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Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s:
Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of
the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge
of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...And suddenly
there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of
what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving
around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with
the top down to Las Vegas...' As knights of old buckled on armour
of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed
with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous,
drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders,
police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority
have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen
on the printed page.
From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of "Gonzo"
journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of
the journalist's finest work from "Rolling Stone." "Fear and
Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the roller-coaster of a career
at the magazine that was his literary home.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S.
Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life.
Jann S. Wenner, the outlaw journalist's friend and editor for
nearly thirty-five years, has assembled articles--and a wealth of
never- before-seen correspondence and internal memos from Hunter's
storied tenure at "Rolling Stone"--that begin with Thompson's
infamous run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Party ticket in 1970
and end with his final piece on the Bush-Kerry showdown of 2004. In
between is Thompson's remarkable coverage of the 1972 presidential
campaign and plenty of attention paid to Richard Nixon; encounters
with Muhammad Ali, Bill Clinton, and the Super Bowl; and a lengthy
excerpt from his acknowledged masterpiece, "Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas." The definitive volume of Hunter S. Thompson's work
published in the magazine, "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
"traces the evolution of a personal and professional relationship
that helped redefine modern American journalism, presenting
Thompson through a new prism as he pursued his lifelong obsession:
The life and death of the American Dream.
Testimony Since I was a little girl, I always witnessed my mother
disrespecting my father to the point that he would leave our home
for months at a time. When I became a woman and got married, I
found myself treating my husband with the same rudeness and
disrespect. It wasn't until, I read Lady Thompson's book, The
Making of A Proverb's 31 Women, when I realized that the utter
disrespect was ruining my marriage. Once I was aware of my
wrongdoing, I must say that I cried many nights, sought guidance,
and asked God for my forgiveness. Doing so, changed my life and
enhanced my marriage. I can truly attest that her books or movies
will definitely change your life because they convey a very
powerful message that grabs your attention from the beginning and
keeps you hooked to the end. Mrs. L. Wallace
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed "gonzo" -- "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s.
Counseling for Peripartum Depression provides counselors and other
mental health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of
peripartum depression (PPD) and related disorders during pregnancy
and after birth. The book offers diagnostic criteria and screening
tools that clinicians can use in session, and focuses on holistic
wellness as well as current research on the etiology and risk
factors for PPD. In particular, the simple and practical STRENGTHS
model can help clinicians address various social and cultural
factors related to the experience of pregnancy, giving birth,
taking care of children, becoming parents, and the stigma
associated with maternal mental health conditions. Using case
studies and stories of women who have experienced PPD, chapters
explore the individual, societal, and cultural factors associated
with the development of PPD, and they also present clinicians with
best practices and suggestions for preventative efforts and
complementary approaches to treatment.
Two issues have been central within political philosophy in the
last decade or so. The first is the debate over 'the politics of
distribution versus the politics of recognition, ' which is usually
associated with the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser. The
second is discussion of the phenomenon known as globalization,
focusing on the notions of cosmopolitanism and global justice. This
book explores the relationship between these two issues. It
considers not only the global dimension of the politics of
recognition, but also how recognition theory can provide new
insights into our understanding of problems of global justice,
especially those of a non-distributive nature. A number of the
contributors consider the relevance of Hegel's theory of
recognition for our understanding of these issues.
This book examines the links between Britain's withdrawal from its
east of Suez role and the establishment of South-East Asian
regional security arrangements. The link between these two events
is not direct, but a relationship existed, which is important to a
wider understanding of the development of regional security
arrangements.
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My Promise to You (Hardcover)
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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of
the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light
on the human experience – classics which will endure for
generations to come. ‘You can turn your back on a person, but
never turn your back on a drug – especially when it’s waving a
razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes’ Roaring down the desert
highway, Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo are seeking out the
dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of
stupendous proportions, they confront casino operators, police
officers and assorted Middle Americans, in surreal, chemically
enhanced encounters. Hilarious, hallucinogenic and subversive,
Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel is a cult
classic and a masterpiece of gonzo journalism. ‘A scorching
epochal sensation’ Tom Wolfe
The stresses on workers have increased greatly during the pandemic.
This book highlights the psychological help these people need.
The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a
subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The
Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in
Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and
evolutionary theorists together to reexamine this important
relation. With two exceptions (the essays by Brown and Eldredge),
all of the present essays were originally presented at the Fifth
Biannual Symposium on the Science of Behavior held in Guadalajara,
Mexico, in February 1998. The volume opens with the problem of the
origins of culture, tackled from two different viewpoints by
Richerson and Boyd, and Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado,
respectively. Richerson and Boyd analyze the possible relations
between climatic change in the Pleistocene and the evo lution of
social learning, evaluating the boundary conditions under which
social learning could increase fitness and contribute to culture.
Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado examine how a shift in the
diet of the genus Homo toward difficult-to-acquire food could have
determined (or coe volved with) unique features of the human life
cycle. These two essays illus trate how techniques that range from
computer modeling to comparative behavioral analysis, and that make
use of a wide range of data, can be used for drawing inferences
about past selection pressures. As culture evolves, it must somehow
find its place within (and also affect) a complex hierarchy of
behavioral and biological factors."
ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter
Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the
world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals.
Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec
tives-had been declining and individual volume prices had been
rising, a trend that if continued could only result in the series
pricing itself out of the market. In the course of the negotiations
around the change of editors, the publishers offered a cost-cutting
solution: change the production pattern to "camera ready" and elimi
nate the costs of indexing and proofreading. While I could see the
sense in this proposal, I was reluctant to accept it. Part of what
I had always liked about the volumes in this series was that they
were real books, intelligently proofread, nicely laid out, and
provided with proper indexes. Thus, I in return offered a "Devil's
bargain" the publisher should maintain the present quality of the
series for two more volumes and make a renewed effort to advertise
the series to our ethological and sociobiological colleagues, while
I as the new series editor committed myself to a renewed effort to
make Perspectives the publication of choice for writers who are
trying to get their message out to the world intact and readers who
are seeking clear, coherent, comprehensive and untrammeled
presentations of authors' ideas and research programs."
Counseling for Peripartum Depression provides counselors and other
mental health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of
peripartum depression (PPD) and related disorders during pregnancy
and after birth. The book offers diagnostic criteria and screening
tools that clinicians can use in session, and focuses on holistic
wellness as well as current research on the etiology and risk
factors for PPD. In particular, the simple and practical STRENGTHS
model can help clinicians address various social and cultural
factors related to the experience of pregnancy, giving birth,
taking care of children, becoming parents, and the stigma
associated with maternal mental health conditions. Using case
studies and stories of women who have experienced PPD, chapters
explore the individual, societal, and cultural factors associated
with the development of PPD, and they also present clinicians with
best practices and suggestions for preventative efforts and
complementary approaches to treatment.
Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a
precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Before there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson -- the
military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering
sports for his Florida base's newspaper.
Before there was Fear and Loathing, there was Dow Jones -- that is,
Thompson's early reportage for that company's National Observer,
which raised the standard for hip and provocative foreign coverage.
Before there was Rolling Stone, there were job applications
everywhere -- in hopes of being hired by a paper, pretty much any
paper, an obsession for the starving writer with expensive tastes
in alcohol, nicotine, and room service.
In The Proud Highway, readers will find a Hunter S. Thompson
they've imagined but never known. With the publication of these
extraordinary letters, written from the time of his high school
graduation in 1955 through the triumph of his first book, Hell's
Angels, in 1966, critics and fans can finally trace the development
and maturation of a singular talent, one of our era's most
important voices. How Thompson changed the face of contemporary
nonfiction -- and of America itself -- is the mesmerizing story of
The Proud Highway.
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico
to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard,
a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who
are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets
Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own
lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat
twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and
battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the
state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without
sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the
shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in
camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across
the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their
captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative
comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and
taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi
inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles
the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the
Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.
This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an
excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of
experience and training. Covering all areas of nonneoplastic
pediatric pathology, it incorporates the most recent clinical,
pathologic, and molecular knowledge in this challenging field to
provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to
today's practice. Richly illustrated and easy to use, Diagnostic
Pathology: Nonneoplastic Pediatrics is a one-stop reference for
accurate, complete pathology reports, ideal as a day-to-day
reference for both pediatric and general pathologists or as a
reliable training resource. Provides a clear framework for a better
understanding of the clinical and histopathologic appearances of
more than 270 nonneoplastic entities, covering every organ system
with a focus on reactive, infectious, congenital, and genetic
conditions Covers significant advances in this complex field,
including recent molecular discoveries and updated disease
entities, new information on multiple immunologic disorders,
changes and expansions to several classification systems (such as
WHO, Banff, and ISSVA), and updates in other scoring systems
Contains new chapters on manifestations of pediatric COVID-19
infection, tumoral calcinosis, multiple skeletal dysplasia,
skeletal muscle, collagenous gastritis and colitis, adenovirus
appendicitis, intestinal pseudoobstruction, disorders of sexual
development, and Kikuchi disease Includes approximately 3,000
high-quality clinical and histologic images, gross pathology
images, radiologic images, and full-color illustrations to help
practicing and in-training pathologists reach a confident
diagnosis-as well as nearly 200 additional images online Employs
consistently templated chapters and bulleted content for quick,
expert reference at the point of care Includes an eBook version
that enables you to access all text, figures, and references, with
the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and
highlights, and have content read aloud
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