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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

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A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orlean's lower denizens of the French Quarter.

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Love All The People Letters, Lyrics, Routines

Bill Hicks

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This is the first collection of all Bill Hick's stand-up routines, diaries and notebooks, letters and final writings. It traces the evolution of Hick's work from brilliant conventional stand-up into something far more interesting and dangerous: on open invitation to a life lived without fear.

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What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness

Jon Ronson

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In "What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness", the second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardian journalism, he hilariously demonstrates how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. But also, as he chillingly demonstrates, the...more

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Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness

Jon Ronson

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A collection of Jon's "Guardian" features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. In Jon's previous two books, "Them" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats", the nuttiness took place a long way from everyday life - ...more

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

Jon Ronson

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In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.Entrusted with defendin...more

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Them Adventures With Extremists

Jon Ronson

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A riveting journey to the pockets of paranoia established by such highly controversial radical groups as Islamic fundamentalists, the KKK, and Neo-Nazis, written by a journalist who brilliantly exposes the absurd, yet profoundly chilling belief that fuels their passions.

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Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock

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Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and does so almost inadvertently. His stories, lessons, observatio...more

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All Editions	STATE OF THE UNION, THE ALBERT JAY NOCK Write the first review.(See your review) Popular Tags: social problems, social science, sociology social problems , social science , sociology
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Jefferson

Albert Jay Nock

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Here is Albert Jay Nock's classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and property, and his dedication to the idea of revolution. In the process, Nock tells a story of the founding that ...more

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Men Against the State

James J. Martin

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Talk about a suppressed intellectual tradition! America was home to the first full-blown movement of individualist anarchists in the 19th and early 20th century. The author of this book on the topic adds the adjective "individualist" to distinguish them from socialists. They were champions of liberty, and, yes, they were as quirky as any movement o...more