Maison d'édition: Imagination Books
Versailles Beauty Through Watercolors A wonderful collection of watercolor paintings of this beautiful palace, showcasing the sublime and amazing sites through the beauty of the brush stroke...Get it now!
Still struggling with the effects of having ADHD? Do you …? - Do you often feel as if life is out of control, and that it’s impossible to meet demands? - Do you feel overwhelmed in stores, at the office, or at parties? Is it impossible for you to shut out sounds and distractions that don’t bother others? - Do you often shut down in the middle of the day, feeling assaulted? Do requests for “one more thing” put you over the top emotionally? - Do you have trouble balancing your checkbook? - Do you feel like you’re always at one end of a deregulated activity spectrum — either a couch potato or a tornado? - Do you feel that you have better ideas than other people but are unable to organize them or act on them? - Do you start each day determined to get organized, and end each day feeling defeated? - Do you despair of ever fulfilling your potential and meeting your goals? Don’t let ADHD symptoms hold you back. Gain the skills you need to achieve your goals with help from this book Here's a little sneak preview of what you’ll get: - The 15 most effective methods for coping with ADHD - 6 Executive Function Strategies that Really Work for People with ADHD - How to Stop Losing Things - The common signs you need to know - What Happens to Women with ADHD left undiagnosed - Gender differences in ADHD: Why women struggle more - ADHD and Relationships - ADHD and Sleep Problems - ADHD and Emotional Dysregulation - Effects of ADHD on Sexuality - Best Jobs for Women with ADHD - How to improve focus in women with ADHD - Life-management Tools for Women with ADHD It's time to change your life! Learn how to turn your fear and self-doubt into confidence and self-loveVoir livre
Coming across the term "art monster" in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman? Art Monsters is a landmark feminist intervention in the way we think about women's stories and bodies, calling attention to a radical genealogy of feminist art that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims. Exploring a rich lineage of visual artists, thinkers, and writers, Elkin examines the ways feminists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth of their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, raced bodies, female bodies: What are the languages of the body, and what are the materials we need to transcribe them? Above all, how can we use the notion of the feminist "art monster" to shape how we live our lives? Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Elkin demonstrates her power as a cultural critic in this erudite and engaging book. From Kara Walker's silhouettes to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece Dictee, Art Monsters daringly weaves links between disparate artists and writers, and shows that their work offers a potent defense of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, ambiguity and opacity.Voir livre
The Screaming Skull is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white horror film, produced by John Kneubuhl and directed by Alex Nicol (in his directorial debut), starring John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson, and Nicol. The film's storyline concerns a newly-married couple, Eric and Jenni, who arrive at the home of Eric's first wife, where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead Jenni to think she's losing her mind being haunted by the ghost of her new husband's previous wife. The following is the audio track of the feature film.Voir livre
The Ming Dynasty emerged from the ashes of the Yuan Dynasty, a Mongol-led empire that had ruled China for nearly a century. By the late 14th century, the Yuan government had become weak and corrupt, plagued by heavy taxation, famines, and widespread unrest. The Chinese population, weary of foreign rule, began to rise in rebellion. Among the many insurgent leaders, one man would rise to power and change the course of Chinese history—Zhu Yuanzhang. Born into a poor peasant family, Zhu Yuanzhang experienced hardship early in life. Orphaned as a child, he spent years in a Buddhist monastery before joining the Red Turban Rebellion, a movement dedicated to overthrowing the Yuan. His military prowess and strategic mind quickly elevated him through the ranks. As he consolidated power, he systematically eliminated rival factions, eventually establishing himself as the dominant leader of the rebellion. In 1368, Zhu marched his forces into Beijing, forcing the last Yuan emperor to flee northward. Declaring the end of Mongol rule, he proclaimed himself emperor and founded the Ming Dynasty, choosing the name "Ming," meaning "brilliant" or "bright," to symbolize a new era of Chinese rule. As the first Ming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, now known as the Hongwu Emperor, sought to restore Chinese traditions and repair the damage caused by Mongol rule. He reestablished Confucian principles as the foundation of government, reinstating the civil service examination system to ensure that officials were selected based on merit rather than birthright. He also implemented strict laws to reduce corruption, often resorting to harsh punishments to maintain order. His administration worked to rebuild agriculture, improve irrigation systems, and distribute land to farmers, strengthening the economy and ensuring food security.Voir livre
Unforgettably entertaining and emotionally revealing, Loud is pitch-perfect as he describes his path to the podium, from a stage-struck kid growing up at a school devoted to organic farming and mountain climbing, to the searing formative challenges he faces during adolescence, to the remarkable behind-the-scenes stories of his Broadway trials and triumphs. Skilled at masking his fears, Loud achieves his dream until one fateful opening night, when in the midst of a merry, dressing room celebration, he can no longer deny reality and must suddenly, truly, face the music.Voir livre
Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to control the springs of his creativity during that decade. Upon turning 21 in 1971, he freed himself from the Motown contract he'd been saddled with as a child performer, renegotiated the terms, and unleashed hundreds of songs to tape. Over the next five years, Wonder would amass countless recordings and release his five greatest albums - as prolific a golden period as there has ever been in contemporary music. But Songs in the Key of Life is different from the four albums that preceded it; it's an overstuffed, overjoyed, maddeningly ambitious encapsulation of all the progress Stevie Wonder had made in that short space of time.Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.Voir livre
