Georges Bataille was a French surrealist, novelist and existentialist philosopher. He rejected traditional thought, instead applying concepts of sex, death and the obscene to cultural theory. Disturbing yet beautiful, Visions of Excess is a collection of essays that challenges notions of...

Since publishing its first issue in 1888, just 9 months after the society itself was founded, National Geographic has made a name for itself as a reputable scientific journal with exclusive articles and spectacular photography about nature, culture, history and the far corners of the world....

Published in 1959 by beat writer William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch is a series of 15 loosely connected vignettes meant to be read in any order. Drawn from Burroughs’ own experiences and his addiction to drugs, Naked Lunch follows the narrative of William Lee, a junkie, as he drifts from place...

Originally published in German in 1943, The Glass Bead Game is Hermann Hesse’s last full length novel, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Set in a Utopian society, centuries ahead into the future, an order of intellectuals play and nurture the Glass Bead Game...

Deepak Chopra is a holistic health guru and alternative medicine practitioner. A best-selling author of over seventy books translated into more than thirty five languages, Chopra’s insights on life, wellness and spirituality have credited him as the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” The...

Since it was founded in 1981, Thrasher magazine has been a leading authority in skateboarding culture. Made for skaters by skaters, the magazine is packed with wild skateboarding photography, music and interviews with pros, providing all the necessities to entice imaginations of skaters...