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Hippie Dictionary by John Bassett Mccleary
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:John Bassett Mccleary [McCleary, John Bassett]

meditation the process of simplifying thought patterns in order to reach a point of mental relaxation at which spiritual reflection and growth are possible. Many techniques of meditation are used ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 10,2016 )
Let's Bring Back, The Lost Language Edition by Lesley M. M. Blume
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Lesley M. M. Blume

KERFUFFLE This flowery, old-fashioned word for a “commotion” or “disturbance” is particularly amusing when the kerfuffle in question is not particularly flowery. KETTLE OF FISH When you landed in this ...
( Category: Linguistics April 10,2016 )
The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Kaplan

The Nightmare, by Johann Heinrich Füssli. Oil on canvas, 1781. Detroit Institute of Fine Arts/Marc Charmet. This is very different from the way things once were. The origin of the ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 10,2016 )
College Girls by Lynn Peril
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Lynn Peril

Tomboys learned how to be ladies at Waverly (1963). When Kathie accuses Jane of being “afraid to look and act and feel like a woman,” there’s almost no reason to ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 10,2016 )
Eat the Year by Steff Deschenes
epub |eng | | Author:Steff Deschenes [Deschenes, Steff]

Today is also National Chocolate Day and National Strawberry Sundae Day. JULY 08 NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS DAY “It was inevitable: The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 9,2016 )
The Story of Crass by George Berger
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:George Berger [Berger, George]

“Abandoning the door, I tried to further suss out the opposition. Like the bullies they were, the boneheads were amusing themselves by insulting the punters, punks and anarcho-trendies who avoided ...
( Category: Anarchism April 9,2016 )
The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Matt Baglio [Baglio, Matt]

EVER SINCE THE LESSON delineating the causes of possession, Father Gary had pondered how to accurately assess whether a person was suffering from a curse. To him, the symptoms bordered ...
( Category: Religious April 8,2016 )
What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club by Gregory E. Pence
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Gregory E. Pence

BIOLOGICAL INEQUALITY AND CLONAL DYNASTIES All of this raises a very important ethical question: Should we try to prevent the wealthy and powerful from using cloning to create biologically superior ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 8,2016 )
Change the Story, Change the Future by David C. Korten
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:David C. Korten

MANAGED PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES At each level of organization—from the individual cell to the multicell organism, to the local eco-community, to the bioregion, to the biosphere—the living organism must define and ...
( Category: Cultural Policy April 8,2016 )
Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Peggy Orenstein

Coming Out in the Twenty-First Century On another winter evening, a few months after we first met, Amber introduced me to Hannah. They were nearly three thousand miles and an ...
( Category: Feminist Theory April 5,2016 )
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Jesse Jarnow [Jarnow, Jesse]

AND, OH SHIT, here come the bad trips. There’ve been bummers before, but the reaper has arrived in Grateful Deadland, and the karmic Hells Angels are pushing their way to ...
( Category: United States April 2,2016 )
The Language of London by Daniel Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Smith [Smith, Daniel]

CROWN JEWELS – Tools The rhyme elegantly suggests the great value of tools to the workman. * Benny Hill – drill. Hill was a comedian and actor most famous for ...
( Category: Linguistics March 26,2016 )
The Future of Nostalgia
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 23,2016 )
Anatomy of Love by Fisher Helen
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Fisher, Helen

Origin of Teenage Our Homo erectus ancestors most likely acquired another burden—the teenager. From characteristics of ancient teeth and bones, it appears that at some point (perhaps some 900,000 to ...
( Category: General March 23,2016 )
Turn Around Bright Eyes by Rob Sheffield
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rob Sheffield

2 The first time I truly felt Rod’s love touch was a hot summer night, deep in the seventies, in the pinball room of a Holiday Inn in Dunn, North ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 21,2016 )

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