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Print: $19.99 Download: $9.99 ABOUT THE BOOK:
This book, written in a style anyone can read, is a collection of essays, interviews, reviews, and a contemporary libretto with a time line of events that preceded the birth of a new opera about Gertrude Stein. This entertaining book provides a roadmap for creative collaborators and performing arts educators. It is a history of American opera framed by the collaboration of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson. With comments from opera luminaries such as Plácido Domingo and Mark Adamo, this unusual reference with a comic flair uniquely answers how to begin, sustain, and complete an opera project. It includes a bibliography and index.
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Karren LaLonde Alenier’s fifth collection of poetry Looking for Divine Transportation won the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature.
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Print: $14.99 TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION: West Marrin, Ph.D., author of UNIVERSAL WATER and many articles for scholarly and scientific journals, addresses various water crises by analyzing perceptions of water in the postmodern Western world. He argues that, although we are understandably eager to solve our water problems, we are unlikely to do so while holding essentially the same views of water that contributed to the creation of such problems. The insights of this book can help inform decision-making processes regarding water in a more fundamental way than new technologies, policies, or financial schemes can offer.
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Print: $14.99 ABOUT THE BOOK: Following Through shines a spotlight into the black hole in inner space where good intentions disappear. It reveals the startling reasons why being serious about making life-improving changes don’t keep your good intentions from fizzling out long before the job is done: It shows why the human mind just isn’t hard-wired for follow through, and what you can do about it. This special "Royal" size edition is not available from bookstores or from other online booksellers.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Steve Levinson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with more than three decades of experience. Pete Greider, M.Ed. is a consultant who helps athletes and business people overcome obstacles to peak performance. His clients have included the Orlando Magic, Northwestern Mutual Life, State Farm Insurance, and General Electric. A popular keynote speaker, his credits include Exxon and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Print: $12.99 Download: $6.99 "GREAT IDEA THAT PANS OUT!" says Larry King of this light-hearted new book for anyone who has ever dreamed of stardom or wondered how real stars got started. Senior VARIETY columnist Army Archerd writes: “It's dedicated to ‘All the aspiring Actors, Writers, Producers, Directors, Musicians and Craftspeople Who Are Working Their Way Toward Success’ — in Hollywood, that is. Testimonials abound from those who made the steps up, up and away from the Universal tour.” Did you know that Maurice Chevalier was once an electrician? That Jennifer Aniston and Michelle Pfeiffer worked in restaurants? Other stars started in the proverbial mailroom, as file clerks, employees at Disneyland... and of course, as tour guides! Filled with laughs and surprises, this inside guide to Tinseltown reveals a wealth of back stories for Hollywood wannabes.
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Print: $19.99 The role of the sage in the Himalayan Tradition of Yoga is to awaken within the student the divine flame, that spark of divinity all human beings carry within them, and which the late Sri Swami Rama called the Teacher within, the Inner Guru, or Centre of Consciousness.
DRS. MARTIN and MARIAN JERRY, physician-scientist and clinical psychologist respectively, have studied and practiced Yoga since 1968 and were initiated into the Tradition of the Himalayan Masters first by Swami Veda Bharati and then by the late H.H. Sri Swami Rama, with whom they studied directly for ten years in both North America and India. They are founding teachers of the Foothills Yoga Society in Calgary, Canada.
MAHAMANDALESHVARA SWAMI VEDA BHARATI, current Spiritual Director and Preceptor of Sadhana Mandir, Swami Rama’s Ashram, and of Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in Rishikesh, India, has spent the past 60 years teaching and providing spiritual guidance around the world.
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Print: $14.99 Download: $7.00 Nominated for a number of literary awards in 2005, BRIDGES has been called "poignant, sentimental yet down-to-earth, and just plain beautiful." Read the preview and decide for yourself! This special, enlarged text edition is not available from bookstores or other online booksellers.
About the Author: L.P. Sloan’s family always found value in keeping the spirit of past generations alive through a tradition of storytelling. But times changed and the family scattered around the globe. Older people who could recite the stories were suddenly a hemisphere away from the children who were ready to hear them. The growing distances between generations provided the impetus for the author to preserve their tales in Bridges. Yet the yearning for family connections is universal, and readers will find bridges to their own loved ones safely tucked inside these pages as well.
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Print: $17.99 Following Through shines a spotlight into the black hole in inner space where good intentions disappear. It reveals the startling reasons why being serious about making life-improving changes don’t keep your good intentions from fizzling out long before the job is done: It shows why the human mind just isn’t hard-wired for follow through, and what you can do about it.
About the Authors:
Steve Levinson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with more than three decades of experience. Pete Greider, M.Ed. is a consultant who helps athletes and business people overcome obstacles to peak performance. The authors have appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including ABC’s 20/20.
This special enlarged text edition is not available in bookstores, or from other online booksellers.
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Print: $19.99 Download: $6.99 ABOUT THE BOOK: This is the dark, quirky and comical story of John Thompson, a fantastically successful thief who wants out of his elaborate life of false identities, endless travel, and unremitting deceit. Fleeing from his pursuers amid the spiraling chaos of his final round-the-world flight, he realizes he wants more than his abundant wealth and freedom – and thus he must come to terms with what first impelled him into his life of crime.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eric Steeves has worked as a carpenter, a teacher, a psychiatric counselor, a broker, cook and track coach. An accomplished marathon runner, he now lives with his wife and two daughters in Massachusetts. He escapes the winters of the northeast and winters in the Caribbean.
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Print: $18.99 Download: $9.00 "ROYAL" SIZE PAPERBACK FOR UK-EU READERS: A provocative, irreverent study of Marcel Proust’s life, work and philosophy, unlike any book of literary criticism in recent memory. Includes extensive citations for the academic reader or serious researcher. This Royal size edition is not available from bookstores or other online booksellers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steve Bachmann, AB (Harvard), MFA (UNO), JD (Harvard), has represented many organizations working for social change as an attorney. He is also co-founder of “The New Orleans Art Review” and author of two previous books of art criticism.
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Print: $21.99 Download: $9.00 ENLARGED TEXT EDITION, US-EU-UK "A4" SIZE: A provocative, irreverent study of Marcel Proust’s life, work and philosophy, unlike any book of literary criticism in recent memory. Includes extensive citations.This special enlarged text edition is not available from bookstores or other online booksellers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steve Bachmann, AB (Harvard), MFA (UNO), JD (Harvard), has represented many organizations working for social change as an attorney. He is also co-founder of “The New Orleans Art Review” and author of two previous books of fine art criticism.
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