Aaron Chasin is a 30-something failed British indie musician. He wants to be a respected and successful A&R rep - to discover and promote new musical talents and turn them into superstars. What stands in his way are his own demons: his alcoholism, his anger, and a long-forgotten childhood trauma. Aaron must face his fears or his happiness, health, and well-being are at stake. Things change drastically for him when he meets the enigmatic Tantric Guru Shankar Govinda, who initiates Aaron into a new and exciting world of occult spirituality. But is it the answer to his prayers or a whole new nightmare?
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 - July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880-1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. Oliver Herford (1863-1935) was an American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". citation needed] As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the Little Book of Bores. He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" (1904) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist. Ethel Mumford and Addison Mizner wrote a small book The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903 as a Christmas present and added Herford's name as an author as a joke. The printer made up more copies to sell and to everyone's surprise it was an astounding success. When Herford found out about it he wanted 90% of the royalties. He was awarded an equal third.
In late 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of academic journal articles through MIT's computer network. At the time, Aaron was a research fellow at Harvard University, which provided him with an authorized account. Aaron's motivation for downloading the articles was never fully determined. However, friends and colleagues reported that Aaron's intention was either to publicly share them on the Internet or uncover corruption in the funding of climate change research. Faced with prosecutors being overzealous and a dysfunctional US criminal justice system, Aaron was charged with a maximum penalty of $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison, leading to a two-year legal battle with the US federal government that ended when Aaron took his own life on January 11, 2013. Aaron taught himself to read when he was three. At twelve, he created a user-generated encyclopedia, which he later likened to an early version of Wikipedia. He then turned his computer genius to political organizing, information sharing and online freedom. Aaron was on to making a better world for us all; a freer world. Raw Thought, Raw Nerve: Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz contains the life's work of one of the most original minds of our time.
This book is about two teens living in different worlds. Aaron is dealing with the loss of his brother and the loss of something else. Amber is seeing things and finds it hard to be around people, except when it comes to a friendly stranger. Both teens go through heartache, some of which is a normal part of growing up, but some of the heartache should never be normal. Due to Aaron getting into trouble with his mother, he gets sent away, where he meets Amber and becomes a part of her world. Will their shared dysfunction bring them closer together or send them farther apart? Find out.
