They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life. Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.This is the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format. Artists can embrace and experiment with this medium and will benefit from this rich collection.

    This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself—all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.

    Bella Sara is an imaginative world full of magical horses. Each book includes a unique code for girls to enter and play with on the Web site.

    --Dr. Patrick Flores

    Yet almost no one has spoken at length to the constituency that represents Iraq’s last best hope for a stable country: its ordinary working and middle class.Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal’s intrepid senior Middle East correspondent, bridges this gap by unveiling an Iraq that has remained largely hidden since the United States declared their “Mission Accomplished.” Fassihi chronicles the experience of the disenfranchised as they come to terms with the realities of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. In an unforgettable portrait of Iraqis whose voices have remained eerily silent—from art gallery owners to clairvoyants, taxi drivers to radicalized teenagers—Fassihi brings to life the very people whose goodwill the U.S. depended upon for a successful occupation. Haunting and lyrical, Waiting for An Ordinary Day tells the long-awaited story of post-occupation Iraq through native eyes.

    With expert advice on everything from drawing and design to fine-tuning figure and landscape paintings, Charles Reid's Watercolor Solutions will help you identify shortcomings in your paintings, fix recurring problems, and become a better watercolorist--no matter what your skill level.Inside, you'll find masterful insights from one of North Light's best-selling authors:Advice for successful color mixing, tips to avoid overworking and other straightforward information you can take straight to your easel10 step-by-step demonstrations make the lessons easy to understand and implementStudent work with critiques that call out strengths, weaknesses and tips on how the paintings can be improvedWhether your portraits feel contrived, your landscapes lack depth, or your colors look unnatural, this book holds the secrets to stronger, looser and livelier paintings.

    Jackson, Victoria McKenzie, Glenn Harrington, Paul Beliveau, Peter Ciccariello, Jorge-Alberto, Justin Wiest, Dana Clancy, David MacDowell and Nahem Shoa.Grace Cavalieri Interview with Ron Silliman and with Dana Levin.Cheryl Townsend micro review of Island Time - Block Island Poems by Natalie Lobe and Anon by Chris Pusateri.Jim Knowles micro-review of Resurrection of the Dust by John McKernan.Jeremy Hughes review of Anna Nicole: Poems by Grace Cavalieri.Short story by Kirk Curnutt.Talia Reed column "On Squinching Naked Before the Masses".Essay by Jack Anders, Hummingbirds and Fish: Notes on Bob Hicok

    Recent worldwide crises and events including the Iraq war; the September 11th attacks; numerous Columbine-like events; the Catholic Church child molestation scandal; and the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, continue to present thousands more PTSD cases each year in all age groups. This book helps victims make sense of the events that led to their illness and teaches them how to create a new reality with specific advice and action plans that put them on the road to recovery and long-term healing.

    Fiction. Cross-Genre. Edited by Jason Snyder, John Cleary, and Kristine Leja. SIDEBROW 01 brings together the work of 65 writers of innovative poetry and prose into a multi-threaded, collaborative narrative that marks a new direction in publishing. Launched on the Web in 2005 to explore resonances among disparate modes of literary expression, Sidebrow has used the Internet to open up its publishing process, introducing thematic projects and facilitating creative response to pieces curated on its Web site. This inaugural anthology--which includes work by Brian Evenson, Cole Swensen, Chris Tysh, Elizabeth Robinson, Sandy Florian, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Noah Eli Gordon, among others--serves as a first step toward that effort, offering both a snapshot of an collaborative experiment and an invitation to participate in its evolution.

    From here on out, you will not only understand more clearly the power of your mind to create what you want, but you will embrace it more easily than ever before!If you’re: -tired of looking at a vision board that doesn’t do anything for you, or -bored with the routine of visualizing that hasn’t led to the results you want, and-thinking affirmations are a waste of your time … you're in for a treat. How do I know?Experience has proven it. From my own personal experience with this manifesting method, as well as the experience of many private clients, I can tell you that this process can be incredibly effective at shifting the vibe. You know the secret to getting what you want is creating vibrational alignment, right?(And if you don’t know that, it’s high time you did!)Which simply means finding a way to feel now how you would feel then. Once you’ve got that going for you – feeling now how you would feel then - you’re home free. Magic stuff happens. Ridiculous “coincidences” appear out of the blue. Things you didn’t think possible happen right before your eyes.Some folks accomplish that by imagining the future of their dreams (visualizing); some do it by acting as if they already have what they want; some create alignment by using spoken words (mantras, affirmations, scripting); others surround themselves with reminders of what they want (vision boards, sticky note affirmations). Some just forget about goals and intentions and simply focus on feeling good (one of my personal favorites). And those techniques can be amazingly effective for many of us. They have been for me, and I continue to use a variety of them on a regular basis.But when it really matters, or when I’m feeling particularly challenged, when there’s something big that I really really really want that’s been slow in coming, I pull out a new pray rain journal.It’s hands down my favorite manifesting technique.And no, you don’t have to buy this ebook to know what it is. . It’s simple stuff: writing a page a day about what you want as if you already have it.And this is way different than just plain old journaling where all we do is write about reality – what’s already happened. This is a whole new gig.I originally learned it from an energy worker here in Salt Lake, and was reminded of it years later by my Abraham-Hicks trained mentor coach. (Listen to the audio clip above to hear the story of what it means to “pray rain.”)Regardless of where it originated, I can tell you this: it can work miracles.For achieving vibrational alignment I haven’t found any other manifesting technique I like better. Because my clients also create miracles through this process regularly, I know it can work for anyone. Since I was spending a lot of time explaining the process and the power of it to clients one by one, I thought it would be nice to sum it all up in a concise package. That way, someone doesn’t have to be my client to hear about it!So that’s what you’ll find: all the details you could imagine as well as a handful of success stories about The Magic of Pray Rain Journaling.

    Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swimmers—Gertrude Ederle, Mille Gade, Lillian Cannon, and Clarabelle Barrett—who battled the weather, each other, and considerable odds to become the first woman to conquer the brutal waters of the English Channel.The popular East Coast tabloids from New York to Boston engaged in rivalries nearly as competitive as the swimmers themselves; each backed a favorite and made certain their girl—in bathing attire—was plastered across their daily editions. Just as Seabiscuit, the little horse with the big heart, would bring the nation to a near standstill when he battled his rival War Admiral in 1938, this quartet of women held the attention of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic for an entire summer.Gavin Mortimer uses primary sources, diaries, interviews with relatives, and contemporary reports to paint an unforgettable portrait of a competition that changed the way the world looked at women, both in sport and society. More than an underdog story, The Great Swim is a tale of perseverance, strength, and sheer force of will. A portrait of an era that is as evocative as Cinderella Man, this is a memorable story of America and Americans in the 1920s.

    If you want to know where you can get free bread and beer on any day of the year; if you want to know where Mayday comes from or why you should protect yourself on Mischief Night; or why the English go in for all kinds of arcane celebrations but can't be bothered with St George's Day - this the book for you.