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  • Love, Art, and Other Obstacles

    by Sadira Stone

    series The Book Nirvana Series #3
    Rejected by her family for her bisexuality, graphic artist Margot DuPont yearns for a life with no fences, no limits, and no family ties. Between college, work at Book Nirvana, and an art competition, she barely has time for her part-time girlfriend much less a flirtation with her competitor. Dumped into the foster system at a young age, ceramics artist Elmer Byrne craves a big, loving family of ... Read more

    € 4,68

  • The Enlightened Cyclist

    Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence

    by BikeSnobNYC

    The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations—careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few. In this follow-up to the best-selling Bike Snob, BikeSnobNYC takes on the trials and triumphs of bike commuting with snark, ... Read more

    € 2,99

  • The Born Again Runner

    A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners

    by Pete Magill

    From the lead author of Build Your Running Body (“the best running book ever”—Runner’s World founder Bob Anderson), a one-of-a-kind guide for everyone who wants to run but feels they can’tAs a drug-addled young man, Pete Magill once found himself in the ER, with his body telling him to give up. Taking up running seemed impossible—but he willed himself to do it anyway.Magill went on to become one ... Read more

    € 11,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Book of Words: and other obstacles to understanding

    by William Griffin

    A Book of Words, by the author of Confessions of the Last Lowly Warrior, is a book of contemporary poetry of various styles and subjects written over the course of a more than twenty-five year period stretching from college until the present. Stillverse, Becoming a Cliche, fly, Why Newt Gingrich Must Dye, The Cunning Linguist, Goth Girl, Do Batman, The Mortician’s Children among many others are ... Read more

    € 0,99

  • The Castle on Sunset

    Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

    by Shawn Levy

    Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and ... Read more

    € 9,91

  • RECIPES OF ITALY

    The land of love, art and good food

    by EWWA VV. AA.

    "Recipes of Italy: the Land of Love, Art and Flavors" aims to be a small tribute to Italian cuisine by EWWA authors. With Expo 2015 in view, the members of our association share their special recipes, offering readers those dishes which are particularly dear to them. These recipes range from simple to complex and classic to original – memories of ancient traditions, such as Emilian Sanguinaccio or ... Read more

    € 0,99

  • The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable

    Aphorisms on Love, Art, and the Vicissitudes of Life

    by Gay Walley

    The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable has a subtle narrative wherein author Gay Walley weaves love with life, art with making a living, and inspiration with the banal realities of daily life. The book shows how passion is to be found in every moment, none the least in a passion for independence. Beginning with "Why Women Fight Pirates," Walley covers such disparate topics as "The Disappointments of ... Read more

    € 13,02

  • Audiobook

    The Castle on Sunset

    Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

    by Shawn Levy

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

    Unabridged

    12 hours 56 min

    Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and ... Read more

    € 20,92

  • A Summer of Hummingbirds

    Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

    by Christopher Benfey

    The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson.At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a ... Read more

    € 9,91

  • Changing Minds

    The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other Peoples Minds

    by Howard Gardner

    series Leadership for the Common Good
    Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers ways to ... Read more

    € 18,74

  • Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes)

    The Art and Practice of Making Dinner

    by Peter Miller and 2 more

    “Peter Miller makes cooking at home with dignified ingredients easy and delightful. You will laugh, be inspired, become incredibly hungry, and come away with loads of smart and useful ideas.”—Renee Erickson, James Beard Award–winning chef and author of A Boat, a Whale & a WalrusOffering a detailed plan for getting dinner on the table, no matter how busy your day has been, Peter Miller reveals five ... Read more

    € 15,69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome

    The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms

    by Dr Frederick Jones

    This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at the borderlines between things that variously might or ... Read more

    € 30,07