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A carefully produced edition of Emerson's most famous essay. Beware of other publishers' slapdash editions.

Prayer of Gratitude includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano music includes The Seasons, Les Saisons Op. 37a, July: Song of the Reaper. Prayer read in English, unabridged, by Josh Verbae. Music recording by Anton Kingsbury.

Your struggle isn't due to lack of willpower but brain wiring. This book aims to rewire your brain and empower you to master your ADHD. "Men with ADHD" equips you with essential tools to navigate your mind's complexities and lead a fulfilling life. Your ADHD isn't your identity; it's part of your uniqueness.

Hay muchos autores y libros que proporcionan valiosas ideas a los lectores deseosos de aumentar sus conocimientos. Este no es uno de esos libros. La Generación de Resurrección es una experiencia fuera del tiempo y el espacio a una dimensión para que veas realmente quién eres y dónde verídicamente es tu morada.

Anxious to secure his own success at the glittering court of Henry VIII, heiress Tamsin Lodge’s ambitious guardian obtains her a position as maid of honor to young Princess Mary Tudor. Tamsin soon comes to love the neglected child, but in the Tudor court, not even a princess is secure. Mary’s father is besotted with the lovely Anne Boleyn, and the girl’s future has grown perilous. Plotting to be Mary’s eyes and ears, Tamsin joins Anne’s service, but the handsome silk worker who is her co-conspirator may be her undoing.

Emerson es el maximo representante del trascendentalismo, una corriente filosofica que impulsa el individualismo, y denuncia la presion de la sociedad sobre el desarrollo personal. Durante sus 78 anos de vida, Emerson dio casi 1,500 conferencias en distintas partes de los Estados Unidos, sobre este tema. Auto-Confianza es una compilacion de algunos de sus mas importantes ensayos, los que el propio Emerson coloco bajo ese nombre.

The exiled Queen Ylia calls upon all of her magical powers in order to bring together the scattered survivors of her beleaguered kingdom, Nedao. This is the tale of the young Queen Ylia who chooses to accept the challenges disaster can bring. She flees from the broken and defeated city of Koderra and treks through the terrible haunted mountains to the North.

Elaine, What Happened? A History follows the thirty year life of Elaine who was born without eyes and had other deformities. Besides trying to find out what caused her defects, it is a history of the changes that took place in the medical field, in public education and most notably in society's customs and attitudes regarding people with disabilities.

Jovie is adrift. She’d been feeling alone ever since her best friend, Micah, left her behind for a new group of friends—but when Micah went missing last fall, Jovie felt truly lost. Now, months later, the search parties have been called off, and the news alerts have dried up. There’s only Jovie, biking around Far Haven, Washington, putting up posters with Micah’s face on them, feeling like she’s the only one who remembers her friend at all.

Letters from Erastus: Field Notes on Grace is a hybrid memoir woven around 22 extraordinary letters written by abolitionist Erastus Hopkins to his daughters in the 1850s and 60s in Northampton, Massachusetts. The letters reveal an unexpected sensitivity and attempt to provide firm but gentle guidance to a family coping with years of domestic tragedy.

Inventing Your Horse Career is a resource and collaborative initiative designed to help you pursue your equine job passion with fun and flair. We've tapped into the knowledge and generosity of those who have forged the horse career success trail impressively to help you gain insight from experience and lessons learned the hard way. We don't feature standard career paths and media darlings, but instead offer unusual people, perspectives, and solutions for keeping the horse in the mix as you plan for a comfortable living.

In this star-studded audiobook commissioned specially for audio, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s narration is woven together with powerfully acted scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the speeches and writing of Lincoln, Emerson, and others, bringing the Civil War to dazzling, authentic new life. Riveting dialogue, personal letters, and the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates reverberate with powerful relevance today.

Charming. Desirable. Forbidden. Brought to court with other eligible young noblewomen by the decree of King Henry VIII, lovely Elizabeth “Bess” Brooke realizes for the first time that beauty can be hazardous. Although Bess has no desire to wed the aging king, she and her family would have little choice if Henry’s eye were to fall on her. And other dangers exist as well, for Bess has caught the interest of dashing courtier Will Parr. Bess finds Will’s kisses as sweet as honey, but marriage between them may be impossible....

Numerous newspaper and magazine articles have talked about it, and now this riveting book, We All Wore Blue, is the true account of a youth soccer team in Washington state that transformed over several seasons into a team comprised largely of immigrants from around the globe, representing a myriad of different countries, most races, and major religions. The story tells how these immigrant boys and families bonded with the middle-class White kids and their families, coming together and dealing with numerous challenges, great adversity, and racism.

En los ensayos de Ralph Waldo Emerson, se pueden observar los orígenes de varias corrientes de pensamiento, religión y arte que singularizan el mundo contemporáneo hasta nuestros días. El trascendentalismo de R. W. Emerson, su investigación de la unidad que subyace tras toda diversidad, su comprensión íntima de la ley de la interconexión y de la causalidad que teje los lazos entre todo lo existente, es sin duda alguna una pedagogía optimista y revolucionaria que muestra al lector sus posibilidades latentes para llegar a ser aquello para lo que ha venido a este mundo.

If you are looking for advice on money, health, or happy living, look no further than this collection of wisdom from the sages. An extensive gathering of advice from learned men and women throughout the ages.

Hear some of the greatest American essays ever written! This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs.

Treinta años en el futuro. La Tierra es cada vez menos habitable, por lo que un grupo de colonos (entre ellos Will, sus dos hermanas adolescentes y sus padres) emprende un viaje intergaláctico, en busca de un nuevo hogar. Durante la travesía, la nave es atacada y la familia Robinson se queda varada en un planeta alienígena, en el cual deberá lidiar con un entorno hostil y muchas dificultades técnicas, para poder reemprender la marcha y alcanzar al resto de la colonia.

Catherine Summer Carlson knows how to manage bands like a professional - she's a student at the PopArts Academy at Mount Hope High, where rock legends Allegiance to North got their start. The never-skipping-class Catherine part of her knows, though, that falling for the lead singer of her latest band is the least-professional thing a manager can do. But Caleb Daniels isn't an ordinary band boy - he's a hot, dreamy, sweet-singing, exiled-from-his-old-band, possibly-with-a-deep-dark-side band boy.

Now an American classic, this is a Vietnam book unlike any other, written by a woman who, after two years of covering the war for The New York Times, comes home wanting to once more love her country and to understand it. In four years of interviews that Newsweek called “superb,” Emerson traveled across America to speak to people who fought the war or who fought against it, to those who paid little attention and to others whose lives were changed by it.