This book describes the origins of the communal household, explores the significance of this growing phenomenon, and offers the reader a comprehensive guide to joining or setting up a shared household.

Shared Houses, Shared Lives : The New Extended Families

Eric Raimy

Tarcher

Offers guidance in overcoming the pressures of play and provides techniques for improving concentration in all competitive sports

Sports Psyching: Playing Your Best Game All of the Time

Sports & Outdoors

Umberto Tosi

Thomas A. Tutko

Miscellaneous

"A sheer testament to the power of the written word." (The New York Times)   Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men.  Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where Casanova lived, wrote, and died.  From his devotion to kabbalah to his collaboration with Mozart and librettist Da Ponte on the opera Don Giovanni, from his vast appetite for food and sex to his training for the priesthood, Casanova reveled in the commedia dell'arte. And, as Kelly posits, it is from Casanova's careful study of its artifice and illusion that his success as both a libertine and a libertarian was founded.

Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy

Biographies & Memoirs

Kelly, Ian

Arts & Literature

"My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy, she carried me in her heart." Bailey, a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book. According to People magazine, parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder Dr. Jane Aronson’s help “as if consulting a master detective.” Angelina Jolie praised Dr. Aronson’s “drive and ambition to help children dream” (Elle). Indeed, over the course of the past three decades, Dr. Aronson has touched the lives of thousands of adopted children from around the world and in this inspiring book she presents moving first-person testimonies from parents (and a few children themselves) whose lives have been blessed by adoption. Divided into thematic sections—such as "The Decision," "The Journey," and "The Moment We Met")—each prefaced by Dr. Aronson, this book introduces readers to Claude Knobler, a writer from Los Angeles whose journey to Ethiopia to adopt his son led to an unexpectedly moving encounter with the boy’s courageous birthmother; actor Mary Louise-Parker whose older adopted son’s bond with her newly adopted baby daughter was deep and unwavering from the instant the two children met; and Lynn Danzker, an entrepreneur who set off alone to adopt her son, Cole, and in the process, met and married her husband. The authors of these testimonies range from doctors to filmmakers, from financial consultants to celebrities—all of them bound by their moving and transformative experience as adoptive parents.

Carried in Our Hearts: The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents

Parenting & Relationships

Aronson, Dr. Jane

Adoption

Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love

Based on thirteen years of research, "FATHER AND CHILD REUNION: How To Bring The Dads We Need To The Children We Love" will force a re-examination of the circumstances in which a dad or a mom is best for children. For starters, some findings on children with single parents …. 
• Children do better with single fathers than with single mothers. Both boys and girls are healthier and do better psychologically and academically, as well as socially. 
• Even characteristics such as empathy are exhibited more by children brought up by single fathers. 
• Single fathers experience less stress juggling children and work than do single mothers. 
What family structures are most likely to be in the child's best interests? Dr. Farrell's findings suggest the following ranking: 
(1) the intact family; (2) shared parent-time (joint physical custody); (3) primary father time; (4) primary mother time. 
While the intact family is the winner, Father and Child Reunion makes it clear why, if divorce cannot be prevented, children being primarily with their dads gives children more of both parents than when they are primarily with their mothers; reduces a mother's economic dependency on a man, and reduces men's ten times greater suicide rate after divorce. 
Does Dr. Farrell conclude, then, that men are better at fathering than women are at mothering? No. But he does conclude that we have been waging a "War Against Fathers" – and mothers and children are among the losers. 
Father and Child Reunion answers questions relevant to every family.

Warren FARRELL

PH.D.

Family Relationships

Prayers from a NonBeliever

Cameron,Julia

Religion & Spirituality

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Reader's Edition) by Manly P. Hall [BOOK] 747 pages PAPERBACK READERS EDITION 2003 * from: HIBISCUS EXPRESS, http://www.amazon.com/shops/AXD9LOVGJXES3 * A classic since 1928, this masterly encyclopedia of ancient mythology, ritual, symbolism, and the arcane mysteries of the ages is available for the first time in a compact "reader's edition." - Like no other book of the twentieth century, Manly P. Hall's legendary The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a codex to the ancient occult and... more » esoteric traditions of the world. Students of hidden wisdom, ancient symbols, and arcane practices treasure Hall's magnum opus above all other works. While many thousands of copies have sold since its initial publication in 1928, The Secret Teachings of All Ages has previously been available only in oversized, expensive editions. For the first time, Hall's celebrated classic is now published in an affordable trade paperback volume. Literally hundreds of entries shine a rare light on some of the most fascinating and closely held aspects of myth, religion, and philosophy from throughout the centuries. More than one hundred line drawings and a sixteen-page color insert reproduce some of the finest illustrations of the original book, while reset and reformatted text makes this edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages newly accessible to readers everywhere.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Hall, Manly P.

New Age & Spirituality

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers

Marc Hartzman

Reference

Reiki is a system of healing and spiritual development that has enjoyed substantial popularity and success worldwide. Learn how to use you own energy to help other along with your own well being.

Reiki: a Comprehensive Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pamela Miles

Alternative Medicine

The Art of Sexual Magic : An Inspirational Guide to Tantric Sex That Will Transform Your Life

ANAND, MARGO

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