Category: Nonfiction

By Mary A. Languirand, Robert F. Bornstein

ISBN-10: 1607744163

ISBN-13: 9781607744160

The first authoritative and entire advisor to "aging in place"--a burgeoning flow for these who don't want to depend upon assisted residing or nursing domestic care--which permits seniors to spend their later years residing with ease, independently, and of their own residence or community.

Do you need to retire fortunately in a house you love?

For hundreds of thousands of american citizens, dwelling in a nursing domestic or assisted residing facility is not how they’d like to spend their retirement years. for the reason that a growing number of everyone is determining to “age in place”—a burgeoning nationwide circulate that allows older adults to reside independently and very easily in a spot in their personal making a choice on.
 
getting older in position takes a few making plans and foresight—which is why medical psychologists
and getting older experts Mary Languirand and Robert Bornstein have created this vital guidebook to take you thru each step of the method. invaluable, actionable suggestion on monetary making plans lets you put aside the assets you would like, whereas a close clarification of common domestic layout can help you rent the best contractors and alter your house to make it secure and livable for the long term. With concrete assistance for acquiring useful social providers, transportation counsel, overall healthiness care, or even domestic upkeep aid, How to Age in Place teaches you to expect difficulties prior to they come up and plan hence.
 
even if you’re drawn to a brand new post-retirement occupation, conserving your mind nimble, researching (or rediscovering) your life’s objective, or strengthening your social community, How to Age in Place can assist you reside the great lifestyles into your 80s and past. It’s by no means too late—or too early—to start placing your plan in position.

By Shunryu Suzuki

ISBN-10: 1590308905

ISBN-13: 9781590308905

Within the 40 years in view that its unique e-book, Zen brain, Beginner's Mind has develop into one of many nice glossy Zen classics, a lot cherished, a lot reread, and masses suggested because the most sensible first booklet to learn on Zen. Suzuki Roshi offers the fundamentals from the main points of posture and inhaling zazen to the belief of nondualityin a manner that isn't in simple terms remarkably transparent, yet that still resonates with the enjoyment of perception from the 1st to the final web page. It's a ebook back to time and time back as an proposal to perform and it's now on hand to a brand new iteration of seekers during this 40th anniversary variation, with a brand new afterword from David Chadwick.

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By Massad Ayoob

ISBN-10: 1440232695

ISBN-13: 9781440232695

Comprehend the most well liked matters Surrounding hid Carry!

Written through Massad Ayoob, one of many pre-eminent struggling with handgun running shoes on this planet, Gun Digest e-book of hid hold second version builds upon the best-selling 1st version through addressing the various most well liked matters surrounding hid hold today.

Understand fort Doctrine and Stand Your flooring laws.

Review case reports that show classes learned.

Commentary from Ayoob attracts on his event as knowledgeable witness for courts in guns and capturing cases.

Find out concerning the newest in holsters and equipment, together with new own protection ammunition and lighting. As a handgun proprietor, you owe it to your self to stick educated and knowledgeable approximately alterations in hid hold legislation and private safeguard undefined. Gun Digest ebook of hid hold second variation is helping you do just that.

By Ken Dryden

ISBN-10: 0470833556

ISBN-13: 9780470833551

Broadly stated because the most sensible hockey publication ever written and lauded by means of Sports Illustrated as one of many best 10 activities Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking examine a existence in hockey. clever and insightful, former Montreal Canadiens goalie and previous President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ken Dryden captures the essence of the game and what it capability to all hockey fanatics. He supplies us brilliant and affectionate graphics of the characters — man Lafleur, Larry Robinson, man Lapointe, Serge Savard, and trainer Scotty Bowman between them — that made the Canadiens of the Seventies one of many maximum hockey groups in background. yet past that, Dryden displays on lifestyles at the street, within the highlight, and at the ice, supplying up a unprecedented inside of examine the sport of hockey and an enormous own memoir. This commemorative variation marks the 20 th anniversary of The Game's unique booklet. It contains black and white images from the Hockey corridor of status and a brand new bankruptcy from the writer. Take a trip to the center and soul of the sport with this undying hockey vintage.

By Laura Kinsale

ISBN-10: 840134347X

ISBN-13: 9788401343476

Woman Elena vive tranquilamente en l. a. campiña inglesa hasta el momento en que una serie de acontecimientos l. a. obligan a viajar al principado italiano de Monteverde, del cual ella es l. a. única heredera. Allí los angeles espera otro deber que va implícito con el reino: casarse con su gobernador. Sin embargo, durante los angeles travesía los piratas abordan el barco donde viaja, y girl Elena cae en manos del temido Allegreto Navona.
Para Allegreto, ella será su arma perfecta de venganza y una herramienta idónea para conseguir su objetivo, ya que es pretendiente del principado de Monteverde y enemigo mortal del gobernador actual.
Lady Elena, joven, bella e inocente, tendrá que navegar al lado del atractivo y misterioso pirata hacia Monteverde en un peligroso viaje repleto de pasión, odio y violencia, pero sobre todo de un creciente deseo imposible de ignorar

By David Feldman

Think of, if you happen to will ...
What is the adaptation among a package and a caboodle?
Why don't humans get goose bumps on their faces?
Where do houseflies pass within the winter?
What reasons that ringing sound on your ears?

Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies those issues and much more in Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? -- the unchallenged resource of solutions to civilization's so much nagging questions. a part of the Imponderables® sequence and charmingly illustrated through Kassie Schwan, Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? demanding situations readers with the information approximately lifestyle that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs simply don't have. and give it some thought, the place else are you going to unravel why scorching canine come ten to a package deal whereas scorching puppy buns are available in eights?

By Oliver Sacks

ISBN-10: 0307947440

ISBN-13: 9780307947444

Considering early life, Oliver Sacks has been enthusiastic about ferns: an old type of vegetation in a position to live to tell the tale and adapt in lots of climates. besides a pleasant staff of fellow fern aficionados—mathematicians, poets, artists, and various botanists and birders—he embarks on an exploration of Southern Mexico, a zone that also is wealthy in human historical past and tradition. He muses at the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian tradition and hallucinogens, the colourful attractions and sounds of undefined, and the odd passions of botanists. What different species might comb old Zapotec ruins on their palms and knees, looking for a brand new kind of fern? Combining Sacks's enthusiasm for ordinary background and the richness of humanity together with his sharp and observant eye for aspect, Oaxaca magazine is a unprecedented treat.
 

By Mar Jennings

ISBN-10: 0989609316

ISBN-13: 9780989609319

Mar Jennings is the writer of the easiest promoting lifestyles On Mar's: A 4 Season backyard, a nationally acclaimed gardening booklet, bought world-wide. Mar's new booklet will proceed the sequence with existence On Mar's: growing informal luxurious. Emmy-nominated television Host, way of life specialist and most sensible promoting writer Mar Jenningsis a grasp at growing domestic and backyard layout kind which are fascinating and conceivable whereas immediately connecting together with his viewers. Mar's viewpoint on speaking to others is as a lot approximately shape and serve as because it is ready person contrast. dependent in Westport, Connecticut, Mar Jennings can also be President and CCO (Chief artistic Officer) of a multimedia and layout corporation, S&J Multimedia LLC. Mar Jennings' model of way of life and web hosting combines an infectious power and fervour for conveying details in ways in which are enjoyable and inspirational to all. He has garnered compliment and popularity as a definitive resource on domestic, gardening and way of life. As defined in his new booklet "Creating informal Luxury," Mar Jenning's signature sort is termed "casual luxury" and for the 1st time he stocks the way it may be damaged down into six layout ideas that any one can practice. This way of life specialist does it with simplicity and elegance, balancing common ideas with daily splendor. "Having a gorgeous domestic or residence is an possible goal," says Jennings. "If i will be able to do it with beauty, type and native assets you could, too!"
Jennings now invitations us all within his Westport, Connecticut domestic to discover his six layout rules for making a informal luxurious domestic. This deluxe outsized espresso desk booklet should be choked with photographic essays highlighting his philosophy, plus useful functions and resourcefulness acceptable for any domestic or area. Like a complete season of an outstanding layout express, existence on Mar's: growing informal luxurious Room to Room will let readers entry to an encyclopedia of serious principles to use of their home.

Jennings has seemed at the HGTV's sequence White Room problem and used to be lately chosen to come to the community for Flea industry turn. he's an on-going contributor to ABC's WTNH. Jennings can also be a correspondent and residential and backyard specialist for larger television, a nationally syndicated way of life exhibit. He has served double-duty as host of the Emmy-nominated way of life convey Northeast dwelling on FoxCT/CT1 yet you may also recognize him as host of Dream Room Makeover, Dream marriage ceremony and yard Makeover. He has hosted and produced the yearly vacation needs sequence. In 2010 he joined the area of QVC as a backyard professional, completely for Cottage Farms Nursery. through the years he has made a number of appearances at the this day exhibit, meals community, ABC, CBS, CNN. Jennings and his domestic and backyard designs and tips were profiled and featured in larger houses & Garden's adorning journal, domestic journal, fast & easy journal, Small Gardens journal, long island occasions, between different nationwide and native courses for either tv and print.

Media and shoppers alike rave approximately his award-winning site marjennings.com as the best assets for domestic and backyard assistance. as well as the above, Jennings is at the moment in pre-production on numerous tv courses.

By Linda Lee

ISBN-10: 1904877001

ISBN-13: 9781904877004

Even supposing numerous kinds of fortification existed good ahead of the Norman invasion and plenty of sleek 'Stately Homes' are usually often called such, this booklet explores 30 of the nations surviving buildings thought of to be 'true castles'. outfitted among the 11th and 17th centuries once they signified energy and standing, those fortifications lie on the very center of Britain's historical past. The purpose-built south coast defences of Henry VIII are just a little an anomaly, yet examples of those are incorporated for his or her range. each one article includes a color picture, an ancient evaluation, and a data panel containing beginning occasions, grid reference, tackle, cell quantity, and site info (where applicable).

By Freidoune Sahebjam

Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t come up with the money for to marry one other lady. instead of returning Soraya’s dowry, as customized required earlier than taking a moment spouse, he plotted with 4 acquaintances and a counterfeit mullah to do away with her. jointly, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her in basic terms crime used to be cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by way of a life of abuse and difficulty, Soraya stated not anything, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a confession of guilt. They sentenced her to loss of life by means of stoning: a punishment prohibited by means of Islam yet generally practiced.

Day via day—sometimes minute via minute—Sahebjam deftly recounts those horrendous occasions, tracing Soraya’s lifestyles with searing immediacy, from her prepared marriage and the births of her teenagers to her husband’s expanding cruelty and her scary execution, the place, by way of culture, her father, husband, and sons hurled the 1st stones. A stark examine the intersection among tradition and justice, this can be one woman’s tale, however it stands for the tales of millions of ladies who suffered—and proceed to suffer—the related destiny. it's a tale that has to be told.