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  Recipes for Good Luck - The...

  Ellen Weinstein

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  A visual compendium of good luck habits implemented by influential people from history. 
   
  What did Maya Angelou do to keep the words flowing? How do NASA engineers ensure a successful launch? What was Audrey Hepburn’s lucky number? How does Thom Yorke get ready for a concert? How did Björn Borg prepare for Wimbledon? 
   
  This charmingly illustrated book reveals the real-life creative processes, superstitions, curious practices, and performance routines of influential leaders from every walk of life—artists, writers, scientists, politicians, musicians, actors, and more—who forged their own path and left an indelible mark on the world. It is a celebration of all the many weird and wonderful ways we find the courage to boldly go forth. So, get out there and start making some good luck of your own!

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  Christmas - Stories from the...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. 
   
  Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. 
   
  Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. 
   
  But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart. 
  1 - Christmas. Stories from the Dark Side - An Introduction 
  2 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  4 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

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  HiBrow: Classic British Cinema -...

  Danny Boyle, Robert Carlyle,...

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  Some of the cast and production team are interviewed about the making of huge 1996 hit film Trainspotting. Interviews with Danny Boyle, Robert Carlyle, Kave Quinn, Rachel Fleming, Masahiro Hirakubo and Brian Tufano.Listen to opinions on what Danny Boyle is like as a director, how decisions were made about the film and how the music played a bit part. Includes more fascinating facts and insights from such a hugely successful and well-known film!

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  A Humane Economy - The Social...

  Wilhelm Röpke

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  “A Humane Economy is like a seminar on integral freedom conducted by a professor of uncommon brilliance.” —Wall Street Journal“If any person in our contemporary world is entitled to a hearing it is Wilhelm Röpke.” —New York TimesA Humane Economy offers one of the most accessible and compelling explanations of how economies operate ever written. The masterwork of the great twentieth-century economist Wilhelm Röpke, this book presents a sweeping, brilliant exposition of market mechanics and moral philosophy.Röpke cuts through the jargon and statistics that make most economic writing so obscure and confusing. Over and over, the great Swiss economist stresses one simple point: you cannot separate economic principles from human behavior.Röpke’s observations are as relevant today as when they were first set forth a half century ago. He clearly demonstrates how those societies that have embraced free-market principles have achieved phenomenal economic success—and how those that cling to theories of economic centralization endure stagnation and persistent poverty.A Humane Economy shows how economic processes and government policies influence our behavior and choices—to the betterment or detriment of life in those vital and highly fragile human structures we call communities. “It is the precept of ethical and humane behavior, no less than of political wisdom,” Röpke reminds us, “to adapt economic policy to man, not man to economic policy.” 

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  The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her...

  Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle

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  In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia—and schizophrenia—like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. 
  In The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, Lipska describes her extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain. She explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our behavior, personality, cognition, and memory. She tells what it is like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone.

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  Finding Daniel Boone - His Last...

  Ted Franklin Belue

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  Follow the final days of an American frontier icon as a historian examines what happened to him after he died. 
   
  Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America’s frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his mysteries: where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue, and eloquently narrated using fresh sources, rare forensic data, and new field interviews, this is more than just a search for a man’s bones. Fully re-creating Daniel’s lost world, noted historian and author Ted Franklin Belue journeys along the famous Pathfinder’s last trail, from Missouri and back to Kentucky, meeting a host of colorful characters. As little has been written about Boone’s western days, where he lived the longest, this work examines the legendary woodsman’s life as much as his death. 
   
  “With vivid writing, and ample historic documentation, Ted Franklin Belue invites readers on an incredible journey that introduces them to a new slant on an old story about one of the greatest American frontier heroes. Belue tirelessly re-creates Boone’s lost world and follows his last trail in the year of his death’s bicentennial, teasing us with a provocative question: Where does Daniel Boone rest, in Missouri or Kentucky?” —KYForward

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