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From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.
A summary of the epidemiology of human cancer.
"The Dogs in My Life" captures the love and warmth shared between Supreme Master Ching Hai and her numerous dogs with full-color photos and poetic captions written from the canines' point of view. The Supreme Master Ching Hai had been compiling these touching dog tales since she began adopting them, one after another, from shelters in 2001. It was a miraculous journey for these dogs in their rebirth through her compassion. Readers of this book will see dogs in a new light -- noble beings with a whole lot of love!
In this beautifully illustrated book, Master Ching Hai lovingly writes about each one of Her feathered friend's unique biography, complemented by life-like photographs and captions filled with amusing telepathic exchanges between Master and bird. As one views these colorful vibrant beings among the trees and flowers, singing their love for God, one feels a soulful retreat from the daily grind of the urban jungle. Simply opening this book of Master Ching Hai, instantly brings forth a magical forest animated with birds and flowers. Twenty-three beautiful feathered beings, frequently seen nestling in the Master's arms, brings Her endless joy. She is often moved by their words and actions and is greatly inspired by them as well. Master Ching Hai pleasantly surprises the reader by revealing that inside these God's creations are very highly developed souls whose love know no boundaries.
Film Curatorship is an experiment: a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations, and exchanges among four professionals representing three generations of film archivists and curators. It calls for an open philosophical and ethical debate on fundamental questions the profession must come to terms with in the twenty-first century.
This book reveals to the reader many insights that give a better understanding of our dear animal co-inhabitants who dwell in the greatness of nature. Their noble spirit and love is incomparable and everlasting, precisely as the Author shares in the book: "It is a privilege for me to be revealed this information. I did not seek to know. It just came by itself as the bond of friendship deepened between the wilds and me. Once I knew some of them, other species' data became also available. And once we know even as little as what I know, we will never look at the animals the same way as we did before." Supreme Master Ching Hai.
My Wounded Heart tells the heart-breaking story of a gifted Jewish doctor, the mother of five children, who, after being divorced by her Aryan husband, is arrested on an absurd charge and sent to a corrective labour camp in 1942. Lilli was a prolific letter writer and miraculously almost all her letters to her children and friends, together with a huge number of their letters to her (smuggled out of the camp at Breitenau before she was sent to Auschwitz), survived the Second World War and only came to light on the death of her son in 1998. In the letters and in Martin Doerry's superb commentary, we see the deterioration of a whole country through the eyes of an ordinary family driven asunder...
Based on the only interviews ever carried out with the two main conspirators of the 11th September attacks, MASTERMINDS OF TERROR is the incredible account of how Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plotted the assaults on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill in 2001. Using unique investigative material, the authors build a vivid picture of how the catastrophic acts of terrorism were devised over the course of two years and provide incredible material relating to the covert operations that preceded the disaster, the majority of which is previously unpublished. The book contains the full written justification for the attacks by Binalshibh, as well as the entire text o...