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One month—that’s how long it’s been since the System arrived bringing the apocalypse with it. Iain could list out the number of ways he’d survived one catastrophic event after the other, but it would just remind him how tired he is. Sadly, the old saying is true: there is no rest for the weary. That isn’t to say there haven’t been high points, because he’s had more than a few. One of the latest and greatest of which was dealing with Robin’s ex-husband.

Can changing your thoughts improve your health? We tend to live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or diminished eyesight—can change only in one direction: for the worse. Award-winning social psychologist Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in this negative outlook as well as the healing power of its alternative: mindfulness—the process of active noticing where we are not bound by past experience or conventional wisdom. In The Mindful Body, Dr. Langer unpacks her assumption-busting findings and outlines her bold new theory of mind-body unity.

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning.

New York. Aéroport Kennedy. Dans la salle d'embarquement bondée, un homme et une femme se télescopent. Dispute anodine, et chacun reprend sa route. Madeline et Jonathan ne s'étaient jamais rencontrés, ils n'auraient jamais dû se revoir. Mais en ramassant leurs affaires, ils ont échangé leurs téléphones portables. Lorsqu'ils s'aperçoivent de leur méprise, ils sont séparés par 10 000 kilomètres : elle est fleuriste à Paris, il tient un restaurant à San Francisco.

Here are some of the finest fairytales from around the world - most of them old favorites: "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," three from "The Arabian Nights," and many more. Andrew Lang was one of the most famous literary critics around 1900. He also edited a series of children's fable books that preserved and illustrated a host of tales which are still used extensively today.

Empowering, inclusive, smart, and a must-have, Good Food, Bad Diet will give you the tools to reject diets, repair your relationship with food, and lose weight so you can move on with your life.

Trente ans ont passé depuis que Greta a quitté Marchmont Hall, une magnifique demeure nichée dans les collines du Monmouthshire. Lorsqu'elle y retourne pour Noël, sur l'invitation de son vieil ami David Marchmont, elle n'a aucun souvenir de la maison – le résultat de l'accident tragique qui a effacé de sa mémoire plus de vingt ans de sa vie. Mais durant une promenade dans le parc enneigé, elle trébuche sur une tombe. L'inscription érodée lui indique qu'un petit garçon est enterré là. Cette découverte bouleversante allume une lumière dans les souvenirs de Greta, et va entraîner des réminiscences.

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than 30 years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what's possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what's not, can lead to better health at any age.

At a high point in his career, Artie Lange performed a sold-out show in Carnegie Hall-and he did it with a pocketful of heroin. In the midst of a deep, self-destructive depression, addicted to heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs, he lashed out at everyone around him-from his cohosts on The Howard Stern Show to celebrity guests and even his longtime friends. Then came his legendary meltdown on-air, with 6 million people listening, after which Lange pulled himself together enough to go to a buddy's bachelor party in Amsterdam.

When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him: his father, his employees, his friends—not to mention Casey, his wife of sixteen years and a beloved teacher in town. He plans to lie low and help his dad recuperate until he can leave again, especially after Casey makes it clear she wants him gone.

Jeune aspirant au service de l'Empire de Lumière, Cellendhyll de Cortavar a été trahi par ses amis et accusé de meurtre. Laissé pour mort dans un cachot, il n'a dû sa survie qu'à l'intervention des puissances du Chaos. Dix ans ont passé. Le jeune homme idéaliste est devenu un mercenaire impitoyable. Il n'attend qu'une chose : se venger de ceux qui l'ont trahi...

Solange aime écrire, mais elle doute de son talent. Beaucoup trop selon son amie Axelle qui lui déniche un travail un peu spécial : rédiger les mémoires d'un dénommé Tristan Bussy ; et pour ce faire, résider dans sa propriété. Solange finit par se laisser convaincre. Elle était justement à la recherche d'un emploi. Sauf que celui-ci va s'avérer particulier. En effet, Tristan Bussy n'est pas un vieux monsieur et ses récits de vie sont d'un érotisme torride.

Au fil de leurs jeux, Solange et Tristan ont tissé des liens de domination et de soumission. Mais vient le moment de l'engagement, celui où elle accepte de porter son collier et d'être sienne. Elle est cependant prévenue dès le départ : leur relation aura une fin. Comptant bien en profiter jusque-là, Solange traversera de multiples épreuves et trouvera en la personne de son amie Axelle complicité et soutien. Au gré des sentiments amoureux qu'elle nourrit pour son maître, la souffrance se fait plus vive... Jusqu'où pourra-t-elle aller sans se renier elle-même ?

Quand Ophée Shaeman se réveille dans une cellule froide et humide, elle est sûre d’une chose : sa vie est en danger. Celui qui l’a enlevée ne rêve pas seulement de l’exploiter, il veut aussi lui voler son enfant ! Déterminée à lutter jusqu’à son dernier souffle pour échapper à son funeste sort, elle perd cependant espoir quand ses geôliers l’obligent à trahir sa mission de Casglwr sain. Son salut, elle ne l’espère plus, jusqu’à ce qu’un démon, bardé d’armes et de tatouages rituels sataniques, débarque sur le seuil de sa prison.

Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents’ volatile relationship and mounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. Largely left to their own devices, the sisters educate themselves on Greek mythology, feminism, and Virginia Woolf, realizing they must find unique ways to cope in these antagonistic conditions, questioning the American Dream as the rest of the country abandons their community in crisis.

Après une tentative de suicide, Hugo, 20 ans, est réanimé et placé dans la même chambre d'hôpital que Blanche, une vieille dame au crépuscule de son existence. Entre ce jeune homme qui n'attend rien et cette femme qui mesure le prix de chaque instant, un dialogue se noue autour des grandes questions de la vie et de la mort, de Dieu, du destin et de la liberté, du bonheur, de l'amour... Ce qui aidera peut-être Hugo à trouver un sens à son existence.

A natural storyteller with a bottomless pit of material, Lange grew up in a close-knit, working-class Italian family in Union, New Jersey, as a maniacal Yankees fan who pursued the two things his father said he was cut out for: sports and comedy. Wild, shocking, and drop-dead hilarious, Too Fat to Fish is Artie Lange giving everything he's got to give. And like a true pro, the man never disappoints.

Wake up on a houseboat, moored in scenic Alexandria Bay, New York. Ride the gentle waves to work at quaint Bayside Books, where you spend your days supplying literature and conversation to the charming locals and seasonal tourists. Sounds pleasant, doesn't it? Except bookseller Shelby Cox has already sleuthed two murders from Bayside Books's home base on Blye Island, one of New York state's famed Thousand Islands. And this time, mayhem knocks right on Shelby's waterside door when she finds a body lodged between the side of her houseboat and the dock, his skull shattered.

There are a thousand stories in New York's scenic Thousand Islands, and Bayside Books co-owner Shelby Cox stocks them all. True-crime writer Savannah Page caps off two successful signings at Bayside Books with a night in Blye Castle. She's there to research Joe Cabana, a colorful Prohibition-era mobster who owned the castle - until he was found dead in the island Grotto. But crime becomes all too true for Savannah. Her body turns up the next morning in a secret passage at the bottom of the stairs.

Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference - many of which can be put into practice in a single class period.