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Since it first ran in 1942, The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles have been the standard by which all others are judged. Features:- 75 classic Sunday New York Times crosswords - A portable and perfect for solving on the go- Puzzles edited by the #1 man in American crosswords, Will Shortz

Nothing puts love and friendship to the test quite like a baby...When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and tri-habitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming. Janey Duncan narrates the adventure of this modern family with hilarity and wisdom and shows how th...

Switching off is the last thing we need to do to be more mindful, calm, and happy. Modern Mindfulness gives you the ideas, principles, and techniques you need to bring awareness, composure, and kindness to whatever you are doing. Filled with more than sixty practical exercises, the author's approach brings the benefits of meditation to even the busiest of lives.Ideas from Modern Mindfulness:- Adopt mindfulness techniques throughout the day (an...

Dr. Aviv guides readers through healthy dietary choices with targeted recipes, helping them balance their bodies and minds for optimal health and break acid-generating habits for good.Do you suffer from abdominal bloating, a chronic, nagging cough or sore throat, postnasal drip, a feeling of a lump in the back of your throat, allergies, or shortness of breath? If so, odds are that you are experiencing acid reflux without recognizing its silent...

What happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and "foreigner”. Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions.

Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction gives an insider's view of the strange and wonderful world of science fiction, by one of the most respected editors in the field, David G. Hartwell (1941-2016).David G. Hartwell edited science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years. In that time, he worked with acclaimed and popular writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Gene ...

The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive pressures have often nudged respectable firms to embrace deception. As a result, fraud has been a key feature of American business since its...

This gripping, darkly funny debut thriller from acclaimed screenwriter Scott Frank is "an L.A. story with a little bit of [Elmore] Leonard, a little bit of Day of the Locust, and a whole lot of earthquakes" (Interview). "[R]eally good . . . hit me like a bolt of lightning. If you like Don Winslow or Lou Berney, READ THIS BOOK!"--Stephen King via TwitterRoy Cooper, a stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for New York criminals, is finishing up a jo...

A major development in the safe and effective treatment of myofascial trigger points and myofascial pain, this book is a concise, comprehensive, and well-illustrated reference on dry needling. John Sharkey-an international authority on myofascial trigger points, myofascial pain, myofascial trigger point dry needling, and neuromuscular therapy as well as an accredited clinical anatomist-draws on his thirty years of experience in bodywork and mo...

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He can protect anything except his heart Leese Phelps's road hasn't been an easy one, but it's brought him to the perfect job-working for the elite Body Armor security agency. And what his newest assignment lacks in size, she makes up for in fire and backbone. But being drawn to Catalina Nicholson is a dangerous complication, especially since it could be the very man who hired Leese who's threatening her. What Catalina knows could get her kill...

In this six-session video-based Bible study, pastor Andy Stanley examines how we define happiness, how we tend to pursue it, and what will actually make us happy and at peace with ourselves.

It is Illinois in the 1830s, and Abraham Lincoln is an ambitious-if charmingly awkward-young circuit lawyer and state legislator. Among his friends and political colleagues are Joshua Speed, William Herndon, Stephen Douglas, and many others who have come to the exploding frontier town of Springfield to find their futures. One of these men is poet Cage Weatherby. Cage both admires and clashes with Lincoln, questioning his cautious stance on sla...

First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton as one of the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide."I love anything Michael Crichton writes."--Stephen KingA military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable...

During Billy Lange's childhood on the Isle of Wight, he is entranced by Karin, the wild and elusive daughter of a German-Jewish baron who employs Billy's parents. Years later, after the upheavals of World War I, the two children are reunited on the baron's Frankfurt estate. Billy and Karin first bond over the popular Wild West stories of Karl May, and later over their passion for jazz and Berlin nightclubs. But they also come to share a fantas...

Guatemalan-born sculptor Darío Escobar (born 1971) is a contemporary master of the kind of aesthetic object that also doubles as a revealing critique of globalization. Since the late 1990s he has mobilized armies of everyday industrial and consumer products--McDonald's cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized rubber, car bumpers and sports equipment of various types--in order to construct an ongoing dialogue with the reality of global consumerism. That ...

The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting landscape--awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives--struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides.

This high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.Luego del gran éxito de Ser como el bambú, Ismael Cala presenta La piñata mágica, su segundo libro bilingüe para niños. Cala ofrece una excelente opción de entretenimiento para los niños, a la vez que les enseña un valioso mensaje para desarrollar virtudes durante el resto de sus vidas. El ...

La autora aclamada internacionalmente y experta en relaciones de pareja Arielle Ford ofrece claves para volver a descubrir el amor, la pasión, el respeto y el compromiso renovado, años después del simple acto de enamorarse y casarse. Una cosa es enamorarse y casarse, y otra muy distinta es ser feliz en el matrimonio. Esta es la verdadera razón de convertir a tu pareja en tu alma gemela. Arielle Ford, autora best seller internacional de El secr...

Combinando la ciencia y la historia con sus propias experiencias, Rose trae a la vida la historia sin narrar de cómo llegamos a aceptar la idea científicamente equivocada de que se pueden usar los promedios para entender a las personas, y ofrece una poderosa alternativa: los tres principios de individualidad.