“[An] absorbing study of an ultra-talented country music icon.” MOJOThis definitive biography of Dolly Parton is as dazzling as the woman it celebrates.Smart Blonde tells the remarkable story of Dolly Parton’s rise from a poor East Tennessee childhood to superstardom in the male-dominated world of 1960s Nashville. With charm, determination, and unparalleled talent, Parton built not only a musical legacy but a multifaceted ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street JournalA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people.It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?In this groundbr...

The Rise and Fall of George Santos: The Untold Story of Lies, Power, and the Scandal That Shook American PoliticsThis is the true story of George Santos, the man who built a life full of lies and fooled a nation to win a seat in Congress. From his fake past to his shocking expulsion, legal battles, and surprising return, every twist and turn is revealed in this up-to-date account.For anyone curious about politics, power, and the cost of ambition, this book shows how one per...

Are you self-organizing dust that becomes alive if it is arranged in just the right way? Are you dust that had life breathed into it by “God”, as the Book of Genesis says? Are you dust that links to a mind and is animated by the mind so long as the link remains functional? Well, what are you? Do you know? If you don’t know, shouldn’t you be trying to know? Go on, what is your quintessence? Write it down. If you can’t, what does that say about you? Here’s an astounding thing. Feeling types,...

Named one of the top 10 books on Rock in 2023. The two decades of freedom and creativity that were the 1960s and 1970s are captured in this book with photos by iconic photographers of the day, and text by top French music writer Philippe Margotin. Exploring pop rock icons from the Beatles to Bowie. Pop Rock Icons takes us into the extraordinary world of London, England at the time of the greatest countercultural upheaval that the country has known. A real musical revolution began at the be...

In the war of the wolves and the sheep, what if the sheep started winning? Are human wolves a keystone species of the human race? If they were hunted to extinction, leaving no one to winnow the mediocre mob, what would happen to humanity? The narrator in the movie Idiocracy was on point when he said, “Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an ...

First published in 1982. The human brain is the most complex object on Earth that can be studied scientifically: a collection of over 100 billion neurons squeezed into a space about the size of a grapefruit, which somehow is able to control all that you feel, do, and know. There still is little understanding of the most important and interesting functions of the brain, such as what really happens up there when you learn something, when you are thinking, or when you are feeling happy. In th...

There’s a huge hole in how humanity thinks about reality. The problem is a very old one, but only a tiny group of philosophers ever took an interest in it. To the average person, it’s an obscure and unfathomable issue. To the truly intelligent, it’s the key to understanding existence. To clarify this issue is to get rid of so much junk in the way of humanity’s ability to explain reality. If you consider yourself one of the smartest people in the world, you have to do what unintelligent peo...

Three teenagers witness a murder that will force them into a world beyond their wildest fantasies . . . If "Stranger Things" and "Lord of the Rings" had drunk sex, the offspring would be "Warriors of Castlemaine."

Did alien astronauts visit the ancient earth or were the real "aliens" the ancient humans themselves? People today imagine that ancient humans were just like us, but at a more primitive stage of development. In fact, ancient humans were nothing like us. They had incredible abilities - superpowers - that we have now lost. We discarded them in the course of becoming modern, conscious humans, but these superpowers still lie latent in all of us, and can be recovered in the right circumstances....

Welcome to the Church of the Serpent. The universe is the Tree of Knowledge. At the top of the tree is the Golden Bough with which we attain Golden Knowledge, the Apex Knowledge of the cosmos. So, we must climb. All the way to the highest consciousness. The Church of the Serpent is devoted to knowledge – ultimate knowledge, the knowledge of existence itself. We must have Absolute Knowledge. Nothing else will suffice. Completion, or nothing. From the top of the Tree of Knowledge, we command...

The Spice Girls phenomenon was a genuine pop music landmark. No group since The Beatles had commanded as much media attention. Ginger, Baby, Posh, Sporty and Scary became international stars and, whether they were adored or ridiculed, they became the ultimate expression of global media fame in the Nineties.