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The secrets of personalised medicine and how to make it work for you by one of the UK's favourite TV presenters, Julia Bradbury.

This concise and authoritative biography of the UK's longest-reigning monarch is written by leading historian Sir David Cannadine. It explores the intertwined stories of her life and times, and assesses her wide-ranging but often unremarked impact on the institution of the monarchy, on the UK's public life and national image, and globally.

Der 14. Dalai Lama gehört zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten unserer Zeit. Als im Exil lebender Führer des tibetischen Volkes und einer der weisesten Gelehrten des Buddhismus geniesst er weltweit grosse Anerkennung. Kein anderer Fotograf der Welt ist dem Dalai Lama so nahe wie der Schweizer Manuel Bauer, der sich seit den 1990er- Jahren mit dem Buddhismus, mit Tibet und dessen spirituellem Anführer auseinandersetzt. Auf zahllosen Reisen, bei Auftritten und Veranstaltungen, aber auch in seinem indischen Zuhause begleitete und besuchte Bauer den Dalai Lama und hat dies in atmosphärischen Fotografien festgehalten. Dieses französischsprachige Buch zeigt rund 200 Bilder aus den Jahren 1990 bis 2024, von denen zahlreiche noch nie zu sehen waren. Es erlaubt einmalige Einblicke in die internationale Reisetätigkeit des Dalai Lama, seine öffentlichen Auftritte und den medialen Rummel, der diese begleitet. Zudem zeigt es private Seiten der öffentlichen Person und lässt uns auch an den wenigen Augenblicken teilhaben, in denen der Dalai Lama mit sich und seinen Gedanken allein ist. Texte des Buddhismusgelehrten und früheren Mönchs Thupten Jinpa und des Journalisten und Tibet-Kenners Christian Schmidt erweitern unseren Blick auf das Thema. Im Mittelteil des Bandes wird ein Kalachakra, ein faszinierendes Sandmandala- Ritual, das der Dalai Lama mit seinen Getreuen 2014 im indischen Ladakh abhielt, erstmals ausführlich fotografisch dokumentiert und erläutert.

Der 14. Dalai Lama gehört zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten unserer Zeit. Als im Exil lebender Führer des tibetischen Volkes und einer der weisesten Gelehrten des Buddhismus geniesst er weltweit grosse Anerkennung. Kein anderer Fotograf der Welt ist dem Dalai Lama so nahe wie der Schweizer Manuel Bauer, der sich seit den 1990er- Jahren mit dem Buddhismus, mit Tibet und dessen spirituellem Anführer auseinandersetzt. Auf zahllosen Reisen, bei Auftritten und Veranstaltungen, aber auch in seinem indischen Zuhause begleitete und besuchte Bauer den Dalai Lama und hat dies in atmosphärischen Fotografien festgehalten. Dieses englischsprachige Buch zeigt rund 200 Bilder aus den Jahren 1990 bis 2024, von denen zahlreiche noch nie zu sehen waren. Es erlaubt einmalige Einblicke in die internationale Reisetätigkeit des Dalai Lama, seine öffentlichen Auftritte und den medialen Rummel, der diese begleitet. Zudem zeigt es private Seiten der öffentlichen Person und lässt uns auch an den wenigen Augenblicken teilhaben, in denen der Dalai Lama mit sich und seinen Gedanken allein ist. Texte des Buddhismusgelehrten und früheren Mönchs Thupten Jinpa und des Journalisten und Tibet-Kenners Christian Schmidt erweitern unseren Blick auf das Thema. Im Mittelteil des Bandes wird ein Kalachakra, ein faszinierendes Sandmandala- Ritual, das der Dalai Lama mit seinen Getreuen 2014 im indischen Ladakh abhielt, erstmals ausführlich fotografisch dokumentiert und erläutert.

'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT'So full of wisdom and pleasure that you don't want it to end' MAGGIE NELSONIn the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break - for three months she would abstain from dating, relationships and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Melissa, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. It was time to focus on herself and examine the lifelong patterns that had got her to this point. When those three months ended, she decided to extend her celibate period, fearing that she had not yet gained the clarity she was searching for. She knew she was taking on a challenge but had no idea that this year would become the most fulfilling and sensual of her life. No longer defined by her romantic pursuits, Melissa learned to relish the delights of solitude, the thrill of living on her own terms, the pleasures unmediated by lovers and the freedom to pursue her ideals without distraction or guilt. She began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her work, creativity - and most of all her relationship to herself.The Dry Season is a memoir of Melissa's year of celibacy, and a profound exploration of independence, sexuality and deep self-knowledge.

Homicide investigator and criminal behavioralist Sarah Cailean highlights eight women--from Kate Warne and Isabella Goodwin to Frances Glessner Lee and Barbara Rae-Venter--whose work impacted investigations, law enforcement, forensics, and other related fields, shattered stereotypes in the field of true crime, and gave voice to the voiceless.

For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells’s Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.When Martha Park’s father announces he is retiring from the ministry after forty-two years, she moves home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hopes to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or religious. Instead, she becomes increasingly compelled by this uncertainty, and grows curious whether doubt itself could be a kind of faith that more closely echoes a world marked by loss, beauty, and constant change.In illustrated essays, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After explores the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South. From man-made wetlands in Arkansas to conservation cemeteries in South Carolina, from a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky to the reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Park chronicles the ways the faith she was raised in now seems like an exception to the rule and explores this divide with compassion and empathy. For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells, World Without End considers the ways religion shapes how we understand and interact with the world—and how faith can compel us all to work to save the places we love.

Growing up in a small town in the 60s, I want to be a performer - I do not know that I am gay. I am cast in brilliant productions and meet my first true love. A life together blossoms, filled with incredible acting roles for us both.Then the bombshell is dropped-he is diagnosed with HIV. I nurse him for months, unable to work and no financial aid, until his death in 1992. A nine-year relationship. When my soulmate dies, I am at a complete loss. Only friends and theatre bring me back to life.Years later I move to Brighton and meet an aspiring designer from Algeria on a gay dating app. So begins our love story. We overcome immigration obstacles thanks to Lord Cashman and build a life as Civil Partners. Out of the blue he returns to his Islamic faith and cannot continue with his lifestyle. I spiral into depression. Friends and theatre pull me from the depths of despair. I return to Chichester Theatre thanks to Stephen Mear where I was working when we first met nine years before.I've known Trevor Jones for a lifetime and was very excited to see what his book was like. I loved it it's a true account of his life, very moving, hysterically fun and full of surprises. Go to your local bookstore and buy or order it or place it in a very prominent place on the shelf. Biggins x

An eye-opening odyssey that combines the surprising Brontë history of key houses with their sometimes glorious, sometimes heartbreaking, always fascinating afterlives.Beautifully produced with excellent photography.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas, The Rt Hon. the Lord Elis-Thomas of Nant Conwy, is an outstanding Welsh public figure. His political career spans from his first election as a Westminster MP for Plaid Cymru in 1974 at the age of twenty-seven, until May 2021 when he finally retired after twenty-two years of service as a member of the Senedd in Cardiff. Both controversial and magnetic, his life is captured in this biography. He has been branded a 'maverick', an 'intellectual acrobat' and a 'political chameleon' - as well as being labelled a 'terrorist' for his interventions in Northern Ireland, and a 'traitor' for opposing nationalism. As the first Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales, he helped stabilise the new institution and embedded devolution during its first tentative decade. His career has often been marked by controversy, and this is what makes his story remarkable - just as his political life has proved to be unpredictable.

The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from all classes of society.

I first thought of writing this book after reading John Grisham's first - and I believe, his only - non-fiction work, An Innocent Man. The determination to undertake this project was solidified after meeting and interviewing John Thompson more than decade ago.