Alan Watts speaks to the ancient art of living the Zen life. Accompanying himself on the Koto, Watts enriches the program with readings of Zen poetry and stories. 2 cassettes.
Love, betrayal, petty larceny, and high fashion fuel this deliciously comic novel from the author of Fight Club and Survivor.
The fashion-model protagonist of Invisible Monsters has just about everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But one day she's driving along the freeway when a sudden "accident" leaves her with half her face, no ability to speak, and next to no self-esteem.
Victor Pelevin - Buddha's Little Finger (Chapaev i Pustota)
Added by: tempter83 | Karma: 28.05 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2009
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The ambitious, time-traveling scenario of Russian writer Pelevin's third novel finds the aptly named poet Pyotr Void tumbling between two distinct nightmares. In the first he is serving as commissar to the legendary Bolshevik commander, Chapaev, during the 1919 Russian Civil War. Pyotr pines for Chapaev's machine gunner, Anna, entertains officers who come to pinch cocaine (acquired by an accident of fate) on the pretext of discussing the nature of the intelligentsia, and feels horribly disjointed all the while.
Joe Carpenter’s wife and two children perished with more than three hundred others in the crash of United Airlines Flight 353. But one year later, haunted by the loss of his family and desperate to find purpose in life, he discovers that the official story of Flight 353 is a treacherous lie. They say it was an accident. It was not. They say there were no survivors: that the crash was too devastating for anyone to live through it. But incredibly, Joe discovers one woman walked away from the disaster, with a secret...
The second edition of Key Topics in Accident and Emergency Medicine provides essential information on acute injuries and sudden illness which commonly present themselves at Accident and Emergency Departments.
