A bodyguard of Jim Bakker tells what it's like to be associated with a successful, greedy, insecure, visionary, jealous evangelist and his wife

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George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an accessible introduction to a complex and often ambiguous thinker.

Product Description: international anthology of Surrealist fiction (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Comprised of works by authors from 17 countries, these volumes provide the most extensive assemblage of surrealist writing, much of which is here translated into English for the first time. "The Identity of Things" introduces surrealism's reworking of the fairy tale and the Gothic novel, its essays in the myths, desires and mysteries underlying modern reality...read more

Product Description: Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

While on the loose, Bruce the Moose and a goose named Zeus have a rhyming adventure.

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Product Description: Over the last 20 years culture has become a key concept in intellectual disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. However, it is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, having very different meanings in different contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Your mind's full of rubbish, Morley, just like that pig bin.'The Pig Bin is a laugh-out-loud novel about the embarrassing escapades of a war time adolescent. Morley Charles is a shy Catholic boy with a stammer. His mother disapproves of most of his friends; his father is away at the war; his uncle is a black marketeer, and the drunk lodger staying with them is a source of shame...read more

Product Description: Fraud. It truly is an American epidemic. Epidemic may sound like a strong word, but after considering the latest figures on real estate fraud, you may feel the word isn't quite strong enough.In this detailed guide to mortgage fraud, you and your staff will discover the most common types of mortgage fraud, how the bad guys operate, and how to develop a pre-funding audit system, so you can be vigilant about combating and stopping fraud every step of the way...read more

Product Description: For Bataille, ‘the absence of myth’ had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had ‘lost the secret of its cohesion’, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss...read more

Product Description: Young Morley Charles worries that he's just not clever enough for the city's art school. He frets about his cap badge, the drawing competition and his father's conduct in Holland during World War Two. But the fibs he tells to advance himself in the eyes of friends, family and the local priest bring all manner of trouble...read more

Product Description: A definitive study of partnership at work in the UK, with extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from the finance, NHS and local government sectors. The authors challenge conventional assumptions about the mutual interest associated with partnership, and find evidence of work intensification where partnership has been introduced...read more

Translated by Krzysztof Filjalkowski and Michael RichardsonWinner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt for BiographyGeorges Bataille (1897–1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard, and his ideas have been the subjets of recent debates in a wide range of disciplines.In this acclaimed intellectual biography Michel Surya enters into a complicity with Bataille’s oeuvre to provide a detailed exposition of its themes as they developed against the backdrop of his life. The essence of Bataille’s life and work were defined by transience and effacement, reflecting a will both to contest the impermanence of things and to confront death. His troubled childhood, his relationships with surrealism and his paradoxical position at the heart of twentieth-century French thought are enriched here with testimonies from Bataille’s closest acquaintances, making this a vivid and detailed study. Revealing the contexts in which he worked, and the ways in which his work and ideas took shape, Surya sheds essential light on a figure Foucault described as “one of the most important writers of the century.”

Product Description: In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places...read more