Charlotte Joko Beck offers a warm, engaging, uniquely American approach to using Zen to deal with the problems of daily living—love, relationships, work, fear, ambition, and suffering. Everyday Zen shows us how to live each moment to the fullest. This Plus edition includes an interview with the author.

Unravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians. With a complete rundown of ancient Egyptian history and culture alongside insights in to the everyday lives of the Egyptians, you'll discover how they kept themselves entertained, the gory details of mummification, the amazing creation of the pyramids, the deciphering of hieroglyphs and much more.

When Charlotte Chandler called Groucho Marx for an interview, he answered the phone himself. Declining to be interviewed, he invited her over to his house so he could tell her no in person. After talking with her for hours, Groucho asked, 'Why aren't you writing?'

Hello, I Must Be Going is the story of Groucho and the Marx Brothers, told through Groucho's everyday conversations with Charlotte Chandler and his friends. And what a group of friends they were! Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Marvin Hamlisch, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sidney Sheldon, and dozens of others walk through the pages of this fascinating book. Anyone interested in Groucho or the Marx Brothers, or who wants to spend a few hours in fabulous company, will find this book irresistible.

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the Norwegian town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the 'good people of Elvestad' can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocent--including the cafâe owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a chief witness, and the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength. Another psychological mystery from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.--From publisher description.Inspector Konrad Sejer heads up the investigation into a brutal murder after the battered body of a woman is found outside the town of Elvestad on the same day that the townspeople are expecting to meet the new Indian bride of Gunder Jomann.

Strange and wonderful creatures shared the earth with the dinosaurs. Kronosaurus ruled the seas with teeth as big as bananas and jaws more powerful than a Tyrannosaurus rex's. Flying Pterodaustro spit water through hundreds of long, thin teeth. Deinosuchus, the giant crocodile, preyed on unlucky dinosaurs. These and other amazing animals are introduced to young readers in easy-to-read text and dynamic illustrations.

Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions?
In her introduction, Amanda Gilroy discusses Charlotte's Lennox's life and literary career, the eighteenth-century vogue for romances, the character of Arabella and the novel's treatment of women's fashion and roles. This edition also includes a chronology, a bibliography and notes.

Offers an illustrated look at how the impact of a giant asteroid changed the planet and caused the extinction of these massive beasts who ruled the planet for millions of years. Reprint.

This volume guides beginning students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critical issues that contemporary scholars use when studying the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the “return of ideology” and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocqueville’s most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by “the tyranny of the majority,” explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist’s eye and a philosopher’s depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices–some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the “Old World,” America remains the fulfillment of the world’s desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishes–a place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.


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A heart-warming story about a family member who is in hospital, and very much missed.

Wobbily Fang’s mummy doesn’t look like Mummy any more. She looks small and lost and alone in her strange hospital room. “When are you coming home?” asks Wobbily Fang. “In a little while,” Mummy reassures him. But just how long is “a little while” and how can Wobbily Fang make Mummy’s eyes sparkle like they used to?

Wobbily Fang brings Mummy all the home comforts in hospital until she is all better and smiling again, ready to wear her moonfeather coat home.

This book captures the essence of Charlotte Selver's practice of Sensory Awareness like no other publication. It is an invitation to experience life firsthand again, as we did when we were children. In a culture where we have grown accustomed to accumulating knowledge from teachers and experts, it is rare to find a book that actually invites us to trust our own senses again. It is the authors' intent to give back to the reader authority over his or her own experience and learning processes.

Much of the book focuses on reviving the senses in order to open the mind and body to direct learning. The book imitates an actual Sensory Awareness class, involving the reader as a student, guiding him or her along a journey with and through the senses to a way of living that is in accordance with the natural functioning of the human organism in its environment.

The range of explorations include a renewed connection to the support of the earth as a foundation for trust; the central role of gravity for our health and for finding orientation in life; a study of breathing that promotes health and vitality; and connecting and interacting with other people. A handbook to a more genuine and connected way of living, the work is also a beautifully crafted account of Sensory Awareness, showing these profound teachers at work with their students and with the reader.

(Applause Books). Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life, resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also spoke with directors, actors, and others who knew and worked with Davis, and includes brief synopses of all of her theatrical films. Here are some more examples of Bette's wit to be found within these pages: "I'm the one who didn't get the man, which is the more interesting character on the screen, but in real life sometimes I wish I could just have been the girl who got the man, and kept him. I got four husbands and several lovers, but I didn't keep any of them. I was invited to the White House, but no man stayed to share my white cottage." "My favorite actor with whom I never played, professionally or personally, was Laurence Olivier. I admired everything about him. He was a great actor, and he was my dream man. Literally and figuratively. Larry was my fantasy lover, the perfect man, or at least I thought he would be. He was not only beautiful, but intelligent."

This full-color book is designed to tap the exploding market in serious digital photography with over 250 pages of new and beautiful photos, essential photography how-to information and no-fail formulas for getting great digital pictures with the newly announced Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D. It goes above and beyond competitive digital SLR books with step-by-step techniques that cover exposure, composition, and professional shooting tips on perspective, impact, and more. Charlotte K. Lowrie, author of two previous Digital Field Guides (see below), is an acclaimed photographer who was managing editor of editorial content for MSN Photos and now writes online instructional content for Canon.

Charlotte K. Lowrie (Woodinville, WA) is a freelance editorial and stock photographer and an award-winning writer. Her work has appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging and PHOTOgraphic magazines, and she is the author of the bestselling Canon EOS Digital Rebel Digital Field Guide as well as Adobe Camera Raw Studio Skills, the Canon EOS 30D Digital Field Guide, and Teach Yourself Visually Digital Photography, Second Edition, all from Wiley. Charlotte also teaches photography classes through BetterPhoto.com.

Ants long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity's deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized.

In this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Marking the centenary of the coining of 'myrmecology' to describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.

The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in antiquity. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester offer a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma by combining the results of scientific research with information gathered from documents, other areas of archaeology, art, and ethnography. The book contains information on congenital, infectious, dental, joint, endocrine, and metabolic diseases. The authors provide a clinical context for specific ailments and accidents and consider the relevance of ancient demography, basic bone biology, funerary practices, and prehistoric medicine. This fully revised third edition has been updated to and encompasses rapidly developing research methods of in this fascinating field.

In 1834, Charlotte Bronte, together with her brother Branwell, created the imaginary kingdom of Angria, of which she was to write prolifically for the next five years. The five 'novelettes' in this volume are the last of her Angrian tales. Written from the viewpoint of the cynical, gossipy Charles Townshend, they offer an ironic portrait of the intrigues, scandals and passions of an aristocratic beau monde. With their varied cast of characters - ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna to Elizabeth Hastings, the respectable young governess - they provide a glimpse into the mind and creative processes of the young writer who was to become one of the world's great novelists.
In her introduction, Heather Glen discusses these tales as fictions of the 1830s, wittily responsive to contemporary literary fashions, and explores the ways in which they experiment with fictional form. This edition also includes fragments from Bronte's journal, background material on Angria, a chronology, further reading, prefaces to each tale, appendices, notes and a glossary.

Poster-Art esplora le più innovative tendenze del design grafico. Con la sua ampia raccolta di opere intelligenti, argute e originali provenienti da tutto il mondo, il volume celebra il design di manifesti senza trascurare nessuna delle sue componenti dalla direzione artistica all'illustrazione, dalla stampa alla progettazione di caratteri tipografici. Qualunque sia lo scopo o il soggetto cinema, musica, mostre, pubblicità, festival, politica i manifesti qui presentati catturano l'attenzione, comunicano e vendono.

L'adolescenza è un'età in cui non sempre le ragazze si sentono come vorrebbero: le trasformazioni fisiche stancano, le grandi domande si fanno assillanti e abbattono il morale. Ecco allora un libro pieno di consigli e trucchi per essere sempre splendenti come un raggio di sole. Età di lettura: da 12 anni.

Alexandra è nata negli Stati Uniti, dove la madre Belle era andata a vivere dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. Trasferitasi in Germania per studiare all'università, si innamora di Dan Liliencron, figlio dell'ex socio in affari della nonna, ma finisce per sposare Markus Leonberg. La nonna lascia a lei le redini dell'azienda di famiglia e Alexandra si trova così a lavorare fianco a fianco con Liliencron, mentre il marito, un finanziere eccessivamente disinvolto, perde tutto il suo patrimonio e decide di suicidarsi. Alexandra si troverà ad affrontare una terribile crisi sentimentale e professionale in un crescendo di emozioni e colpi di scena. Ambientato in Germania, 'Una difficile eredità' racconta le vicende e le emozioni dei protagonisti sullo sfondo di un paese in drammatico cambiamento, dal boom economico degli anni Sessanta, alla contestazione studentesca, agli anni di piombo del terrorismo e della crisi economica, fino al crollo del Muro di Berlino e alla riunificazione della Germania.

Germania, 1938: il regime hitleriano sta precipitando il paese e il mondo intero in una guerra rovinosa, ma la giovane aspirante attrice Belle Lombard è poco interessata alla politica: il suo sogno è quello di entrare nei Filmstudios di Berlino e incontrare l'uomo della sua vita. Mentre la madre Felicia continua la sua folgorante ascesa nel mondo dell'industria asservita al regime nazista. Tuttavia, il destino della Germania non può non intaccare la vita privata di ciascuno, e ciascuno cercherà di sopravvivere seguendo le proprie inclinazioni: entusiasmo, indifferenza, ricerca del compromesso, opposizione, sacrificio. Felicia resterà saldamente ancorata alle sole cose in cui crede: la famiglia e l'azienda, e aiuterà Belle durante gli anni terribili della guerra, del terrore, dei bombardamenti, dei lutti. Impotente assisterà alla perdita dell'amatissima Lulinn la tenuta di famiglia nella Prussia orientale, e scoprirà, troppo tardi, la forza del sentimento che la lega all'ex marito Alex...