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Micronational Dictionary
The fourth edition of the principal dictionary of English-language micronational slang. With 402 entries, it includes the definitions, etymologies, notes on usage, formations and a pronunciation guide for every entry, as well as a special page on the etymologies of micronation (revealed for the first time ever) and micropatriology.
Micronational Dictionary: Second Edition
The second edition of the Micronational Dictionary includes the definitions, etymologies, usages and pronunciation guides to various words within intermicronational jargon, from 1964 to 2023. Written by Zabëlle Skye and published by Sonder-Traverse Press, the publishing house of the Institute of Micropatriological Research (IMR), this second edition includes 50 new entries for a total of 211, as well as a preface and three-page history of the origin, evolution and popularisation of the word micropatriology—never before known until now.
The Land That Never Was
Once upon a time, in the heart of Central America, there was a country named Poyais. It was exceptionally rich in resources, civilization, and culture and was ruled by the brave and enlightened Scottish soldier, Sir Gregor MacGregor, who became its ruler after his heroic exploits in the fight for South American independence. On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scottish immigrants looking for a new life set sail for this tropical Eden called Poyais.The only catch was that it didn't exist.A month later the ship landed on the swamp-infested Mosquito Coast and the settlers realized that they had become the victims of one of the most elaborate hoaxes in history. The land they had been sold was nonexistent, the banknotes and guidebooks they carried with them were forgeries, their documents were worthless. Poyais was a fiction. The man responsible? Sir Gregor MacGregor. Who was this eccentric, scurrilous man? And why is he such a lovable rogue?
How To Start Your Own Country
Can you really start your own country? Erwin Strauss shows you five different methods for doing just that, as well as everything you need to know about sovereignty, national defense, diplomacy, raising revenue and recruiting settlers. Includes dozens of new-country success stories. Why settle for being king of your castle when you can be king of your own country?
Report from Practically Nowhere
This is an authoritative assessment of thirteen of the most unimportant nations on the face of the earth. To achieve this milestone of journalism, John Sack traveled on innumerable planes, boats, trains, buses and one "bus", on the London tube, by muleback and by tonga, all the way from Lundy in the Bristol Channel to Sikkim on the borders of Tibet. The amazing fact is that all these countries exist. In adding not one word to the truth except his own relish and wit, John Sack has produced a wonderfully comic book.
Rabdology
This first English translation of Napier's Rabdologia provides a clear and readable introduction to a group of physical calculating devices, which, long overshadowed by Napier's logarithms, have their own intrinsic interest and charm. "The tasks which fill'd beginners with dismayThis little book has banish'd clear away." John Napier had already discovered and published an epochmaking treatise on logarithms when in 1617 he turned to "rabdology" or rod-reckoning as yet another means by which to confront the problem of simplifying the huge calculations involved in multiplication, division, and the extraction of roots. This first English translation of Napier's Rabdologia provides a clear and re...
Honours and Titles
The Aspects of Britain series is an up-to-date, unbiased guide to life in Great Britain today. Aspect titles are grouped in six different categories: Government and Administration, Overseas Relations, Social and Cultural Affairs, Britain and its People, Industry, and Environment. Each book is 6 x 8 1/4 and illustrated throughout with b&w and color illustrations.
Applied Ballardianism
An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm. The mediascapes of late capitalism reconfigure erotic responses and trigger primal aggression; under constant surveillance, we occupy simulations of ourselves, private estates on a hyperconnected globe; fictions reprogram reality, memories are rewritten by the future… Fleeing the excesses of 1990s cyberculture, a young researcher sets out to systematically analyse the obsessively reiterated themes of a writer who prophesied the disorienting future we now inhabit. T...
