Simple Natural Eco Beauty describes how you can use just 10 natural and easily bought ingredients to make over 140 environmentally friendly skin and hair products at home. These quick and easy to create recipes, many of which use only two or three ingredients, will provide you with a range of sustainable beauty products whilst being kind to the environment and your pocket. As healthy and safe alternatives to commercial beauty products, the ideas in this book will also contribute to minimal...

**THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive, one breath at a time, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama**While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning photojournalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care-in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death, she drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every b...

In 2011 @stephenfry, actor, comedian, writer and famed alumnus of Cambridge University, tweeted:‘No! No! Say it ain’t so – not Fitzbillies? Why I tweeted a pic of one of their peerless Chelsea buns but a sixmonth ago.’Recession had driven the legendary Cambridge bakery into bankruptcy and it had shut its doors. Alison Wright and Tim Hayward read Stephen's tweet:Alison: ‘Did you see the tweet?’ Tim: ‘I did. Terribly sad. Awful how places like...

An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive … one breath at a timeAlison Wright covered humanitarian issues with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos. Suffering from excruciating life-threatening injuries, she drew upon her years of meditation practice, concentrating upon each breath, believing it to be her last.Wright’s memoir, Learning to ...

For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustration...

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to ...

Rediscover the Recipes Your Grandmother Once UsedNatural and herbal healing is nothing new. For thousands of years people have relied on the gifts of nature to cure common ailments. Today, herbal remedies have become a popular alternative to conventional medicine and a way for families to address everyday woes themselves.In Natural & Herbal Family Remedies, Cynthia Black shares the tried-and-true remedies that have been with her family for generations. To this day ...

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name.Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the sa...

Shaman Stone Soup takes you on the journey of an atheist who discovers Native American spirituality and becomes a healer for friends, family and clients. The author shares her personal stories that demonstrate how spirit guides, angels and enlightened beings can answer calls for help through miracles. You will read about the matronly ghost who overstayed her welcome, the spirits of ancient wise men who offered advice and a miraculous cure from cancer for a friend, the man who got ...

Avoid expensive salons and spas with this guide to making more than 150 effective, DIY cosmetics in the comfort of your own home.Forget paying big bucks at a spa, or slathering on overpriced "mystery cream" that contains who knows what. Make your own fresh, organic, and effective spa, skincare, hair-maintenance, and cosmetics recipes at home with these 50 beautiful, tried-and-tested tutorials, brought to you by the popular DIY beauty and wellness website Hello Glow....

This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of her own life experience. Ordained as a nun by Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave her the name "Dang Nghiem," (adornment with nondiscrimination) Healing shows how the insights gained by her personal experiences now e...

Discover how essential oils can boost your beauty, home, and wellness with over 200 easy recipes and projects from the author of Hello Glow.Lavender, chamomile, tea tree, rose, and sandalwood—invite the aromatic and healing powers of your favorite herbs and botanicals into your life with this beautiful guide. You'll discover recipes, quick tips, and DIY projects to boost your beauty, home, and general wellness with your favorite essential oils, plus a diagn...