The bizarre case of Beck Weathers boldfaces the huge question mark that
punctuates so much of SHAM doctrine and its myriad applications. The
sitcom Seinfeld, in the famous words of its creator and title character,
was a "show about nothing." Much the same could be said of SHAM. To a
disconcerting degree, it is an $8.56 billion social crusade about
nothing. It is a religion whose clerics get very, very rich by stating
the obvious in a laughably pontifical fashion. As Anne Wilson Schaef,
best known for her book Co-Dependence: Misunderstood–Mistreated,
informs us in a later work, Living in Process, "Life is a process. We are a
process. The Universe is a process."
To which a cynic might add: Making airy, asinine statements meant to
impress or hoodwink gullible people is also a process.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth...
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