Rites of Passage was created with revolutionary production values to be a unique experience unlike any audiobook that preceded it. It's not an audio version of a book that's read. It's a symphony of stunning sound effects with a musical score featuring the Jefferson Airplane's Somebody to Love along with 82 pieces of world-wide music that completely immerses the listener in a hilarious coming of age, romantic adventure cast with 26 actors who actually so...

Independent Generation of Electrical Power explains the different operations involved in the generation of power in power plants and the concepts and principles behind them. The book covers topics such as the parameters and requirements of generator performance; configurations of generators; and the operation and modes of control of generators; system control logic; and different energy management systems. The book also includes three appendices. Appendix 1 contrasts induction generation a...

If you were a little kid again, and I told you that you were about to spend the next 16 years of your life sitting at a desk in a classroom which you could only leave occasionally to go to the bathroom…would you think you were being unreasonably punished?What Should We No! is a 28-minute Art Performance Piece…an emotional roller coaster laced with rap and bluegrass music, performance poetry, personal reflections from my own school days in Beverly Hills and UC Berkeley in t...

Gurney Sleep wants three things in life: ‘recognition, promotion and sex but not necessarily in that order’. When his highly successful boss and mentor, Professor Nigel Williams suggests he takes charge of the Department of Contrastive Linguistics’ end-of-year Centenary Celebrations Gurney diffidently and reluctantly agrees.Set in one of England’s new universities – the 17th most applied to in fact – Purely Academic is both a critique of the wind of neo-liberalism blowing through h...

Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the major themes of the Beat and hippie countercultures from the fifties to the present.Di Prima (1934--) was at the center of literary, artistic, and musical culture in New York City. She also was at the energetic fulcrum of the Beat movement and, with Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), edited The Floating Bear (1961-69), a cent...

Western Civilization is at war with fanatical terrorists. It is a new kind of war the West is unaccustomed to fighting. The enemy strikes randomly, often uses difficult to defend suicidal tactics and hides intermingled among the general population. Politically correct Rules of Engagement and international law make it difficult to pursue terrorists and dispense the justice they deserve. They are often secretly supported by rogue states or well-financed organizations that defy international ...

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. Crumb’s genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse...

This new critical biography takes an innovative look at the life and work of the notorious American author (1891–1980). It examines Miller’s intense immersion in esoteric and theosophical interests, charting the cultivation of these ideas from his boyhood and adolescence to late in his career and evaluating the way in which his writings and lifestyle were influenced by his spiritual quests.From astrology and Gnosticism to Nostradamus and the great thinkers of the East, Miller remai...

In the autumn of 1888, terror gripped the streets of Whitechapel. The brutal murders of five women-attributed to the elusive figure known as Jack the Ripper-became one of history's most infamous unsolved crimes. But behind the headlines and the myth of the killer were real women, abandoned by society, trapped in poverty, and left to survive in the most desperate of circumstances.The Abandoned: Victims of Jack the Ripper is a groundbreaking exploration of the lives...

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways Beat authors such as Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Wiliam...

Confused about IBM Z Mainframes? Need to understand the z/OS operating system - and in a hurry? Then you’ve just found the book you need. Avoiding technical jargon, this book gives you the basic facts in clear, light-hearted, entertaining English. You’ll quickly learn what Mainframes are, what they do, what runs on them, and terms and terminology you need to speak Mainframe-ese. But it’s not all technical. There’s also invaluable information on the people that work on Mainframes, Mainframe...

Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers.The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fa...