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Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than 50 years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages - African American, white, and Creole - in jazz's formative years.

Graeme Malcolm, Eric Stoltz, and other accomplished actors bring life to the words of the world's favorite poets, including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Also available: The Best Poems of All Time, Volume 2.

This is the original audiobook that spawned a thousand theories and is still heating up the blogosphere today. A must-have for out-of-the-box thinkers.

In this book, you’ll experience raw honesty and a clear path through the pain. You’ll realize that no depression is too dark and no lie too strong. Discover a powerful process where you exchange isolation for accountability and deception for deliverance. Today you can experience a way out, even in the bleakest of circumstances where the bottom doesn’t feel like the bottom. The truth is that God is greater than your pain.

Chand notes that our perceptions and thinking patterns determine our emotions, values, and beliefs, influencing how we respond to people and events. Sometimes, we are not even aware of the reasons behind what we say and do because our responses may be ingrained from childhood. But Chand believes all of us can have new thinking for a new future. He has set out to help people move beyond specific goals and consider objectives and key results, challenge themselves, ask crucial questions, and “upgrade the software” in their heads.

Erewhon is not only an adventure story but also Butler's satirical inversion of English customs and philosophy in the 19th century. The explorer Higgs discovers a well organised and civilised country - apparently idyllic. However, the body politic has two ruling obsessions, disease is considered a crime and machinery is seen as a threat to the supremacy of man.

Take a trip through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor's pass gave him a horrifying - and enlightening - preview of its torments. This true account of Sam Bercholz's near-death experience has more in common with Dante's Inferno than it does with any of the popular feel-good stories of what happens when we die.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend, William Wordsworth, revolutionized English poetry. In 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using "the language of men" - pointing the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.

A pioneering approach to overcoming high blood pressure. If you are one of the millions of people diagnosed with high blood pressure, this groundbreaking book can change your life.

When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandora's Box of unimaginable illness and death. Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease.

The research shows that following a structured program of pelvic floor exercises for a sustained period of several weeks can significantly strengthen and tone the pelvic floor muscle. The Contone Method is an in-depth pelvic floor exercise system created by a certified osteopath and APPI-qualified pilates instructor.

We live in a world that can best be described as a collective mess: messes in our families, careers, communities, and culture. We find ourselves fighting through the chaos just to survive. But our God is still God in the mess. Inspired by the story of the blind man in John 9, bestselling author and pastor Samuel Rodriguez shows us that sometimes Jesus makes a mess first—and out of that mess emerges a miracle. Full of biblical inspiration, scientific findings, and true stories, Pastor Sam reminds us that God's process is temporary but his promise is permanent.

These four works show Samuel Beckett at his most penetrating. Both Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Not I (1972) are among the most striking pieces written for the theatre in the 20th century. An old man sits at a table, playing back old tapes made when he was younger, mixed glimpses of past feelings. In Not I, we have just a mouth expressing memories and torment in a torrent of words.

Bridges have been burnt, and Raysha needs out. With the opportunity to travel and leave Darius behind, she jumps at the change and drags the Misfits along with her. Tension is rising between the nations of Erasted and Nhami, and problems plague the border towns. Through it all winds one question she cares about above all others: Why are spirits being hunted? And how can she find a way to protect them and strike down those who dare try and harvest their hearts?

Introducing the 100% Success Mindset – The Perfect Companion for Creating a Positive Approach to Achieving Anything! Are you feeling unmotivated, unfulfilled, and lacking in purpose? Are you struggling to make it through life with confidence and optimism? Do you have big dreams but don't know how to achieve them? Maybe you’re feeling like you’re not destined for success, or that your goals are too unattainable.

This short work by Mathers forms an essential introduction to the structural and esoteric aspects of the Tarot. The author was one of the three founders of the influential 19th century secret society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Three methods of reading cards are discussed, as well as a traditional game of tarot. Editor Jason Augustus Newcomb has extensively rendered the text more friendly for modern audiences.

Courage to Heal: How to Overcome Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma is a well-rounded introduction to the factors surrounding the crime of child sexual abuse; the trauma it occasions the victims; and the most convenient way to heal the emotional wounds that sexual abuse leaves behind

Teil 5 der Reihe um Holger Munch und Mia Kröger von Bestsellerautor Samuel Bjørk. Mia Krüger hat der Osloer Polizei den Rücken gekehrt und sich auf die kleine Insel Hitra zurückgezogen. Zu sehr haben sie die letzten Fälle aufgerieben. Doch auch auf der beschaulichen Fischerinsel lässt das Verbrechen Mia nicht los, und sie bittet ihren befreundeten Kollegen Holger Munch um Mithilfe.

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money" [P.T. Barnum] Starts at Chapter 19, "As a Man Thinketh" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 40, "The Science of Getting Rich" [Wallace D. Wattles] Starts at Chapter 49, "Morning and Evening Thoughts" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 67, "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran] Starts at Chapter 131, "Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence" [Henry Harrison Brown] Starts at Chapter 159, "The Art Of War" [Sun Tzu] Starts at Chapter 166.

Having helped thousands move from anger, distrust, apathy, and heartache to safely reengaging in their faith—and local church—Pastor Joe Dobbins offers compassion, wisdom, and practical advice to help you understand why church hurt is so potent and hard to address; break free from bad beliefs, self-defeating patterns, and cycles of pain; discover the way to inner healing; release your pain and reframe your story; find the courage to reengage in a faith community; and protect yourself in the future.