Thirty distinguished composers/performers illuminate and speculate upon method and practice in the process of making, experiencing, and thinking about music.

Experimental music has been called "difficult," perhaps more in relation to the open-mindedness needed to let it settle between your ears than the break from traditional technique required to play it. But does that explain the scarcity of critical writing about this music form relative to visual arts -- film, photography, sculpture, painting -- that also use experimentation as a main creative force? Arcana: Musicians on Music is an answer to that call. Delving into recent development in avantgarde music, this long overdue anthology looks at the current generation of experimental players and composers. Collecting writings, working notes, scores, interviews, and manifestos, editor John Zarn gets deep under the surface of experimental music, and looks at the creative methods and philosophies of some of the most innovative experimental musicians. Among the 29 contributors are: Mark Dresser, John Oswald, Marilyn Crispell, Bill Frisell, Ikue Mari, Larry Ochs, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, Fred Frith,David Roseboom, George Lewis, Guy Klucevsek, Peter Garland, Z'ev, and Gerry Hemmingway. Containing discographies and bios on the musicians presented, this book is an excellent resource for fans and critics as well as a good introduction for the curious.

He is Silverhand, who was foretold, destined to save the world from Chaos. To do so he needs the Arcana: The Spear of Light, The Stone of Destiny, The Cup of Blood and The Sword of Flame. Once the treasures of the gods of creation, they have been for eons lost to both gods and men. Properly used, they can defeat the rising tide of evil that is sweeping the world. But if Silverhand fails in his quest, the world will be plunged into an eternal nightmare of suffering and death.

You've journeyed through the land in Book I and learned what you need to about the realm, now dive head first into the meat of this Campaign Setting with newly designed gaming elements that will help you to make your mark in the "Land of Dragons". This book includes: Races both unique and familiar. Eight races to choose from with subraces for most for a total of 28 choices to add to your arsenal of races we've already given you in the AHB, classes to delight both the power player and the new gamer alike with 9 to choose from and even a new NPC class for your CM, three new magic domains for the spellcaster inside of you with loads of new spells, as well as new skills, feats, and equipment. With this book you will have everything you need to play in the realm of Outcastia (and beyond). Even CMs will have most everything they will need...for now. So what are you waiting for? Grab some paper and pencils. Bring out that dice. Rev up your imagination and travel to a land of magic and mayhem. Your journey awaits.

YA Paranormal Literature: Book One of the Arcana seriesSummaryLia has always been unique. Never one to fit into the crowd, always a little too smart and a little too fascinated by Poe, magic, and a good pair of Doc Martens...a little too DIFFERENT to mix with her high school crowd. When she writes and performs her own short play about the struggles of a true Witch during the Salem Witch Hunts, strange things begin to happen, uncovering a not-so-hidden family secret and a vast conspiracy outside of the normal, sleepy life in her hometown.

As seen in the Sony Pictures 2016 film Ghostbusters, the ultimate guide to identifying, understanding, and engaging with any paranormal activity that plagues you Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the groundbreaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past. Once lost to history, this criminally underappreciated book is now updated for the new century. According to Gilbert and Yates, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” and whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, you’ll find the information you’re seeking right here in this extraordinary book, including: • The childhood experiences that inspired Erin and Abby’s lifelong passion for the scientific study of the paranormal • The history of ghosts and other supernatural entities, the science that explains their existence, and profiles of the groundbreaking paranormal researchers who have investigated them • An illustrated guide to Class I through Class VII ghosts • Helpful sidebars like “A Ghost by Any Other Name” and “Ectoplasm Cleanup Tips” • Updates including “The Ghostbusters’ Arsenal” by Jillian Holtzmann and “Haunted History” by Patty Tolan • A new Ghostbusting Resources appendix, featuring the “Paranormal Quickstart Guide”, “Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz”, “A Supernatural Stakeout Journal”, “The Devil’s Dictionary: Paraterminology You Need to Know” With this helpful—and hilarious—official Ghostbusters guide in hand, you’ll be prepared for almost any spirit, spook, or spectre that comes your way. As for the rest, you know who to call.

The ultimate book in exploring the hidden depths of magic and the Western Esoteric Tradition In his defining masterpiece, Mouni Sadhu offers the reader an encyclopaedic exploration of the Western esoteric tradition and magical philosophy with the major arcana of the Tarot as a guide. Each of the 101 lessons contained in this volume is packed with occult philosophy, symbolism, and hints for practice. (The practices themselves are elsewhere, in his books Concentration, Meditation, and Theurgy, which should be studied in that order along with this book.) Those students who want to get the most out of this volume should plan on devoting a week to each lesson, reading it several times and making sure that a thorough grasp of the important concepts has been gained. Two years devoted to this study will result in a thorough understanding of Hermetic occultism The symbolism and correspondences found in The Tarot are not the ones most familiar in occult writings in the English-speaking world. They derive from the main European tradition of modern Hermeticism, which starts with Eliphas Lévi’s groundbreaking Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic and proceeds through the works of Stanislaus de Guaita, Paul Christian, Papus (Gerard Encausse), and Oswald Wirth, among others, to Mouni Sadhu. Readers who are used to the current of Hermetic teaching set in motion by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which lies behind most occultism in the English-speaking world, may find themselves surprised by the very different approaches Mouni Sadhu presents here and elsewhere in his works.