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![]() ![]() You may also wish to check out the other James Herbert books currently available in the Windmill Bookshop. Publication Order of Standalone Novels The Magic Cottage, (1986), Hardcover Paperback Kindle Sepulchre, (1987), Hardcover Paperback Kindle Creed, (1990). Please see all photographs for an overview of condition.Īny questions or if you'd like to see more photographs, etc., please drop me a quick message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. This book is in very good condition with no marks or signs of creasing to the spine and only a very faint line of creasing to the front cover. ![]() Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham plc, Chatham, Kentĭimensions: H 17.7cm / W 10.9cm / D 2.5cm ![]() Typeset by SetSystems Ltd, Saffron Walden, Essex Publisher: Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltdįirst published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, 1990 I am delighted to be able to offer this handsome paperback edition of 'Creed' by James Herbert, published by Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd, in 2001. James Herbert was not only Britain’s number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since publication of his first novel, but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. Welcome to The Windmill Bookshop, the vintage book section of our Etsy shop. ![]() ![]() Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense. True artist and true physicists know that nonsense is only that which, viewed from our present point of view, is unintelligible. There is no such thing as “nonsense” apart from a judgmental intellect which calls it that. “Nonsense” is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality. The more clearly we experience something as “nonsense,” the more clearly we are experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. The importance of nonsense hardly can be overstated. ![]() However, as Zukav states, this is often only because we lack the correct reference frame from which these events make sense. In life we are often quick to dismiss things that seem nonsensical. ![]() The same mind shift that is necessary to allow for a better understanding of our universe in its entirety, is just as applicable when we apply it on the micro scale to our individual lives. It is through the medium of explaining the non-intuitive concepts of new physics (relativity and quantum mechanics), that Zukav brings awareness to our limited ability to perceive “reality” and accurately define it. However, to classify it only as such would be doing it a disservice. “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -Werner HeisenbergĪt first glance, the book The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav may appear to be primarily written on the subject of physics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's not just "Silas": he's a weaver (he has a function in the village) and he belongs to a specific group of people. The subtitle takes away from the focus on the individual by locating Silas in a community and giving him a role. This tension between the individual (Silas) and the community (Raveloe) gets at exactly one of the novel's main interests: what is the relationship between an individual and his neighbors?Īnd (second) that's where the subtitle comes in. The narrator spends a lot of time on Godfrey's story, and quite a bit of time on the village and villagers. But there are two rather more interesting things to note about Silas Marner.įirst, a lot of the book isn't really about Silas Marner at all. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe By titling her novel Silas Marner, Eliot is participating in a long tradition of naming books after their protagonist: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Jane Austen's Emma, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and so on. ![]() ![]() Ram Dass and Leary began including the hallucinogenic drug LSD, which like psilocybin was legal at the time, in their experiments but Harvard was upset that they were using students as subjects and fired them in 1963. Describes one mans transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga and gives a modern restatement of the. ![]() Ram Dass said the subjects found bliss, heightened physical senses, accelerated thought processes, a relaxing of biases and hallucinatory experiences, such as seeing God. Beloved guru Ram Dass tells the story of his spiritual awakening and gives you the tools to take control of your life in this counterculture bible (The New York Times) featuring powerful guidance on yoga, meditation, and finding your true self. Ram Dass and Leary wanted to open the mind to a deeper consciousness and conducted experiments that included giving the drug to "jazz musicians and physicists and philosophers and ministers and junkies and graduate students and social scientists." Afterward, they had them fill out questionnaires about their experiences. ![]() In his first psychedelic experience, "the rug crawled and the picture smiled, all of which delighted me," Ram Dass wrote in "Be Here Now." American spiritual teacher Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) poses for a portrait at the First Unitarian Church on Jan. ![]() ![]() He had been introduced to marijuana in 1955 by his first patient while working as a health services counselor at Stanford University but Leary took him farther with psilocybin, the compound that gives certain mushrooms hallucinogenic qualities. ![]() ![]() ![]() R: March on Washington, 1963 by Alvin Carl Hollingsworth Courtesy of IDW Publishing ![]() Hired almost begrudgingly because of economic pressures and the need for cheap but talented labor, they created at the boundaries of representation – not only in terms of who was depicted in what race-based idioms within the comics themselves, but also in terms of who was tasked with creating them. In almost every case, these artists worked all but unsung, separate from their white colleagues and editors. ![]() ![]() Quattro is correct of course, this convention afflicts social discourse at every level - but when it comes to the life and work of the 18 Black men whose biographies, challenges, and accomplishments in the postwar American comics industry, making those distinctions and contexts clear is even more salient. One of the first questions asked when meeting a stranger is, ‘So, what do you do for a living?’ as if the entirety of a person’s hopes and dreams, tragedies and triumphs, beliefs and experience, is contained in their answer.” There is a tendency to reduce a life to what a person does for money. In the introduction to his essential new title, Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, author Ken Quattro writes in part, “My goal with each person profiled in this book is to provide context for their lives, the environment that formed them. ![]() ![]() Why does the world need an encyclopedia of anime? Is print dead? Why have they got such big eyes? What’s so wrong about Tenchi Muyo? What’s the worst anime ever? The best? the craziest? How much is too much? Is there a tentacle limit? Is there hope for the future? What is the flight velocity of an unladen swallow? All these questions, and more, can be answered or at least sarcastically dodged by the authors of the biggest book on anime to be found in any language, including Japanese.ĮDIT: Thanks, everybody, for your questions. He is co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, former editor of Manga Max. ![]() Anime super-fans Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, authors of the 1200-page, 1.1 million words of The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised 3rd Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation, will be answering questions about Japanese animation, comics, and fandom. ![]() ![]() Her crime novels go beyond the traditional as she scrutinizes society's ills and contemporary social issues weaving everything together into an often disturbing portrait of modern Japan. ![]() Natsuo Kirino is a highly regarded author in Japan best known in the English-speaking world for her boundary-pushing crime novels ( Out, Grotesque and Real World), which have been nominated for and have won various awards. Although I'm not entirely sure what I think of it, I enjoyed dipping my feet back into this literary form and am looking forward to working my way through the rest of the stories in the collections I recently received. Natsuo Kirino's "The Floating Forest" from Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs is the first short story I've read all year. ![]() Alternative History/Dystopian Fiction (7). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That flight will carry two pilots and four company employees, who will serve as "mission specialists," to evaluate the customer experience during the mission. To that end, the company said data collected during the flight will be analyzed in the coming weeks, and assuming the review goes well, the next mission will be a powered spaceflight. After this, VSS Unity glided back to the runway in New Mexico, testing modifications to the spacecraft's flight controls and handling.Īfter the test, Virgin Galactic said the glide flight closes its "final validation test points" of a campaign to ensure the aircraft and space plane are ready to resume powered flights. On Wednesday morning, the VMS Eve aircraft took off from Spaceport America and subsequently released the spacecraft at an altitude of about 14 kilometers. The VSS Unity spacecraft did not make a powered flight with its rocket engine on Wednesday, but it cleared the final hurdle before doing so by performing a glide test in New Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though based on Indian culture, the novel comes across as very Asian as various themes like traditional roles, son preference, sibling rivalry are relatable to non-Indian readers.ĭespite the symmetry in structure and both siblings being infatuated with the same man, Cobalt Blue presents two contrasting ways of dealing with the aftermath of a failed relationship, which also reflects the different lived realities of heterosexual and homosexual characters. ![]() Most of our book club members agreed that Cobalt Blue builds on a simple plot and a symmetrical structure (first, Tanay’s point of view in a first-person narration, then Anuja’s in the form of diary entries) that makes for a smooth reading. It explores male sexuality, family relations, gender roles, and societal norms. We were so fortunate to have renowned Marathi writer and film maker Sachin Kundalkar join our February book club to shed more light into his debut novel, Cobalt Blue, which, his own words, has been beautifully translated by Jerry Pinto.įirst published in Marathi in 2006 and then translated into English in 2013, Cobalt Blue is about a brother and sister, Tanay and Anuja, who fall in love with a paying guest in their home in Pune. ![]() |