"Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this definitive oral history celebrates not only the impact of The Velvet Underground but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen-whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s-The Velvet Underground...

Offers an introduction to twelve spiritual dimensions called the "Planes of Light" and discusses how, following an individual's death, his spirit will go to the level that corresponds to his spiritual development on Earth.

The movie Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. The film won Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay, and would go on to enjoy more revival screenings than any other movie in history, and become firmly ensconced in the American cultural imagination. Through extensive research and interviews with filmmakers, critics, family members of the...

"An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to Turkey"-- Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain became the front of a new kind of war: it divided Europe from north to south for forty-five years. New generations have grown up since these borders came down, bu what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake? Phillips travels its...

"Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would...

"A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher"--

Resident evil (2002, 101 min.): A paramilitary unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. Resident evil, apocalypse (2004, 94 min.): Alice is back and forced to face off against an unstoppable, bioengineered killing machine. Resident evil, extinction (2007, 94 min.): Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert...