Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society\'s greatest dangers; \'civilized\' sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise our chances of

The cool elegance of the prose, the deliciously dry humour, the confident choreography of his characters make for an incomparable treat.\' - Michael PalinAnthony Powell\'s brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the women are some kind of magic boxed set -- a beautiful and empowering trilogy guaranteed to awaken your inner goddess. All three volumes of the women are some kind of magic series in a sleek slipcase. Contains: the princess saves herself in this onethe witch doesn\'t burn in this onethe mermaid\'s voice

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A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds.The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie\'s response to being confined to the lowest level of South Africa\'s oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to one-up its absurdity

This third edition of a popular text introduces healthcare students and professionals to a wide range of health beliefs and practices in world religions. Chapters on various religions are written to offer an insider\'s view on the religion\'s historical development, key beliefs and practices, including ideas of health, sickness, death, and dying. The chapters include case studies, advice on what to

The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience is the first text of its kind to capture stories of involvement in doctoral journeys from students, supervisors, and examiners. Drawing from experiences across a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, medical sciences, education and the humanities, these stories share a keenness to demonstrate the ways in which this journey

Selections introduces language students to 30 classic works of British and American literature, to be read for enjoyment and for language development. The range of writing spans nearly 300 years and the texts are arranged chronologically by date of publication. The extracts have been carefully chosen to be suitable for use at intermediate to upper-intermediate level. The texts are accompanied by: a

Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), a founder and early president of the Royal Geographical Society, served as Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years. He was responsible for promoting polar exploration, and published two books on the subject for general readers, both now reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. This, the earlier of the two, appeared in 1818 and is a chronological account of

The Rough Guide to the USA\'s National Parks is a celebration of 62 extraordinary destinations. Discover the 62 official national parks of the USA with the brand-new Rough Guide to the USA\'s National Parks, from the iconic favourites of California\'s Joshua Tree and Yosemite to the vast wildernesses of Alaska\'s Wrangell-St Elias, the Badlands of South Dakota and the tropical seascape of the US Virgin

The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies

The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics) Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award (Our Very Short List in The Leader\'s Outer Life category) Mental illness is the sort of thing we don\'t like to talk about. It doesn\'t reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend

Powerful and evocative, The Lonely Witness brings Brooklyn to life and exposes the harsh realities of crime and punishment on the city

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students\' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican

Bring the joy of Italian cooking to your kitchen with 100 classic and incredibly delicious Italian family favorites, from the star of Laura in the Kitchen. When Laura Vitale moved to the United States from her native Italy as a teenager, she was homesick--not just for her family, but for her beloved nonna\'s cooking. The slow-cooked Sunday sauces loaded with pork ribs and tender braised beef (and plenty

This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum. Balancing the science and humanities, it exposes recent pedagogical experiments from renown educators, while also interrogating a designer\'s agency between science and speculation in the face of climate uncertainty.

From author Tracy C. Gold and illustrator Vivian Mineker, Call Your Mother is a heartwarming tribute to the timeless bond between mothers and children, from infancy to parenthood. When you\'re hungry, when you\'re sad, When you don\'t know why you\'re mad, Goo ga! Ma ma! Call your mother. From life\'s highs to life\'s lows, there\'s one person who is always the first one we call: our mother. She\'s

\"Who in the world am I?\" The Enneagram is like a mirror, reflecting dimensions of ourselves that are sometimes hard to see. In this helpful guide, spiritual director and Enneagram teacher Alice Fryling offers an introduction to each number of the Enneagram and their respective triads. More than just helping us discern our number, this book relates the Enneagram to our spiritual journey, as a way