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  With One Hand Tied behind My Brain

  Avrel Seale

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  Most would not expect a book about a stroke to be entertaining, but this memoir will force you to laugh through a tragedy, then cry, then laugh again.Avrel Seale was fifty, did not smoke or drink, had low blood pressure, and had hiked more than two hundred miles the year a stroke nearly ended his life. In an instant, he was teleported into the body of an old man—unbalanced, shaky, spastic, and half-paralyzed. Overnight, he was plunged into a world of brain surgeons, nurses, insurance case managers, and an abundance of therapists.Seale leads us through the harrowing day of his stroke and emergency brain surgery with minute-by-minute intensity. We then follow him through ICU, a rehab hospital, and a neuro-recovery group-living center, where we meet a memorable cast of other stroke survivors and also those recovering from auto accidents and gunshots. Finally home, Seale leads us through a new life of firsts, including returning to work, to driving, to playing guitar, to camping, and even to writing a book—all with one hand.What emerges from his humor (“elegant but devastating”) is a revealing critique of the hospital experience, the insurance industry, and rehab culture. And his nothing-off-the-table quest for recovery shows both the sobering struggles and inspiring possibilities of life after a stroke in twenty-first century America.

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  Humor All The Way

  Renee Servello

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  This is a humorous book on aging and her personal observations on life experiences. Renee' tends to see the humor in just about any situation and you will laugh along with her. She doesn't miss much and her observations tend to be on target. She invites her readers to sit back, enjoy the laughs and remember that HUMOR IS THE RX for LIFE.

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  Narrative of Five Years...

  John Gabriel Stedman

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  When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions.   The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.

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  Competability: Solving Behavior...

  Amy Shojai

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  CREATE A PEACEABLE DOG-CAT KINGDOM! 
  Cat behavior and behavior of dogs puzzles the most savvy pet owners, and pet behavior problems lose dogs and cats their homes. Animal behavioral problems arise out of owners not understanding dog language or cat language, and misunderstanding normal animal behavior. From conflicts over favorite sleep spots, sharing potty facilities, resource guarding toys or jealous pets when sharing your attention, adding new pets rubs fur the wrong way and creates hairy situations for everyone—including you. 
  This guide gives owners the ability to understand dog behavior with prescriptive how-to advice for the most common cat behavioral problems when cats and dogs live together. The book includes information about aggressive dog behavior, dog language, positive dog obedience training techniques, how to stop dog biting and prevent dog behavioral problems, understanding feline body language and cat hisses, dealing with cat litter box problems, cat nutrition and feeding challenges around dogs, and more.Recognize and diffuse cat and dog aggressionStop bitesSettle disputes over territorySoothe pet stress and fearSolve hit and miss potty problemsManage mealsLearn pet introduction techniques to other pets, babies, and kidsSolving common pet peeves: eating poop, clawing, barking, chewing, jumping up and more!Address separation behaviorsDog resource guarding of toys, food and owners 
  Fun, practical, and eminently informative, ComPETability briefly looks at the biological, evolutionary, and behavioral differences between cats and dogs to devise strategies for owners that enable the two species to live in harmony within the same household. Written by one of America's premier pet experts, the book explains everything an owner of a cat and dog should know.

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  Monarch Butterfly 20 - 101...

  HowExpert, Jessica Dumas

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  The Monarch Butterfly 2.0: 101 Reasons to Love Our Favorite Orange and Black Butterfly from A to Z is the second edition on the monarch butterflies that will expand your knowledge and admiration of the favorite and most loved butterfly in the history of man.   
  After the first chapter summarizes the first edition, called Monarch Butterfly 101: Learn About Monarch Butterflies in One Sitting, some of the topics to whet your learning appetite are:Exciting news and events about the monarchs such as the Blitz Explanation of scientific names with tips on how to pronounce them How to become a monarch expert on a professional level such as a lepidopteristIdeas of what you can do as a monarch advocate, such as tagging monarchsTips on monarchs, including fun butterfly-related activities for the kids to do Monarch mysteries answered, such as how they know where to migrate toAnswers to FAQs about the monarchs, like why global warming is a threat to them Little-known facts about the monarchs, such as how they are able to navigateLessons to learn on how you can help save the monarch by spreading awareness Fun things to do, like having your next reunion or party at a butterfly conservatory How to have a vacation in Mexico with a tour to see millions of monarchs 
  About the expert: Jessica Dumas has been a freelance writer since 2002 after starting her virtual assistant business called The Butterfly Connection. She specializes in writing blogs, product guides, and books, including children's books, but her favorite thing to write is poems. Her passion is butterflies, and much of her work reflects her love of the monarch butterfly. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  Pablo Picasso and artworks

  Victoria Charles

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  Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s father was a painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Picasso learnt from him the basics of formal academic art training. Then he studied at the Academy of Arts in Madrid but never finished his degree. Picasso, who was not yet eighteen, had reached the point of his greatest rebelliousness; he repudiated academia’s anemic aesthetics along with realism’s pedestrian prose and, quite naturally, joined those who called themselves modernists, the non-conformist artists and writers, those whom Sabartés called “the élite of Catalan thought” and who were grouped around the artists’ café Els Quatre Gats. During 1899 and 1900 the only subjects Picasso deemed worthy of painting were those which reflected the “final truth”; the transience of human life and the inevitability of death. His early works, ranged under the name of “Blue Period” (1901-1904), consist in blue-tinted paintings influenced by a trip through Spain and the death of his friend, Casagemas. Even though Picasso himself repeatedly insisted on the inner, subjective nature of the Blue Period, its genesis and, especially, the monochromatic blue were for many years explained as merely the results of various aesthetic influences. Between 1905 and 1907, Picasso entered a new phase, called “Rose Period” characterised by a more cheerful style with orange and pink colours. In Gosol, in the summer of 1906 the nude female form assumed an extraordinary importance for Picasso; he equated a depersonalised, aboriginal, simple nakedness with the concept of “woman”...

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