In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was

The last work of a beloved leader. Abraham Joshua Heschel sets Soren Kierkegaard, Christian existentialist philosopher, and Hasidic masters Menahem Mendl and the Baal Shem Tov in conversation about despair, hope and God. Deep yet lively and

The beautiful, sleepy hamlet of Clydesdale, Maryland is a birdwatcher\'s paradise. Green trees and lush marshes are the perfect home for migratory birds to nest and raise their young. But this particular autumn, all birds are falling from the sky, their bodies mangled and torn, with no obvious explanation. This unprecedented, ominous phenomenon puts the small unremarkable community on the world map.To

In The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised, mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff\'s fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile. Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge

Marxists Against Stalinism brings together contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR. Chris Harman argued that Soviet Union and the other \"socialist\" countries were bureaucratic state-capitalisms. Mandel argued that the Soviet Union had degenerated under the bureaucratic dictatorship of Stalin but had not reverted to a form of capitalism.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORThe thrilling stand-alone conclusion to Cathy Clamp\'s paranormal fantasy Luna Lake series, packed with action and romanceAnica Petrovic used to be human, until she was kidnapped and turned into a shapeshifter. Now she\'s a bear. Political strife in Serbia led Anica, her father, and her brother to settle in the Pacific Northwest, in a shifter community where all are welcome.

Praise for the first edition: \"An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept.\" --Booklist\"Anyone interested in good writing should read [Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class

This richly documented Norton Critical Edition of Julius Caesar is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, an introduction that sets the biographical and historical stage necessary to appreciate this richly allusive play, explanatory annotations, a map, and five illustrations. \"Sources and Contexts\" presents possible sources as well as analogues to Julius Caesar,

Meet Charlie Savage. Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who\'s realised that he\'s been a woman all along ... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year\'s worth of Roddy Doyle\'s hilarious series for the Irish

Unpack feelings with color in this international bestseller that helps young readers identify emotions and feel more in control. One day, Color Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through color. As this adorable monster learns to sort and define

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community

An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers (\"bots\")

It\'s an unexpected team with assignments that live between the light and shadows! Wonder Woman leads a crew to fight the darkness that\'s even too weird for the world\'s greatest super team, The Justice League The mystical Tree of Wonder has opened a gate to another world. Things are bad...real bad! The Justice League Dark, a team led by Wonder Woman featuring the monsters and magicians of the DC

This new text analyzes the development of the presidency as the dominant political institution in the United States and raises questions about its future relevance. In this history of the U.S. executive branch from the framing of the Constitution to the Biden administration, author Wilbur C. Rich illuminates the transformation of the presidential role by a variety of extra-constitutional, non-legal

Bent Larsen is one of the most celebrated chess players of the twentieth century. Larsen is the man who pushed Bobby Fischer down to Board 2 on the Rest of the World team in 1970. The Danish grandmaster had spectacular results, but chess fans appreciated even more his creativity and fighting spirit. For Larsen, a drawish-looking position was no reason to halt a game, as he had the ability to create