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Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke (2006, Paperback)
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used and in good condition”
- ISBN
- 9780743271486
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743271483
ISBN-13
9780743271486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51067498
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lord Vishnu's Love Handles : a Spy Novel (Sort Of)
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Action & Adventure, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A twisted, hilarious, amphetamine-fueled parable for our time." -- S.R. "Rob" Bindler, producer/director, Hands on a Hard Body, "A trippy tale reminiscent of Douglas Coupland'sAll Families Are Psychoticor Tom Robbins'sAnother Roadside Attraction."-- Robert Wilonsky,Dallas Observer, "With his over-the-top debut, author Will Clarke makes the leap from fringe author to mainstream success."-- Michael Hoinski, "Austin-American Statesman", "I loved Lord Vishnu's Love Handles. It's a great and unashamed page-turner, full of fabulous characters. I just wish remote viewers really were that interesting." -- Jon Ronson, author of Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, "With his over-the-top debut, author Will Clarke makes the leap from fringe author to mainstream success."-- Michael Hoinski,Austin-American Statesman, "Lord Vishnu's Love Handles is an entertaining and gritty journey into the supernatural, full of wit and surprises at every turn." -- Tony Hawk, world champion skater and author of Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder, "A trippy tale reminiscent of Douglas Coupland's All Families Are Psychoticor Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction."-- Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer, "With his over-the-top debut, author Will Clarke makes the leap from fringe author to mainstream success." -- Michael Hoinski, Austin-American Statesman, "A trippy tale reminiscent of Douglas Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic or Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction." -- Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
A sardonic comedy - soon to be a major film - of a man who knows things he shouldn't, until a couple of secret agents teach him what it really means to lose his mind., Travis Anderson has a psychic gift. Or so he thinks. So far he's used his premonitions only to acquire the external trappings of success -- pretty wife, big house, shiny Range Rover. But when ominous visions invade his consciousness, his yuppie contentment is threatened and his business faces an audit from the IRS. Drowning in mounting financial problems and apparent mental illness, Travis clings to a raft of booze and pills. An intervention lands him in a rehab facility with outlandish ideas about healing mind and body. His sole counsel is no 12-stepper, but a Hindu holy man who claims to be the final incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu god who is the preserver of the universe., From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low. Discussion of habit, however, tends to neglect the most fundamental questions: What is habit? Habits, we say, are hard to break. But what does it mean to break a habit? Where and how do habits take root in us? Do only humans acquire habits? What accounts for the strength or weakness of a habit? Are habits something possessed or something that possesses? We spend a lot of time thinking about our habits, but rarely do we think deeply about the nature of habit itself.Aristotle and the ancient Greeks recognized the importance of habit for the constitution of character, while readers of David Hume or American pragmatists like C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey know that habit is a central component in the conceptual framework of many key figures in the history of philosophy. Less familiar are the disparate discussions of habit found in the Roman Stoics, Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, René Descartes, Gilles Deleuze, French phenomenology, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophies of embodiment, race, and gender, among many others.The essays gathered in this book demonstrate that the philosophy of habit is not confined to the work of just a handful of thinkers, but traverses the entire history of Western philosophy and continues to thrive in contemporary theory. A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu is the first of its kind to document the richness and diversity of this history. It demonstrates the breadth, flexibility, and explanatory power of the concept of habit as well as its enduring significance. It makes the case for habit's perennial attraction for philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists.
LC Classification Number
PS3603
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