For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people.Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms.Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World's Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city's horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago's first gardens. Challenged by the region's clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago's pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city's local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation's produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney's vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like "Bouquet Mary," a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument-that Chicago's garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide de*ions of living legacy gardens for today's visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time-poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective.Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of Cube, consulting the artist's sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after Cube was created. Cube, he finds, is indeed exceptional-a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait-or what Didi-Huberman terms "abstract anthropomorphism." Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others Giacometti counted as influence, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.

Un volum incitant de care nu se pot lipsi adolescen?ii, elevii, studen?ii, profesorii, acest indirect dic?ionar de vise ?i destine reprezint? o carte necesar?, c?ci ?ndeamn? la cunoa?tere de sine. Acest studiu-eseu interdisciplinar con?ine valoroase trimiteri la Freud, Nietzsche, Aristotel ?i al?i g?nditori – eventuale modele ?n epoca tranzi?iei sufocat? de acultura?ie ?i de modele de o calitate ?ndoielnic?.

San Pedro / Huachuma: Opening The Pathways Of The Heart is an invitation to explore and reconnect with our inner landscapes with the help of San Pedro, also known in South America as Huachuma. San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) is a psychoactive cactus native of the Andes, but more importantly it’s an ancestral medicine that has been used for millennia for healing and ceremonial purposes. Our Western psychic and psychological make-up differs radically from that of Andean people, and our needs as modern people differ just as much from the needs of the ancestors and inhabitants of this land. This book intends to bridge such cultural gap in ways that honor the wealth of wisdom gathered through centuries of native studies and experimentation, and at the same time address our present day state of emotional disconnection and spiritual confusion, which are at the root of most physical, emotional, and mental diseases. Javier Regueiro draws a comprehensive and practical map for exploring consciousness using this ancestral medicine by sharing from his extensive knowledge as a plant medicine person, his personal experiences, and those of the many people he has guided over the years using this medicine.

A #1 Divination Bestseller! Learn the traditional meanings of all 78 cards in the modern tarot, and how tarot cards evolved. Experience the cards through daily meditations that work with magical elements. Find out how to prepare for every reading and allow you intuition to unfold. Discover six different ways to lay out your cards for readings. The e-reader version of this book features gorgeous full color watercolor illustrations from the Aquatic Tarot deck, while the print version is black-and-white.

WELCOME to EDEN...You have a joyful life waiting for you. It’s time to claim it. Eden IS here, right now, on Earth.Do you want to become as radiant and joyful as the sun, a source of light and pure vitality so bright that everything in your vicinity can not help but grow and blossom as well?Find the Answers You Seek: Eden delivers source wisdom channeled straight from Spirit to help you transform your life. We have been helping people shift their vibration upwards and reach their full potential for over a decade. Let us help you learn how to SHINE.

Giridhari: The Uplifter of Hearts' is the first book of this series designed to help you deepen your inner relationship with the Divine Source, whether known as Krishna, Christ, God, Divine Mother, the Guru or a spiritual Master. Consisting of 108 unique insights from a realised spiritual Master, Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda, this book gives you a wealth of possibilities for inspiration and contemplation each day.?Use the simple five-minute 3-Step Guruvakya Meditation described inside, and you’ll quickly deepen your unique connection with the source of Divine Love, the indweller of your heart.

Since ancient times, the boundless stellar sky has attracted our gaze and thoughts. Its magnificent beauty and great mysteries have always been awakening eternal philosophical questions in our hearts — about the Universe and our place in it, about the nature and purpose of our existence.What does the Universe as a whole represent? How is it organized? By what laws does it abide? How does the Cosmos affect the events occurring on the Earth? Are we alone in the Universe? Is there life somewhere else?The Lord of Love and Compassion invites you to open wide the wings of your spirit and embark on a spiritual flight across the vast expanses of the Universe to find answers to all these questions. Book 4 of The Teaching of the Heart series will reveal the depths of the Universe, enabling your heart to experience the delight of limitless possibilities and to touch the currents of unknown Distant Worlds.From this incredibly exciting journey through the Stellar Ocean, you will return to the Earth a completely different person, with a new worldview and understanding of your destiny not only on this planet, but also in the Universe. Are you ready to embark on a flight?

nvturile lui Osho, unul dintre cei mai cunoscui lideri spirituali ai secolului XX, rstoarn tiparele clasice de gndire, provocndune la o permanent punere sub semnul ntrebrii a certitudinilor i la un proces de contientizare de sine.Crile din seria Incursiune ntrun nou mod de via prezint viziunea lui Osho privind cele mai importante probleme pe care i le pun oamenii interesai de tiina transformrii de sine i de o spiritualitate adaptat la provocrile cotidiene ale vieii contemporane.

O via?? lung? ?i s?n?toas? pentru copilul t?u, dup? modelul japonezPotrivit unei analize recente publicate de prestigioasa revist? The Lancet, copiii din Japonia sunt cei mai s?n?to?i din lume. Naomi Moriyama s-a hot?r?t s? descopere secretele acestui succes. C?l?torind ?mpreun? cu b?iatul ei mic, Naomi a intervievat oameni de ?tiin?? din Japonia ?i SUA ?i a cules informa?ii de la m?micile japoneze.A rezultat un ghid revolu?ionar ?i cu o mare valoare practic?, sfaturile oferite ajut?nd la adoptarea unor obi?nuin?e alimentare ?i a unui stil de via?? care ?i vor ajuta pe p?rin?i s? ob?in? rezultatele dorite ?n cre?terea copiilor. ?Recomand?rile sunt logice, u?or de pus ?n practic? ?i bazate pe ?tiin??, intui?ie ?i tradi?ie. Sunt ?n concordan?? cu convingerea mea c? este nevoie s? ne ?ntoarcem la legile fundamentale ale s?n?t??ii, care ne ?ndeamn? s? dormim bine, s? m?nc?m ce ?i c?t trebuie, s? facem mi?care ?i s? evit?m toxinele." - Prof. Mark Tremblay, Spitalul pentru copii din Ontario, Canada?Rodul unei document?ri meticuloase, aceast? carte fascinant? ??i merit? locul ?n biblioteca oric?rui p?rinte." - Dr Lucy Cooke, cercet?tor principal ?n cadrul Facult??ii de Epidemiologie ?i S?n?tate Public?, University College, Londra

ntmplri reale despre o experien unicCu toii avem de nfruntat adversiti din cnd n cnd. Cu toii suntem uneori triti. Cu toii suntem cteodat prea ocupai, prea mulumii de noi nine sau prea apsai de povara propriilor probleme ca s mai apreciem lucrurile pozitive din vieile noastre. Colecia Poveti adevrate“ i aduce cazuri reale, ntmplri din viaa unor oameni obinuii, ce ne vorbesc despre curaj i buntate, despre binecuvntrile i miracolele vieii, amintindu-ne c nu suntem singuri, c putem rzbate chiar i n cele mai ntunecate zile, c nc exist buntate n lume.Venirea pe lume a celui de-al doilea copil nu nseamn neaprat naterea unei rivaliti ntre frai, dac tii cum s l pregteti pe friorul mai mare pentru eveniment. S gseti haine de gravid, drgue i la un pre accesibil, se poate dovedi la fel de probabil ca i ctigul la loto… Cum te pregteti pentru naterea unor triplei Sarcina, naterea i primele ore i zile ca mmic a unui nou-nscut te pot coplei sau umple de team – n special dac ai fost bombardat cu poveti de speriat i informaii distorsionate, dac temerile sau ngrijorrile nu i au fost ascultate cu atenie ori dac lucrurile nu decurg aa cum i ai propus sau ai sperat. 34 de ntmplri adevrate despre bucuriile i dificultile sarcinii i ale naterii, despre clipele magice legate de minunea care crete nuntrul tu.

The silence must be broken… ? Each year, thousands of men, women, and children suffer domestic violence. For many, it’s far too long to live in this kind of silence. How much devastation must we see in individuals, families, and communities before we realize that someone… anyone… everyone must take a stand? Featuring stories & accounts from domestic violence survivors & family members. Also included is information regarding types of abuse, why victims stay, awareness months, & a personalized safety plan. Domestic violence has the potential to destroy everything it touches, but there is a solution. Stand up, speak up, and break the silence!

Jaime fumer...et je vais arrêter ! Devenez non-fumeur sans prendre de poids. Le Livre est un succès international, déjà traduit en 10 langues! Ce n’est qu’en découvrant et en comprenant pourquoi vous aimez fumer que vous pourrez arrêter la cigarette sans avoir l’impression de renoncer à quelque chose d’important. **PERMIS DE FUMER** Si vous lisez ce livre, vous allez pouvoir continuer à fumer… Au fil des pages, Andreas Jopp explique point par point et avec humour les schémas de pensée qui empêchent d’arrêter. Il démontre comment la nicotine déprogramme le cerveau, rend vulnérable au stress et empêche de trouver le calme. Une fois ces mécanismes compris, vous pourrez arrêter sans difficulté. Et durablement. **NE PAS PRENDRE DE POIDS** Arrêter de fumer est plus facile quand on n’a pas tout le temps faim et qu’on se sent bien. Avec les conseils alimentaires d’Andreas Jopp, vous pourrez manger davantage sans prendre de poids. **LES QUESTIONS SUIVANTES SERONT REPONDUES** EST-CE QUE VOUS AIMEZ FUMER -Comment la nicotine transforme notre cerveau et sentiment desatisfaction -Pourquoi on se sent mieux quand on fume -Et si l’addiction au tabac était plus forte et plus rapide à cause des additifs -Pourquoi les cigarettes légères sont plus dangereuses que lesnormales LA CIGARETTE ET LE MENTAL -Les fumeurs ont-ils des sautes d’humeur plus fréquentes et desproblèmes de concentration -Pourquoi on fume plus quand on est stressé. -Pourquoi on a l’impression que la cigarette nous relaxe. -Fumer rend-il plus éveillé et plus concentré -Les ex-fumeurs sont-ils moins satisfaits que les fumeurs LES STRATGIES LES PLUS EFFiCACES POUR ARRTER DE FUMER -Pourquoi l’hypnose marche pour arrêter de fumer -La meilleure faon de faire face aux symptmes du sevrage. -Comment éviter les reculades et les rechutes. ARRTER DE FUMER, RESTER MINCE -Les fumeurs sont-ils plus minces que les non-fumeurs La réalité -Comment garder tout simplement son poids en arrêtant de fumer. -Pourquoi le sucré entretient la dépendance à la nicotine. -Comment gérer au mieux son poids, sa faim et sa bonne humeur. -Conseils pratiques et listes de course pour rester mince EN MEILLEURE FORME -Améliorer votre soufe et votre condition physique -Réduire rapidement les risques d’infarctus et de cancers Andreas Jopp **Journaliste médical, coach pour non-fumeurs et auteur de best-sellers. **Andreas Jopp travaille aussi depuis 10 ans avec l'hypnose chez les fumeurs. **L'hypnose fait partie des stratégies les plus efficaces contre le tabac ! *Pour les MP3 de hypnose: www.nichtraucherin30Tagen.de/francais**

"The entrance of the Messiah in this period — 1998," predicted Edgar Cayce in 1932. His prediction accurately came true, but very few people knew about this... until now.Where and how did the Messiah descend into the earthly world, predicted long ago, but wholly unnoticed?In Book 2 of The Teaching of the Heart series, the Lord, for the first time in history, unveils this Secret. He entrusts all human hearts to witness the greatest and most unprecedented Miracle of the Divine Incarnation of His Son, which took place in 1998 within several worlds as the first stage of the Advent.However, not only will you behold this Miracle as if through your own eyes, but you will also experience it within your own heart. As you read the powerfully poetic pages of this book, an imperceptible mystery will occur inside you: the Divine Love of the Lord will transfigure the essence of your entire being, preparing you to become a particle of His human entity at the time of the Great Advent.Offering spiritual food for further deep reflections, The Teaching of the Heart continues to provide you with inspirational and illuminating instructions from the Lord of Love and Compassion to transform the whole world through self-perfection.Will you let the Saviour be born inside your heart?

Acesta este un curs special pentru cei a c?ror minte este at?t de puternic? ?nc?t nu poate fi ?nl?turat? de la man?a soartei lor cu metode simple. ?n aceast? carte?trening, v? propun o manevr? magic? – metoda ?diploma?iei suflete?ti“, care, ?n cel mai r?u caz, v? va permite s? nu face?i din minte un adversar, ori ?n cel mai bun caz un observator neutru sau un aliat ?i un ajutor ?n toate problemele sufletului. Problema este c? ?n decursul vie?ii noastre noi am primit multe lec?ii negative. Tocmai atunci c?nd noi puteam s? ?nv???m ?i s? ?n?elegem, noi eram ?nv??a?i c? via?a este dificil? ?i pe parcursul ei va trebui s? transpir?m din greu ca s? ob?inem ceva. Dac? ?n copil?rie aveam impresia c? noi suntem capabili de orice, maturiz?ndu?ne am ?n?eles principalul lucru – noi nu suntem capabili de nimic. ?n aceast? lume, suntem ni?te fiin?e jalnice ?i tremur?toare. ?ns? nu este adev?rat.

Bun venit ?n lumea program?rii neurolingvistice (neuro-linguistic programming – NLP)! Cartea de fa?? ??i va prezenta principalele teme ?i idei ce constituie NLP. ??i va oferi cuno?tin?e de ansamblu ?i ?n?elegerea conceptelor?cheie, pe l?ng? exerci?ii practice menite a??i pune mintea la contribu?ie. NLP are propriul sistem de limbaj ?i organizare, explicat pe larg cu exemple din problemele profesionale ?i personale. Teoriile ?i practica NLP te vor ajuta s? descoperi ce ?i face pe unii oameni s? exceleze ?n toate aspectele vie?ii lor, stimul?ndu?te s? faci acela?i lucru.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.?—Leonardo da Vinci??In this Beginner's Psychology I have tried to write, as nearly as might be, the kind of book that I should have found useful when I was beginning my own study of psychology. That was nearly thirty years ago; and I read Bain, and the Mills, and Spencer, and Rabier, and as much of Wundt as a struggling acquaintance with German would allow. Curiously enough, it was a paragraph in James Mill, most unpsychological of psychologists, that set me on the introspective track,—though many years had to pass before I properly understood what had put him off it. ??A book like this would have saved me a great deal of labour and vexation of spirit. Nowadays, of course, there are many introductions to psychology, and the beginner has a whole library of text-books to choose from. Still, they are of varying merit; and, what is perhaps more important, their temperamental appeal is diverse.?I do not find it easy to relate this new book to the older Primer,—which will not be further revised. There is change all through; every paragraph has been rewritten. ??The greatest change is, however, a shift of attitude; I now lay less stress than I did upon knowledge and more upon point of view. The beginner in any science is oppressed and sometimes disheartened by the amount he has to learn; so many men have written, and so many are writing; the books say such different things, and the magazine articles are so upsetting!

Feng-shui reprezint? o art? str?veche chinezeasc? a st?p?nirii energiilor, iar Vladimir Lermontov reprezint? marele maestru al transform?rii realit??ii, cel care red? oamenilor posibilitatea de a tr?i divin, adic? din suflet. Metoda lui de transformare a persoanelor ?i a realit??ii cu ajutorul imaginilor v? readuce fericirea, bucuria, s?n?tatea ?i ?mplinirea ?n via?a dumneavoastr?. Acum ave?i acces la un curs unic – ?Feng-shui-ul imaginilor sufletului. Teritoriul fericirii“. Atr?g?nd ?n spa?iul vie?ii dumneavoastr? talismanele feng-shui, ve?i dob?ndi aceast? fericire. Nu trebuie dec?t s? v? imagina?i sunetul v?ntului care sclipe?te ?n b?taia soarelui, c? ?n camera dumneavoastr? va r?suna melodia lin? care va alunga tot negativul. Imaginea l?nii de aur care se va na?te ?n voi v? va aduce bog??ie ?i prosperitate. Iar imaginea lanternei ro?ii chineze?ti v? va lumina calea spre noi sentimente ?i v? va ?nt?ri rela?iile. Fie ca vechiul feng-shui ?i magia contemporan? s? v? aduc? noroc! Vladimir I. Lermontov, 2007

Life has blessed us with the freedom to soar. We must have the courage to risk, the faith to believe and the will to succeed. To discover and release what is eternally present within the consciousness of every human being, certain virtues ?and traits are required to be inculcated in life and understood. Virtues make person beautiful and lovely. The way they do things, the way they move, speak and dress, all these creats their personality. If a person has virtue, they will always look rich, for everything is close to them will be filled with quality. Every ambitious person's heart wants to soar to new heights. When silence and virtue live together in one person, there is perfection. Spread your wings, have a clear vision. Soar to new heights. Swoop down on opportunities. Make golden memories.