People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breakingjournalism on television. But he is also one of America's mostsought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches,Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers apassionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice. Moyers on Democracy takes on crucial issues such as economicinequality, our broken electoral process, our weakened independentpress, and the despoiling of the earth we share as our commongift.

In this in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at The WashingtonPost, Pulitzer Prize nominee Dave Kindred describes the turmoil andtriumph of a news organization during the most chaotic mediarevolution in five hundred years. Morning Miracle takes readers inside the heart of a legendarypaper in transition from newsprint to the digital realm, capturingthe ambition, enthusiasm, and commitment to excellence that remainsat the heart of world-class daily journalism. This fascinating lookinto the professionalism that drives one of our nation’s greatestpapers demonstrates that though newsprint may vanish, greatjournalism will always matter.

You know how it is. That special event just around the cornerand you can’t fit into your designer jeans. You need a fool-proof,emergency weight-loss method that really works and works fast. Sohow do you safely and quickly lose those extra pounds? Once again, renowned health pioneer and bestselling author AnnLouise Gittleman has a quick, no-strings-attached solution that isalso good for you. She is always on the cutting edge of developingnew methods to rejuvenate the body and facilitate weight loss andshe’s done it again in The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet. Gittlemantakes the age-old method of fasting and incorporates it into a safeand healthy one-day plan that helps you lose weight fast, gets ridof toxins, and gives your body a cleansing boost to prepare it foreven more weight loss down the road. The plan itself is blissfully simple: THE PREQUEL: Seven days of adding detox support foods to yourdiet to prepare your body for the one-day Fast THE FAST: One day of sipping Gittleman

隐士是中国历史上一个非常独特的文化现象。在那为数众多的历代隐士群体中，纵然也有不少佛、道教的信徒，但他们却主要不是出于宗教信仰而隐居的。他们的隐居，主要是为了实现自我，按自己喜欢的生活方式过自己的生活。他们的隐居，开始也许是出于一种政治态度和政治选择，逐渐就转化、发展成一种生活方式和人生价值追求，并最终趋向一种审美境界和文化追求。在这个过程中，隐士们以自己的种种价值认定、人生实践和文化创造极大地影响了中国的历史文化传统。《适性任情的审美人生：隐逸文化与休闲》对中国古代隐逸文化做了认真地梳理、耙块，并探讨了中国隐逸文化的理想与价值追求、精神。

Studies show that patients who contribute to their owntreatment and recovery fare better in rehabilitation.Tailoring theconcept for those suffering from joint pain, orthopedicpsychologist Kate O'Shea draws from her patients and her owncongenital hip orblems (she has four major surgeries by the timeshe was thirteen) to describe a program for caring for theemotional and physical body while healing joint pain or aftersurgery. Conventional medical care, thouch technologicallysophisticated, often ignores the humanity of individuals--patientsare on their own once they are home. Healing Hip, Joint and KneePain offers exercises, breathing techniques, visualization andwriting suggestions for becoming aware emotionally and forenhancing awareness of the healing joint. Drawing from Rosen work,Feldenkrais, Eutony, and orthopedic psychologym O'Shea provides thereader with inviting methods to hasten healing.

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer(“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) andcentral figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-classcocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of countryclubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage andmotherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growingdissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness ofthe social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join theSandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. Shewould be involved with them over the next twenty years at thehighest, and often most dangerous, levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolutionand a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age underextraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both strikinglyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: abouther family, her children, the men in her life; about her po

The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

In A Barefoot Doctor’s Guide for Women, Georgette Delvaux, DC,focuses on hormonal health explaining in a conversational tone howissues related to menstruation, pre-menopause, and menopause canbegin as mere annoyances and gradually develop into major problemsthat affect both body and mind. She describes the harmful lateeffects of treating hormonal imbalances with artificial hormones—apopular practice—and introduces Thermography, the exciting butstill little-known method of detecting dangerous changes in breasttissue. With spirit and intelligence, Dr. Delvaux takes on theseand other often-taboo topics, encourages women to trust subtlechanges in their own sensations, and helps them understand bothalternative and conventional medicine.

"Buzz Aldrin relives the Magnificent Desolation of space, andthe soul-sucking depression that awaited back home." –Vanity Fair, “Hot Type” "An admirable account of an icon of the golden age of spaceflight." –Kirkus Reviews “Space fans, in particular, will cheer.” –Booklist “Aldrin presents a no-holds-barred account of how his celebrity,career and human weaknesses nearly destroyed his life….Thisinspiring story exhibits Aldrin as a different, perfectly humankind of hero, giving readers a sympathetic look at a man eclipsedby his own legend.” –Publishers Weekly “Buzz Aldrin relives the Magnificent Desolation of space, and thesoul-sucking depression that awaited back home." –Vanity Fair, “Hot Type” “Riveting reading.” –The Economist “Leads the field of new releases.The candid portrayal of hisearthly battles—often written with great humor—make this a cutabove the rest….Great holiday reading.”