Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Back in print in this deluxe edition, the former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's only collection of short fiction, now part of the Ecco Art of the Story series.

"Imagine a writer who combines Woody Allen's sense of exaggeration--his ability to extrapolate situations to their funniest extremes--with the perspective and self-consciously elegant language of John Updike. That's right, you'd have a creature who is never very likely to walk the face of the earth. But Strand, the prize-winning Canadian-born poet and professor of English at the University...

Begin to meditate or renew your practice with thisstraightforward guide that is free from pretension and complication.

Is there a way you can learn to slow down and experience yourself more fully, your life more deeply, and other people in the present moment without adopting a new religious or philosophical ideology? Clark Strand answers with a clear and simple "yes " Short, compelling reflections show you how to make meditation a part of your daily life, without the complication of gurus, mantras, retreats, or treks to distant monasteries.

What is the proper way to breathe? Where...

With her twin sister in reform school and no longer in the spotlight, it should be Cat Bennet's turn to shine. But when her twin isn't around, there is no spotlight. Worse, the guy Cat has always liked finds someone new, all of her friends dump her, and Cat's English teacher thinks Pride and Prejudice is all about Cat's family. Suddenly, the whole school is either laughing at Cat or ignoring her.

But Cat isn't the "Kitty" of The Book. Kitty was lame. Cat isn't lame; she's just invisible So how does she become visible? Following in the footsteps of any of her...

Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut

In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish.

While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds...