Hundreds of fired-up females (and a few males) responded to the call, resulting in a torrent of impassioned challenges, hate mail and love letters from would-be wrestling contenders, and Kaufman kept them all. These fascinating and sometimes bizarre hand-written letters, photographs and illustrations from his challengers are here assembled into an astonishing Rorschach of the late ‘70s liberated female psyche.

This book commemorates the 25th anniversary of Andy Kaufman's death in 1984.

Lynne Margulies, Kaufman's girlfriend and chronicler, provides an introduction. Bob Zmuda, Kaufman’s cohort, writer, and long-time friend, writes the foreword.

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This new edition has new information in response to the country's current economic crisis, including additional, extensive information on food storage and foraging and a new chapter on preparedness and self-protection in times of civil unrest.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is the first comprehensive planning and action guide for urbanites and suburbanites who want to live more self-sufficiently and learn how to wisely provide for themselves and their loved ones in the face of any emergency or disaster.

This book empowers individuals and communities to take care of themselves and each other in the face of any emergency and build more sustainable lifestyles along the way. Packed with checklists, resources, and step-by-step instructions, PREPAREDNESS NOW! has everything from home, office and car preparedness to information on Buckminster Fuller and building disaster-resistant geodesic domes.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is written by one of the most experienced experts in the field. Author Aton Edwards is Executive Director of the NYC-based non-profit organization, International Preparedness Network (IPN). IPN has worked with the Red Cross, Center for Disease Control, New York City Police Department, and other organizations to train thousands domestically and overseas to prevent and respond to emergencies and disasters.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! provides years of wisdom gained from Edwards’ first-hand experience and the experience of his extensive network of colleagues. You will learn basic and advanced techniques that will help you make the most informed choices for your own disaster plan–wherever you may live, and whatever your physical abilities and financial means.

This manual delivers practical advice on:

• Building your emergency kits for home, car and office
• Water Quality Control and Storage
• Emergency Shelter, Power, Lighting and Heating
• Emergency Transportation, Communications and Evacuation
• Extreme weather preparedness
• Chemical, Biowarfare and Nuclear Preparedness
• Defense against Infectious Diseases
• Personal Defense and Crime Prevention for the 21st Century Home

Process’ Self-Reliance Series is created to help urbanites make smart choices to live sustainably and self-sufficiently in the 21st century.

If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, make homemade jam or bread, raise chickens or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.

Projects include:
• How to start seeds
• How to compost with worms
• How to grow food on a patio or balcony
• How to preserve food
• How to divert your grey water to your garden
• How to clean your house without toxins

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this illustrated, smartly designed, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will enrich our lives, strengthen our communities, and helps save our planet.

Authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen happily farm in Los Angeles and run the urban homestead blog www.homegrownrevolution.org.

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Throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, many of country music’s biggest stars first won over their audiences on the small backwoods stages of rural America’s outdoor music parks. These intimate, $1-a-carload picnic concerts might have been forgotten if it hadn’t been for the documenting eye of music lover Leon Kagarise, whose candid photographs of the musicians and their fans provide the only surviving window into this long-vanished world.

Kagarise captured dozens of classic country and bluegrass artists in their prime, including Johnny Cash and June Carter, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe, Hank Snow, The Stanley Brothers, and many other greats.

Pure Country presents this collection of rare color images for the first time, revealing an archive considered by historian Charles Wolfe to be one of the richest discoveries in the history of American music.

What Kagarise preserved was something extremely rare...live country music from the ‘50s and ‘60s performed in its most natural setting. —National Public Radio

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Johnny Cash

The Louvin Brothers

Lead singer Roky Erickson was put away in a maximum security unit for the criminally insane for years. Tommy Hall, their Svengali lyricist, lived in a cave. Guitarist Stacy Sutherland was imprisoned. The drummer was involuntarily subjected to electric shock treatments.

This fascinating biography breaks decades of silence of band members and features dozens of never-before-printed photos. "One of the most exhilarating rock 'n' roll stories ever told." — Julian Cope

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Hall revealed to thousands how universal wisdom could be found in the myths and symbols of the ancient Western mystery teachings. He amassed the largest occult library west of the Mississippi and founded The Philosophical Research Society in 1934 for the purpose of providing seekers rare access to the world’s wisdom literature. He became a confidante and friend to celebrities and politicians. In 1990, he died—some say he was killed—in what remains an open-ended Hollywood murder mystery.

This dramatic story of Hall’s life and death provides a panorama of twentieth century mysticism and an insider's view into a subculture that continues to have a profound influence on movies, television, music, books, art, and thought.

Author Louis Sahagun is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. He contributed to a Times series on Latinos in Southern California that won a Pulitzer Prize. His work ranges from religion and the environment to crime and politics. He lives with his wife and daughter in California.

"An engrossing and informative work. This book vividly illuminates a remarkable individual who was almost larger than life in every sense of the word, and also an era in the history of Los Angeles, a place where people have always felt free to set conventionalism aside and try new spiritual paths."
—Robert Ellwood

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We have grown accustomed to life in a stable and prosperous society, and many of us are not prepared for financial uncertainty.

Depression 2.0 is a practical, empowering, hands-on guide to persevering and even thriving in the event of an economic crisis. Placing particular emphasis on self-sufficiency, community-building, and personal resilience, this timely, informative book offers a hopeful way forward in a time of great uncertainty. Bankruptcy, barter, and survival investing are just a few of the important topics explored.

Chapters include:

• Worst Case Scenario: Contemplating Unemployment
• Down but Not Out: Economics for Leaner Times
• Walking Away: Thinking about Bankruptcy
• In Case of Emergency: The Resilient Home
• Return to Simplicity: Retreat Options
• Keeping the Lights on: Home Energy Solutions
• Between the Cracks: When You Have No Shelter
• Beyond Currency: When Greenbacks Go Bad
• Survival Finances: Crisis Investing
• Future Shift: The Road Ahead

Depression 2.0 is the fourth title in Process’ celebrated Self-Reliance Series, created to help urbanites make smart choices to live sustainably in the twenty-first century.

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Though it once held the promise of the California dream, inspiring the likes of Steinbeck and Saroyan, Fresno is now the butt of a thousand late-night TV jokes; it consistently comes in next to dead last in surveys of cities with a high quality of life.
This central California teenage wasteland—with an ethnically diverse population of Basques, Hispanics, African-Americans, Vietnamese, and Armenians—is home to lowriders, empty buildings, dope drops, and one of the highest violent-crime rates in the country.

It is also the birthplace of photographer Tony Stamolis, who spent six years chronicling his strange hometown. The result: a disturbing, humorous, and poignant insider's view of a post-suburban American badlands.

Advance praise for Frezno

“I love this book. It’s all in here and the heart of it is Tony’s big true eye. He got it . . . the oddness, meanness, beauty and soul of this sad hilarious fractured place. Viva Fresno.”
—Terry Allen

"It's girls, it's cars, it's America. It's guns, drugs, and a struggle to find your place in the world. It's Fresno, and Tony Stamolis has documented it with a fresh, clean look."

—Bill Owens, Photographer and author of Suburbia

-Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz Magazine

Tony Stamolis grew up in Fresno, California, and now lives in New York City. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Nerve, Giant, Mass Appeal, Flaunt, and Black Book. In 2007, he was featured in Taschen's The New Erotic Photography.

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The Secret Source traces the seven Hermetic Laws back to ancient Greece and Egypt and shows how they filtered down through various religions and into the mainstream consciousness of the modern world. This book provides the actual texts and fascinating stories behind the "Emerald Tablet," the Kabbalistic treatise known as "The Kybalion," and the prosperity consciousness beliefs of the New Thought movement that have given sustenance to health and wealth-oriented seekers of every generation since the late 19th century.

If you recognized the power behind "The Law of Attraction" but felt ambivalent about The Secret's materially-driven approach, you will appreciate this deeper understanding and examination of the Law's true nature.

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