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Mistakes. We all make them. But should there always be regrets? If you like true-life stories in the self-help genre, you are in the right place. It was a mistake is a how-to manual for professionals seeking to harness the power of failure in a quest for self-improvement. Failure can become your launching pad for positive change if you change your perspective. In fact, this book proclaims the more mistakes you make, the better person you will be! This powerful title includes: Engaging stories in essay form of real-life mistakes and failure experiences that ‘worked.' Practical steps that you can apply to change your approach to life’s failures. Ways to eliminate the fear of making mistake...
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Beautiful Bentley's and Vauxhall van's are fixed in equally poor fashion in this book of quirky but poetic close ups of cars held together by tape and string from around the world. Ronni Campana, who specialises in powerful and detailed still life elevates the banal into something akin to abstract art. A strip of old tape across a car's broken headlight takes on a powerfully graphical form. Green plastic hanging from a door divides the frame like a Rothko colour wash. This is very much an art photography book but the accessible format, price and content give it mainstream potential.
In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself. Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark Edmundson offers a bold reading of the 1855 poem, included here in its entirety. He finds in the poem the genesis and development of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Whitman broke from past literature that he saw as “feudal”: obsessed with the noble and great. He wanted instead to celebrate the common and everyday. Song of Myself does this, setting the terms for dem...