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100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (The 100 Words)

100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (The 100 Words)

The 100 Words series continues to set the standard for measuring and improving vocabulary, with a new title focusing on words that are best known for getting people into linguistic trouble. 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is the perfect book for anyone seeking clear and sensible guidance on avoiding the recognized pitfalls of the English language. Each word on the list is accompanied by a concise... (more)

Diagnostic Strategies for Common Medical Problems

Diagnostic Strategies for Common Medical Problems

Diagnostic Strategies for Common Medical Problems, second edition, presents the best diagnostic strategies for 51 of the most common patient presentations you're likely to see in a clinical setting. Each chapter is presented in a clear, concise format, allowing you to get the information you need quickly and easily. Filled with practical and cost-effective pathways to solve the problems you see every day,... (more)

Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor

Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor

by Kim Schulz

From personalizing Vim to productivity optimizations: Recipes to make life easier for experienced Vim users Create, install, and use Vim scripts Personalize your work-area Optimize your Vim editor to be faster and more responsive In Detail Each chapter of this book deals with a different aspect, and provides recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After an... (more)

Fuck Vision: La Vision de La Fucktory: El Libro Que Cambiara Para Siempre Tu Vision del Mundo (Rompeolas)Jm Jose Maria Martinez

Fuck Vision: La Vision de La Fucktory: El Libro Que Cambiara Para Siempre Tu Vision del Mundo (Rompeolas)

by jm Jose? Mari?a Marti?nez

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets

by Paul McFedries

If you’re one of the millions of users joining Twitter to connect to friends, family, and interest groups; or to follow the conversation and find out what’s happening beyond your doorstep, then this full color, 288 page book is for you. Coverage on how to establish a Twitter account, tweet from mobile devices, search for people and interests, and add Twitter to your blog is approached in a user-friendly manner.... (more)

The Origin of Satan

by Elaine Pagels

From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational... (more)

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the penetrating study of a man who commits murder, convinced of the murder's justice, but suffering mentally nonetheless. It was first published in 1866 in twelve monthly installments of The Russian Messenger, a prestigous publication and an outlet for Tolstoy and Turgenev.

Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, The

Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, The

by John R. Kohlenberger, James Strong

The most accurate and complete Strong's ever published, the only Strong's compiled and verified by computer technology, the only truly exhaustive concordance to the KJV, and includes the most up-to-date Hebrew and Greek dictionaries for precise word studies.

Dune Chronicles: Book 1

Dune

by Frank Herbert

Often cited as the best Science Fiction novel ever written, Dune is the story of the desert planet Arrakis and the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the... (more)

Black Spring

by Henry Miller

Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and... (more)

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? • Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? • Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? • Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? • Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the... (more)

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

by Gary Zukav

With its unique combination of depth, clarity, and humor that has enchanted millions, this beloved classic by bestselling author Gary Zukav opens the fascinating world of quantum physics to readers with no mathematical or technical background. "Wu Li" is the Chinese phrase for physics. It means"patterns of organic energy," but it also means "nonsense," "my way," "I clutch my ideas," and "enlightenment." These... (more)

Diary of a Genius: An Autobiography

by Salvador Dali

A seminal surrealist text, revealing the astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century’s most subversive, disturbing and influential art movement. This second volume of Dali’s autobiography covers his life from 1952 to 1963, the time of amour fou for his wife Gala and their bizarre world travels. This is Dali’s... (more)

Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are: The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars

Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are: The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars

by Bob Frissell

This ambitious book is a personal psycho-spiritual journey, a theorization on the meaning of the monuments of Mars, a guidebook for transcending present three-dimensional limitations, and an account of our function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. The newly revised and expanded edition of this cult classic features photos and illustrations throughout, and adds the Lucifer... (more)

Aegypt

by John Crowley

There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments, not Egypt -- but ?gypt. What if it were really so? In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about... (more)

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