Book of Lies
Book of Lies

Author: Metzger, Richard

Publisher: Disinformation Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1938875109

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New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic and magical experiences Techgnosis author Eric Davis writes about H.P. Lovecraft Robert Anton Wilson writes about the similarities between Aleister Crowley and Timothy Leary Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" ask if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era. Other contributors or subjects written about include Brian Barritt, Vere Chappell, Ida Craddock, Joe Coleman, Nevill Drury, Stephen Edred Flowers, T. Allen Greenfield, Gary Lachman, Anton Lavey, Peter Levenda, Grant Morrison, Michael Moynihan, Rosaleen Norton, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Tracy Twyman. It's all here and more!

Father of Lies
Father of Lies

Author: Brian Evenson

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1566894239

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"[Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious obedience."—Publishers Weekly Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Father of Lies is Brian Evenson's fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience, and a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves against the innocents who may be their victims.

Betrayal of Genius
Betrayal of Genius

Author: Robin Patchen

Publisher: Jdo Publishing

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781950029143

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From a USA Today bestselling author comes book three in the addictive Coventry Saga. Her invention could save thousands of lives...if she can survive long enough to share it. Jacqui's research could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease, and she's determined to ensure the technology goes to the company with the best shot at creating life-saving products, not just the highest bidder. When her lab is broken into, she realizes her partner is desperate to get his hands on her research and the money it'll bring. Jacqui goes into hiding, planning to lie low until she can find a buyer who lives up to her expectations. Reid's life is all about protecting his daughter, but when she leaves for a month to visit her mother, he finds himself at loose ends. The pretty new manager at the ice cream shop seems like a good diversion, but he soon realizes there's more to Jacqui than doling out scoops of rocky road. When he senses danger, he's tempted to step away-he won't allow any threat to come near his daughter-but how can he turn his back on a woman in danger, one he's coming to care for? Jacqui's former partner is closing in and getting more desperate by the day. He'll stop at nothing to get the payout he feels he deserves. Join Jacqui and Reid as they navigate this pulse-pounding, faith-filled adventure into the high-stakes world of medical research, innovation, and greed.

Truth About Art, The
Truth About Art, The

Author: Patrick Doorly

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1780998414

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‘Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the Good is other and more beautiful than they.’ — Plato, Republic, 508e. This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them. Art with a capital A turns out to be an invention of German Romantic philosophers, who endowed their creation with the attributes of genius, originality, rule breaking, and self-expression, directed by the spirit of the age. Recovering the problems that these attributes were devised to solve dispels many of the obscurities and contradictions that accompany them. What artists have always sought is excellence, and they become artists in so far as they achieve it. Quality was the supreme value in Renaissance Italy, and in early Greece it offered mortals glimpses of the divine. Today art historians avoid references to beauty or Quality, since neither is objective or definable, the boundaries beyond which scholars dare not roam. In reality subject and object are united and dissolved in the Quality event, which forms the bow wave of culture, leaving patterns of value and meaning in its wake.

The Genius Plague
The Genius Plague

Author: David Walton

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1633883434

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"In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors"--

Prelude to Waking
Prelude to Waking

Author: Miles Franklin

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Prelude to Waking: A Novel in the First Person and Parentheses (1950) is a novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin, which was originally published under the author's pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin". The novel is set in England, France, and the USA, in the period immediately following World War I. The story is told by Nigel Barraclough about Merlin Giltinane and her father and brother from Australia.

There Will Be Lies
There Will Be Lies

Author: Nick Lake

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1408853825

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Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. Anything. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect her and drives off into the night, like it's the beginning of a road trip, like two criminals on the run, like Thelma and Louise or Bonnie and Clyde. And somehow, everywhere she looks, there's a coyote watching her, talking to her, telling her not to believe. Who is Shelby Jane Cooper? If the person who keeps you safe also tells you lies, who can you trust?

One of Us Is Lying
One of Us Is Lying

Author: Karen M. McManus

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0141375647

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The international bestselling YA thriller by acclaimed author Karen M. McManus - now available in a bold new cover look complete with a blood red background and matching sprayed edges. Five students walk into detention. Only four come out alive. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them. 'Tightly plotted and brilliantly written, with sharp, believable characters, this whodunit is utterly irresistible' - HEAT 'Twisty plotting, breakneck pacing and intriguing characterisation add up to an exciting single-sitting thrillerish treat' -THE GUARDIAN 'A fantastic murder mystery, packed with cryptic clues and countless plot twists. I could not put this book down' - THE SUN 'Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club' - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY But the story doesn't end here, it continues with One of Us Is Next. . .

The Imperfect Individual
The Imperfect Individual

Author: David Coffey

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1728374642

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Why is the West so confused and lacking in direction? Why does society appear to value groupthink over personal insight? And why has ideology won the battle against ideas? We are living in a time of momentous change. A political, economic, health, social, AI and media revolution has taken place whilst we have been distracted by ideologically driven narratives and the unhealthy and immoral products of multi-billion-pound corporations. How and why has society become so enslaved to government, media and pharmacological cartelism, what dangers does this pose and what can we do about it? Rather than theorise on who may be pulling the strings of society and orchestrating the current vast hysteria, The Imperfect Individual focusses on individual and societal behaviour. It explores why it has been so easy to manipulate people into a certain way of thinking and behaving and why Western populations are largely so thoughtlessly obedient and conformist. The book clearly paints a picture of a Western world in disarray but also strikes an incredibly optimistic tone about the future if enough people understand the critical importance of reasserting themselves as true stakeholders in their own societies by pursuing values such as courage, truth, authenticity, open-mindedness and freedom.