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Just Keep Breathing: Unfiltered Thoughts on Life After Loss, the Struggle of Grief, and Learning to Hope Again

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Just Keep Breathing: The Spiritual Guide to Conquering Your Life and Reaching Your Truest Potential

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Letter from America Penguin

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When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. Over half have never appeared in print before. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man. Fred Astaire 26 June 1987 Movie stars don't make it. Nor statesmen. Not Prime Ministers, or dictators unless they die in office. Not even a world-famous rock star, unless he's assassinated. But last Monday, none of the three national television networks hesitated about the story that would lead the evening news. On millions of little screens in this country and I don't doubt in many other countries around the world, the first shots were of an imp, a graceful wraith, a firefly in impeccable white tie and tails. And for much longer than the lead story usually runs, for a full five minutes on NBC, we were given a loving retrospective of the dead man, ending with the firm declaration by Nureyev that 'He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.' And the newsmen were right to remind us of the immortal comment of the Hollywood mogul, who, with the no-nonsense directness of an expert, reported on Fred Astaire's first film test: 'Has enormous ears, can't act, can't sing, dances a little.' That Hollywood mogul, long gone, spent his life ducking round corners, to avoid being identified as the oaf who looked in the sky and never saw the brightest star. However, that expert opinion was, as the lawyers say, controlling at the time and in Astaire's first movies, there was no thought of allowing him to act or sing. But not for long. And thanks to the invention of television, and the need to fill vast stretches of the afternoon and night with old movies, it has been possible for my daughter, for instance, to claim Fred Astaire as her favourite film star from the evidence of all the movies he made fifteen, ten, five, three years before she was born. When I got the news on Monday evening here, and realized with immediate professional satisfaction that the BBC had smartly on hand a musical obituary tribute to him I put together eight years ago, I couldn't help recalling the casual, comic way this and similar radio obituaries came about. I was in London at the end of 1979, and Richard Rodgers - one of the two or three greatest of American songwriters - had just died, I believe on New Year's Eve or the night before. Britons, by then, were getting accustomed, without pain, to making what used to be a two-day Christmas holiday into a ten-day much-needed rest. For all laborious research purposes, the BBC was shut up. And there was no retrospective programme on the life and music of Richard Rodgers in the BBC's archives. Of course, in a gramophone library that looks like an annex to the Pentagon, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of recordings of his songs. The SOS went out to a writer, a producer, and - I presume - a man who had the key to the gramophone library. The silent place was unlocked, and the three of them laboured through the day to put together an hour's tribute to Richard Rodgers. It was done. It was competent enough, but rushed to an impossible deadline. This hasty improvisation happened just when my own music producer and I, who had enjoyed working together for six years or so on American popular music, were wondering what we could offer next. We'd done a sketch history of jazz, through individuals. We'd gone through all the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and were stumped for a new series, at which point I asked if we mightn't go and talk to the head of the channel, network or whatever. We went in, and the genial boss asked me what we had in mind. 'A morgue,' I said. A what? 'Where', I asked, 'is your morgue?' He was not familiar with the word, a newspaper term. 'Well,' I said, 'all newspapers have them.' 'How d'you mean?' 'If, I explained, 'Mrs Thatcher died tonight and you woke up and read a two-sentence obituary, you'd be rightly outraged. But if you saw a two-page obituary, you'd take it for granted. When d'you suppose it was written?' 'That's right,' he said thoughtfully. What I was proposing was a morgue of the Americans eminent in popular music and jazz, so they'd not get caught short again. A splendid idea, the man said; pick your stars. We made a list and were commissioned to return to America and finish all of them. Naturally, we looked at a calendar, and birthdates of Hoagy Carmichael, Earl Hines, Harold Arlen, Ethel Merman, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald. But then, in a spasm of panic, we thought of two giants - if the word can be used about two comparative midgets: Irving Berlin and Fred Astaire. Berlin was then 91. And Fred Astaire was just crowding 80. The boss man, to whom the idea of a morgue had been, only a few minutes before, quaint if not morbid, wondered what we were waiting for. Better get busy, at once, on Berlin and then on Astaire. I remember doing the Astaire obit, then and there, while I was still in London. Meanwhile, we'd simply pray every night that the Lord would keep Irving Berlin breathing till I could get home and get busy. I remember being picked up in a car by a charming young girl to get to the BBC and record my Astaire narration - there wasn't a moment to lose. She asked me, in the car, what the script was that I was clutching. 'It's an obituary', I said, 'of Fred Astaire.' 'Fred Astaire,' she shrieked, 'dead?' and almost swerved into a bus. 'Of course, he's not dead,' I said, 'but he's going to be one day.' She, too, was new to the institution of a morgue. I recalled that when I was a correspondent for a British paper in the United States, and when for example. Dean Acheson was appointed Secretary of State, the first cable I had from my editor said, 'Welcome Acheson obituary soonest.' How ghoulish, she said. I imagine that to two generations at least, it's assumed that Fred Astaire, this slim, pop-eyed newcomer to Hollywood who couldn't act, couldn't sing, danced a little, only made a fool of the mogul through the movies he made, with Ginger Rogers, in the mid- and late 1930s. But long before then, from the mid-1920s on, he was already an incomparable star - as a dancer - to theatre audiences both in New York and in London. Perhaps more in London than anywhere, certainly in the 1920s, with the early Gershwin hits, Funny Face and Lady Be Good, and lastly, in 1933, in Cole Porter's Gay Divorce (which was the title of the theatre show; Hollywood would not then allow so shocking a title and called the movie version, The Gay Divorcee). Of all the thousands of words that have been written this week, and will be written, there is a passage I went back to on Tuesday night which, I think, as well as anything I know, sums up Astaire's overall appeal - the appeal that takes in but transcends one's admiration for his dancing and for his inimitably intimate singing style. This was written in November 1933, by a theatre critic who had so little feel for dancing that he marvelled why London should go on about 'Mr Astaire's doing well enough what the Tiller Girls at Blackpool do superbly'. The critic, the writer, was James Agate, the irascible, dogmatic, opinionated but brilliant journalist, and I believe the best critic of acting we have had this century. He is writing his review of Gay Divorce, after declaring yet again his contempt for musical comedy as an entertainment for idiots, deploring the play's plot and the acting and hoping 'Micawberishly, for something to turn up'. 'Presently,' he wrote, 'Mr Fred Astaire obliged, and there is really no more to be said.' Except

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Slim Calm Sexy Yoga Rodale Press

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Most people think of yoga as just a bunch of breathing and stretches. But a surprising amount of research links it to healthier eating habits, reduced stress, and better sex, plus other benefits like lower blood pressure, stronger immunity, and improved cardiovascular function. Women's Health has teamed up with Tara Stiles, popular yoga instructor and founder of Strala Yoga in New York City, to show readers exactly how to achieve these benefits. Using a series of 15-minute yoga solutions, Stiles leads women through a daily step-by-step yoga practice that targets the health or lifestyle issues that keep them from feeling good and looking their best. With real-life 'Yoga Interventions' and 'Take It from Tara' insider tips throughout, Stiles shares the must-do poses, breathing techniques, and meditations to help women slim down, stay calm, and look- and feel-sexier than they ever have before.

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Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan BANTAM TRADE

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This short time is all it takes to master the 38 simple exercises in this book. You will quickly grasp the ancient Yoga secrets of breathing, concentration, nutrition and muscle control -- in just minutes of your spare time and without any discomfort. Day by day you will notice astonishing results -- loss of weight, greater firmness, more energy, relief from pain, freedom from stress and an overall feeling of youthfulness and well-being. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keep your whole organism radiant with a natural beauty and health. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keep your whole organsim radiant with natural beauty and health!

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Falling Kingdoms Penguin Random House Children's UK

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Fantasy, romance and magic meld with unforgettable characters in this sensational series debut. Perfect for fans of George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones", JRR Tolkein's "The Hobbit", and Trudy Canavan's "Black Magician" trilogy. In a land where magic has been forgotten and peace has reigned for centuries, unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms battle for power...A princess must journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long-thought extinct. A rebel becomes the leader of a bloody revolution. A Sorceress discovers the truth about the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. It's the eve of war. Each must choose a side. KINGDOMS WILL FALL. "From an opening dripping with blood, magic, and betrayal through complex interweaving plots detailing treachery, deceit, and forbidden love, this novel is the first in a projected series that will immediately engage readers and keep them intrigued". ("Booklist"). About the author: Morgan Rhodes lives in Ontario, Canada. As a child, she always wanted to be a princess - the kind that knows how to wield a sharp sword to help save both kingdoms and princes from fire-breathing dragons and dark wizards. Instead, she became a writer, which is just as good and much less dangerous. Along with writing, Morgan enjoys photography, travel, and reality TV, and is an extremely picky yet voracious reader of all kinds of books. Under another pen name, she's a national bestselling author of many paranormal novels. "Falling Kingdoms" is her first high fantasy. Follow her on Twitter @morganrhodesya.

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Keeper (Vega Jane, Book 2) Scholastic

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Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it -- until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie. Now just one thing stands between Vega Jane and freedom -- the Quag. In order to leave Wormwood and discover the truth about her world, Vega and her best friend, Delph, must find a way to make it across a terrifying land of bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic. But the Quag is worse than Vega Jane's darkest imagining. It's a living, breathing prison designed to keep enemies out and the villagers of Wormwood in. The Quag will throw everything at Vega Jane. It will try to break her. It will try to kill her. And survival might come at a price not even Vega Jane is willing to pay. Bestselling author David Baldacci unleashes a hurricane of action and adrenaline that takes readers to the breaking point.

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Craftsman's Handbook Dover Publications Inc.

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PrefaceII The first chapter of the first section of this bookII "How some enter the profession through loftiness of spirit, and some, for profit"III Fundamental provisions for anyone who enters this professionIIII How the schedule shows you into how many sections and branches the occupations are dividedV How you begin drawing on a little panel; and the system for itVI How to draw on several kinds of panelsVII What kind of bone is good for treating the panelsVIII "How you should start drawing with a style, and by what light"VIIII "How you should give the system of lighting, light or shade, to your figures, endowing them with a system of relief"X "The method and system for drawing on sheep parchment and on paper, and shading with washes"XI How you may draw with a leaden styleXII "How, if you have made a slip in drawing with leaden style, you my erase it, and by what means"XIII How you should practice drawing with a penXIIII How to learn to cut the quill for drawingXV How you should advance to drawing on tinted paperXVI How the green tint is made on paper for drawing; and the way to temper itXVII "How you should tint kid parchment, and by which method you burnish it"XVIII How you should tint paper turnsole colorXVIIII How you should tint paper with an indigo tintXX "How you should tint papers with reddish color, or almost peach color"XXI How you should tint papers with flesh colorXXII "How you should tint papers greenish gray, or drab"XXIII How you may obtain the essence of a good figure or drawing with tracing paperXXIIII The first way to learn how to make a clear tracing paperXXV A second way to make tracing paper: with glueXXVI How to make tracing paper out of paperXXVII How you should endeavor to copy and draw after as few masters as possibleXXVIII How you should regulate your life in the interests of decorum and the condition of your hand; and in what company; and what method you should first adopt for copying a figure from high upXXX "How you should first start drawing on paper with charcoal, and take the measurement of the figure, and fix it with a silver style"XXXI "How you should draw and shade with washes on tinted paper, and then put lights on with white lead"XXXII How you may put on lights with washes of white lead just as you shade with washes of inkXXXIII How to make good and perfect and slender coals for drawingXXXIIII About a stone which has the character of charcoal for drawing. This ends the first section of this bookIIXXXV The second section of this book: bringing you to the working up of the colorsXXXVI "This shows you the natural colors, and how you should grind black"XXXVII How to make various sorts of blackXXXVIII On the character of the red color called sinoperXXXVIIII "How to make the red called cinabrese, for doing flesh on the wall; and about its character"XL On the character of the red called vermilion; and how it should be worked upXLI On the character of a red called red leadXLII On the character of a red called hematiteXLIII On the character of a red called dragonsbloodXLIIII On the character of a red called lacXLV On the character of a yellow color called ocherXLVI On the character of a yellow color called giallorinoXLVII On the character of a yellow called orpimentXLVIII On the character of a yellow called realgarXLVIIII On the character of a yellow called saffronL On the character of a yellow called arzicaLI On the character of a green called terre-verteLII On the character of a green called malachiteLIII How you make a green with orpiment and indigoLIIII How you make a green with blue and giallorinoLV How you make a green with ultramarine blueLVI On the character of a green called verdigrisLVII How you make a green with white lead and terre-verte; or lime whiteLVIII On the character of lime whiteLVIIII On the character of white leadLX On the character of azuriteLXI To make an imitation of azurite with other colorsLXII "On the character of ultramarine blue, and how to make it"LXIII The importance of knowing how to make brushesLXIIII How to make minever brushesLXV "How you should make bristle brushes, and in what manner"LXVI How to keep minever tails from getting moth-eaten. This ends the second section of this book; begins the thirdIIILXVII "The method and system for working on a wall, that is, in fresco; and on painting and doing flesh for a youthful face"LXVIII The method for painting an aged face in frescoLXVIIII The method for painting various kinds of beards and hair in frescoLXX The proportions which a perfectly formed man's body should possessLXXI The way to paint a drapery in frescoLXXII The way to paint on a wall in secco; and the temperas for itLXXIII How to make a violet colorLXXIIII To execute a violet color in frescoLXXV To try to imitate an ultramarine blue for use in frescoLXXVII To paint a shot green drapery in frescoLXXVIII To paint in fresco a drapery shot with ash grayLXXVIIII To paint one in secco shot with lacLXXX To paint one in fresco or in secco shot with each otherLXXXI To paint a greenish-gray costume in fresco or in seccoLXXXII "To paint a costume, in fresco and in secco, of a greenish-gray color like the color of wood"LXXXIII "To make a drapery, or a mantle for Our Lady, with azurite or ultramarine blue"LXXXIIII "To make a black drapery for a monk's or friar's robe, in fresco and in secco"LXXXV "On the way to paint a mountain, in fresco or in secco"LXXXVI "The way to paint trees and plants and foliage, in fresco and in secco"LXXXVII "How buildings are to be painted, in fresco and in secco"LXXXVIII The way to copy a mountain from nature. This ends the third section of this bookIVLXXXVIIII "How to paint in oil on a wall, on panel, on iron, and where you please"LXXXX How you should start for working in oil on a wallLXXXXI "How you are to make oil, good for a tempera, and also for mordants, by boiling with fire"LXXXXII How good and perfect oil is made by cooking in the sunLXXXXIII "How you should work up the colors with oil, and employ them on the wall"LXXXXIIII "How you should work in oil on iron, on panel, on stone"LXXXXV The way to embellish with gold or with tin on a wallLXXXXVI How you should always make a practice of working with fine gold and with good colorsLXXXXVII "How you should cut the golden tin, and embellish"LXXXXVIII How to make green tin for embellishingLXXXXVIIII "How to make the golden tin, and how to lay fine gold with this vermeil"C "How to fashion or cut out the stars, and put them on the wall"CI How you can make the diadems of the saints on the wall with this tin gilded with fine goldCII How you should model up a diadem in lime mortar on a wallCIII How from the wall you enter upon panel-painting. This ends the fourth section of the bookVCIIII The system by which you should prepare to acquire the skill to work on panelCV How you make batter or flour pasteCVI How you should make cement from mending stonesCVII How to make cement for mending dishes of glassCVIII "How fish glue is used, and how it is tempered"CVIIII "How goat glue is made, and how it is tempered; and how many purposes it will serve"CX A perfect size for tempering gessos for anconas or panelsCXI A size which is good for tempering blues and other colorsCXII To make a glue out of lime and cheese. This ends the fifth section of this bookVICXIII How you should start to work on a panel or anconasCXIIII How you should put cloth on a panelCXV How the flat of a panel should be gessoed with the slice with gesso grossoCXVI How to gesso sottile for gessoing panelsCXVII How to gesso an ancona with gesso sottile; and how to temper itCXVIII How you may gesso with gesso sottile without having gessoes with gesso grosso firstCXVIIII How you should temper and grind gesso sottile for modelingCXX How you should start to scrape down an ancona flat gessoed with gesso sottileCXXI "How the gesso sottile on the flats should be scraped down, and what these scrapings are good for"CXXII "How to draw on panel with charcoal, to begin with, and to fix it with ink"CXXIII How you should mark out the outlines of the figures for gilding the groundsCXXIIII "How to model on a panel with gesso sottile, and how to mount precious stones"CXXV How you should cast a relief for embellishing areas of anconasCXXVI How to plaster reliefs on a wallCXXVII How to model with mortar on a wall the say you model with gesso on panelCXXVIII "How to take reliefs from a stone mold, and how they are good on wall and on panel"CXXVIIII How you may model on a wall with varnishCXXX How you may model on a wall with waxCXXXI "How to lay bole on panel, and how to temper it"CXXXII "Another way to temper bole on panel, for gilding"CXXXIII How you may gild on panel with terre-verteCXXXIIII How to gild on panelCXXXV What stones are good for burnishing this gildingCXXXVI How to prepare the stone for burnishing goldCXXXVII "How you should burnish the gold, or mend matters in case it could not get burnished"CXXXVIII "Now I will show you how to burnish, and in what direction, especially a flat"CXXXVIIII "What gold is good for burnish and mordant gilding, and what thickness"CXL "How you should begin swinging the diadems and do stamping on the gold, and mark out the outlines of the figures"CXLI How to design gold brocades in various colorsCXLII How to execute gold or silver brocadesCXLIII Several rules for cloths of gold and silverCXLIV "How to do velvet, wool, and silk"CXLV How to paint on panelCXLVI How to make draperies in blue and purpleCXLVII How to paint facesCXLVIII How to paint a dead manCXLVIX How to paint woundsCL How to paint waterVIICLI "A short section on mordant gilding. How to make a standard mordant, and how to gild with it"CLII How to control the drying of the mordantCLIII How to make a mordant out of garlicVIIICLIV Introduction to a short section on varnishingCLV When to varnishCLVI How to make a painting look as if it were varnishedIXCLVII "A short section on illuminating: first, how to gild on parchment"CLVIII Another kind of size: for grounds onlyCLIX How to make and use mosaic goldCLX How to grind gold and silver for use as colorsCLXI Colors for use on parchmentXCLXII "A section dealing with work on cloth: first, painting and gilding"CLXIII Various ways to do hangingsCLXIV How to draw for embroiderersCLXV "How to work on silk, on both sides"CLXVI How to paint and gild on velvetCLXVII How to lay gold and silver on woolen clothCLXVIII How to make devices out of gilded paperCLXIX How to model crests or helmetsCLXX How to do caskets or chestsXICLXXI "A short section on operations with glass: first, for windows"CLXXII How to gild for reliquary ornamentsCLXXII Arrangements for drawing on this glassCLXXII How to draw on the gilded glassCLXXII How to scrape the gold off the backgroundsCLXXII How to back up the drawing with colorsXIICLXXII "Part of a section dealing with mosaic: first, a fragment from the end of a chapter otherwise lost"CLXXII Mosaic of quill cuttingsCLXXII "Mosaic of crushed eggshells, painted"CLXXII Mosaic of paper or foilCLXXII "Mosaic of eggshells, gilded"XIIICLXXIII "A section dealing with miscellaneous incidental operations: first, block printing on cloth"CLXXIV How to gild a stone figureCLXXV The dangers of a wet wall for frescoCLXXV Preliminary precautions against moistureCLXXV Waterproofing with boiled oilCLXXVI Waterproofing with pitchCLXXVI Waterproofing with liquid varnishCLXXVII How to distemper inside walls with greenCLXXVIII How to varnish terre-verteCLXXIX How to clean off the paint after you have made up a face CLXXX The perils of indulgence in cosmeticsCLXXXI "The final section, devoted to methods of casting, begins here"CLXXXII How to take a life maskCLXXXIII The breathing tubesCLXXXIV The operations of casting the matrixCLXXXIV How to cast this waste moldCLXXXV How to cast whole figuresCLXXXVI How to make a cast of your own personCLXXXVII Castings in gesso for use on panelCLXXXVIII How to cast medalsCLXXXIX How to make a mold from a seal or coinIndex

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