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For anyone who's ever had the desire to look at the world through the eyes of our indigenous ancestors, here is a unique opportunity. Traveling between the Worlds is a treasure trove of insight and exploration into the ancient spiritual wisdom of such diverse cultures as Ireland, Africa, and the Americas. The keeper of this wisdom is the shaman--a man or woman who can, at will, enter into altered states of consciousness in order to acquire extrasensory...
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National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat,...
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"The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir -- 90% Newman's...
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Journalist & travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf, to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, & most importantly, why they chose to live where they do & what that place means to them.
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In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "Southwest Sound Collage." His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "Loeffler, this radio series should be a book." Thus, "Headed Upstream" first appeared in 1989 shortly after Abbey's death. The challenging interviews that appear herein (Edward Abbey, Andrew Weil, John Nichols, Stewart Udall, and Gary Snyder, to name a few) reflect many points of view from anarchist...
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An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz critic
Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue." Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering jazz among...
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"Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they...
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Over Kathleen Turner's forty-year career, she has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor. In conversations with film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares her lessons with the world.
"Few actors have had the kind of dynamic career that Kathleen Turner has; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage. Over her forty-year career, Turner has developed...
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In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by people-between fifty and seventy-five-who are considered "neither young nor old." In our "third chapters" we are beginning to redefine our views about the casualties...
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
13) Back from the brink: true stories and practical help for overcoming depression and bipolar disorder
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Collects first-hand stories from celebrities on their own struggles with depression and bipolar disease, including the steps that they took to get a handle on their own mental health and begin moving forward.
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"Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people--including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Viewed through the lens of Zinn's own life as a soldier, historian, and activist...
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The stories of tragedy and sadness shared by old-timers (viejitos) in Fe y Tragedias : Faith and Tragedy in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico are as diverse as the voices behind them. Each bilingual (Spanish and English) account personifies faith, fortitude, compassion, and buoyancy. Without these human attributes, people beset with tragedy would have succumbed to tragedy itself. The high point of interest in this book is not to promote or engage in...
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Bernalillo: Yesterday's Sunshine, Today's Shadows is a compendium of oral stories from fifteen Hispanic old-timers from Bernalillo, New Mexico, that takes the reader back fifty-plus years to their beloved town with a colorful and long-standing history. They speak both proudly and sadly of their language and culture. Language, in spite of everything, cannot exist without culture or vice versa. Two primary goals were considered in putting this book...
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La poesía no es personal, esta construido sobre el montaje de intervenciones o entrevistas que Millán concediera desde 1984 hasta su muerte, funciona como una guía para aproximarse a su trabajo y también como un autorretrato. Los temas a los que alude Millán son muy diversos. Sus inicios en la escritura. Su generación. La dictadura y el exilio. La poesía como construcción. La poesía no es personal está hecha para tener valor de uso. Invita...
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Clavijas redondas en agujeros cuadrados contiene las ideas más destacadas de 40 entrevistas realizadas a personalidades internacionales de diferentes ámbitos y regiones del mundo. Se trata de una obra concebida como una guía de recursos: nuevos temas, países alejados, formas de pensar sorprendentes, instituciones de las que nunca habíamos escuchado, voces imprescindibles para comprender el mundo que viene.
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19) Chanchullos
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Estos Chanchullos de Nicanor Parra son un collage de fragmentos de múltiples entrevistas que el poeta ha concedido a los largo de los años. En ellos, Parra se muestra renuente a la confesión biográfica y sentimental, aunque logra un despliegue móvil y brillante de temas, intensidades y contradicciones. Estas páginas juntan sus declaraciones literarias, comentarios culturales y políticos y muestran una vitalidad dispersa en torno a la poesía,...
20) La tercera mano
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Aparte de algunos textos sobre arte dispersos en revistas, Adolfo Couve no dejo registro escrito de su ideario estético. Su pensamiento lo compartía mayoritariamente de manera oral, en sus clases en la universidad y en conversaciones ocasionales. Escucharlo era estimulante, por la agudeza de las observaciones, por el humor y por los ejemplos dislocados que solía utilizar. Si no fuera por las entrevistas que dio durante treinta años, sus iluminadoras...
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