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In this powerful book, a pediatrician specializing in teen and adolescent medicine offers a breakthrough mindfulness program to help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends.   Being a teen is stressful! Whether it’s...

This attractive collection of royalty-free lettering for commercial artists features 100 complete upper-case stencil alphabets — many with lower-cases, numerals, and punctuation marks. Includes such classics as Ancient, Courtland, and Cleft Gothic; the whimsical Ragtime and Spooks Alive; bold Braggadocio; exotic Limbo, Beijing, and Samoa; the old-fashioned Victorian; and more.

College student Danni answers a personal ad for a modeling photoshoot, but the strangely frisky model and her photographer seem to have something else planned. An 8,000 word scene following the seduction of a would-be model into her first sexual experience with girls. Adults only! 

M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of...

最大的成功，從不怕開始 《富比士雜誌》獨家人物觀點、《赫芬頓郵報》熱烈推薦   顛覆隨處可見的世界，年輕已不再是劣勢！ 第一手專訪Airbnb、Dropbox、Instagram、Spotify、Twitter、WhatsApp、Gopro、Tesla、Snapchat、Tumblr、Facebook等企業創辦人，看他們如何從一個點子快速發展成為數百億美元估值公司的關鍵，面對技術、募資、併購、管理等挑戰的抉擇邏輯！ ** ** 只要做對最關鍵的那一次，你也可以重寫遊戲規則、創造最大價值！   我們用Facebook定義朋友、在Instagram記錄感動片刻、靠Dropbox隨時隨地分享重要檔案， 我們目睹Airbnb、SpaceX、Oculus...

Why do universities place so much emphasis on athletics? Are the salaries of head coaches excessive? Should student-athletes be paid? Why is there so much cheating in college sports? Should athletic departments be subsidized by the university? Does Title IX unfairly discriminate against men's sports?...

Practitioners in apparel manufacturing and retailing enterprises in the fashion industry, ranging from senior to front line management, constantly face complex and critical decisions. There has been growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to enhance this process, and...

This incisive introduction to the life and work of Orson Welles is an essential study of one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. With special attention paid to the political, social, and cultural milieus in which Welles lived and worked, this in-depth personal essay and...

"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...

The most significant building project of its time, Eastern State Penitentiary was designed to reshape the mind of an inmate, rather than punish the body of one. It was believed that by keeping prisoners isolated in the chapel-like cells the inner light of their souls would emerge, leading them to discover...

Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession of ten blindingly fast, apocalyptic songs. The first English book about Slayer explores the creation...

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse. Now updated with a new epilogue, detailing Katherine’s brave stand at the Royal Commission In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth...

Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915–2015). Or, to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of Everything. This is the complete revelatory story—bookended...