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Readers learn how and live happy, full lives again after challenging times. During painful, hard times, the author says that people form beliefs and come to conclusions that just are not true. Uncovering and changing those beliefs frees us to heal from the past and move toward what we really want..
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I Am Happier to Know You is the story of the people, culture, sights and fragrances of Egypt and the Middle East viewed through the eyes and heart of a single, midlife woman. Concurrently, it’s a memoir of the joys and challenges author Jeanne M. Eck embraced when, on wings of faith, she left her Western culture behind and moved to Egypt..
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The core of this powerful assemblage is an exploration of the extraordinary achievement of Haida art, as art. Interwoven throughout the text and the finely reproduced images is a skillful intermingling of key themes: the defining myths of origins; the structures of ownership and privilege; the relationship of the people to the land; the influence of the early master-carvers; the monumental achievements of Charles Edenshaw, Bill Reid, Robert Davidson, and many others; the Haida and colonialism; and hybrid tendencies in contemporary Haida art. From oral histories and genealogies to the breakout aesthetics of contemporary Haida work in many media, this book celebrates a great art in a contemporary context..
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Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love of dreams. Fresh from 11 years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr. Muo returns to China to spread the gospel of psychoanalysis. His secret purpose is to free his college sweetheart from prison. To do so he has to get on the good side of the bloodthirsty Judge Di, and to accomplish that he must provide the judge with a virgin maiden.

This may prove difficult in a China that has embraced western sexual mores along with capitalism–especially since Muo, while indisputably a romantic, is no ladies’ man. Tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly wise, Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch introduces a hero as endearingly inept as Inspector Clouseau and as valiant as Don Quixote..
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In the manner of a scholarly detective story—drawing upon archaeology, ancient texts, and new discoveries, many of them firsthand—Travelling Heroes takes us deep into the past to explore mysteries that have remained unsolved for millennia: from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of classical culture in the Mediterranean world. Central to the book is Robin Lane Fox’s striking thesis: migrants from Greece in the eighth century b.c. settled in certain places in both the Near East and Italy, and what they found there helped shape some of their most distinctive myths. Lane Fox explores the trail left by these “travelling heroes” in fascinating detail. Beginning with a rich picture of the Mediterranean world as it existed nearly three thousand years ago, he takes us on an intoxicating intellectual journey into the origins of Greek myths and poetry. Bringing this hitherto dark era brilliantly to life, he exposes the roots that would give rise to Greek thought and ideas in the centuries to come.

With the same lively originality he showed in writing about the Bible in The Unauthorized Version, about the triumph of Christianity in Pagans and Christians, and in his groundbreaking biography of Alexander the Great, Lane Fox here challenges received ideas and transforms previously dry scholarship into fascinating and enlightening reading.

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The most comprehensive yet easy to use guidebook ever written for the Big Island. This island is so big and diverse that many visitors never realize all that it has to offer. We unlock its secrets. Our brand new third edition has more useful information, the most up to date maps, and scores of hidden gems listed nowhere else. This book and a rental car are all you need to discover what makes the Big Island so exciting.

Our 38 specially created maps include clear, concise directions to even the most remote beaches and other hard to find places, mile markers (so you always know where you are), hiking trails, and numerous details in an easy to follow format.

Deserted black sand beaches, secluded freshwater lava pools (some volcanically heated), pristine rain forests, lava tubes, hidden waterfalls, and the most dramatic part of the erupting volcano.

Fascinating stories and legends from all around the island.

Symbols quickly identify recommended sights and companies. We identify which companies really are the best…and which to avoid. Frank, honest opinions from anonymous reviews—No advertisements.

Special expanded sections on Hiking and Adventures.

Web site with links to every business, last minute updates and more. Plus Web pages available exclusively to our readers that expand on all accommodation reviews with aerial photos of all the resorts (so you'll know if oceanfront really means oceanfront).

Only book ever banned at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Visitor Center for being "too honest" and "revealing too much."

Written by island residents who know the island.

We've covered it all—from the snow-covered top of Mauna Kea, to the sparkling underwater reefs. This is the best investment you can make for your Big Island trip. Whether you are a first time visitor, or a long time kama‘aina, you will find out more about the Big Island from this book than from any other source. Discover the Hawaii you've always imagined with Hawaii The Big Island Revealed..
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A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.



These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones..
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