This beautiful guide includes creative ways to style a table - for dinner, a cocktail party, brunch, picnic in the park, and other fun occasions. Whatever the size of your home or budget, How to Set a Table features stylish, modern ideas for welcoming friends and family in your

Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters and Caught in the Revolution, The Last Days of the Romanovs is Helen Rappaport\'s riveting, moment-by-moment account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family. \"The brutal 1918 massacre of the Romanov family may be familiar, but in Russian scholar Rappaport\'s hands, the tale becomes as shocking and immediate as a thriller.

Heart of a Child is a book of love and encouragement written for children during times of so much anxiety and confusion. It is meant as a gentle reminder of the power of kindness, mutual respect, and love of self in every situation. The book encourages children as they are searching for answers to so many difficult situations and as they are learning to maneuver complicated relationships. It also encourages

It\'s time to dress up the magical friends in this dreamy interactive sticker book. Party with mermaids, fairies and unicorns at a musical gala, a magical birthday celebration and a midsummer festival in an enchanted

The moving story of an Irish immigrant\'s life, from a poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to becoming a captain of industry, After the Roof Caved In is a powerful, poignant look at how hard work and education enabled one young man to change his life and circumstances completely. Today, Michael J. Dowling is president and CEO of Northwell Health, New York state\'s largest healthcare provider and

Carotenoids: Biological Functions of Carotenoids and Apocarotenoids in Natural and Artificial Systems, Volume 674 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Ultrafast laser spectroscopic studies on carotenoids in solution and on those bound to photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, Assessing photoprotective

Your everyday life is a sum of smaller or larger habits that shape your time and priorities. Getting up in the morning at a certain time, the type of transport that you use and even your common phrases are all little aspects of your life that contour your past, present and future. But what if you wanted to improve and simply change your habits? Find out how with this simple and inspiring book that

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan\'s creation myth--told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing--a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The 1300 year-old Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese

As a genre of poetry, the country house poem was born in the seventeenth century. As English country house society itself grew in prominence, the poem of commemoration diminished in popularity; not until the Edwardian era, when the country house as an institution began to wane, was there arenewed interest in country house poetry. As the power and influence of landed society dwindled, the country house

Office politics increases in times of change, particularly when people are fearful - and rising unemployment, austerity measures and global financial uncertainty hardly make for a stable, positive work environment. Jane Clarke defines \"savvy\" as the ability to deal effectively with politics at work, and its value as a commodity is increasing. Research carried out by executive search firms has long

10th anniversary edition Save money, save time and eat healthily with delicious recipes for your slow cooker. This book is for those who want to cook at home more, to save money by using cheaper ingredients, and to save time preparing a meal before the school run or after the working day. You can literally fill your slow cooker with your chosen ingredients, turn it on, and walk away for the day, returning

Its bad enough when Max, Rebecca, Noah, and Theo just think Grandpa Gabes house is haunted. But then the old movie projector in the library opens a passageway to a world of monsters and creatures made of shadows - a place of secrets and dangers set loose when the sun sets. The only weapons to fight them lie in the land on the other side of the Shadow Door. . .

Can love survive when all is lost? England is at war, but nothing can dim land girl Esther Wynford\'s happiness at marrying the love of her life--fighter pilot Monty Grant. Their short honeymoon results in a baby, but on the birth of her daughter, Joy, Esther\'s world falls apart. Esther\'s dying mother confesses to a dark secret that she has kept to herself for 20 years: Esther is not her natural

A star falls from the sky. A woman rises from the sea. The world will never be the

First published in the 1970s, Military Aircraft Markings has become an indispensable annual publication for aircraft enthusiasts, historians and students of military aviation. At the heart of Military Aircraft Markings is the most complete listing of all the aircraft of the UK Armed Forces; the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Army and associated units. For each entry the military serial, aircraft type,

It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people--mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others--lost their lives. More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated herein. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, they range from the intimate (such

Sparks continue to fly in this Therapy Game sequel where Shizuma and Minato learn to navigate commitment--in both work and love! From a forgotten one-night stand to a plan for revenge, Shizuma and Minato have been through it all. But now that they\'re officially a couple, new challenges await, and their fledgling relationship must learn to soar! Still living separately, Minato and Shizuma are finding

The long-awaited and utterly enthralling autobiography of a Fleet Street