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Each of us has a belief system in which at one extreme rejects everything that cannot be proved and at the other is open to all possibilities. Most of us believe in an afterlife although we don’t all agree on what, where and how is that life is to be lived. Do our souls roam the earth, go to Heaven...or Hell or somewhere in between? This story touches on the latter wherein a reclusive Metaphysicist has opened a portal from his convervatory into Purgatory or a Netherland where many of the masters of old who are all destined for Heaven remain because they feel their lives were cut short obviating the opportunity to complete their lives’ works.
Sweet Girls, Life is an incredible thing. You deserve to live a life full of self-love and confidence, secure in the knowledge that you are enough. But unfortunately, sometimes we feel as if we have to fit in and conform to others’ expectations of beauty. If you believe you need to change who you are to be beautiful, then we must change the conversation about beauty culture. Believe me when I say, Sweet Girl, you are, without a doubt, enough. Love, H Her Story is a proactive approach to preparing our girls for the cultural milestones they will encounter as they navigate the obstacle course known as puberty. With humor, personal narrative and historical perspective, Stark guides girls and their parents through the histories of makeup, hair-removal practices, fashion, bras, hair trends and even friendships. She breaks down these cultural mindsets in easy-to-read, understandable terms. She helps girls and parents understand that these practices should be options, not expectations.
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"Incompatible with life" is a medical term used when birth defects are so severe a baby cannot survive. The advent of medical technology has given doctors the ability to identify fetal problems early in pregnancy. Unfortunately, not all of these problems can be remediated. Termination is often the only option that modern medicine has to offer. In Incompatible with Life, author Laura J. Schubert shares the heart-wrenching story of her experience of discovering that the child she is carrying in her womb has a chromosome defect-and the most likely outcome is stillbirth. Despite everything, she decides to continue with the pregnancy. Schubert tells of how the prospect of this much-wanted child w...
The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This study of the great lieder of 19th-century composers Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Hugo Wolf also includes lesser-known composers, such as Louis Spohr and Robert Franz, plus significant contributions from women composers and performers.
"A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New Yorker
New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes—more than half of them women—the book is illustrated with family photographs and also includes background information on Scandinavian culture and immigration.
The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.
Audiences as well as other artists have responded to Franz Schubert's music with passion, both during his time and in the past two centuries. Musicians, painters, writers, and filmmakers have all found a connection with him, integrating his music into their own works in ways that have given their works greater depth. Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy examines Schubert and the ways audiences and artists_both his contemporaries and their descendents_relate to him, analyzing some of the uses of Schubert's music and providing an intimate portrait of the man. Divided into two parts, part one focuses on Schubert's own time, discussing many aspects of Schubert's life and the effects they had on his...