Pema Choedroen reveals the vast potential for happiness wisdom & courage even in the most painful circumstances Pema Choedroen teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach yet we usually miss it
- ironically while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain & suffering This accessible guide to compassionate living shows us how we can use painful emotions to cultivate wisdom compassion & courage ways of communication that lead to openness & true intimacy with others practices for reversing our negative habitual patterns methods for working with chaotic situations & ways to cultivate compassionate energetic social action Recently profiled in Oprah's O magazine Pema Choedroen is a spiritual teacher for anyone
- whether they have a spiritual path or not Her heartfelt advice & wisdom (developed in her 20 years of practice as a Tibetan Buddhist nun as well as her years previously as a normal housewife & mother') give her a wide appeal This advice strikes just the right note offering us comfort & challenging us to live deeply & contribute to creating a more loving world

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The world is on the brink of catastrophe If we lose hope in a better future what are we left with?A young man is shooting people from a rooftop in downtown Helsinki An unsuspecting mother is confronted with a horrifying scenario she's powerless to stop A sister can only watch events unfold from afar Over the course of a day one family fractures & with lives at stake each member must examine everything that brought them to this moment But this crisis goes beyond their small lives; Aslak is not the only boy on a rooftop with a gun today He is part of an international group set on stopping environmental disaster by killing as many of those they deem responsible as they can Can a desperate mother reconcile her complicated feelings towards her son & reach him in time to stop a catastrophe? This is the story of the lives on the brink & finding hope in the face of despair ...

If you're at a crossroads this is the book you need to read to begin chasing your dreams

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This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak Renegade thinkers & bestselling sensations Levitt & Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs conversations wisecracks & advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bankrobbing fast food to sex taxes' We are all Freakonomists now' Washington Post'A phenomenon their approach has won them a cult following' Observer' Lie back & let Levitt & Dubner's bouncy prose style carry you along from one peculiarity to the next' Sunday Telegraph' You are guaranteed a good time' Financial Times ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Towards the end of World War Two American troops based in Europe see the success of D-Day as a sign that they will soon return home However the Battle of Hurtgen forest claims 24000 lives in just three months Private David Manning is promoted for his bravery after carrying a wounded comrade to safety & reluctantly placed in charge of raw recruits Manning&s only thoughts are of escape from the carnage of war as he embarks on a final mission ...

The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Born in 1954 Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself There were Like thousands of other young people Jones nearly penniless was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco a city electrified by progressive politics & sexual freedom Jones found community
- in the hotel rooms & ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers in the city&s bathhouses & gay bars like The Stud & in the burgeoning gay district the Castro where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop began shouting through his bullhorn & soon became the nation&s most outspoken gay elected official With Milk&s encouragement Jones dove into politics & found his calling in &the movement& When Milk was killed by an assassin&s bullet in 1978 Jones took up his mentor&s progressive mantle
- only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again By turns tender & uproarious
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- When We Rise is Jones& account of his remarkable life He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS which very nearly killed him too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco & the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people & other misfits; & the harrowing sexy & sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve&s passionate relationships with friends & lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom & possibility & prejudice & violence alike When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full & transformative American life
- an activist whose work continues today




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Some of the women walked so slow they were like floating For real Heads perfectly straight Hips swaying left slow right slow step slow If you didn't concentrate you would think they weren't moving at all their bodies just hanging in space Best mates Karl & Abu are both 17 & live near Kings Cross Its 2011 & racial tensions are set to explode across London Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her Meanwhile Karl is the target of the local "wannabe" thugs just for being different When Karl finds out his father lives in Nigeria he decides that Port Harcourt is the best place to escape the sound & fury of London & connect with a Dad he's never known Rejected on arrival Karl befriends Nakale an activist who wants to expose the ecocide in the Niger Delta to the world & falls headlong for his feisty cousin Janoma Meanwhile the murder of Mark Duggan triggers a full-scale riot in London Abu finds himself in its midst leading to a near-tragedy that forces Karl to race back home When We Speak of Nothing launches a powerful new voice onto the literary stage The fluid prose peppered with contemporary slang captures what it means to be young black & queer in London If grime music were a novel it would be this ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When We Were Kings The true story of the legendary & Rumble in the Jungle& of 1974 in which Muhammad Ali endured a titanic battle with George Foreman The fight took place in Zaire amidst a wealth of publicity & political intrigue & this film pieced together over 20 years chronicles it all Featuring the music of the Fugees James Brown & BB King When We Were Kings won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary I Am Ali An intimate & heart-warming look at the man behind the legend--as we&ve never seen Ali before I Am Ali is told through exclusive unprecedented access to Ali&s personal archive of ‘audio journals& combined with touching interviews & testimonials from his inner circle of family & friends including his daughters son ex-wife & brother plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson George Foreman & Gene Kilroy Experience Ali&s extraordinary story as a fighter lover brother father--told from the inside for the very first time The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali&s life When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali his conversion to Islam & refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing & facing a fve-year prison sentence Ali&s choice of belief & conscience over fame & fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring striking issues of race faith & identity that continue to confront us all today ...

England 1930s Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective his cases the talk of London society Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a small boy Now as the world lurches towards total war Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood & at last solve the mystery
- that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe Moving between London & Shanghai of the inter-war years When We Were Orphans is a story of memory intrigue & the need to return; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood indelibly shaping & distorting a person's life If you enjoyed When We Were Orphans you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day now available in Faber Modern Classics
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By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day & Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England the 1930s Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective his cases the talk of London society Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him the mysterious disappearance of his parents in old Shanghai when he was a small boy Moving between inter-war London & Shanghai When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory intrigue & the need to return ...