In the 1980s, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, co-directed a study of more than 4 dozen diseases and 367 items of socio-economic, lifestyle, nutrition, and genetic information across a population of 6,500 adults in rural china, generating more than 8,000 statistically significant associations. Those ground b[...]
In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.[...]
An autobiographical novel by the popular B-movie actor and author of If Chins Could Kill follows his imagined efforts to debut on the "A" list by starring in a big-budget film with high-profile stars, an endeavor he attempts to legitimize by attending a crash course in method acting. Reprint. 100,00[...]
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his[...]
Explores the far reaches of meaning and thought through stimulating conversations during which the central questions in humanity's quest for meaning, understanding, and knowledge are discussed, such as "The Eternal Quest", "Mythic Horizons", and "Following Your Bliss". Original.[...]
Nina Campbell is one of the world's most respected and influential interior designers. Her current projects include a large residence on mainland China, a private house for a member of the Jordanian royal family in Amman, a town house in New York and a country house hotel overlooking Cheltenham race[...]
In this delightful picture book, Minnow seems to be the only one of King Neptune's fifty mermaid daughters who has no particular skill or accomplishments. That is, except for her persistence in asking many, many questions. "Why don't crabs have fins?" "Where do bubbles go?" "What lies beyond the kin[...]
This title deals with the biggest mathematical mystery in nature - Fibonacci numbers! Named after a famous mathematician, the number pattern is simple: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...Each number in the sequence comes from adding the two numbers before it. What's the mystery? The pattern crops up in the most[...]
The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight-Loss and Long-term Health is the definitive resource for anyone considering a plant-based diet and, because of this, more than a half million people have picked up the book. With the Hispanic community struggling with obesity rates like never[...]
Melanie and Jazz couldn't be more thrilled when Image comes in second in the Florida Derby. This is just the kind of proof they've been waiting for -- Image is ready to race in the big leagues! With high hopes, they decide to enter her to race in the ultimate competition: the Kentucky Derby.
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With Christina sidelined by a broken ankle, Melanie is doing a lot of riding for Whitebrook on Hi Jinx, but she feels too distracted. Melanie is beginning to become nervous. Has she somehow jinxed herself? Original.[...]
Tells the story of two working class brothers crashing and burning and fighting back against the odds. This is the story of growing up in the 1960s to the sounds of Motown and ska, folk music and skiffle and radical politics and - most importantly - the sound reggae that was to capture the ears of t[...]
Brings together the critical information you need to build and maintain a reliable AFS-based distributed file system in UNIX.[...]
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical live[...]
War lay at the heart of much of life in the classical world, from conflicts between tribes or states to internal or civil wars. Battles were resolved by face-to-face encounters-violent and bloody for the participants-and thus war was a very personal experience. Nevertheless, warfare and its conduct [...]
This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically n[...]
A week-by-week photographic tour of an unborn child's development features vivid, three-dimensional ultrasound photographs, provides details about pre-term growth from a baby's perspective, and offers informational sidebars. 10,000 first printing. Simultaneous.[...]
The Encomium Emmae Reginae is a political tract in praise, as its title suggests, of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conqueror King Cnut from 1017 to 1035. It is a primary source of the utmost importance [...]