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Peter Myers' intricate and ornately patterned drawings are brought together for the first time in this volume, which is the fascinating result of the collaboration of an artist and two scientists. The beautiful, complex images (included in full-page colour as well as black and white reproductions) serve as a rare window into the precision and exacting creativity of the Asperger mind at work.Peter Myers was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 1996 and his work reflects his stunning ability to plan and to organise visual information, and to embed illusions within his pictures. Peter's brief explanatory captions which accompany the images offer insight into the ways in which he composes his pictures.In the main text of the book, psychologists Simon Baron-Cohen and Sally Wheelwright discuss the work's great psychological significance, demonstrating in accessible language their ground-breaking systemizing theory of how the autistic mind processes information.

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A pocket-sized, portable version of Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, and Marcela Lobos' popular oracle deck in a keepsake tin, based on the wisdom and beauty of the shamanic world.One of Hay House's top-selling decks now comes pocket-sized! This compact, travel-sized edition of Mystical Shaman Oracle is packaged in a sleek tin box perfect for your on-the-go spiritual journey. Created by three master teachers and healers, this oracle deck includes indigenous shamanic practices combined with divination tools. The result is a deck like no other, featuring powerful beings, animals, and natural forces from cultures across the globe.

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The field of entrepreneurship has long pondered the following question: Why, despite their high levels of motivation, effort and commitment, do so many entrepreneurs fail? This innovative volume tackles the complex question of entrepreneurial success, identifying the essential tools necessary for converting ideas into reality and offering concrete means for acquiring and strengthening those tools.Though entrepreneurial success or failure can be partly attributed to external considerations such as market fluctuations and competitor activity, Robert A. Baron argues that the individual entrepreneur is often crucial in determining whether an idea succeeds or fails. Using current, concrete data, the author demonstrates the critical importance of the entrepreneur's skills, knowledge and other personal resources to the outcome of his or her entrepreneurial undertakings. Written in a clear and vibrant style, this groundbreaking book offers both a detailed breakdown of the personal attributes that foster entrepreneurial success as well as helpful suggestions for achieving and enhancing those same attributes in one s own search for entrepreneurial excellence.Professors and students of entrepreneurship, as well as their peers in other innovation-based fields such as engineering and the sciences, will find this book an invaluable resource for both the study and practice of successful entrepreneurship.Contents: Preface 1. The Nature of Entrepreneurship-and Why Entrepreneurs Truly Matter 2. Motivation: Why Entrepreneurs Make the Journey 3. Human Cognition: The Internal Origins of Creativity, Innovation, and Ideas for the Possible 4. From Desire to Achievement: The Crucial Role of Self-Regulation 5. The Social Side of Entrepreneurship: Getting the Help You Need 6. The Personal Side of Entrepreneurial Excellence: Characteristics that Enhance Success 7. Making Decisions-and Avoiding Cognitive Traps 8. Managing Adversity: Dealing with Stress, learning from Our Mistakes, and Coping with Failure 9. Putting it All Together: A Model of the Highly Effective Entrepreneur

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William Nicholson (1872–1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. In the first four decades of the 20th century, Nicholson explored the genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life with exceptional inventiveness, wit, and technical skill. His distinctive paintings were neither academic nor modernist, and his aversion to art groups and his reluctance to make public pronouncements about art have made it difficult to place his work within the main narratives of 20th-century art history. The breadth of Nicholson's works in oil is revealed for the first time in this lavishly illustrated catalogue raisonné.Author and scholar Patricia Reed offers detailed entries for each of Nicholson's oil paintings, along with a comprehensive chronology of his life. The art historian Wendy Baron gives a context for Nicholson in British art at the beginning of the 20th century, and the painter and critic Merlin James celebrates the virtuosity and subtlety of Nicholson's painting technique. This magnificent and substantial catalogue brings to the fore Nicholson's vast achievement in oils.Distributed for Modern Art Press, Ltd.

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Baron Wormser, a master of the persona poem, is well known for his empathic exploration of possible lives. This fifth collection of poetry by this "fiction writer in a poet's body," includes an examination of his own life as well.Mulroney & Others provides glimpses of Wormser's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, as well as accounts of Vietnam vets and draft dodgers, socialites and outcasts. Loyal readers will welcome his trademark poise, the elegant balance he achieves with understatement both metrically deft and intellectually intricate. These poems prove Anaïs Nin's insight that "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Wormser's invitation to engage ourselves in seeing is irresistible, especially as he models the process with such impassioned interest. "'I know,' everyone is saying at once/To one another and the word-riddled universe. . . ." he writes. His poems tempt us to trade the obscurity of facile assumption for the powerful illumination of wonder. In Wormser's words, the universe is irrefutably personal.Baron Wormser is the author of four previous collections of poetry: The White Words (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), Atoms, Soul Music, and Other Poems (Paris Review Editions, 1989), When (Sarabande Books, 1997), and co-author of Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Paris Review, Sewanee Review, The New Republic, Harper's, and Poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives with his wife in Hallowell, Maine."The particular gift in Wormser's work is in the narrative. . . . He is poised to record, to expose, to express, not to pounce. The language can sometimes ambush a reader with wonder, but Wormser never breaks a sweat. . . . Mulroney & Others is one of those rare books of poetry that will have resonance in the lives of nearly every reader. . . (he) mixes just the right amount of cleverness with a smart appreciation for language, humor, humanity, pain and love."-Ba

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Develop winning brand strategies by focusing your team on the key strategic choices that drive organizational growth and learning. This book presents a system of six practical choices that articulate exactly how to launch and grow brands. Big Picture Strategy shows readers how limiting and focusing the strategic options available to company stakeholders can unlock previously inaccessible levels of productivity and growth. Strategist, consultant, and author Marta Dapena Barón describes the six key decisions facing organizations and teams today and how to develop a winning strategy by approaching these decisions systematically. The book includes discussions of: The critical choices that leaders must make to define a marketing strategy and to align their teams to be able to execute on it The four strategies companies use to launch and grow brands successfully How to use strategy-integrated metrics to promote continuous learning in organizations How to increase communications efficiency in commercial organizations through the use of a common vocabulary to frame customer-based issues Unlike many of its competitors, Big Picture Strategy does not pretend that your organization has unlimited resources or capacity to pursue every area of possible strategic advantage. Instead, the author lays out a systematic and integrated choice-based framework that will drive growth in your organization for years to come.

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A beautiful 68-card Spirit Animal oracle card deck from world-renowned oracle card expert, with over a million oracle card decks sold, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Colette Baron-Reid. This healing animal spirit cards oracle deck will help you receive divine guidance from the Higher Spirits of animals, insects, fish, and birds.Work with the archetypal energies of animals to move beyond obstacles and have conversations with Spirit. The spirits residing in the natural world have much wisdom to share, and the secrets of their forgotten language are now available to you through The Spirit Animal Oracle Cards. They urge us to reclaim our essential Truth—that we are one in Spirit, connected to every living thing on this earth in a unified consciousness. As an animist, Colette Baron-Reid profoundly believes in the presiding spirit of all living things. At a young age, her father taught her about the ancient Slavic folklore influencing her ancestry. He taught her the art of tasseomancy, to read Turkish coffee cups, where many Spirit animals populated the imagery in the grounds. This oracle deck is dedicated to the memory of her Dad.With the draw of an oracle card, you can better navigate your life, and tune in to your infinite potential.Example Cards Include:· Bee Spirit—“Sweet results await.” The Bee Spirit’s message is that sweet rewards are on their way if you are willing to get your ego out of the way and immerse yourself in the connected energy of all things.· Eagle Spirit—“Spirit has your back.” Think of the eagles flying high above the other birds, soaring on the wind. Eagle Spirit has appeared to ask whether you’re willing to soar to new heights, even if that means solitude for a short while.· Elephant Spirit—“Learn from the past.” Although we often wish we could leave the past behind, Elephant Spirit reminds us that memory matters. We must respect the wisdom of the elders who hand down to us traditions they have shaped to express our connection to each other and respect for the community.· Lion Spirit—“Be generous of spirit.” A healthy ego means you ease God’s order instead of edging God out. Lion Spirit’s appearance is a reminder that you have been given the gift of pride and a healthy sense of your worth to express your divine, authentic self in a unique way.· Panther Spirit—Reclaim Your Power It takes courage to face challenges and right now, Panther Spirit is here to say that you are braver than you think. "Have you heard the call to open a conversation with Spirit—with the intelligent, conscious universe that you are an intrinsic part of?Using this spirit animal oracle card deck, you will learn how to tap into the wisdom of the hidden realms so that you may act in a manner that will bring more purpose, meaning, magic, and prosperity to your life. Welcome, seeker, for you’ve come to the right place!" Love always, ColetteEvery animal in this beautifully illustrated 68-card deck has a universal message of deep, enduring truth. The Spirit Animal Oracle will help you awaken to your partnership with Spirit to co-create your reality in service to the world.

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ACCESS PROFOUND INSIGHT FROM THE DIVINE WITH THIS SURREALISTIC AND WHIMSICALLY DESIGNED ORACLE CARD DECK FEATURING SYMBOLS AND ELEMENTS OF THE TAROT, I-CHING, NORSE RUNES, AND ANCIENT DIVINATION TOOLS. THIS POWERFUL 52-CARD DIVINATION DECK HAS OVER 250 MEANINGS FROM INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ORACLE EXPERT WITH OVER A MILLION ORACLE CARD DECKS SOLD, COLETTE BARON-REID AND ARTIST JENA DELLAGROTTAGLIA.The Oracle within these cards will help modern mystics to:· Enact the law of Divine Order · Access higher spiritual wisdom· Know the way forward to peace, purpose, prosperity, and loveColette Baron-Reid has expertly blended elements of the I-Ching, Norse runes, traditional tarot, and other ancient divination tools into a sacred communication system: Wisdom of the Oracle. This 52-card oracle deck with guidebook will allow you to interpret messages about all aspects of your journey, with over 250 independent meanings that can speak to an unlimited number of circumstances. Imagery of animals, the elements of nature, and other potent symbols will touch you deeply so that a soulful dialogue about your life can take place. The Wisdom of the Oracle Divination Cards are waiting for you to consult them so you may receive answers and know the way forward to peace, purpose, prosperity, and love.Example Card Meanings:· Between Worlds—Between the worlds is where you must let go of the tendency to make assumptions. This is a time when you are unable to see what is ahead.· Treasure Island—You’ve worked hard and acted upon your unwavering belief in abundance, and suddenly, in the midst of it all, you hit the jackpot. · A Change in the Wind—Now is a time of transformation as outer conditions are temporarily moving out of sync with your desires and expectations. · Soul Mates—You are meant to evolve and transform with the companionship of others. Certain people enter into your life in order to take you to the next level of healing, consciousness, and authenticity.Allow the Oracle to help you gain wisdom about your choices and the next best action step for the highest good of all, guiding and protecting your journey forward. This oracle deck wanted to be personified as an Oracle living inside the cards, acting as the intermediary between you and Spirit, revealing your fate and destiny. If you look closely, you will see her wise and loving face in every card. I offer my deepest gratitude to you, along with my sincere wishes that this deck brings you great joy and meaningful guidance on the road to your happy destiny.I hope you will find true guidance and deep insight when using this oracle card deck to engage in a dialogue with the Divine.Love always, ColetteThis beautiful oracle card deck will help you integrate your ego, soul, and Spirit as you become who you were meant to be.

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The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia’s face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia’s face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a fruitless attempt to reconstruct Eligia’s face—first in Buenos Aires, thereafter in Milan. Mario, the narrator, becomes the shadow and witness of the reconstruction attempts to repair his mother’s outraged flesh. In this role, he must confront his own terrible existence and identity, both of which are bound to an Argentina he sees disintegrating around him. Based on a true, tragic family story, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed was rejected by publishers in Buenos Aires and was finally self-published in 1998, three years before the author committed suicide. Written in a captivating plain style with dark, bitter humor, The Desert and Its Seed has become a modern classic, published to enormous acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world and translated into many languages.

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The field of entrepreneurship has long pondered the following question: Why, despite their high levels of motivation, effort and commitment, do so many entrepreneurs fail? This innovative volume tackles the complex question of entrepreneurial success, identifying the essential tools necessary for converting ideas into reality and offering concrete means for acquiring and strengthening those tools.Though entrepreneurial success or failure can be partly attributed to external considerations such as market fluctuations and competitor activity, Robert A. Baron argues that the individual entrepreneur is often crucial in determining whether an idea succeeds or fails. Using current, concrete data, the author demonstrates the critical importance of the entrepreneur's skills, knowledge and other personal resources to the outcome of his or her entrepreneurial undertakings. Written in a clear and vibrant style, this groundbreaking book offers both a detailed breakdown of the personal attributes that foster entrepreneurial success as well as helpful suggestions for achieving and enhancing those same attributes in one s own search for entrepreneurial excellence.Professors and students of entrepreneurship, as well as their peers in other innovation-based fields such as engineering and the sciences, will find this book an invaluable resource for both the study and practice of successful entrepreneurship.Contents: Preface 1. The Nature of Entrepreneurship-and Why Entrepreneurs Truly Matter 2. Motivation: Why Entrepreneurs Make the Journey 3. Human Cognition: The Internal Origins of Creativity, Innovation, and Ideas for the Possible 4. From Desire to Achievement: The Crucial Role of Self-Regulation 5. The Social Side of Entrepreneurship: Getting the Help You Need 6. The Personal Side of Entrepreneurial Excellence: Characteristics that Enhance Success 7. Making Decisions-and Avoiding Cognitive Traps 8. Managing Adversity: Dealing with Stress, learning from Our Mistakes, and Coping with Failure 9. Putting it All Together: A Model of the Highly Effective Entrepreneur

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Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family.Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family?The HBR Family Business Handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more.In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find: A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail A framework to help you make good decisions together Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations.HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.

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A beautiful 49-card oracle card deck based on the power of seven energies from world-renowned oracle card expert with over a million decks sold, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, Colette Baron-Reid.Throughout history, seven is a sacred number, with great significance in multiple cultures and belief systems. The Oracle of the 7 Energies card deck is an intuitive divination system inspired not only by the mind-body-spirit model of energy, consciousness, and co-creation contained within the traditional understanding of the seven chakras, but also by the wisdom of seven reflected in so many belief systems and modern practices.Within this powerful oracle, the concept of the seven energies can be said to apply to the way you think, how you make your choices, and what you encounter within yourself—and the conditions ofyour world as you journey forward.There are seven cards within each of the seven energetic categories, for a total of 49 cards. Thepsychological, spiritual, and life themes that animate the oracle are as follows: Energy 1, red, Earth:money, family, inherited traits, survival, primitive instincts, security Energy 2, orange, Water: connection, sexuality, intimacy, birthing, desire, pleasure Energy 3, yellow, Fire:personal power, will, assertiveness, action, vitality, movement Energy 4, green, Love:compassion, love, community, forgiveness, unconditional acceptance, inner peace Energy 5, sky blue, Sound:communication, creativity, listening, being heard, writing, ideas, sharing Energy 6, purple, Light:intuition, vision, imagination, prescience, knowing, perception, and mental states Energy 7, golden white, Thought:spirituality, ego transcendence, liberation, God consciousness, wisdomExample Oracle Card Meanings:It Is What It Is - If you can release your attachment to getting what you want, you’ll be surprised byhow much energy you have for more important things.Beautiful Uncaging - At this time, you’re being called to assess where guilt is playing a part in your life, recognize how it’s affecting you and others, and address it so you can release yourself from its grip. Waking the Lion - Regardless of the outer conditions right now, you can’t wait for your fear to lessen before you move forward. In fact, despite the chaos and seeming disarray, you must be bold. “May this oracle be a beacon for you in turbulent times and a playful guide when opportunity knocks and abundance comes calling. Let there be Light!”Blessed be.Love,ColetteDrawing upon the power of seven, this oracle gives you a framework to make inspired choices as you co-create your reality, becoming a channel for Divine abundance and miracles.

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Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss’s career, tracing her evolution from “new girl with potential” to one of the most iconic models of all time.KATE: The Kate Moss Book will be released with eight unique covers, shot by Mario Testino, Corinne Day, Inez & Vinoodh, Craig McDean, Mert & Marcus, David Sims, Mario Sorrenti, and Juergen Teller and will be shipped to customers at random. Kate Moss began modeling as a teenager and achieved recognition when photographs of her shot by Corinne Day appeared in British magazine The Face. She made her so-called “waif” mark as a counterpoint in the 90s to then-dominant, Amazonian supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Linda Evangelista, and, with countless international magazine covers and fashion features, and campaigns for brands including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Bulgari, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, and Longchamp, has remained one of fashion’s most enduring and influential forces. Moss’s magic has been captured by the world’s leading photographers, and this volume spans the entirety of her unparalleled career, from model to fashion designer, and muse to icon. Told through images that Moss has personally selected, KATE shows the influence of her collaborations with top photographers and artists over the last two decades, and clearly demonstrates why her career has had, and continues to have, such incredible longevity.Photography by Arthur Elgort, Corinne Day, Craig McDean, David Sims, Hedi Slimane, Inez & Vinoodh, Juergen Teller, Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Mert & Marcus, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Roxanne Lowit, Steven Klein, Terry Richardson and others Including many ‘never-before-seen’ images from her own archives and those of the illustrious photographers with whom she has worked, KATE is a must-have for anyone interested in one of the most iconic models in the history of fashion media and modern culture.

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"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side...This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century."-from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason-a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman-for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

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World-renowned oracle card expert with over a million decks sold, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Colette Baron-Reid presents a portable 52-card edition of her best-selling oracle deck.These beautiful goddess oracle cards draw upon the symbolic energy of goddesses from cultures around the world—energy that can be reflected in any individual. Did you know the timeless energy of powerful goddesses rises up and can be expressed through every one of us when we need them? The goddesses are here to guide us and empower us, and if we look closely in our reflection, their bright light shines through our eyes, reminding us of the truth of our divinity and the power to choose the best version of ourselves in service and love. The Goddess Power Oracle reminds us of our beautiful relationship to the energy of these deities from around the world. The nontraditional, multi-ethnic art is intended to allow all of us to see ourselves in them, regardless of our origins. This standard edition of Goddess Power Oracle features 52 cards as well as a compact 3.5"x5" guidebook and storage box. Example Goddess Oracle Card Meanings: Aphrodite - Romantic Love Aphrodite invites you to fall in love with your life now and choose to look for the essence and expression of love all around you. By doing so, love will increase tenfold, and you will see evidence of it everywhere you turn.Isis - RebirthThe process of soul retrieval, resurrection, and rebirth is the theme recurrent through the stories of the Egyptian goddess Isis, and one that she invites you to address now. Mary - MiraclesMary, mother of miracles, is here to remind you of all the amazing wonders that are everywhere in your life right now. Sophia - Divine WisdomWhen we ask for help, we are asking for guidance from a Source greater than us—a great unknowable mystery. The Great Goddesses invite us to see a reflection of them in ourselves and to ask: Who could we become if we knew how to heal and reclaim our true power?Let the Goddess Power Oracle cards guide you to your deepest truth, empower you to choose freedom from the bondage of your old conditioning, and bring you to a new heightened state of awareness so that you can co-create a life beyond your wildest dreams! This oracle deck will serve as your sparkling bridge between the seen and unseen worlds, taking you from the mundane to the mystical. Note: This is a portable-size edition of Goddess Power Oracle (ISBN: 9781401956448).

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A beautiful 58-card oracle card deck to guide you with crystal wisdom from world-renowned oracle card expert with over a million decks sold, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Colette Baron-Reid. This vibrantly illustrated oracle card deck features 58 crystals, each selected for their healing powers and ability to help you channel divine guidance from the Universe. Legends about the healing powers of crystals have endured for millennia, with stories passed among ancient healers, medicine men and women, and shamans. In The Crystal Spirits Oracle Cards, you can explore the unique personalities and properties of 58 crystals, with stunning art by Jena Della Grottaglia. Every crystal card comes with a healing, relationship, and prosperity message, a crystal spirit meditation, and offers us:· The power to align with its consciousness, which in turn is woven into the Universal Consciousness. · A way to bring you into harmony during challenging times and to support your dreams to take form.· To see what is invisible or unavailable to you whenever you are out of balance and feeling disconnected.· Spiritual guidance to stay in alignment with your highest good and remind you that you are not alone.These crystals serve as a device to receive the divine guidance they channel from the Universe, so you can choose your destiny rather than be subject to a fate determined by past patterns and the influence of others. In The Crystal Spirits Oracle, you hold a tool for connecting to archetypal energies helpful for guidance, clarity, and support. You may recognize some of these themes as similar to ones incorporated into other ancient divination systems. Example Crystal Spirits Oracle Card Meanings: Lapis Lazuli - What you seek is here, if you push aside the distractions and fears created by your ego and become silent, tune in, and phone “home” to the Conscious Universe. Connect and remember, asking to be awakened out of spiritual amnesia.Clear Quartz - It is time to focus on growth and expansion. Whatever you appreciate—love, abundance, or anything else—will grow simply by your observing it and feeling gratitude for it. Turquoise - You can change your story of what happened in the past at any time. You can choose which details to focus on and how to interpret events, for you are being encouraged to claim your power as a storyteller. Citrine -Citrine Spirit is here to amplify the joy in your life, so feel it and express it, as if you are broadcasting it to the entire planet, because you are. “These crystals serve as a device to receive the divine guidance they channel from the Universe, so you can choose your destiny rather than be subject to a fate determined by past patterns and the influence of others.I have been so fortunate to be the midwife for The Crystal Spirits Oracle, and I hope you too will fall in love with it when bringing it to life.”Love,Colette With the messages of the crystal spirit oracle cards, you'll learn how to connect with divine guidance and align with the consciousness of the universe so you can take charge of your destiny while working with the crystals to recognize your life’s highest purpose.

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An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers insightful and critical observations about the processes set in motion by September 11, 2001 in New York, and holds important lessons for the future. This interdisciplinary collection brings together experts from diverse fields to discuss the long-term recovery of New York City after 9/11. Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob invited experts in architecture and design, medicine, health, community advocacy, psychology, public safety, human rights, law, and mental health to look back on the aftereffects of that tragic day in key spheres of life in New York City. With a focus on the themes of space and memory, public health and public safety, trauma and conflict, and politics and social change, this comprehensive account of how 9/11 changed New York sets out to answer three questions: What were the key conflicts that erupted in New York City in 9/11’s wake? What clashing interests were involved and how did they change over time? And what was the role of these conflicts in the transition from trauma to recovery for New York City as a whole? Contributors discuss a variety of issues that emerged in this tragedy’s wake, some immediately and others in the years that followed, including: PTSD among first responders; conflicts and design challenges of rebuilding the World Trade Center site, the memorial, and the museum; surveillance of Muslim communities; power struggles among public safety agencies; the development of technologies for faster building evacuations; and the emergence of chronic illnesses and fatalities among first responders and people who lived, worked, and attended school in the vicinity of the 9/11 site. A chapter on two Ground Zeros –in Hiroshima and New York – compares and historicizes the challenges of memorialization and recovery. Each chapter offers a nuanced, vivid, and behind-the-scenes account of issues as they unfolded over time and across various contexts, dispelling simplistic narratives of this extended and complicated period. Illuminating a city’s multifaceted response in the wake of a catastrophic and traumatic attack, New York after 9/11 illustrates recovery as a process that is complex, multivalent, and ongoing.

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An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers insightful and critical observations about the processes set in motion by September 11, 2001 in New York, and holds important lessons for the future. This interdisciplinary collection brings together experts from diverse fields to discuss the long-term recovery of New York City after 9/11. Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob invited experts in architecture and design, medicine, health, community advocacy, psychology, public safety, human rights, law, and mental health to look back on the aftereffects of that tragic day in key spheres of life in New York City. With a focus on the themes of space and memory, public health and public safety, trauma and conflict, and politics and social change, this comprehensive account of how 9/11 changed New York sets out to answer three questions: What were the key conflicts that erupted in New York City in 9/11’s wake? What clashing interests were involved and how did they change over time? And what was the role of these conflicts in the transition from trauma to recovery for New York City as a whole? Contributors discuss a variety of issues that emerged in this tragedy’s wake, some immediately and others in the years that followed, including: PTSD among first responders; conflicts and design challenges of rebuilding the World Trade Center site, the memorial, and the museum; surveillance of Muslim communities; power struggles among public safety agencies; the development of technologies for faster building evacuations; and the emergence of chronic illnesses and fatalities among first responders and people who lived, worked, and attended school in the vicinity of the 9/11 site. A chapter on two Ground Zeros –in Hiroshima and New York – compares and historicizes the challenges of memorialization and recovery. Each chapter offers a nuanced, vivid, and behind-the-scenes account of issues as they unfolded over time and across various contexts, dispelling simplistic narratives of this extended and complicated period. Illuminating a city’s multifaceted response in the wake of a catastrophic and traumatic attack, New York after 9/11 illustrates recovery as a process that is complex, multivalent, and ongoing.

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G eorge Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, una de las figuras más prominentes del Romanticismo, nació en Londres en 1788. En 1809 es recibido en la Cámara de los Lores y ya entonces estaba abrumado por las penurias económicas. La aureola de aventura byroniana no cesaba de crecer, consecuencia de sus extravagancias y gallardías. Todo había influido en la formación de un carácter legendario que engrandecía su personalidad de poeta romántico, convirtiéndole en el ídolo de la sociedad londinense y en un auténtico dandy. Admirado como un héroe, piensa en viajar a América para unirse a Bolívar en sus luchas independientes, pero acaba marchándose a Grecia, en 1823, para ayudar a los insurrectos griegos, donde a punto estuvo de convertirse en teniente general cuando muere, en Missolonghi (1824), abatido por las fiebres, a la edad de treinta y seis años.Mazeppa (1819) es un poema de 869 versos de ocho sílabas, organizados en pareados y pies cruzados, y presenta la soltura estilística de Byron. Dispue

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Nueva edición del clásico de Montesquieu que, además de la traducción, incluye una introducción y un completo aparato de notas, todo ello obra de Demetrio Castro Alfín.

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A las leyes positivas les corresponde una función de especialísima importancia que repercute en la institución que produce y mantiene la legislación positiva: el Estado, o, como Montesquieu suele decir, el Gobierno. Siguiendo el hilo de este método y raciocinio, un buen gobierno será el que se mantenga merced a las leyes positivas en los límites exigidos por las diferentes legalidades: la natural, la moral, la de las costumbres y usos, y las circunstancias. La antropología culmina en una teoría política que garantiza el equilibrio y ponderación en la convivencia. Del Espíritu de las Leyes, la gran obra de Montesquieu, sigue esta línea hasta dar con el centro de la cuestión: cómo evitar que un gobierno pierda los límites que su naturaleza exige?; pregunta que se puede convertir en esta otra: cómo impedir la tiranía?

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The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.

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Las "Cartas persas" (1721) es la obra germinal de la novela epistolar y de intención satírica. Mediante el recurso de las cartas de personajes extranjeros se satirizan las instituciones y costumbres propias. Dichos personajes, portadores de una nueva mirada, dejan en evidencia con su aparente ingenuidad, la autocomplacencia de la sociedad francesa en la bondad de su vida y usos sociales. Esta edición ofrece una nueva traducción, ya que tradicionalmente se ha utilizado la del abate Marchena (Tecnos).

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From the author of bestselling debut Boy Underwater comes another moving, hilarious novel of friendship and family secrets, which shows that people are people, no matter where they’re from. BOY UNDERWATER WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD, AND SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH. Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s favourite teacher of all time. Cymbeline has to find the culprit (after he’s learned what ‘culprit’ means). He’s also got to help his friend Veronique, whose grandma is dangerously ill. It seems Nanai has a secret, connected to her arrival in the UK as a Boat Person from Vietnam, a traumatic journey in which she lost her twin sister. Can Cymbeline figure out the mystery in time? One thing is for sure: even the most unexpected people can change your life in wonderful ways . . .

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Think outside the box with these kid-sized logic puzzles! Developing minds can benefit from activities that engage and challenge their reasoning skills. This is what every puzzle in Kids Logic Puzzles will do for you or for the 10- to 14-year-olds in your life. Among the 300+ puzzles in this book, not only will you find the classic grid-based puzzles and sudoku, but you can also try calcudoku, lasergrids, skyscrapers, campsite puzzles, and many other different kinds of logic puzzles. There’s no limit to the challenges awaiting you—and there’s no limit to what you can train your brain to do. And yes, there’s an answer key to help you if you get stuck, but you’ll have more fun if you try to solve the logic puzzles by using your deduction skills. But don’t just take the Puzzle Baron’s word for how much you’ll enjoy this book. Buy a copy and find out for yourself!

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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

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