Book De*ion The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent witmake difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id-- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life andthought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionizedour attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world oflate-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explorehis early background in science, his work as a therapist, hisencounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious,dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality. We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients --The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's viewas the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art andprobing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud withouttrivializing him.

Everyone has a list of favorite movies, but few people trulyunderstand how much these movies reveal about our personalities.Cinescopes invites readers to find their ten favorite movies in aglossary of more than 3,000 popular films and then offersspectacular insights into what our most-loved films reveal aboutourselves. Using a unique blend of pop psychology, astrology, andcinematic analysis, Cinescopes profiles sixteen different types ofmovie fans, complete with their own unique strengths, weaknesses,secrets, and characteristic behaviors. Along the way, you'll alsodiscover how you measure up to other kinds of movie buffs,including your best and worst relationship matches, your personalnemesis, and even other movies you may enjoy. Cinescopes is awonderful conversation starter and a delightful gift forpop-culture enthusiasts of all ages.

Through myths and legends, the knowledge of the power ofcertain gems and crystals has been preserved over generations.However, the practical aspects of how to use these precious stonesto promote spiritual development have been lost to all but a fewinitiates. In Steps on the Stone Path, Robert Sardello offersstrategies and rituals for recapturing that lost power. Sardello starts with guided meditations and rituals fordeveloping awareness of, and the ability to experience, stonequalities such as deep silence, form, transparency, and color asmodes of spiritual consciousness. Entering these modes of silent,creative consciousness requires befriending the elemental angelicbeings embodied in stones. Sardello develops these initialpractices into a sensory yoga of stones, in which the connectionbetween the self and the Divine Self manifests through the mediumof stone-awareness. He encourages readers to wear certain gems orto keep specific crystals close to their body, allowing them toenter the world of sp

First developed as a short manual for students in a yearlongmeditation course, Presence Meditation offers a step-by-stepprogram for increasing self-awareness through simple but revelatoryexercises. The practice of presence meditation involves becomingpresent to whatever is going on and letting things be just as theyare. This awareness is characterized by open attention and neutralobservation, which increases the capacity to observe withoutjudging, enables transformation without forcing, and opens the wayto a more immediate sense of meaning and joy in life. AuthorJens-Erik Risom begins by describing the purpose of meditation andthe “four introductions” (rootedness, attention to breathing,fullness of feeling, and witness awareness), and then presents thegradual steps for achieving presence, deepening neutrality, openingto trust, sensing spaciousness, and more. There are many books about meditation on the market, from Westernauthors like Eckhart Tolle to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. But manypeople

所有的Kliban人民-从逃离新泽西的Houdini到著名的成吉思汗和Sylvia Khan。 不要放下Crumb或Koren或Booth或Rodgriguez或Trudeau或其他任何人，但Kliban的 永不吃任何比您的头部和其他图画大的东西 是我多年来读过的*一一本令我大叫的书。我的意思是大腿拍打着地面滚动，无法捕捉到我的呼吸声。每次我回到它时，我都会发现一些新的细节。 -查尔斯 M 扬，滚石乐队。 All the Kliban people--from Houdini escaping New Jersey to the famed Genghis and Sylvia Khan. Not to put down Crumb or Koren or Booth or Rodgriguez or Trudeau or anybody else, but Kliban s Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head Other Drawings is the only book I ve read in years that made me howl. I mean thigh-slapping, roll-on-the-ground, can t-catch-my-breath howling. And every time I go back to it, I find some new detail to chuckle at. Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone.

It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emiliedu Ch?telet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one daypopularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’stheories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any seriousschooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s nimble conversation andunusual brilliance led Voltaire, then in his late thirties, towonder, “Why did you only reach me so late?” They fell immediatelyand passionately in love. Through the prism of their tumultuous fifteen-year relationshipwe see the crumbling of an ancient social order and the birth ofthe Enlightenment. Together the two lovers rebuilt a dilapidatedand isolated rural chateau at Cirey where they conducted scientificexperiments, entertained many of the leading thinkers of theburgeoning scientific revolution, and developed radical ideas aboutthe monarchy, the nature of free will, the subordination of women,and the separation of church and state. But their time together was f

In A Long Way from Home , Tom Brokaw describes hischildhood and youth in South Dakota, and the people and places inthe American heartland of the 1940s and 1950s that continue toshape his life today. As he reflects on the American experience ashe lived and observed it during the central decades of thetwentieth century, Brokaw writes of his parents’ lives during theGreat Depression, his boyhood along the Missouri River, the happydays of his adolescence in Yankton, and his early years inbroadcast journalism on the cusp of the turbulent 1960s. As herecounts his own American pilgrimage, Tom Brokaw also explores whatbrought him and so many Americans to lead lives a long way fromhome, yet forever affected by it.

Are you worried about protecting your career in this toughmarket? Are you ready to get your dream job or that covetedpromotion? Are you eager to show the world everything you have to offer? If you answered yes, to any of those questions, this book is foryou! Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio see it all the time:women derailing their careers because they believe that if theyjust sit quietly and work hard, someone upstairs will recognizetheir contribution and deliver big rewards. However, intoday’s ultra-competitive workplace and tough economic climate ifyou want your dream job with your dream salary, and all theopportunities and fulfillment that come with it, you have to bearmed with the right strategies and big, bold moves. The Girls Guide to The Big Bold Moves For Career Success gives you everything you need to decide what you want out of yourwork life and create a plan to make it happen. Fromnegotiating a raise or a promotion to starting a new profession,finding your footing after a layoff, Fri

Discover the power of miracles from the show that hastouched America’s heart If you’ve ever doubted, wished, or prayed for a miracle,here is the book to restore your faith and touch your soul. RichardThomas, host of PAX TV’s successful series It’s a Miracle ,has selected his favorite true stories of miracles that havehappened in everyday life. You might call them astonishingcoincidence, or answered prayers, or amazing acts ofheroism...they’re all around us--and right here in theseawe-inspiring pages. Here are stories to celebrate: a man whose nightmares end afterthey help him save a woman’s life . . . a woman whose beloved dogwas injured and lost during airline travel--and the psychic whobrought them together again . . . orphaned best friends, separatedin childhood, who rediscover each other years later when one walksinto a restaurant and sits down at the counter--next to herlong-lost friend. From angel encounters to extraordinary animal stories, from amazingrescues to remarkable medical re