Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful offering us delight in their colour fragrance & form as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself as cultural symbols in different societies & at the highest levels of inspiration. In this beautiful & original book renowned thinker & geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry & geometry (the eternal verities as Plato called them). In this sense he says flowers can be treated as sources of remembering -- a way of recalling our own wholeness as well as awakening our inner power of recognition & consciousness. What is evident in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that underlies all existence. Working from his own flower photographs & with every geometric pattern h&-drawn the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our relationship with the natural world. His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature. ...

After the tragic death of her adoptive father Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world
- & shatters the life shes known in glitzy Palm Beach Florida. At last Willow learns the identity of her real father & unearths his secret love affair with her real mother. She discovers the reasons for her adoptive mothers cruelty.. .and the truth about the mysterious woman who couldnt keep her but would love her forever. This volume also contains the original e-book prequel to the De Beers series DARK SEED in print here for the first time.
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Of all the animals caught in the crosshairs of environmental dilemmas the wolf is the most challenging. Many people have strong feelings in part because of the kinship of wolves with dogs clearly visible in the array of photographs in this book. Jim & Jamie Dutcher have spent years getting to know these animals gaining the trust of a small pack with whom they shared a 25-acre enclosed compound in wilderness Idaho. Their photographs stories observations & evaluations come from living intimately with the wolves & challenge many deeply held misconceptions about this animal so maligned in legend yet so closely related to man's best friend. The result is a unique heartfelt & clear-sighted vision of wolves & a passionate plea for new respect & understanding of the wolf's role in nature. ...

Start the family fun before you even pack your bags! The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner is more than just a place to keep your important phone numbers & schedules. This all-the-fun-in-one journal is a celebration of the happiest place on earth-and a peek inside its magic! With the help of this planner you'll make exciting discoveries like where in Epcot to find Mickey-shaped tomatoes & the blink-&-you'll-miss-it eerie surprise on the Tower of Terror. In addition to these never-before-revealed secrets you'll also discover: The best places to stay & eat for every budget Scheduling strategies to cut your waiting time in long lines Prime viewing spots for parades & hundreds more money- & time-saving (and fun-maximizing) tips Complete with journal pages to record your memories fold-out maps to help you find your way & pockets to hold your keepsakes The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner helps you step into your own Once Upon a Time" & make your Disney dreams come true!" ...

One hot summer night two-year-old Audrey Cutler was snatched from her bedroom & never seen again. Twenty-six years later her brother Sammy fatefully crosses paths with the man the police failed to convict for her abduction & murder. A few weeks later that man is murdered. Attorney Jason Kolarich Sammy's childhood friend is engaged to defend him. But can he trust the people who hired him? Why are they paying for Sammy's defence & why do they want the case heard so quickly leaving Kolarich no time to prepare? Why when Kolarich's investigations lead the police to a buried cache of children's bodies do they kidnap his brother & threaten his life? As the clock ticks for both his brother & his childhood friend Jason must discover the shocking truth in order to save them & finally to save himself. ...

The Hidden Messages in Water" is an eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to our individual & collective consciousness. Drawing from his own research scientific researcher healer & popular lecturer Dr Masaru Emoto describes the ability of water to absorb hold & even retransmit human feelings & emotions. Using high-speed photography he found that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific concentrated thoughts are directed toward it. Music visual images words written on paper & photographs also have an impact on the crystal structure. Emoto theorizes that since water has the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies it can also reflect the universe in this manner. He found that water from clear springs & water exposed to loving words shows brilliant complex & colorful snowflake patterns while polluted water & water exposed to negative thoughts forms incomplete asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. Emoto believes that since people are 70 per cent water & the Earth is 70 per cent water we can heal our planet & ourselves by consciously expressing love & goodwill." ...

Egypt 2153 BC eighty priests set out under cover of darkness into the western desert taking with them a mysterious object swathed in cloth. Four weeks later having reached their destination they calmly slit each other's throats... Albania 1986 A plane takes off from a remote airfield bound for the Sudan. On board a cargo that will forever change the Middle East. Somewhere over the Sahara the plane disappears... The western desert the present day A group of Bedouin discover a mummified corpse half-buried in the dunes. With it are a roll of camera film & a miniature clay obelisk inscribed with a curious hieroglyphic sign... Three unconnected events Or so it seems until Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt for the funeral of her sister a desert explorer who has inexplicably taken her own life... For Freya it is the start of a terrifying life-or-death adventure
- one that will lead her & Egyptologist Flin Brodie deep into the forbidding wastes of the Sahara. Their goal: one of archaeology's greatest mysteries & the astonishing secret at its heart.
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When the authors stumbled across the Naadi palm-leaf readers of India they were in India for a wedding. While there they found their destiny & made the shocking discovery that our lives have been determined & mapped out centuries before. This book covers the authors revelatory journey to the Naadis to be told the precise details of their past present & predictions of their future which had been recorded in Sanskrit on palm leaves millennia ago passed down by initiates to await long-destined appointments with those who come to find them. How does it feel to find out your souls true mission has been documented in detail on an ancient leaf that relates to you alone & then to learn your future? Angela Donovan found it a deeply uplifting experience but for her husband Andrew it was a life-changing moment that left him reeling his lifelong skepticism challenged & destroyed. The book speaks to both the spiritually minded & the skeptical. This book gives an inspiring look into one of the greatest mystical secrets of India
- the hidden oracle. It tells readers how to find the Naadis for themselves.
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This definitive resource on using Adobe Photoshop blend modes features dozens of hands-on examples to give you an edge in technical personal & commercial projects Blend modes are an essential if somewhat mysterious tool for photographers & digital artists. They can be used to for a wide range of imaging effects & challenges such as noise reduction working with high dynamic range (HDR) images compositing graphic design & digital painting. Although blend modes can be easy to use they arent always easy to underst&. Scott Valentine translates the technical elements into every day language & demonstrates techniques using real-world examples. Whether youre a professional or hobbyist theres something here for you. Beginning & intermediate users of Photoshop will learn how blend modes work & get up to speed on the most common techniques. The book will also feature power tips & blend mode techniques from industry experts including Katrin Eismann Matt Kloskowski & RC Concepcion. Advanced & technical users will find indispensable references along with powerful enhancements & corrections. More than just a collection of effects & recipes The Hidden Power of Blend Modes explains why the techniques work & how to tune them for your own specific needs. ...

Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes & the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe the 'string theory' that might hold the key to unifying nature's laws & our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet as physicist Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows ours may be just one universe among many like endless reflections in a mirror. He takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds
- from a multiverse where an infinite number of your doppelgangers are reading this sentence to vast oceans of bubble universes & even multiverses made from mathematics
- showing just how much of reality's true nature may be hidden within them. " If extraterrestrials land tomorrow & demand to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing.. .hand them a copy of this book" (The New York Times Book Review). "A writer of exceptional clarity & charm.. .every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable mind-expanding realities". (Oliver Sacks). " The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse & will open up many people's eyes". (John Gribbin). Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory " The Elegant Universe" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction " The Fabric of the Cosmos" & " The Hidden Reality". Educated at Harvard & Oxford he has taught at both Harvard & Cornell & has been Professor of Physics & Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996."

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