This is an experiment. Do what you must to participate. Jot down notes on the pages. Copy the material and share them amongst friends and fellow participants. Discuss and explore. This is an experiment. It's a puzzle worth trying to solve. The mission of this experiment, however, is to find connections with one another and help create labs of creativity, and so forth. Many participants have chosen to write novels, poems, songs of their own, thus forming intimate communities meant for such creative expression. Many participants have filled up formerly foreclosed and abandoned buildings, or are...

This is an experiment. Do what you must to participate. Jot down notes on the pages. Copy the material and share them amongst friends and fellow participants. Discuss and explore. This is an experiment. It's a puzzle worth trying to solve. The mission of this experiment, however, is to find connections with one another and help create labs of creativity, and so forth. Many participants have chosen to write novels, poems, songs of their own, thus forming intimate communities meant for such creative expression. Many participants have filled up formerly foreclosed and abandoned buildings, or are...

This is an experiment. Do what you must to participate. Jot down notes on the pages. Copy the material and share them amongst friends and fellow participants. Discuss and explore. This is an experiment. It's a puzzle worth trying to solve. The mission of this experiment, however, is to find connections with one another and help create labs of creativity, and so forth. Many participants have chosen to write novels, poems, songs of their own, thus forming intimate communities meant for such creative expression. Many participants have filled up formerly foreclosed and abandoned buildings, or are...

This is an experiment. Do what you must to participate. Jot down notes on the pages. Copy the material and share them amongst friends and fellow participants. Discuss and explore. This is an experiment. It's a puzzle worth trying to solve. The mission of this experiment, however, is to find connections with one another and help create labs of creativity, and so forth. Many participants have chosen to write novels, poems, songs of their own, thus forming intimate communities meant for such creative expression. Many participants have filled up formerly foreclosed and abandoned buildings, or are...

This is an experiment. Do what you must to participate. Jot down notes on the pages. Copy the material and share them amongst friends and fellow participants. Discuss and explore. This is an experiment. It's a puzzle worth trying to solve. The mission of this experiment, however, is to find connections with one another and help create labs of creativity, and so forth. Many participants have chosen to write novels, poems, songs of their own, thus forming intimate communities meant for such creative expression. Many participants have filled up formerly foreclosed and abandoned buildings, or are...

Drum roll. . .The question: What can occur when a nation adopts paranoia and religious fundamentalism as its new domestic and foreign policy? Answer: A new United States more in tune with Nazi Germany than with Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of harmony. Freedom, natural law, and openness of society are all figments and fragments of a disjointed past in a new present government controlled by religious, corporate, and cunning powers. (Gasp) Judas, an isolated teenager, finds an interest in unearthing his cultural past and promises to save his brother from the battlefield in Asia. (Cookie...

My Slider Didn't Bite Shakti Sen, the ingenious scout for the New York baseball franchise, had been promoted to the position of general manager. As a general manager, he foresees the trades, and has the responsibility of revitalizing a team built on high salaries and useless players. In his attempt at salvaging the New York baseball spirit, Shakti must face the owner's wrath, somehow survive the continuous barrage of criticism from the New York fans that appear to love to lose faith in him with every acquisition, and manage to ward off a rival itching for his position. Along the way, the...

The Strange Case of Lord Pigot recounts some interesting and true stories from English settlements in India in the 17th and 18th centuries. It traces several instances of grave insubordination and rebellion at those settlements, and culminates in the public furore over the arrest, imprisonment, and death in confinement, of one of the greatest English governors of Madras. It also recounts the remarkable tale of the rise of the Nawab of Arcot, Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, to power; his contracting of huge debts to private European creditors, and the public attention and parliamentary discussion...

Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect knowledge of physiology, often failed to treat. This book looks at clinical observations and theories by several English doctors, who, with the encouragement of the East India Company, strove to address these ailments. This enthralling story begins with John Woodall, who never voyaged to India but equipped the surgeons' chests aboard ships sailing there, and ends with James Esdaile's contentious work at the experimental Mesmeric Hospital he was permitted to set up briefly in...