As I Please: 1943-1945
10 best books like As I Please: 1943-1945 (George Orwell): The Debate on the Constitution, Part 2: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: January to August 1788, Writings, The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual, The Second Common Reader, Selected Essays, The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine, Reasons To Be Cheerful, Complete Book of Tarot Spreads, George Orwell: A Life, Metaphor & Memory
In this Library of America volume (and its companion) is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign.
Part Two gathers collected press polemics and private commentaries from January to August...
For two centuries, George Washington has stood “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” universally acknowledged as the one indispensable founder of the American republic. This Library of America volume—the most extensive and authoritative one-volume collection...
| Author | S.K. Bain |
| ISBN | 1937584178 |
In this shocking exposé, investigative researcher and author S. K. Bain explores the inconsistencies, coincidences, and historical precedents of the events of September 11, 2001, and reconstructs an occult-driven script for a Global Luciferian MegaRitual. Bain argues forcefully that the framework...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156028166 |
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Last year I came across The Common Reader Vol. I at a Kinokuniya Bookstore in Bangkok and ordered Vol. II immediately. In fact, these famed two volumes have been published in various editions since 1932 and I've tried to buy them for a long time. Enticed by the simple title, I've since...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these...
In an era that has reclaimed many aspects of the feminine, Margaret Starbird’s The Woman with the Alabaster Jar stands out as a courageous exploration of the scorned feminine in the Western religious tradition. But espousing the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene created a personal crisis...
| Author | Mark Steel |
| ISBN | 0743208048 |
The memoirs of 25 years of political activism, albeit minor and mostly unsuccessful! Deciding to dedicated his life to eradicating injustice Mark Steel has: tried to persuade his mates to change their sexist attitudes - only to be called a poof; innocently wandered into the heat of battle during the...
Here you'll find 122 different layouts with information on when and how to use them. Start with personal day and year cards, and learn how to relate Tarot to your own interests, in order to find specific blind spots and personal resistances, as well as how to look for new chances and unexpected directions....
| Author | Bernard Crick |
| ISBN | 0140058567 |
Re-reading this, it strikes me that I probably need to re-read most things which probably rules me out of new books for the next thirty years. A brilliant biography, complete with an introduction that should be (it probably already is) required reading for anyone contemplating writing this kind of...
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0679734252 |
From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written...
| Author | Michael Shelden |
| ISBN | 0749399120 |
This biography of George Orwell draws on a range of sources including letters concerning his romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, records which alter the conventional view of his military service, a detailed set of medical records and 200 letters and scripts discovered in 1984. Also included...
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0860916286 |
The global turmoil of the last few years has severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few have written with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events — or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture.
For the Sake of Argument...
| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0679728953 |
Not being American, I was not been brought up hearing the name of H L Mencken. My first awareness of him came from epigrammatic gobbets that got into books of quotations. For example, there is the epitaph which (I discover) he wrote for himself in 1921, long before he died in 1956: “If, after I depart this...
| Author | Elias Canetti |
| ISBN | 0374518815 |
Ooit las ik met zeer veel bewondering diverse essays uit "Het geweten in woorden". Nu echter las ik de hele bundel integraal, en ik ben volkomen flabbergasted.
In dit boek verzamelde Canetti zijn vaak beeldschone essays over door hem aanstekelijk bewonderde schrijvers als Kafka, Karl Kraus,...
| Author | Timothy Garton Ash |
| ISBN | 0679731997 |
Ten years ago Timothy Garton Ash came to East Berlin to find out from the archives what the Berliners had done under Hitler. Instead he found out - from the streets - what the Berliners were doing under Honecker. He observed the 'elections’; interviewed the local party members and talked into the night...
| Author | John Pilger |
| ISBN | 0099387212 |
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.
The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor,...
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 0719561051 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, a now famous journey described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages wherever he went, and where...
| Author | Judith Bennett |
| ISBN | 0312915977 |
A groundbreaking, unique, and dramatic marriage of astrology, psychology, and female sexuality where you'll find extraordinary tools for taking charge of your life!
Sex Signs is not a simplistic "predict the future" book. It's a practical guide to improved self-understanding, personal...
| Author | Stephen Knight |
| ISBN | 0586059830 |
Stephen Knight was born in Hainault, Essex in 1951. He left school at sixteen to pursue a career as a journalist. He was a reporter on several weekly London papers and by age 20 had become chief reporter of one of them. In 1973, Knight met a man who claimed to know the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders....
| Author | Robert Lacey |
| ISBN | 0151556849 |
The world dreams of taking tea with her. She is the living embodiment of grandeur that was, and is, England. In this brilliantly researched book, Robert Lacey combines the sweep of history with the intimate nuance of individual lives to raise the curtain on the royal mystique. Here is the personal side...
| Author | Kris Dhillion |
| ISBN | 0716020548 |
This is one of those books that you might overlook in a bookstore in favour of more colourful, larger, illustrated tomes on the same subject. Yet that could a very costly mistake indeed.
The Curry Secret sets out, modestly, with the aim of showing the reader how to cook "real Indian restaurant...
| Author | David Icke |
| ISBN | 0957630883 |
The questions are being asked like never before. What is happening in the World? What is ‘life’ really about? Gathering numbers of people have a sense of unease about the direction of human society without knowing why. Something is happening, but what? David Icke has spent more than a quarter of...
Crystal Healing and the Human Energy Field: A Beginners Guide
This book is about energy and vibrations and is ideal for those who are beginning to learn about the human energy field. There is a chapter on the aura, a description of the layers of the aura, as well as how to heal the aura with crystals if it is damaged. The section on crystals details how to select, cleanse...
Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
| Author | Mary Bell |
| ISBN | 0688130240 |
Far from being a fad, food dyhydrating is one of the most ancient, effective, and nutritous ways of preserving food. Now, at last, there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using an electric food dyhydrator to dry foods at home -- and gives more than 100 foolproof recipes...
