This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations,...more
Written 2,500 years ago by Chinese general Sun Tzu, The Art of War is a poetic and potent treatise on military strategy still in use in war colleges around the world. Yet its principles transcend warfare and have practical applications to all the conflicts and crises we face in our lives--in our workplaces, our families, even within ourselves. Tho...more
The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.
An adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called 'the only American writer possessed with genius'. A potent cocktail of Burroughs trademark concerns - drugs, paranoia and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation.
Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these “control addicts” before it’s too late.
In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses sci...more
A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.
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