devilishly funny tales.

Shaving the Inside of Your Skull

by Mel Ash

An instructive, proactive, and highly entertaining work of counterculture philosophy, alternative psychology and in your face spirituality, this book descibes how readers can rid themselves of limiting beliefs so that they may experience the fresh breezes of their uniqueness.

The Illusion of Orderly Progress

by Barbara P. Norfleet

From one of America's most distinguished and quirkily gifted photographers, a wildly original book of images that chronicles--and critiques--the curiously familiar social life of bugs. Barbara Norfleet loves bugs for both their beauty and their strangeness, and the fact that they've been on earth so much longer than the human race that they make us look like new kids on the block. In this remarkable collection,... (more)

The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles: Book 3

Nature's God

by Robert Anton Wilson

They are the most secret of organizations and the most powerful---the Illuminati. They continue to shift the patterns of history to fulfill plans of their own, to open pathways to power which ordinary mortals are never meant to tread. It is 1776, and Sigismundo Celine, a young Neapolitan aristocrat and musician---exiled from his homeland after an unfortunate duel---has fled Europe for the American colonies.... (more)

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by Robert Anton Wilson, Scott Shea, Carol Ann Wilson, Robert Shea

by Malaclypse the Younger

by Leonard Mlodinow

by Saki

by Great, Sawmi Sensei

by Charles Dickens

by Robert Anton Wilson

by Robert Anton Wilson

by Robert Anton Wilson

Further Tales of the Illuminati

by Robert Anton Wilson

by Margot Adler

by John Fowles

by Benrik

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

by G. K. Chesterton

by H. H. Munro ("Saki")

by Saki

by Mel Ash

by Barbara P. Norfleet

by Robert Anton Wilson