Kinsella's Shopaholic series are non-stop fun. You will laugh all the way from book one through three. Becky Bloomwood is the hilarious heroine, a gal with a 'little' problem ... she's addicted to shopping!
This is a book for all of us women who love to just shop, shop, and more shop. it takes us into someone's everyday life and shows us just how we really are in this world. very enjoyable book. i got the entire series...just love them.
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The 100% Brain Course
Creative Exercises to Develop 100% of Your Brain
This gigantic 21st Century course manual has a staggering accumulation of 223 mind exercises designed to allow a person to use their complete brain. The exercises involve balancing your emotions, increasing your memory, improving your creativity, enhancing your sensory appreciation and much, much more - time distortion, lightning calculating, speed reading, self-hypnosis, multi-tasking, etc.
Paperback: 388 pages
Publisher: Creative Alternatives Center (February 15, 2001)
Assuring readers that "finding the hidden dimensions in yourself is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger," bestselling author Chopra shares 15 spiritual secrets for enlightenment. These secrets may sound easy—"the world is in you," "what you seek, you already are," "freedom tames the mind"—but Chopra offers sophisticated thought to challenge a reader's spiritual status quo. Blending science and spirituality, he shows how the mystery of life can be illustrated by the wisdom and workings of one's body, as "every secret in this book goes back to the existence of an invisible intelligence that operates beneath the visible surface of life."
The body never lies. A tilt of the head, a crossing or uncrossing of the legs, even the buttoning or unbuttoning of a jacket, can speak pages about what a person is thinking or feeling about his or her immediate surroundings and situation. More importantly, it can tell a great deal about how one person reacts to another. To be able to recognize the meaning of these cues and to be able to respond to them in the manner one chooses is the art at the center of this provocative book. How to Read a Person Like a Book is an illustrated guide on learning how to spot the hidden messages that we send to each other with our bodies.
Когда я познакомился с Капланом в Баку, я и не подозревал, что ем мороженое с человеком, первым предсказавшим Балканский кризис, и чьи книги, по признанию Билла Клинтона, сыграли немаловажную роль в принятии решения о нападении на Югославию.
Kaplan, an American journalist who lived in Greece for seven years, is a gifted writer with a marvelous feel for the exotic, woolly, mountainous Balkan peninsula. This vividly impressionistic travelogue splices a long trip in 1990 with sojourns in the '80s and forays into history, resulting in an unpredictable adventure that illuminates the Balkan nations' ethnic clashes and near-anarchic politics. Kaplan dwells on Greece's modern political culture, which, he shows, has much closer ties to the multiethnic Balkans than is generally acknowledged. He views Romania's history as a long, desperate compromise with a succession of invaders, marred by decades of Turkish rule, Nazism and Communism. He talks with Gypsies, scales steep Baroque cities, tours Transylvania, Bulgaria and Albania and visits the remnant Jewish community of Salonika, which was decimated by the Nazis. Kaplan ( Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan ) sheds light on the Serb-Croat dispute, which he traces in part back to Croatia's fascists of WW II and to the Vatican's perceived stirring up of anti-Semitic feelings among Croats. He finds seeds of civil war germinating in Yugoslavia, where he confronts "the principal illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory."
Гениальная литература, которую просто надо читать. Можно в оригинале, а можно и в прекрасном переводе.
Imagine a mix of Raymond Chandler, William Blake, Swift and Genet. That is about as close as you will get to Burroughs. But the man is unique. His satire is utterly incisive. His ear for prose and dialouge is impeccable. And his imagination is prolific, as beautiful and truthful as it is violent, vile and so on.
Still, Naked Lunch is not for the faint of heart. And unfortunately, my suspicion is that it is also one of those books which, while generally understood by those who have already arrived at an understanding of its core ideas via their own routes, is seldom comprehended by those who haven't.
The majority of readers are likely to be left cold, nauseated, or outraged and to come away having failed to connect with what the author is communicating.
So before I leap into proclaiming this book as a work of genius - which it is - I would also add that NL is frequently obscene, gratuitously so. There are plenty of scenes in the which are simply pornographic, and/or grotesquely violent, and which don't have anything more profound to them than that. Not all of the "colourful" details in NL connote something more than what's there on the surface.
That said, this book is serious literature, great literature that has I might add (ad hominem, I know) been praised by the likes of J.G. Ballard, Christopher Isherwood, Angela Carter and Norman Mailer.
