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Based on more than three decades of leading dharma sessions and retreats, Catherine Ingram celebrates seven qualities of awakened awareness that consistently emerge when we are in our right hearts and minds: tenderness, embodiment, genuineness, discernment, delight, wonder, and silence. Through stories and personal reflections, she encourages readers to recognize these traits within ourselves as a reminder of our inherent wisdom.
Arnold's Incredible Art Museum is open for business! Come along as he leads his friends on a trip through his imaginary museum, showing off his exhibits. Join Gertrude, George, Dot and the rest as they spend a day with Arnold in his museum. He has it all planned out, but will the others play along? Illustrated by Jim Stoten, this is a hilarious comic adventure, featuring real - and imaginary - works of art.
Immerse yourself in the world of Frida Kahlo. Find the iconic artist, revolutionary and proto-feminist hidden in 12 vibrant scenes. Each details a key aspect of Frida's life, from her eccentric teenaged years to her dynamic arrival as an international artist and her deep love of Mexican culture. Scenese are populated with a huge cast of over 200 additional characters to spot, including artists, flimmakers, writers and photographers as well as guest appearances from famous faces who continue to be inspired by her!
The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. It showcases Larry McMurtry's strong affinity for the landscape and its inhabitants with a deeply felt lyrical intensity. On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull. When Scull's favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to ...
Perfect for bedtime, Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep is a beautifully illustrated story with a gentle mindfulness message from award-wining author-illustrator Catherine Rayner. Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, it's especially helpful for little ones who have trouble going to sleep. Arlo the lion is exhausted. He just can't drop off, no matter what he tries. It's either too hot, or too cold; too loud or too quiet. But then he meets Owl. She can sleep through the day, which isn't easy when most other animals are awake! Will Arlo ever get any rest? Perhaps his new friend has some special tricks she can teach him to help him sleep . . .
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Many researchers and China observers would agree that understanding how China pursues global communication is critical for assessing its growing soft power. While soft power as a concept has, in many ways, become almost inextricably linked with the PRC's (People's Republic of China) international diplomacy of the twenty-first century, the specific role of global media within soft power diplomacy and the corresponding influence of Western mediated public diplomacy within China is a lacuna that has remained largely unexplored. Moreover, the different Chinese and Western perspectives on the influence of global media and public diplomacy on Sino-Western relations, and the changing role of global...
A Crack in Everything reveals a collision of values--old world and new, European and American, rich and poor--as the lives of a Hollywood producer, two young musical prodigies, an actress/model, and a couple of wise and earthy women intersect and force transformations in each other. Spanning several continents, the story is a journey of love and loss, the redemption that comes in realizing life's true priorities, and the light that gets in through the cracks along the way.
In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in the French classical manner, he was inspired by the Impressionists and Cézanne to create in a style that brought out the beauty of colour, form and line by reducing them to their essentials. While considered a leader of the Fauves and an inspiration to most of the great figures in modern art, he wasn't particularly interested in being associated with any particular school or trend. A family man who worked 'office hours' in his studio he defies the image of the artist as enfant terrible or tortured soul. In a career spanning six decades, he produced masterpiece after masterpiece that constantly challenge how we perceive color and form. This title is appropriate for ages 14 and up
The co-founder of one of the world's cutting-edge meditation centers reveals how to connect more fully to the world and experience contentment, harmony, joy, and love--every minute of life.