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  This Creative Life - A Handbook...

  Sara Zarr

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  There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention--no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose. 
  In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her sixteen-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer.

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  The Good Stuff from Growing Up...

  Karen Casey

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  Living in a dysfunctional family isn't easy. But while you can't choose where you come from, you can choose the lessons you take away. 
   
   
   
  Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and "the good stuff" that can, ironically, come from the experience. She interviews survivors who emerged from the fires of turbulent households affected by abuse, addiction, or other problems, and reveals how they came to process their often-harrowing personal trials and, against the odds, triumph over their difficulties—using skills they honed in response to their childhoods. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family, Casey reveals the stories and the skills they developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives, and not just survive but thrive. 
   
   
   
  "Using her interviews as groundwork, she explores the benefits that result from surviving in a dysfunctional family, including resiliency, perseverance, a sense of humor, forgiveness, kindness, and the ability to discern real love." —Publishers Weekly 
   
   
   
  "You just can't go wrong with Karen Casey." —Earnie Larson, author of Stage II Recovery

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  The Flower of the House of Ming

  Manly P. Hall

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  The Flower of the House of Ming is a poetic and philosophical reflection by Manly P. Hall, first published in his periodical The All-Seeing Eye. Written with delicate insight and symbolic richness, this esoteric essay blends Chinese mysticism, alchemical allegory, and spiritual aspiration into a tale of transcendent beauty. 
  The “flower” of the Ming house is both literal and metaphorical—an emblem of purity, wisdom, and the highest virtues cultivated through inner discipline. As with many of Hall’s writings, it is a subtle initiation—a meditation for the student of spiritual philosophy to unlock with contemplation. 
  This new edition from Adultbrain Publishing preserves the elegance of Hall’s original words while presenting the text in a refined format for the modern seeker.

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  Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era...

  Robert P. Stoker, Clarence N. Stone

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  For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however, signs of change. This collection of studies by a distinguished group of political scientists and urban planning scholars offers a rich analysis of the scope, potential, and ramifications of a shift still in progress. Focusing on neighborhoods in six cities—Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Toronto—the authors show how key players, including politicians and philanthropic organizations, are beginning to see economic growth and neighborhood improvement as complementary goals. The heads of universities and hospitals in central locations also find themselves facing newly defined realities, adding to the fluidity of a new political landscape even as structural inequalities exert a continuing influence. While not denying the hurdles that community revitalization still faces, the contributors ultimately put forth a strong case that a more hospitable local milieu can be created for making neighborhood policy. In examining the course of experiences from an earlier period of redevelopment to the present postindustrial city, this book opens a window on a complex process of political change and possibility for reform.

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  How to Learn Faster: 7 Easy...

  Troye Bates

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  Do you typically require more time and effort than others to pick up new skills and integrating new information? 
    
  If you consider yourself a slow learner, this guide is exactly what you need! Herein, you will find some helpful strategies which can help you develop the skills you need to become a faster learner. 
    
  These fool-proof accelerated learning methods have been studied by many education experts and cognitive psychologists and proven to work. You should, therefore, have no doubt in your mind that with the help of these fast learning skills, you will be able to learn and master any skill or subject which you desire. 
    
  YOU WILL LEARN: 
  • The process of learning and how it happens. 
  • The essential elements for learning. 
  • The different learning styles which students prefer. 
  • The various learning difficulties affecting learners. 
  • 7 easy steps to improve your learning speed. 
    
  This guide demystifies the process of learning and shows that anyone can indeed become a fast learner!

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  Scandalous Women - The Lives and...

  Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

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  Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events. 
   
   
   
  ● When Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) wasn't bathing in asses' milk, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and forged an important political alliance with Rome against her enemies—until her dalliance with Marc Antony turned the empire against her. 
   
   
   
  ● Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1748) shocked society with her unorthodox lifestyle and intellectual prowess—and became a leader in the study of theoretical physics in France at a time when the sciences were ruled by men. 
   
   
   
  ● Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1928) fought to end discrimination and the terrible crime of lynching and helped found the NAACP, but was largely lost in the annals of history. 
   
   
   
  ● Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) left her privileged world behind to become one of the foremost chroniclers of British imperialism in the Middle East, and one of the architects of the modern nation of Iraq.

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