The Portable Pep Talk
Author: Alexander Lockhart
Publisher:
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780964303577
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The Portable Veblen
Author: Elizabeth McKenzie
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1101981598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that’s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage—the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist—find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other’s dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term “conspicuous consumption”) is one of the most refreshing heroines in recent fiction. Not quite liberated from the burdens of her hypochondriac, narcissistic mother and her institutionalized father, Veblen is an amateur translator and “freelance self”; in other words, she’s adrift. Meanwhile, Paul—the product of good hippies who were bad parents—finds his ambition soaring. His medical research has led to the development of a device to help minimize battlefield brain trauma—an invention that gets him swept up in a high-stakes deal with the Department of Defense, a Bizarro World that McKenzie satirizes with granular specificity. As Paul is swept up by the promise of fame and fortune, Veblen heroically keeps the peace between all the damaged parties involved in their upcoming wedding, until she finds herself falling for someone—or something—else. Throughout, Elizabeth McKenzie asks: Where do our families end and we begin? How do we stay true to our ideals? And what is that squirrel really thinking? Replete with deadpan photos and sly appendices, The Portable Veblen is at once an honest inquiry into what we look for in love and an electrifying reading experience.
Bullsh*t or Fertilizer
Author: Pierre Bennu
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 1449450008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to get yourself motivated to create again, how to set and attain goals, and how to sell yourself or your creation with this quick & easy read. Ever get tired of having the same conversation repeatedly, just talking or thinking about what needs to be done instead of getting motivated to act? This book is for anyone who needs a heaping dose of momentum and focus, and who better to dish out such advice than Pierre Bennu, an award-winning filmmaker and artist who’s had such conversations countless times. This page-turner is the perfect companion for those times you need a little motivation, whether you’re on a bus ride or a train trip, or standing in line for four hours to audition for the second feline from the right in CATS. It tells you how to get started and shows you how to make and attain goals—and it contains some of the best advice ever on making contacts and selling yourself or your creation. Teachers, singers, writers, astrologers, actors, painters, and anyone longing to create will benefit from the conversational advice in this little book. The author and title make no bones: You can either use the book to help you grow, or . . . you get the picture.
Be Your Best! a Roadmap to Living a Healthy, Balanced and Fulfilling Life
Author: Jeff Thibodeau
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1598582720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone wants to be their best at all times. You do. I do. We all do. But most of us don't always know how. If only there was a roadmap to help point the way. Well now there is one Be Your Best-A Roadmap to Living a Healthy, Balanced and Fulfilling Life provides discussion, inspiration and practical guidance to help you become the best that you can be in every daily life experience, with particular attention given to the major issues that most people grapple with. It is the first book of its kind to offer 12 books within a book- chapters that can stand on their own but together comprise a truly comprehensive and comprehensible, practical and spiritual guide to being your best in life's most universally challenging situations. Be Your Best is useful as a quick reference when time is short and the need is specific and also as a more comprehensive guidebook for life. Be Your Best - A Roadmap to Living a Healthy, Balanced and Fulfilling Life, is based on the Author's study, experience, introspection and teaching related to spirituality, nature, creativity and healing. His passionate interest and experience in these disciplines led him to create Helios Cape Cod, LLC, a center for personal and planetary healing, which has two branches. Helios Natural Therapeutics offers services and classes in natural therapeutics, hands on healing therapies, and lifestyle counseling/coaching. Helios Land Design provides landscape design and planning services including sacred space design. Jeff earned a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University, and Certification as a Natural Therapeutic Specialist, Licensed Massage Therapist, and Cranial-Sacral/Core Synchronism Therapist from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. He also earned a Black Belt and Instructor Certification in Kung Fu from the U.S.A. Kung Fu Academy, and is an accomplished singer-songwriter. He lives and works on Cape Cod. Please visit his website at www.jeffthibodeau.com for more information or to contact him about speaking engagements and consultations.
A Toolbox for Our Daughters
Author: Annette W. Geffert
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1577311205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new, concise edition of the best-selling guide to transforming sexuality and orgasm through sacred ritual and ancient techniques. This book opens the way to a new stage of fulfillment and bliss, making the sacred lovemaking techniques of the East available to Western readers and extending sensual experience for everyone.This highly illustrated book on human sexuality provides simple techniques that help readers to discover a new sexual experience, in which physical pleasure combines with an intense emotional and spiritual joy. Margot Anand teaches a wide range of measures that enhance sexual pleasure and deepen intimacy, including massage, visualization, breathing, ritual, movement and fantasy.
The Portable Pediatrician
Author: Martha Sears
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Published: 2011-02-23
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 0316123374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe next time you're worried about your child’s health, experience the comfort of easily accessible advice from the experts with this comprehensive A-Z guide. Imagine you are up at three o’clock in the morning with a sick child. Wouldn’t it be nice to have expert advice readily at hand to help you through the night? Encyclopedic in scope, The Portable Pediatrician features timely and practical information on every childhood illness and emergency, including when to call the doctor, what reassuring signs can help you know your child is okay, how to treat your child at home, and much more—all in a convenient A-to-Z format. Among the scores of topics covered: teething; sprains and broken bones; nosebleeds; measles; ear infections; choking; rashes; colic; headaches; eating disorders; fever; hip pain; warts; allergies; obesity; seizures; autism; bronchitis; sunburns; pneumonia; speech delay; lice; vomiting; asthma; heart defects; blisters; sleep problems; and more. The authors guide parents and caregivers from a child’s infancy through the teen years, teaching them what to expect at regular checkups as well as how to boost a child’s well-being, devise a family health plan, work effectively with their pediatrician, and more. Distinguished by the Searses’ trademark comprehensiveness, reliability, and accessible, comforting tone, this book is a must-have for all families who want to keep their children healthy and happy.
Lucifer's Shadow
Author: Philippe Boulle
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFallen Angels Walk the Earth At the dawn of creation, Lucifer ignited the fires of rebellion. A third of the heavenly host rallied by his side, believing his cause was just. The fallen defied the armies of Heaven for a thousand years, never questioning their leader's resolve; even in defeat, they chose to suffer the fate of their prince rather than recant and betray their convictions. They went into the abyss with their heads unbowed, but when the gates of Hell clanged shut, Lucifer the Morningstar was not among the damned. Now, after an eternity, the gates of Hell are broken and the angels of the abyss walk the Earth once more, in the stolen bodies of hopeless humans. Some seek redemption, others revenge. Most of all they seek the fate of the angel that led them into darkness. In the so-called City of Angels, a terrible earthquake sparks three days and nights of rioting, and tales of the end of the world. The Devil himself walks the burning streets of Los Angeles. Answering the clarion call, demons congregate in the modern Babylon, searching for answers and for blood.
Ireland's Women
Author: Katie Donovan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780393313604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe women who appear in these pages are both well-known and unknown, real and invented. They include, for instance, the fiery Elizabeth Fitzgerald who defended her castle so successfully, and Granuaile, the pirate queen from Galway.
Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self
Author: Susan O'Malley
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2016-01-12
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 145214673X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The voices gathered here display incredible wit, sincerity, and generosity; we are lucky to be able to listen to them.” —Artforum If you had the opportunity to meet your eighty-year-old self, what do you think she/he would tell you? That is the question artist Susan O’Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into vibrant text-based images. From a prompt to do things that matter to your heart, to a reminder that it’s okay to have sugar in your tea, these are calls to action and words to live by—heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always fiercely compassionate. This stirring celebration of our collective humanity unveils the wisdom we hold inside ourselves right now. “Everyone, regardless of age, can take something away from this uplifting work.” —Real Simple
The Portable Best Friend
Author: Sandy Weinstein
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-11-29
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780446570220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Portable Best Friend is filled with wise words and welcome comfort, offering practical advice and dealing sensibly with a wide variety of daily crises.
