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San Francisco gynecologist Kate Jamison has spent most of her life taking care of everybody else. Her marriage has been floundering for eons, and she can't seem to feel the parts of herself that she longs to connect to. Emotionally spent and besieged by migraines, she retreats to a remote area on Maui for an overdue vacation. There, on Seal Cove, she encounters a gateway to a foreign landscape that mirrors her deepest fears. Desperate to heal, she surrenders to a shape-shifting shaman who she fears is potentially dangerous, and encounters the non-ordinary worlds that challenge her deepest...

How does a classy, middle-aged New York City therapist-with a history as grim as any of her clients'-jump into the fires of her soul? She can't. Not alone, anyway. The Goddess of 5th Avenue is at once witty and heartbreaking, entertaining and inspirational, as it celebrates life's beauty-music, poetry, the divine-and explores its darkness-sexual abuse, betrayal, and the grittiness of New York street life. Author Carol Simone uses her remarkable gifts to temper this story of childhood trauma with a healthy dose of ironic humor, and she shows us that magic and mysticism lie just beyond the veil...

Shakespeare for CSEC is designed to enhance students' knowledge, understanding and response. Produced specifically for students working towards the English B for CSEC examination, it contains a range of valuable features to enable a deeper understanding and appreciation of the text. Introductory essays provide social, cultural and historical context, and CSEC examination-style questions provide valuable practice, building students' confidence ahead of the assessment.

Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four-month journey that took her from one coast of the United States to the other, and back again. Embraced by the Conde Nast set in a swirl of cocktail parties in New York, where she was hailed as the "prettiest existentialist" by Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, de Beauvoir traveled west by car, train, and Greyhound, immersing herself in the nation's culture, customs, people, and landscape. The detailed diary she kept of...

The NASA Dawn mission, launched in 2007, aimed to visit two of the most massive protoplanets of the main asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. The aim was to further our understanding of the earliest days of the Solar System, and compare the two bodies to better understand their formation and evolution. This book summarises state-of-the-art results from the mission, and discusses the implications for our understanding not only of the asteroid belt but the entire Solar System. It comprises of three parts: Part 1 provides an overview of the main belt asteroids and provides an introduction to the Dawn...