A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzus Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slims life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale--the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all too familiar for todays black community. By telling the story of one mans struggles and triumphs in an underground world, Pimp shows us the game doesnt change; it just has a different swagger.

This account is written by Jinananda, an English-born Buddhist. The three CDs are divided into three "Jewels": "The Buddha", a life of the historical figure; "The Dharma", an account of the fundamental teachings; and "The Sangha", the disciples, both lay and monastic throughout the world.

Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the worlds fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of government to further its goals.

This essential 2-CD set explores the music of the Merseybeat phenomenon, focusing on the major players, The Beatles, of course, but also Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Big Three, The Searchers, The Undertakers, and The Swinging Blue Jeans among many others. These are all brought together with a welter of cult classics and intriguing oddities. Incorporating all strands of the scene, Merseybeat gives equal space to the beat merchants, the R&B bands, the mods, the rockers, the girl groups and the balladeers to come up with the ultimate primer of a movement that effectively kick-started modern British music. Castle Music. 2006.

Baseballs Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there. Selected from the original tapes on which Lawrence S. Ritter based his classic book of baseball history

The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O to his step-brother, Sir Stephen...

The Story of Ireland a groundbreaking new series presented by Fergal Keane about the history of Ireland cultural, social, and economic, and its role on the international stage.

The Story Of Ireland is a five part landmark history of Ireland, to be presented by Fergal Keane.

Ireland is living through a significant period in its cycle of history since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the island has been at peace. This is unprecedented in the history of modern Ireland and so seems like a perfect time to reflect on the Irish as a people now, as a modern European nation, and how we got to this place.

Are You Behind in Your Reading?

Do you have books on the shelf that you want to read but cant find the time?

Are there things you want to learn and know more about but the task of reading simply takes too long?

Are you tired of old speedreading systems that require weeks of practice and produce dubious results?

Would you like to take advantage of all the latest breakthroughs in learning research, methods that show you how to use more of your natural brain power and that use methods previously reserved for top athletes actors and even astronauts?

Well read on because you are going to learn how you can:
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And anything else you want to do, you can do it better

Four part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy.

After showing how fundamental mathematics is to our lives, du Sautoy explores the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece.

In Egypt, he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand, while in former Mesopotamia he discovers that the way we tell the time today is based on the Babylonian Base 60 number system.

What Is Out There? New series. Michael Mosley embarks on an ambitious journey to illustrate how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately related to the development of civilisation. He begins by telling the story of one of the most monumental discoveries in human history – the realisation that Earth was not at the centre of the universe.

Can We Have Unlimited Power? Michael Mosley investigates claims that modern society has become power-hungry, harnessing everything from wind and steam to nuclear physics in its search for fuel. He explains how the drive to discover new sources was led in its early years by scientists, whose inventions were responsible for changing the course of history – without fully understanding the power they had learned to control.

Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society’s historical path.
The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known – the human body. It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the ‘life force’ of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough in biology – understanding the structure and workings of DNA.

What Is the World Made Of? Michael Mosley’s journey continues, highlighting how the quest to identify the building blocks of the material world has pushed human civilisation to greater achievements. He explains how everything from alchemy to the invention of the transistor has been underpinned by the same query, and reveals how all these advances have led to the development of quantum physics.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master natures most mysterious force -
electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the
modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.

By the 17th century, Europe had taken over from the Middle East as the powerhouse of mathematical ideas. Great strides had been made in understanding the geometry of objects fixed in time and space. The race was on to discover the mathematics to describe objects in motion. This programme explores the work of Rene Descartes, Pierre Fermat, Isaac Newton, Leonard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Professor Marcus du Sautoy concludes his investigation into the history of mathematics with a look at some of the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century. After exploring Georg Cantors work on infinity and Henri Poincares work on chaos theory, he sees how mathematics was itself thrown into chaos by the discoveries of Kurt Godel and Paul Cohen, before completing his journey by considering some unsolved problems of maths today, including the Riemann Hypothesis.

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it

A biography of the Aeronautical Engineer, and artistically talented Anatomist, Leonardo da Vinci.
Today most people remember Leonardo for his few surviving anatomically correct works of art. They forget that Leonardo spent most of his life experimenting and designing automated machines. He constantly observed the mechanics of nature. He dissected human bodies, carefully recording the workings of muscles and organs. He studied optics, sound and light, gravity, heliocentric celestial mechanics, physical geology, fluid dynamics, and especially the flight of birds. Leonardo believed that machines could be built, using levers, gears, and pulleys, that could reproduce the efforts of men, birds, and fish; and be used to create huge civil engineering projects. Some of his unique creations, designed years before the birth of their famous so-called "inventors", included pre-fabricated housing, practical indoor plumbing, armored cars, machine guns, armor clad ships, submarines, lenses, mechanical music machines, robots, transmission gears, roller bearings, brakes, streamlining, aeroplane propellers, parachutes, and gliders.