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  Animal Kind - Lessons on love...

  Emma Lock

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  The Beauty of Animal Companionship 
  For hundreds of years, humans and animals have had special bonds with each other. We've lived side-by-side through thick and thin—these relationships are not just about raising pets and farm animals. Our animal companions offer inspiration, friendship, health, and real-life opportunities for recovery that we can't achieve alone. 
  True stories of animal therapy: In Animal Kind, Emma Lock of YouTube fame shares stories of the incredible ways that animals keep us healthy and happy, physically and mentally. You'll be inspired by the tales of remarkable recovery, from vision-impaired individuals who have gained independence with the help of seeing-eye dogs, to the woman who found new life as an equestrian champion after an arm amputation. 
  Friendship in surprising places: The stories in Animal Kind feature an array of relationships that may surprise you. Even wild animals like snakes and racoons have been known to offer life-changing companionship. With each story, you'll learn fun facts about the featured species and hear from the people who love them. You'll also hear the never-before-told story of how animals changed Emma's life for good.

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  Gustave Courbet

  Georges Riat

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  Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.
  He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. Then followed the Funeral at Ornans, which the critics violently assailed: “A masquerade funeral, six metres long, in which there is more to laugh at than to weep over.” Indeed, the real offence of Courbet’s pictures was that they represented live flesh and blood. They depicted men and women as they really are and realistically doing the business in which they are engaged. His figures were not men and women deprived of personality and idealised into a type, posed in positions that will decorate the canvas. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist. So at the Universal Exposition of 1855 he withdrew his pictures from the exhibition grounds and set them in a wooden booth, just outside the entrance. Over the booth he posted a sign with large lettering. It read, simply: “Courbet – Realist.” Like every revolutionary, he was an extremist. He ignored the fact that to every artist the truth of nature appears under a different guise according to his way of seeing and experiencing. Instead, he adhered to the notion that art is only a copying of nature and not a matter also of selection and arrangement. In his contempt for prettiness Courbet often chose subjects which may fairly be called ugly. But that he also had a sense of beauty may be seen in his landscapes. That sense, mingled with his capacity for deep emotion, appears in his marines – these last being his most impressive work. Moreover, in all his works, whether attractive or not to the observer, he proved himself a powerful painter, painting in a broad, free manner, with a fine feeling for colour, and with a firmness of pigment that made all his representations very real and stirring.

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  The Age of Loneliness - Essays

  Laura Marris

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  In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional,catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness,marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. Sheasks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing inthe landscapes closest to us?Filled with equal parts alienation and wonder, each essay immerses readers in a different strange landscape ofthe Eremocene. Among them are the Buffalo airport with its snowy owls and the purgatories of commuter flights,layovers, and long-distance relationships; a life-size model city built solely for self-driving cars; the coasts ofNew England and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs; and the Connecticutwoods Marris revisits for the first time after her father’s death, where she participates in the annual ChristmasBird Count and encounters presence and absence in turn.Vivid, keenly observed, and driven by a lively and lyrical voice, The Age of Loneliness is a moving examination ofthe dangers of loneliness, the surprising histories of ecological loss, and the ways that community sciencewhichrelies on the embodied evidence of “ground truth”can help us recognize, and maybe even recover, what we’velearned to live without

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  Spain - Culture Smart!: The...

  Belen Aguado Viguer, Marian Meaney

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  In the popular imagination, Spain conjures up a picture of rapacious conquistadores, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough—but how closely does everyday life in modern Spain conform to these dramatic stereotypes? This book explores the complex human realities of contemporary Spanish life. It describes how Spain’s history and geography have created both strongly felt regional differences and shared values and attitudes. It reveals what the Spaniards are like at home and in business, how they socialize, and how to build lasting relationships with them. The better you understand the Spanish people, the more you will be enriched by your experience of this vital, warm, and varied country—where the individual is important and the enjoyment of life is paramount.

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  Feel More Happy Healthy and...

  Ashoke Bose

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  This audio book is the first of the series entitled "Micro Greenhouse in Your Backyard". The narrator has explained the benefits of owning a micro-greenhouse in the backyard of your house. In America, we are used to find a swimming pool in the backyard of many single family homes. In the near future, single family homes will be built with a Micro Greenhouse designed by SEAT, LLC. If you own a home in USA, you must listen to this audio book to enjoy the benefits of fresh vegetables and fruits and at the same time save thousands of dollars at the grocery stores.

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  The Naked Brunch

  William Pauley III, Zachary T. Owen

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  This book is very silly. Actually, it contains two very silly books written by two very silly people. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll throw up. Contains the novellas: Naked Brunch by William Pauley III & Naked Brunch by Zachary T. Owen.

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