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Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Sam Keen

Sam Keen, the New York Times best-selling author of Fire in the Belly, has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In Sightings, a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise.
Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through ...

Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through ...

Sam Keen

Designed to lead individuals to self-study and awareness focus on the past, death, public and private images, fantasy, and cosmic experiences
Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

Sam Keen

Written for both men and women, this groundbreaking book takes the reader on a journey to discover new routes to authentic manhood and create alternatives to definitions of masculinity that no longer work in today's world.
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion

Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion

Ian Keen

Keen draws on recent post-structuralist social theory to discuss this heterogeneity of culture and ritual.
To Love and Be Loved

To Love and Be Loved

Sam Keen

The best-selling author of Fire in the Belly describes the skill and talent needed to create and sustain a loving relationship and focuses on sixteen elements--including attention, compassion, and desire--that make up love.
Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions

Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions

Sam Keen

A guide to understanding and overcoming boredom and depression shows readers how to break the addiction to artificial forms of excitement and activity (e.g., television watching) and how to renew joy in life by unfreezing emotions.
The passionate life: stages of loving

The passionate life: stages of loving

Sam Keen

Draws on psychology, philosophy, mythology, and personal experience to explain the five stages in becoming a lover--child, rebel, adult, outlaw, and mature lover--and provide guidance in achieving awareness, maturity, and genuine passion ...
Twain's End

Twain's End

Lynn Cullen

Lynn Cullen. “Meticulous research and keen curiosity led her to piece together a fascinating account of the last seven years of Mark Twain's life. Though the story of Isabel and Sam took place over a hundred years ago, its concerns remain with  ...
Strings of Connectedness: Essays in honour of Ian Keen

Strings of Connectedness: Essays in honour of Ian Keen

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In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen’s former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across ...
Empathy and its Limits

Empathy and its Limits

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(2006) 'Empathic Neural Responses are Modulated by the Perceived Fairness of Others', Nature, 439, pp. 466–9. 14. S. Keen (2007) Empathy and the Novel ( Oxford and New York: Oxford UP); S. Keen (2010) 'Narrative Empathy' in F. Aldama ...
Sam and Dasher

Sam and Dasher

Charnan Simon

When next-door neighbor dogs Dasher and Sam start to visit back and forth by ripping a screen, Sam's owner Rosie solves the problem by putting in a doggie door.
Sam’s Foster Family:

Sam’s Foster Family:

Carol Platteuw

... he might be able to become a dog trainer when he was older – and he might help Finn and Nutmeg win prizes! 'I wish the Judge would hurry up and decide,' Sam thought. Guidance Notes Sam's Foster Family The New Road Friends is. 28.
Such is life

Such is life

Harry James Greenwall

Meanwhile Ben was grumblingly telling his mother his version of the quarrel with Sam. " Something about money ... If I know Sam," answered Sarah, " he will come back with his Uncle Sam Pinkus and a policeman." But she was only partly ...
Sid and Sam

Sid and Sam

Nola Buck

Sid and Sam start to sing. But Sid doesn't stop. What can Sam do when Sid's song is too long?
Mind & Motivation: The Spirit of Success

Mind & Motivation: The Spirit of Success

Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

SAM PARNIA Doctor Sam Parnia graduated from Guys and St. Thomas' medical schools in London. At the time of this interview Sam was a Specialist Registrar in Internal and Respiratory Medicine at Southampton General Hospital, and also a ...
The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

Sam Laing

Sam Laing, Geri Laing, Elizabeth Laing-Thompson. £ffBOOK§ ( 4 71705 CLEARANCE $ ? 00 ; me Hinder □ears Sam & fieri Laing and Elizabeth laing Thompson The Wonder Years Preieens & Teens he Jmder Hears Sam. Parenting  ...
What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study Into the ...

What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study Into the ...

Sam Parnia

USA $13.95 • CAN $18.95 • UK £9.99 Publisher's Price Higher in Other Countries Near-Death Experiences "We now have the technology and scientific knowledge to explore the ultimate question. " — Sam Parnia, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Sam Parnia ...
Dear Chris, Dear Sam

Dear Chris, Dear Sam

Mikal Keefer

Chris hates spelling but learns to like it when he gets a pen pal named Sam who likes basketball as much as he does. Find out what happens when Chris travels across town to Sam's school to visit and play basketball.
A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the ...

A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the ...

Robert Greenfield

G. Jutland, Tommy Weber in Karmapa Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet ( Douglas) Keats, John Keen, Charles Keen, Mary (Curzon). See Curzon, Mary Keswick, Maggie Keys, Bobby “Kinder Days” (song) Kipling, Rudyard Klossowski,  ...
Sam

Sam

Francine Pascal

There's somebody who wants me dead. And he's probably going to succeed. Very soon. There is something I have to do before I go. And there's only one person I want to do it with. Sam. NO RULES. NO LIMITS. NO FEAR.
Sam Houston's Last Fight:

Sam Houston's Last Fight:

Albert Castel

At sixty-six, Sam Houston's bones ached from the wounds of two wars, but as Southern pressure for secession mounted, writes historian Albert Castel in this essay, "Old Sam Jacinto" battled to keep his beloved Texas in the Union.
Soft Skull Sam

Soft Skull Sam

Syd Hoff

Sam loves everything about soccer but the all-important head shot.
Marryin' Sam

Marryin' Sam

Doris L. Mueller

Twelve-year-old Sam takes on the project of finding her dad a wife.
Bounce Forward: How to Transform Crisis into Success

Bounce Forward: How to Transform Crisis into Success

Sam Cawthorn

In Bounce Forward, Sam shares the tools, strategies, and psychology that anyone can use to overcome any obstacle. If Sam can bounce forward from the accident that nearly took his life, there's almost nothing that you can't overcome.
Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, ...

Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, ...

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SAM RAYBURN BY D. CLAYTON BROWN When Sam Rayburn died on November 16, 1961, the nation knew it had lost a great leader. "Sam Rayburn . . . was the greatest of the great Speakers of the House of Representatives," wrote Harry ...
Sam Hill

Sam Hill

Tom DeFalco

Includes the all-new Sam Hill story by Tom DeFalco and Greg Scott, plus a bonus story featuring the first ever appearance of Sam Hill with art by comics legend Harry Lucey!
Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers

Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers

Karl E. Campbell

Susan Graham Erwin married Ioe Ervin (note the different spellings of their last names) but always used her maiden name ... Ervin interview, Senator Sam); Laura Ervin Smith interview, transcript, Senator Sam (film), New Atlantic Productions; ...
Accroche-toi Sam !

Accroche-toi Sam !

Margaret Bechard

A dix-sept ans, Sam est déjà le papa d'un petit garçon, Max.

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