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Jill Liddington's classic edition of Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries. -- .

The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings

Following on from his critical smash and SUNDAY TIMES BEST-SELLING debut, Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits, Raven is back with a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern day.

A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.

The stories of high-stakes, brazen art crimes told by art experts Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are by turns thrilling, disturbing, and unbelievable. The authors also provide a well-founded analysis of what needs to change in the art market and at museums. From the authors of False Pictures, Real Money (about the Beltracchi art forgery case), Art and Crime is a thoroughly researched, explosive, and highly topical book that uncovers the extraordinary and multifarious thefts of art and cultural objects around the world.

The Academy Award (R)-winning actor, father of three, and bestselling author of Greenlights distils more than three decades of journaling experience to help you reflect, seek clarity, and forge your own path with this life-changing practice.

Valentino Rossi's announcement of retirement brings down the curtain on an incredible career in the MotoGP motorcycle world championships. With his nine titles, including seven in the premier class, he is widely regarded as the greatest motorcycle racer of all time.

A gripping investigation into an extraordinary medical phenomenon from the prize-winning author of &i>Its Not All In Your Head.&/i>

Photographer and best-selling author Joe McNally shares stories and lessons from a life in photography.

In The Art of Film, legendary Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow lifts the lid on his extraordinary career in cinema

"A rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life." -Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle Diana Beresford-Kroeger-a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist-has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. Soon after, her brilliant mind bloomed into an illustrious scientific career that melds the intricacies of the natural world with the truths of traditional Celtic wisdom. To Speak for the Trees uniquely blends the story of Beresford-Kroeger's incredible life and her outstanding achievement as a scientist. It elegantly shows us how forests can not only heal us as people but can also help save the planet.

A celebration of the process and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac

A celebration of the process and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac

The gripping story of an extraordinary life spent inside major disasters - from Hillsborough and 9/11 to Grenfell and Covid - from the UK's leading expert on disaster recovery.

This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens

The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

Julian Bream is recognised as one of the world's leading guitarists, some would say the greatest. He was certainly for many years Britain's senior ambassador as a guitarist and lutenist, touring more widely and more frequently than almost any other artist in the international arena.Bream also did incomparable work in the recording studio to establish both the guitar and the lute as concert instruments. Not content with his unique status as a performer, however, Julian Bream has always been actively concerned with new music - commissioning works from a stream of leading contemporary composers.Surprisingly for a man of his international reputation, Julian Bream was his own secretary. He planned his own concerts, made his own travel arrangements, drove himself around, checked his own lighting and carried his own baggage. At the same time, he was an avid amateur cricketer and country gardener - growing his own fruit and vegetables all year round.In 1981 this intriguingly self-contained man agreed to share some of the load. Tony Palmer travelled with him in Europe and America over several months, drawing out from the essentially private Julian Bream his views on his art and on his position in the world of music. The result is Julian Bream: a Life on the Road, where the Maestro discusses the history of his beloved guitar and its role as a solo instrument, as well as his relationships with giants of contemporary music. With self-deprecating wit, he gives a unique insight into all that he then felt about his life on the road: where he was going, what good he believed he did, why he carried on, how he 'did it' - the guitar, the lute, touring, recording, commissioning, 'the old musicke racket', his home. Daniel Meadows accompanied them, and his beautiful photographs add to this unusual and exhilarating picture of a self-made man - who built, out of nothing, his own unrivalled status as a man of music.The re-publishing of Palmer's acclaimed book - for so long out-of-print and thus a much sought-after collector's item - will be welcomed by music lovers and guitar aficionados around the world.Praise for Julian Bream: A Life on the Road:'An immensely revealing series of snapshots. I don't think I've ever heard a musician being so frank about what it means to make a life in music' - Nathalie Wheen, BBC'Immensely informative, conversational, light-hearted and intentionally deprecatory. Fascinating and extremely entertaining' - Classical Music Weekly'This book is a brilliant vindication of the craft of the interviewer. It's remarkably frank, warm and clear-headed about a man who has too few self-delusions for his comfort' - Michael Oliver, The Gramophone'There is no better account of what it is like to be a touring concert artist' - PunchTony Palmer is a British celebrated and multi-award-winning filmmaker, music journalist and author.

"This story is mine, but the way belongs to us all.” — Dan Millman Dan Millman's books and teachings have been a guiding light to millions of people. Now comes the true story of his search for the good life, a quest for meaning in the modern world. In vivid detail, he describes his evolution from childhood dreamer to world-class athlete, including the events that led him to write the spiritual classic Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Over the course of two decades Dan was guided by four radically different mentors: the Professor, a scientist-mystic; the Guru, a charismatic spiritual master; the Warrior-Priest, a rescuer of lost souls; and the Sage, a servant of reality. Each of them generated mind-expanding experiences that prepared Dan for his calling as a down-to-earth spiritual teacher. This book also contains commentaries by his wife Joy with her perspectives of the four mentors and their life together. At times funny, at times poignant, this memoir will delight Dan's longtime fans and inspire new generations of readers who wish to live with a peaceful heart and a warrior's spirit.

Never before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth, champion of Zen and the person who brought haiku to the world.Poetry and Zen is a collection of the letters, articles, translations, reviews, and selections from the posthumous papers of Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964). Blyth's voluminous writings on Zen, Japanese culture, and the Japanese verse forms haiku and senryu captured the imagination of a great many readers in the English-speaking world in the decades following World War II. His enlightening wit and inimitable style struck a particularly sensitive chord in the artistic community, providing inspiration to many poets and writers and playing a very considerable role in kindling global interest in Zen and haiku. Blyth's penetrating insights on these topics in a series of books published between 1942 and 1970 helped lay the foundation for the remarkable expansion of Zen outside of East Asia, as well as the popularization of haiku as an international verse form that took place after his death. Poetry and Zen is the first collection of Blyth's letters and short writings. The generous array of Blyth's literary output and personal writing on display here showcases the wide-ranging interests and brilliant mind of a pivotal figure in the history of modern Zen and Japanese poetry.

What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan, Indonesia) in search of better attitudes towards mortality

"Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination, and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual and a performance--a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's remarkable life as an artist who pointedly challenged taboos. In a kind of collaboration with the artist, Nicole Rudick has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches, and writings, many rare or previously unpublished. These confessions, declarations, meditations, and musings trace the most intimate contours of Saint Phalle's life. In some works, Saint Phalle articulates herself with startling candor and self-examination; in others, she carefully and slowly unwinds her secrets as she herself wrestles with them. Throughout, her agency in telling her own story is paramount."--

«Å skrive er stadig min glede, denne gangen om livet slik det leves og om tankene som myldrer i hodet på en gammel dame.» Tordis Ørjasæter har skrevet en klok, personlig og vakker bok om å bli gammel. Å bli gammel er allment, og Ørjasæter deler sine refleksjoner og erfaringer om temaer som: familiens betydning, kjærlighet og savn, avhengighet og frihet, å hanskes med ny teknologi, om ensomhet og tungsinn, om uventede gleder og nytt mot. I korte, treffsikre kapitler løfter hun frem en rekke perspektiver på alderdom som viser behovet for mer fordypning og kunnskap om dette temaet. Her er endelig en bok som tar den eldste alderdommen på alvor.

En bok om mental trening for barn og ungdom! Med enkle teknikker som riktig fokus og mental trening kan du hjelpe barnet ditt til å mestre nye utfordringer og bli mentalt sterkere.Christine Otterstads datter Maria var et engstelig barn. Hun sov dårlig og var redd for alle unntatt den nærmeste familien. Hun klarte ikke å være på lekeplasser eller å gå i bursdager. Da hun begynte i første klasse måtte moren Christine sitte i klasserommet for at hun skulle klare å være på skolen. Christine videreutdannet seg til coach for å hjelpe datteren, og ved å bruke mental trening klarte de å snu situasjonen. Maria ble tillitsfull og fikk tilbake troen på seg selv. På skolen lærer de nesten ingenting om selvfølelse, selvrespekt, stress og vanskelige følelser. Christine Otterstad arbeider for at psykisk helse skal bli et eget skolefag, for det hjelper ikke å være god i matte hvis man ikke takler livet og hverdagen. Mental trening, riktig fokus og enkle teknikker kan gjøre hverdagen lettere og bedre den psykiske helsen.

David Bowie er popmusikkens mest geniale kameleon. Gjennom 27 studioalbum har han gang på gang prestert å gjenskape seg selv, både musikalsk og imagemessig. Ingen har med samme eleganse og teft vært i stand til å leke så hemningsløst med jazzig croonerpop, teatral glamrock, myk soul, rå funk, stemningsfull elektronika og mengder av andre stilarter. Og ingen andre har som Bowie bygget broer mellom populærmusikk og avantgarde, underholdning og kunst, og på toppen av alt blitt filmstjerne og moteikon.David Bowie: Album for album er den ultimate feiringen av hans samlede karriere. Den svært anerkjente musikkskribenten og -biografen Paolo Hewitt forteller om den kreative tilblivelsen av disse platene, og om hvordan de har påvirket hele popmusikken. Både langtidsfans og nye generasjoner får her en unik innsikt i hvert eneste Bowie-album fra debuten i 1967 til den aller siste utgivelsen i 2016, Blackstar.Bildematerialet i boka er enestående. Det spenner fra ikoniske motiver til blinkskudd som knapt har vært publisert før, signert noen av verdens ledende fotografer. Ingen kunne som Bowie posere i hysteriske kostymer og surrealistisk sminke – på albumcovere og på scenen, i musikkvideoer og i motemagasiner. I tillegg er boka full av mer intime, bak kulissene-foto som viser musikeren i arbeid.]]>