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The first authorized biography of postmodernism's literary hero, Kathy Acker.Acker's life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to sketch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the late twentieth century. It is girls from which stories begin, she wrote in her last notebook. And like other lives, but unlike most fables, it was created through means both within and beyond her control.―from After Kathy AckerRich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon... scholar, stripper, victim, and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. Twenty years after her death, Acker's legend has faded, making her writing more legible.In this first, fully authorized, biography, Chris Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody. Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late twentieth century's most significant artistic enterprises.Beginning in her mid-teens, Acker lived her ideal of the Great Writer as Cultural Hero, and as Kraus argues, she may well have been the only female writer to succeed in assuming this role. She died of untreated cancer at an alternative clinic in Tijuana when she was fifty years old, but the real pathos of Acker's life may have been in the fact that by then she'd already outlived her ideal.

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Neuware - Können Lebensmittel gesund sein, wenn sie zwar alle Nährstoffe enthalten, aber die Produzenten immer mehr Düngemittel, Pestizide und Hilfsstoffe für deren Erzeugung einsetzen müssen Ernährung ist mehr als blosse Nährstoffaufnahme. Aufbau- und Reifekräfte sind notwendig für die Gesundheit der Menschen und des Planeten. Authentische Lebensmittel, die auf dem Acker entstehen, sind die Voraussetzung für Lebensqualität und eine nachhaltige Zukunft. Denn nur auf gesundem Boden können Lebensmittel wachsen, die zu Gesundheit und Resilienz der Menschen beitragen. Die promovierte Oecotrophologin befasst sich in diesem Buch mit Saatgut, Böden, Nutztierhaltung, Methoden der Qualitätsuntersuchung, Ernährung für die Zukunft, einer Kochschule für Kinder und einem integrierten Gesundheitskonzept mit Blick auf die Darmmikrobiota. Interessierte finden hier gut verständliche, fundierte Informationen über Resilienz und Ernährung und erklärt, warum Gesundheit nicht ohne eine umfassende Sicht auf das gesamte Ernährungssystem entstehen kann.

Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s cherished beliefs about life and art.

This CD pairs two British jazz greats - clarinetist Acker Bilk and tenor saxophonist Danny Moss. They have formed a 'one-off' quintet and gathered together some great British jazz old-timers, including pianist John Critchinson, best known for this partnership with Ronnie Scott, bassist Cass Caswell, who has engaged a busy career playing on the RMV Queen Elizabeth, and drummer Eddie Taylor, a veteran of the British jazz scene having played with John Dankworth, Humphrey Littleton and George Melly.

An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime. The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews).  “An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly   “The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews   “O’Brien creates a fascinating portrait of the mountain way of life and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal 

A collection of fiction by and about lesbians features an introduction that contrasts the feminist polemic of Virginia Woolf with the liberated creativity of Gertrude Stein and stories by Kathy Acker, Emma Donoghue, and Jeanette Winterson. 10,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Avant-Pop is innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave. They include cult figures in the pop underground (Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Tim Ferret, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe), important new writers who have gained prominence since the late eighties (Mark Leyner, Eurudice, William T. Vollmann), and the most promising new kids on the block ("rap fiction" master Ricardo Cortez Cruz—winner of the 1992 Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction—and Doug Rice, whose obscenely obsessive, Faulkner-meets-Acker prose is showcased here for the first time).Avant-Pop will send a collective wake-up call to all those readers who have spent the last decade nodding off, along with the rest of America's daydream nation. Avant-Pop will actually reverse the numbing effects of years of exposure to the harmful emissions of television, movies, glossy magazines, and commercial bestsellers. Readers who decry the absence of a liberating radicalized art and have had it with our bland B-movie society of the spectacle will hop with the hip in Avant-Pop.

Drawing on nearly two thousand surviving letters, Ackers portrays Adams as a shrewd political observer, a powerful and influential First Lady, and an early advocate of education for women

The expert gunsmith machining articles of Machinist's Workshop columnist Steve Acker, plus his Building a Target Rifle series originally published in The Home Shop Machinist magazine are featured in this rare, beautiful volume. Hardbound. 205 pages.

Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson), along with lethal operative Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and unpredictable cyber-hacker Root (Amy Acker) now face an uncertain future in Season Four. With a second machine - Samaritan - now online, the elusive team now find themselves as targets, hiding in plain sight.

In this futuristic thriller, Sophie (Addison Timlin, Californication) and James (Drew Van Acker, Pretty Little Liars) purchase a lifelike robot to cook and clean at their sprawling new home. At first, android Henry is quiet and hard-working, but as his artificial-intelligence programming kicks in, he starts to anticipate the couples needs and desires, ones they themselves cannot fully understand. Will Henrys terrifying behavior destroy Sophie and Jamess relationship and their lives?

High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia―but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley―who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past.In Summer of the Dead, the third Julia Keller mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree―a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence.Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments―a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due.

At a distance of 9 years from the publication of his bestselling 'the Gunsmith Machinist' Steve Acker presents us with 206 pages of new, interesting and useful gunsmithing projects for machinists. In book two of The Gunsmith Machinist you'll find such in-depth areas of interest as: Rifle-Projects (for example, "Adjusting Firing Pin Protrusion"); Pistol Projects ("Line Boring a Ruger to .45 Colt"); Techniques ("Repairing a Stripped Grip Screw Hole"); and Machinist Shop Aids ("Machining a Cast Iron Faceplate"). Gunsmiths of all skill levels know Steve Acker's work and reputation. Don't miss out on this interesting and important book. Hardcover 206 Pages.

Predictive Astrology:Understanding Transits As the Key to the Future Paperback - January, 1989by Frances Sakoian (Author) Louis S. Ackers (Author) Product Details: Paperback: 465 pagesPublisher: Harpercollins; Unabridged Version edition (January 1989) Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0062720511ISBN-13: 978-0062720511Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.5 x 8 inchesShipping Weight: 13.3 ouncesTOPICS: Astrology; Body, Mind and Spirit; Horoscopes; Non-Fiction; History; New Age; Spirituality; Metaphysics; Metaphysical; Occult and Paranormal; Religion and Spirituality; New Age and Spirituality; Reference; Zodiac; New Thought; Prediction

Murder. Hawaii’s beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is eighteen. William, just out of prison, is twenty-eight. The crime is robbery, ending in a killing.In 1982, Linda Spalding, a mainlander herself, living in Hawaii, is chosen as a juror for Maryann’s trial there. Surprisingly the chief witness against Maryann is William, accusing her of shooting their victim. Spalding has reasonable doubts, but on the last day of the trial, she is abruptly dismissed from the jury, and Maryann found guilty. Who Named the Knife is the story of how, eighteen years later, Spalding stumbles over the journal she kept during the trial, and reading it carefully, wonders if she right to have those doubts. She tracks down Maryann, who is still incarcerated, starts a correspondence, and begins to uncover much more than the answer to the question of Maryann’s guilt or innocence. There’s the bold new friendship frustrated by monitored visits, hard-to-make phone calls, and the dehumanizing results of years in prison. But as her understanding of the forces that drove Maryann’s actions grows, Spalding finds herself compelled to examine her own past as well as Maryann’s. Who Named the Knife is a record of this complex journey--a journey into America’s troubled soul and into the twists of fate that spin two lives down different but infinitely painful paths. The story is Maryann’s but it is also Spalding’s, as subject and writer overlap, and the hunt for truth unmasks family mysteries. Lyrical and achingly honest, this is a story that offers us profound insight onto the vagaries of the human heart.

With enervating experimentation but touching directness, postmodern novelist Acker (Portrait of an Eve, 1992; My Mother: Demonology, 1993; etc.) explores art, politics, and being in her first essay collection. Subjects are various, ranging from William Burroughs to Goya to San Francisco; many of the pieces have been published previously (prefaces to books, articles in Marxism Today, the Critical Quarterly, etc.). Despite the variety of subjects and sources, the collection is neatly structured: Essays are grouped agreeably by subject-'On Art and Artists,' 'The City,' 'Bodies of Work.' Though Acker says she aims to 'destroy' the essay form, she does more of what the form openly invites--to tinker and confess. For example, she interweaves stories into a piece on artist Nayland Blake and applies Wittgenstein's 'language games' to bodybuilding: 'In a gym, verbal language or language whose purpose is meaning occurs, if at all, only at the edge of becoming lost.' But she also reveals her current weightlifting goals and describes a childhood desire to be a pirate. Not surprisingly, her most accessible works are those written for a wide audience, particularly an illuminating essay for the Village Voice on film director Peter Greenaway and a moving piece for the MMLA on copyright in the age of the Internet. In all, these essays are serious and reflective of a discontented mind bent on deconstruction. Some may find dreary her tale of patriarchy, dualism, and linearity of time; her elliptical tales and stark sentences may lack immediate clarity. For sure, her essays aren't casually authoritative like Updike's or reassuringly religious like Dillard's. Read Acker when you're patient and don't want to be comforted--or even satisfied. An unthreatening introduction to a vexing writer.-Kirkus

Photographs documenting the exploding Downtown art and performance scene of 1980s New YorkFeatures portraits of Andy Warhol, Madonna, Kathy Acker, Divine and moreA nostalgic, thought-provoking treat for any Eighties enthusiastHindsight may twist our memories, but a photograph never lies. It tells us precisely what a photographer sees - and there was little Leatherdale didn't see of the Eighties New York art scene. Leatherdale's anthology is flush with intimate shots of the 1980s In Crowd, paying homage to a past generation of celebrities. Each shot captures a fragment of the city's vibrant bohemia. The young subjects who stand before Leatherdale's camera think themselves immortal, ageless. And in a sense, they were right. While their limelight might've faded, and many of these beloved icons - Warhol, Tina Chow, Keith Haring, John Sex and International Chrysis, to name a few - have passed away, the legendary glamor of the Eighties lives on. Leatherdale's photography acknowledges this. However, it also encourages us to question how much of our Eighties-obsession is based on a fantasy. Do we long for the past to avoid our fears of a precarious future? After all, as a twenty-something who snapped photos just to get by, Leatherdale had no idea that he was chronicling an era soon to face extinction. Provoking and intense, this collection investigates the very nature of nostalgia.

Three years ago, Elaine Acker interviewed Dr. Deb Tolman for a article on keyhole gardening. That article became her most popular article ever. A keyhole garden is the ultimate raised-bed planter. It’s six feet in diameter with a composting basket in the center that adds moisture and nutrients to the soil. Author Dr. Deb Tolman eats from her keyhole gardens all year around and reminds readers that it's not necessary to spend hundreds of dollars a month on groceries when it's possible to grow healthy produce at home. Deb's harvest includes carrots, chard, kale, tomatoes, berries and more, rivaling the best farmers markets around. In this book, you’ll learn how to build a keyhole garden and how to fill it with rich layers of compost to grow delicious, nutritious fruits and vegetables. Whether you’re a first-time gardener or a gardening pro, this book offers amazing tips for you. Companion DVD, "Build a Keyhole Garden with Deb Tolman, Ph.D." is also available on Amazon.

The expert gunsmith machining articles of Machinist's Workshop columnist Steve Acker, plus his Building a Target Rifle series originally published in The Home Shop Machinist magazine are featured in this rare, beautiful volume. Hardbound. 205 pages.