The Book of Secrets" invites us to experience & experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our senses. Osho discusses 112 individual meditation techniques drawn from ancient texts
- meditations that focus on consciousness of the present moment. Osho describes each technique in detail & explains how to discover those best suited to each of us & how to integrate them into our daily lives. The new edition of " The Book of Secrets"
Includes:: a DVD with original Osho talk & introduction to meditation; meditation & discussion texts revised & reworked for clarity; elegant new interior design; new introduction; new easy-to-read trim size. In " The Book of Secrets" the secrets of the science of the " Vigyan Bhairav Tantra" texts become available to contemporary audience. Confined to small hidden mystery schools for centuries & often misunderstood today tantra is not just a method of enhancing sexual experience but a complete science of self-realization based on the cumulative wisdom of centuries of exploration into the meaning of life & consciousness. Tantra
- the very word means technique
- is a set of powerful transformative tools that can be used to bring new meaning & joy to every aspect of our daily live."



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Ageing is one of those unavoidable facts of life & what more can you do about it than laugh (admittedly slightly defensively)? Just why fading physical & mental faculties should be so funny is something of a mystery but they are & with The Book of Senior Jokes" you can laugh off your forgetfulness fading physique & new penchant for the afternoon nap. This book
- & do please try to remember to pay for it
- is a collection of the very best senior jokes putting them down between hard covers where even you cant forget them. " The Book of Senior Jokes" is the perfect present for anyone feeling their age no matter how old they may be that will help them celebrate all that is positive
- & positively hilarious
- about growing older."



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Have you ever referred to your oldest & closest friend as ' Thingy'? Reached the top of the landing only to realize that you have no idea why you came upstairs in the first place? Congratulations
- or commiserations
- you've had your first senior moment! Fear not for help is at h&. The Book of Senior Moments" introduces the reader to a wonderful collection of these little passages drawn from the experiences of everyone from politicians to pundits. It

Includes:: exit strategies for when you've been ambushed by your memory as well as tips on how to avoid getting ambushed in the first place. Part guide part humorous overview & crammed with advice examples anecdotes confessions tips retorts & excuses this is an absolutely essential book for anyone growing long in the tooth & short of memory."



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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children & adulthood as a vocal feminist & mother Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert the Australian bush & the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale & myth Western & Eastern religious traditions the Enlightenment & psychoanalysis up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated Scottish moor & the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. ...

Four students discover a manuscript The Book of Skulls which reveals the existence of a sect now living in the Arizona desert whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise they discover that the sect exists & is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite two must die in order for the others to succeed. ...

The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series. Every year for ten years a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked throat slit body washed clean. Ten years ten women. The final victim Kirsty Summers was Detective Constable Tony Mc Lean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop Mc Lean found a torture chamber & put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later & a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked washed her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more sinister frightening explanation? Mc Lean must revisit the most disturbing case of his life & discover what he missed before the killer strikes again... The Book of Souls is the second in the Detective Inspector Mclean series. The first was Natural Causes & the upcoming third will be called The Hangman's Song. Fans of Ian Rankin Peter James & Stuart Mc Bride will love James Oswald's work. Praise for James Oswald: A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene". (Daily Record). " Crime fiction's next big thing". (The Sunday Telegraph). " Literary sensation... James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James & her Fifty Shades of Grey series". (Daily Mail). " Fifty Shades of Hay". (The Times). " Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers". (Daily Mail). " The new Ian Rankin". (Daily Record). " The hallmarks of Val Mc Dermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark violent noirish". (The Herald). "A good read". (The Times). " An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series". (Guardian). James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series of crime novels. The first two in the series Natural Causes & The Book of Souls are available from Penguin with the third title The Hangman's Song forthcoming for 2014. He has also written an epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro as well as comic scripts & short stories. In his spare time James runs a 350 acre livestock farm in North East Fife where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle & New Zealand Romney Sheep." ...

When you open up the cover of this book you will be transported to a fourth dimension
- the mystical world of wizards charms &
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Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died & a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers its stuffed with photographs & mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary. It was a time when she trod the tightrope between separated parents & two very different countries; her bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother & her gentle reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist & an empty-feeling cottage in deepest Devon. & it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen. Since then Beth hasnt allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid painful & vital as ever. ...

In this title around 350 incisive essays & almost 800 full-color images evoke the hidden

Dimensions of archetypal

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From the authors of the much-loved 1080 Recipes"
- the Spanish cooking bible by Simone & Ines Ortega
- " The Book of Tapas"

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