Popular Culture
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Vowell

OBITUARIES What I See When I Look at the Face on the $20 Bill BEING AT LEAST A LITTLE Cherokee in eastern Oklahoma where I was born is about as ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Spitz, Marc

Chapter 9 “You’re in High School Again” 1988–1995 This chapter is about Nirvana. In addition to being many other important things, Nirvana was Twee. When Kurt Cobain was alive, he ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:James, Aaron [James, Aaron]

PSYCHOPATHS AND MORAL BLINDNESS In our proposal, the asshole is blameworthy because of a failure of seeing. But here one might object that the bare fact of having certain mistaken ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Robert M. Price

KINKY RESURRECTION One of the most fascinating exchanges between Jesus and the Jewish authorities (Mark 12:18–27) pits him against not the Pharisees, the usual gospel whipping boys, but the Sadducees. ...
( Category: Christianity September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

One night, I went to have dinner with my friend David, whom I’d met on a plane down to Havana (he springing out at the first stop to play catch ...
( Category: Cultural September 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bauerlein, Mark [Bauerlein, Mark]

Years of consumption of low rare-word media, then, have a dire intellectual effect. A low-reading, high-viewing childhood and adolescence prevent a person from handling relatively complicated texts, not just professional ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-03 | Author:Staggs, Sam

chapter 18 “Funny How Gentle People Get with You Once You’re Dead” We last saw William Holden floating not in Norma Desmond’s pool but rather in a pool of vitriol ...
( Category: Direction & Production September 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Rowlands

Schopenhauer: love is blind In these modern times, most of us are not too happy with the idea of transcendent realms of existence. And, I think, rightly so. Plato’s account ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 4,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Greg Green

MTF is very popular in Canada and America because of its high-yielding produce and heavy stone effect. However the plant has auto-flowering values which do not make it very popular ...
( Category: Organic September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:David McNally [McNally, David]

Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation Late capitalism is a conjurer’s realm of wild money. So demonically out of control is financial wealth that, like an apparition, it ...
( Category: African August 28,2014 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-08-14 | Author:Jean Baudrillard

The Double Extermination Today we do not think the virtual, the virtual thinks us. And to us this elusive transparency, which separates us definitively from the real, is as unintelligible ...
( Category: Popular Culture August 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-19 | Author:Julie Holland, M.D.

24 Cannabinoids and Psychiatry Julie Holland, M.D. The study of cannabis and cannabinoids could be enormously beneficial to the field of psychiatry. Cannabis has been used as a treatment for ...
( Category: Drug Guides August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Dana Goodyear

Five DOUBLE DARE The Food and Drug Administration was the great achievement of the pure-food movement, and a centerpiece of Progressive Era reform. Harvey W. Wiley, known in bureaucratic history ...
( Category: Food Science August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Kevin Dutton [Dutton, Kevin]

Alliance Den In August 2006, an elderly resident of the Strasshof district of north-eastern Vienna picked up her telephone and dialled 911. A distressed and dishevelled young woman had hammered ...
( Category: Popular Culture August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Jim Dawson [Dawson, Jim]

MEET THE DUMFARTS How would you like to spend your whole life telling people, “Yes, I’m a Dumfart”? Actually, you’d more likely be telling them, “Ja, ich bin ein Dumfart,” ...
( Category: Satire July 28,2014 )