The Gnostic 4: Including Alan Moore on the Occult
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The Gnostic 4
 DescriptionThe fourth issue of The Gnostic: A Journal of Gnosticism, Western Esotericism and Spirituality. Alan Moore's Fossil Angels, an investigation into the contemporary occult scene. Interviews with Stephan Hoeller and Miguel Conner. Anthony Peake on the Quantum Pleroma. Sean Martin tells a Gnostic sci-fi tale. Robert M.Price on the Gnostic Gospel of John. Bill Darlison on the zodiac in the Gospel of Mark. Gnostic influences on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The plight of the Mandaeans. The gematria of Marcus the Magician. The Gospel of Thomas, a translation and Fourth Way interpretation. Gnostic politics. John Cowper Powys. The complete text of the Gnosis of the Light--a book within a magazine! Egyptian cat mummies and more. And we review enough books to fill a whole shelf. Cover by Laurence Caruana.Note: due to file size and the Kindle's limited image facilities, the Kindle version of The Gnostic 4 is text only.
The Raphael Conspiracy
 List Price: $7.99 DescriptionLogan Ross is called on by the police to find out why the Feds are investigating the Huntington Museum, the preeminent art museum of the region.The institution has acquired a mysterious masterpiece they've dubbed The Lost Raphael. Logan figures there's something dirty about how they got it as they haven't been exactly motormouthed about the details. But it turns out the painting is only the tip of the iceberg. Even as Logan plunges straight ahead in pursuit of the truth at the museum, where honest answers are rare as restrooms, the plot, like the girth of an iceberg expands in concentric circles. The gravity of the crimes increases, their number proliferates, their scope broadens and the villains Logan takes on, from corrupt officials to local gangsters to cutthroat heavily-armed international smugglers, become increasingly violent. Can Logan keep up with the escalation? Can he keep up with the museum's aristocratic beauty he is falling for, even while suspecting she may be part of the crime scheme? And when their lives depend on it, as Logan sets out to turn tables on the killers, can she keep up with him? Equally at home in upscale galleries or downmarket saloons as in the halls of colleges and museums or the mean streets of the inner city, author Sean Moore pulls you through the cultural and criminal layers of his native city and along the deep water coast far North of it. Logan Ross bursts on the scene fully developed. A thinking person's detective, as tough as Mike Hammer, clever as Spenser, sophisticated as Nick Charles, relentless as Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, smart as The Da Vinci Code's Robert Langdon, Logan leads you irresistibly forward in this thriller. As you come out the back end of this book you'll realize you've been highly entertained and also know a lot of good stuff you didn't know before.
What's Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites
List Price: Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%) DescriptionIn Where Are You, Bear?, Sophie and her best friend Bear discovered Canada from A to Z. Now, they’re off to explore New York City through nearly twenty pairs of opposites!
Sophie can’t wait to see New York, while Bear would much rather they just stay home. Sophie loves speeding around in a taxi cab, but Bear wishes the driver would slow down. Up and down, stop and go, tall and short, and many more opposite pairs are illustrated using iconic New York experiences, buildings, and landmarks. Then, when Sophie spies a window full of new bears in a toy store, Bear begins to worry he is too plain and old to compete with all the city has to offer. He’s proven right temporarily when Sophie forgets him in the toy store, but a helpful young boy and his mother find Bear and return him to Sophie at her hotel. The reunion is a happy one, and Sophie and Bear realize they love each other no matter where they are!
Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland
 List Price: Price: $40.13 You Save: $24.87 (38%) DescriptionRenowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates the humorist's crucial role in developing a renewed sense of nationalism among the Irish during the eighteenth century. Taking Swift's Irish satires, such as A Modest Proposal and the Drapier's Letters, as examples of anticolonial discourse, Moore unpacks the author's carefully considered published words and his deliberate drive to liberate the Dublin publishing industry from England's shadow to argue that the writer was doing nothing less than creating a national print media. He points to the actions of Anglo-Irish colonial subjects at the outset of Britain's financial revolution; inspired by Swift's dream of a sovereign Ireland, these men and women harnessed the printing press to disseminate ideas of cultural autonomy and defend the country's economic rights. Doing so, Moore contends, imbued the island with a sense of Irishness that led to a feeling of independence from England and ultimately gave the Irish a surprising degree of financial autonomy. Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling. (2010)
Princoirs: Official Memoirs of Prince Joe Henry, Ex Negro Leaguer
 List Price: $19.95 DescriptionPrince Joe Henry was Negro Leagues royalty. He was Rickey Henderson long before there was a Rickey Henderson. Henry brought a combination of baseball skills to the diamond that included speed, power and showmanship.Born Oct. 4, 1930, his skin color kept him from being a Major League prospect until he was well into his twenties. Henry died on Jan. 2, 2009. He was 78 and was remembered during his funeral as one of the greatest Negro League players to ever grace a field. His grandson Sean Muhammad published Princoirs: Official Memoirs of Prince Joe Henry, Ex-Negro Leaguer in July 2009. Henry and other Negro League players were invited to Major League Baseball’s Amateur Draft in June 2008. The St. Louis Cardinals symbolically drafted him, as well. Before the Amateur Draft, Muhammad said, “He represents a small contingency of ex-Negro League baseball players still physically present among us.” According to his Negro Leagues Player Association website biography, “injuries put an end to a two-plus-season stint holding down second base for the Memphis Red Sox in the early 1950s, but Henry resurfaced in 1955 with the Indianapolis Clowns franchise.” Henry’s showmanship at third base during two seasons in Indianapolis, a team that counts homerun king Henry Aaron among its alumni and is often compared to basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters, earned him the nickname “Prince Joe.” Among his showmanship tricks, Henry would come to bat adorned in a tuxedo coat and top hat. He painted his shoes red and could turn his back to the pitcher during the windup, spin and still drive a pitch for a base hit. After sitting out 1957, Henry joined the Detroit Stars, and the team was renamed “Goose Tatum’s Detroit Clowns” after the famous Harlem Globetrotter. “As I look back, it was the best experience I ever had in my life,” Henry said in one of his last public interviews. “The Negro Leagues took me to just about every state in the country and Canada. I had an offer from Goose Tatum to go with him to Europe, but it was across the water and I didn’t like to fly.” According to pitchblackbaseball.com, Henry played fast-pitch softball, not baseball, as a youth “and was so good that he was quickly discovered by Negro League veteran catcher Josh Johnson, who encouraged him to play baseball.” As a teenager, Henry played frequently against Elston Howard on St. Louis sandlots. Henry got a shot at playing in the minor leagues in 1952, according to pitchblack baseball.com, when he played with Canton in the Mississippi Ohio Valley League. He hit .303 with nine homers, 15 doubles, four triples and 43 RBIs in 89 games. In 1953, Henry played with Mount Vernon, batting .275 with 12 doubles, four triples, three homers and 30 RBIs in 92 games. But injuries ended his major League hopes. Joe and his wife Lula Henry lived quite close to where he grew up in Brooklyn, Ill., and ironically that same street was recently renamed in his honor. Muhammad, who is a very gifted and highly-talented author, motivational speaker and educator, was one of several grandchildren raised by the late icon and his wife. After being inspired by the words of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Millions More Movement when he encouraged all artists, writers and educators to use their skills and talents to resurrect people through positive and proper education by telling personal stories, etc. Muhammad started close to home by conducting research and compiling a book chronicling the colorful exploits of his grandfather. Princoirs is an outgrowth of what he and many youngsters experience if they are fortunate enough to have living grandparents—an endless supply of stories and a veritable treasure trove of experience to draw from. As a result of his upbringing, Muhammad said he really had “no choice” but to be interested in the experiences and struggles of Black athletes. Moore Sean A News
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