Author : MARY FRANCES BAUGH
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1304067890
A beautiful collection of poetry from the heart. Meaningful and heartfelt you will quickly be drawn into the feelings of each poem.
Author : Dana Polan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520976614
The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history. Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) on a stolen motorcycle jumps an imposing barbed wire fence—caught on film, the act and its aftermath have become an unforgettable symbol of triumph as well as defeat for 1960s America. Combining production and reception history with close reading, Dreams of Flight offers the first full-length study of The Great Escape, the classic film based on a true story of Allied prisoners who hatched an audacious plan to divert and thwart the Wehrmacht and escape into the nearby countryside. Through breezy prose and pithy analysis, Dana Polan centers The Great Escape within American cultural and intellectual history, drawing a vivid picture of the country in the 1960s. We see a nation grappling with its own military history, a society undergoing significant shifts in its culture and identity, and a film industry in transition from Old Hollywood's big-budget runaway studio films to the slow interior cinema of New Hollywood. Dreams of Flight combines this context with fan anecdotes and a close study of filmic style to bring readers into the film and trace its wide-reaching influence. Polan examines the production history, including prior adaptations in radio and television of celebrated author Paul Brickhill's original nonfiction book about the escape, and he compares the cinematic fiction to the real events of the escape in 1944. Dreams of Flight also traces the afterlife of The Great Escape in the many subsequent movies, TV commercials, and cartoons that reference it, whether reverentially or with humor.
Author : Catherine Storr
Publisher : Faber & Faber Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780571313273
A powerful and haunting classic about a girl haunted by her own dreams.
Author : Kari Hohne
Publisher : Way of Tao Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0981977901
If you are interested in understanding the meaning of your dreams, The Mythology of Sleep explores the similar healing themes from our ancient myths. The Mythology of Sleep: The Waking Power of Dreams is a groundbreaking look at the hero's journey through the dreamscape. Just as myths are stories about heroes in search of their destiny, the fantastic landscapes and cryptic symbols appearing in dreams present clues about our real identity. Discover the 3 parts of every dream that reveals the conflict, cause and it's resolution and how dreams describe the future. As if some aspect of the mind has an understanding that transcends time and self-awareness, the journey always awakens us to our full potential. Approaching dreams as the hero's journey through a landscape of wellness, this self-help book makes healing an adventure, and presents a new dimension in the study of dream interpretation.
Author : Pamela Skillings
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0345507371
Does your corporate career leave you stressed out, burned out, or just plain bummed out? You’re not alone. The good news is that there’s a way out–and you’re holding it. Written by career expert and corporate escapee Pamela Skillings, Escape from Corporate America inspires the cubicle-bound and the corner-office-cornered to break free and create the career of their dreams–without going broke. With no-nonsense advice and unflagging humor, Skillings shows you how to • assess your job’s “suck” factor–from terminal boredom to boss from hell • identify your true calling–brainstorm fantasy careers and test-drive your dream jobs • develop your Escape Plan–set goals, figure out your timing, and evaluate your finances and health insurance options • find jobs that don’t bite–entrepreneurial corporate environments, energetic start-ups, the nonprofit sector, and flexible work options • be your own boss–explore entrepreneurship and freelancing, assemble an advisory team, and start a business while you collect a paycheck • follow your creative dreams–learn how to make time for your artistic passion and develop a plan to quit your day job • overcome any obstacle–deal with fear, doubt, negative people, and other bumps along the road Plus, Skillings shares success stories from dozens of corporate escape artists, including celebrity TV chef Andrea Beaman, Cranium CEO Richard Tait, and many others. Full of practical strategies and fun-to-follow exercises, Escape from Corporate America will help disgruntled office workers everywhere find more meaningful, fulfilling careers.
Author : Larry Burk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1844097560
An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being • 2018 Nautilus Silver Award • Shares stories--confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives • Explores medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own medical research • Includes an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation techniques Your dreams can provide inner guidance filled with life-saving information. Since ancient Egypt and Greece, people have relied on the art of dreaming to diagnose illness and get answers to personal life challenges. Now, dreams are making a grand reappearance in the medical arena as recent scientific research and medical pathology reports validate the diagnostic abilities of precognitive dreams. Are we stepping back into the future as modern medical tests show dreams can be early warning signs of cancer and other diseases? Showcasing the important role of dreams and their power to detect and heal illness, Dr. Larry Burk and Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos share amazing research and true stories of physical and emotional healings triggered by dreams. The authors explore medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own research on dreams that come true and can be medically validated. They share detailed stories--all confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives, including Kathleen’s own story as a three-time breast cancer survivor whose dreams diagnosed her cancer even when it was missed by her doctors. Alongside these stories of survival and faith, the authors also include an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation, allowing the reader to develop trust in their dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance.
Author : Zoey Mahrie Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440198810
When Christie Livingston wakes in the morning, she suffers heart palpitations and shivers with fear. Lately, her sinister, recurring dreams have been featuring visions of kidnappings, home invasions, and motorcycle gangs. At times, this retired Kelowna, British Columbia, resident questions her own sanity. She especially worries about her family and friends when they make appearances in her dreams. Christie prays that these events remain in her subconcious alone. But soon, Christie's worst nightmares are manifested when her best friend's young granddaughter is abducted from school. With a fierce winter storm approaching, authorities launch desperate efforts to obtain the handicapped child's safe return. A massive manhunt- for someone in Christie's life- begins in earnest. A roller coaster ride of drama and suspense, Escape Your Nightmares reveals the twisted thinking of a disturbed serial killer and touches upon the terror produced by a contagious and potentially fatal disease., Author Zoey Taylor's new psycho-thriller addresses topics of current relevance while holding you captive to a tension-filled tale. Author's Website www.mahriesradiodreams.com EARLY REVIEWS Zoey Taylor has done it again with her signature storytelling and believable characters. Escape Your Nightmares holds our attention when Chrisite's premonitions become all too real; a gang fight leads to the abduction of an innocent child. Throw in a bit of HIN! flu, a school lockdown, and a desperate search for two unpredictable murderers, and you've got another page-turner with a fast-moving plot that you won't be able to put down. Janeah Rose, author of Finding Happiness Without Children. I loved reading your novel. While some aspects of Escape Your Nightmares dealt with subjects outside my usual milieu, I found the experience both enlightening and educational. I feel like Christie-- her family and friends are people I've known for ages and about whom I care. In Paolo's case, I'd sum it up as "power of love" and power of prayer" equals justice. Karma suggests his next life will find him learning some tough lessons the hard way! Sylvia Port, retired Violent Crime Analyst Once you begin reading Escape Your Nightmares by Zoey Taylor, you won't want to wait to find out what happens next! the plot as well as the characters reflect the interesting twists and turns of current-day events in contemporary society. Dee Battista, Realtor
Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher : One World
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679645985
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307798003
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Author : Tim Pratt
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857667106
Philip K. Dick Award Finalist A “ridiculously fun” series debut “with a well-thought-out space opera setting and lots of fancy reveals”—from a Hugo Award winner (Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky). A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology that could change the fate of humanity—or awaken an ancient evil that could destroy all life in the galaxy. The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with news of First Alien Contact. When the crew informs her that humanity has alien allies already, she reveals that these are very different extra-terrestrials—and the gifts they bestowed on her could kill all humanity, or take it out to the most distant stars.
