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Born Southern and Restless (Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction)

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Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion

Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion Describes an approach to spirituality that is based on personal experience of the sacred rather than upon any pre-existing religious doctrine or dogma. Using the language and insights of depth psychology, it describes the intimate relationship between sacred experience and the psychology of the individual, revealing the [...]

Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy

Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still [...]

A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Photographic Technique (6th Edition)

A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Photographic Technique (6th Edition) This easy-to-use, inexpensive book introduces beginning picture takers and makers to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. Oriented toward traditional black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques [...]

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction Revised by celebrated novelist and short-fiction writer Richard Bausch, this edition continues to offer the most exciting blend of contemporary and classic short stories in a portable format. 135 stories—34 of them new to this edition—by 114 authors are lightly supplemented by a general introduction, biographical notes, and [...]

Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength

Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength Bill Phillips is many things to the people who listen to this audiotape: personal trainer, motivational guru, nutrition consultant, personal-success coach. As he reads his bestselling book, he inspires, cajoles, instructs, and sometimes gives listeners a kick in the gluteals. The goal is for [...]

Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne

Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne No writer captured the tragic absurdity of late-twentieth-century America better than John Gregory Dunne. For over forty years, he cast an unsparing eye on contemporary America, never flinching from the unpleasant truths he saw around him. Whether novels, screenplays, or nonfiction, his work was marked with a [...]

Investing Online For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Investing Online For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) Investors are becoming a lot more independent these days. With the stock market sinking and soaring from day to day, retirement plans becoming less certain, and a longer life expectancy in retirement, more people are looking for some control over their investments. If you’re [...]

The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Ch teau Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly [...]

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings [...]