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When Anton LaVey burst onto the San Francisco scene right before the Summer of Love, he parlayed his eerie obsessions into a philosophy and lifestyle that capitalized on a New Age rage. With his signature cape, horn-studded hood, and Ming the Merciless beard, LaVey was a media-savvy provocateur who took what he did seriously, but was always in on the joke. From a spooky old Victorian house, he founded the Church of Satan, where young women squirmed nude on the mantel of his ritual chamber as he delivered a doctrine of self-deification and indulgence.

En este libro se tratan de una manera amena y divertida las creencias populares relacionadas con el New Age, las cuales, entre religión, filosofía y ciencia, promueven un estilo de vida alternativo. Esta obra se encarga de desmitificarlas y ponerlas en evidencia a la luz de su falta de rigor científico.

Australian Ghost Stories is a spine-tingling collection of true crime tales that will leave you feeling haunted long after you've heard the last word. From the ghostly apparitions that haunt historic landmarks to diabolical presences in everyday suburban houses, these are stories of ordinary Australians and their encounters with the unexplainable.

The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable movie franchises of all time. The movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, and now it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling. In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them.

The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, Kruszelnicki has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world's favourite scientific storytellers, he ambled through a convoluted cacophony of a career. In this long-awaited autobiography, you will learn that it's okay not to have a linear path through life, and that by following our curiosities and our passions, we can bend the universe to our liking.

Full of specific exercises and inspiring examples, listeners will be able to more clearly identify the substances and behaviors they struggle to moderate. With the warm, authoritative voice we know and love, Dr. Lembke will share her valuable advice on how to undertake your own dopamine fast, reset your own pathways, and live a happier and more fulfilling life.

In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the listener to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, drawing a surprising through-line between the lingering influence of the European Gothic, the enslaved insurrection tales propagated by slaveholders, and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans, among many others.

From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo nos develan cómo estamos sorteando la emergencia sanitaria ocasionada por el COVID-19 sino también nuestros hábitos, manías, obsesiones y perspectivas ante la pandemia, así como el poder innegable y sanador del diálogo y la literatura.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo nos develan cómo estamos sorteando la emergencia sanitaria ocasionada por el COVID-19 sino también nuestros hábitos, manías, obsesiones y perspectivas ante la pandemia, así como el poder innegable y sanador del diálogo y la literatura.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo nos develan cómo estamos sorteando la emergencia sanitaria ocasionada por el COVID-19 sino también nuestros hábitos, manías, obsesiones y perspectivas ante la pandemia, así como el poder innegable y sanador del diálogo y la literatura.

"2023 Facts & Trivia: Snapshot of a Year" is a comprehensive overview that captures the significant events, trends, and moments that defined the year 2023. This book serves as a time capsule, documenting a wide array of topics including major global events, advancements in technology, popular culture phenomena, and key moments in sports, and science.

At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours.

Helen Molesworth has been captivated by precious stones since early childhood but she struggled to join the gemstone industry, having no connections to the few family-run companies that have dominated the field for centuries. She persevered, and more than two decades later, Molesworth is now an international authority hired to appraise the extraordinary jewelry of such clients as the British royal family. Precious is packed with inside stories about fabulous jewels associated with generations of celebrities.

Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter Hickey proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.

Gen X—often overlooked, sandwiched between the Boomers and Millennials—has a unique story to tell about aging. "Gen X: From Mixtapes to Menopause - A Short Story About Growing Up and Growing Older" dives into the journey of a generation raised on grunge, MTV, and the dawn of the digital age, now navigating the complexities of midlife. With wit, wisdom, and a bit of irreverence, this short story book explores what it means to grow older while staying true to the rebellious spirit of Gen X.

Can a story written almost 200 years ago help us understand the modern world? In Searching for Goldilocks, Dr. Matt Kresl explores the search for “just right” within and all around us. Basing his discussion on the Goldilocks Principle, a reference to the children’s fairytale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Dr. Kresl focuses on how science, spirituality, and storytelling form a launching point to explore the concept of “just right” in everyday life.

In Stumbling Toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how those philosophies and policies have led to the cataclysm America faces today.

No one makes such a fuss about manners quite as much as the UK, yet in a fast-changing world, no one can seem to agree on precisely what the ‘done thing’ is, either. William Hanson, world-leading etiquette expert is on a mission to reclaim the British crown of good manners. In Just Good Manners, he shares his definitive guidance on how to behave in every situation - as well as celebrating our country’s distinctively British way of doing things!

Michael Crawley immerses himself in various endurance cultures and asks what makes enduring together meaningful to people. He learns how Nepalese runners face different challenges depending on their location up a mountain, from those in the lowlands and ‘middle hills’ to Sherpas from the Solu Khumbu, and observes Tarahumara ultrarunners’ ability to cover extreme distances on highly technical terrain. But he also delves into the history of Dance Marathons, six-day pedestrianism races in Madison Square Gardens and the unique Enhanced Games.