For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt.

Product Description: Not everyone needs to get dressed. A beloved favorite is now a Classic Board Book, with new illustrations!Animals should definitely not wear clothing….because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! This popular book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett shows the very youngest why animals’ natural clothing is perfect just as it is...read more

Scrooges will recognize their favorite antipathies to the Christmas season in this humorous, illustrated compendium of annoyances--including looking for the burned-out bulb on the Christmas lights and finding Jimmy Stewart on every TV channel. Original.

A mock address book lists the President's supposed amorous conquests and shares his alleged comments on each individual

A humorous look inside the computer guru's supposed personal PC reveals his inner-most thoughts and schemes, pictured as though it were appearing on an actual laptop screen covered with fingerprints and a Coke-stained keyboard. 150,000 first printing.

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In the land of Chewandswallow, meals rain from the sky three times a day, but when the weather goes awry meals come down at the wrong times, in the wrong amounts, and in the wrong places

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With manic, mock photographs and cartoons on every page, as well as mock articles and columns, this nutty newspaper spoof contains all the standard newspaper features, each distorted by ridiculous twists

Tells the story of the holiday of Hanukkah in words and pictures, including how Hanukkah occurred, the lighting of Hanukkah candles, and playing the game of dreidle.

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A collection of nonsense poems describing a variety of unlikely characters and situations

A mock diary purports to share Lisa Marie Presley's views on her relationship with Michael Jackson

Relates how a ranch for dogs, complete with dogboys and doggirls, became a place to raise cows.

Provides instructions in the acquistion, care, and feeding of weird pets such as dinosaurs, bacteria, clothes, moths, and imaginary dogs.