{"product_id":"the-billionth-monkey-paperback","title":"The Billionth Monkey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Kaczynski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's like a meme come true...Professor Niels Belanger is having the week from hell. The chair of his department has quit. The cute waitress at Café du Monde won't speak to him. And now one of his students is trying to kill him. Belanger has stumbled into the deadly fantasy world of Nicholas Young, a partying frat boy whose unhealthy obsession with acting out urban legends has gone just a teensy bit over to the dark side.Everything changes when Belanger encounters the most unusual woman he has ever met: a wildly nonconformist goth who technically shouldn't exist. Yet the fact that she does forces him to accept that something much bigger and stranger is warping the shopworn fabric of reality.But are the two of them enough to stop a Millennial under-achiever from impossibly destroying the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Kaczynski, Ph.D., is a writer, musician, research scientist and teacher. The \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e called his \u003ci\u003ePerdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley\u003c\/i\u003e, \"the major biography to date\" of this seminal figure of modern magick. Richard is also the author of \u003ci\u003eForgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePerdurabo Outtakes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePanic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also appeared on television in the documentaries \u003ci\u003eSecrets of the Occult\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAleister Crowley: The Beast 666\u003c\/i\u003e. Richard earned his Ph.D. in social psychology in 1993 with a dissertation on metaphysical beliefs and experiences in New Religious Movements. He has lectured internationally, and over those years his writing has appeared in various books (\u003ci\u003eTarot in Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMathematics in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAleister Crowley and Western Esotericism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRebels and Devils\u003c\/i\u003e, etc.).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42705964040255,"sku":"9781514139929","price":18.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8aab28f4dbe7429b45bf24b78ca43fcf.webp?v=1765038693","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-billionth-monkey-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}