Product Description: Self-portraiture is a remarkably rich and varied genre, acting for centuries as a means for artists to explore their inner and outer selves. This book looks deeper into the motives and thoughts that lie behind the creative process...read more

Introduces travelers to Rhodes and its history, outlines tours of the island, recommends accommodations and restaurants, and provides tips on sights and activities

Product Description: So many ways to describe the workings of a social site some of which are depicted by the phrase often referred to as social networking. This is meant to describe the web site that enables the users to create a public profile within the website and to also form relationships with others users of the same site where the access to profiles are unlimited...read more

Product Description: Have you been stressed lately due to Hypothyroidism? Are you always trying to figure out what is best to eat and what can reduce the effects of Hypothyroidism? Did you know that eating the right things can help you totally reduce the pains of hypothyroid conditions? What are the right proteins? What is the best size meal – is a light meal really better? ---Special Bonus At The End Of The Book--- I get it...read more

Product Description: A story of adventure, love, loss, family and friendship. 'What do you want from life?' It seems everybody wants validation. They want their life to mean something and they want to mean something to someone else. The millennium approaches and Parker's burning ambition is to see the world...read more

Product Description: "No walk in the park are you, but neither am I - as it should be. When you twist yourself in somersaults, you scratch at my insides with your sharp and unexpected sides." Through the Veins is a collection of poetry on love, loss, sex, friendship and the power of the imagination...read more

Product Description: On December 31, 2008, personal chef, trainer, and former model Paul “PJ” James set out to add nearly 100 pounds to his ripped 176-pound physique. This “anti-New Year’s resolution” was driven by a yearning to empathize with his overweight clients and to demonstrate that with dedication and the right tools, weight loss success is possible...read more

Product Description: "My life was a circus and a comedy show by the age of three months: I was already the size of a one-year-old! I was hairy with big cheeks, big legs, feet akin to tamales and hands like an over-stuffed pita bread," writes twenty-year-old Alberto Hidalgo-Robert in this fascinating memoir about his lifelong struggle with obesity...read more

Product Description: In Celebrity Hotel, Neil Kirby, a former General Manager of Grosvenor House, looks back at his extraordinary rise from below stairs washer-up to bespoke-suited manager. Whether he's encountering a naked Natalie Wood, making sure that Luciano Pavarotti's bed is big and strong enough, or supervising a charity luncheon attended by Princess Diana, Neil Kirby shares the secrets of this exclusive isntitution and gives us a vivd portrait of two contrasting worlds - on the one hand, the sheer graft of the hundreds of maids and pageboys, porters and valets seeking to boost their meagre wages and on the other, the vanities, whims and oddities of the guests themselves, for whom money seems no object...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global...read more

Product Description: This book provides a research narrative of the way an urban school community speaks about race and ethnic relationships in times of change. It analyses the history of multicultural policy and practice in Australia. Coverage also discusses the struggle to understand identity and race and cultural difference and presents a comprehensive methodological framework to explore the complex interactions that shape race and ethnic relationships...read more

Product Description: With Saint John's North End, we continue our journey into the past of this lively and beloved city. This new pictorial history combines a wealth of over two hundred photographs taken between 1864 and 1975 with insightful commentary...read more