A book to remind children that perseverance and focus leads to excellence in life

A book of bridge problems and chess problems, for the reader interested in both games.

A unique collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles, from a master in the field. In the plethora of books on bridge, Erwin Brecher's Hocus Pocus stands out like a breath of fresh air in a crowded pub just before closing time. The unique format combines interesting and far-from-easy bridge problems with challenging and equally difficult logic puzzles. -- Zia Mahmood

Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping U.S. culture. To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this "visual rhetoric." This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication forms, from photographs, prints, television documentary, and film to stamps, advertisements, and tattoos. In material original to this volume, editors Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, and Diane S. Hope present a critical perspective that links visuality and rhetoric, locates the study of visual rhetoric within the disciplinary framework of communication, and explores the role of the visual in the cultural space of the United States. Enhanced with these critical editorial perspectives, Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture provides a conceptual framework for students to understand and reflect on the role of visual communication in the cultural and public sphere of the United States. Key Features and Benefits Five broad pairs of rhetorical action—performing and seeing; remembering and memorializing; confronting and resisting; commodifying and consuming; governing and authorizing—introduce students to the ways visual images and artifacts become powerful tools of persuasion Each section opens with substantive editorial commentary to provide readers with a clear conceptual framework for understanding the rhetorical action in question, and closes with discussion questions to encourage reflection among the essays The collection includes a range of media, cultures, and time periods; covers a wide range of scholarly approaches and methods of handling primary materials; and attends to issues of gender, race, sexuality and class Contributors include: Thomas Benson; Barbara Biesecker; Carole Blair; Dan Brouwer; Dana Cloud; Kevin Michael DeLuca; Anne Teresa Demo; Janis L. Edwards; Keith V. Erickson; Cara A. Finnegan; Bruce Gronbeck; Robert Hariman; Christine Harold; Ekaterina Haskins; Diane S. Hope; Judith Lancioni; Margaret R. LaWare; John Louis Lucaites; Neil Michel; Charles E. Morris III; Lester C. Olson; Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Ronald Shields; John M. Sloop; Nathan Stormer; Reginald Twigg and Carol K. Winkler "This book significantly advances theory and method in the study of visual rhetoric through its comprehensive approach and wise separations of key conceptual components." —Julianne H. Newton, University of Oregon

Some people have a special super-power - they can control and direct the people around them and make them do whatever they ask. For some, it is the result of fear and domination, for others, it is the power of exceptional charisma and for a small number, their skill at hypnosis gives them power over others. But it is said rightly that hypnosis cannot make you do something that is opposed to your moral core or against your essential inner nature. So when a skilled hypnotist regresses attorney William Post into a sissy baby girl just for a one-time thing, has she overturned his nature or... accidentally discovered the truth inside the man? Go on a journey with skilled storyteller Christine Kringle and discover the baby inside the man and wonder if you too, may be the same.

We live in a wonderful time where all the world’s knowledge and entertainment can be accessed with a tap on the phone. While this is great for us, it is causing damage to our ability to concentrate. Concentrating and focusing your attention on the task at hand is the key to burning through your goals. With this guide you will discover amazing ways to boost your productivity. Topics covered: The 3 types of focus Strategies Of Building Your Power To Concentrate Distractions That Are Chipping Away Your Ability TO Focus Life Hacks Of Highly Successful And Focused People How To Turn Your Smartphone From An Enemy To A Friend

Magic Words: A Dictionary is a oneofakind resource for armchair linguists, popculture enthusiasts, Pagans, Wiccans, magicians, and trivia nuts alike. Brimming with the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world and illustrated throughout with magical symbols and icons, Magic Words is a dictionary like no other. More than sevenhundred essay style entries describe the origins of magical words as well as historical and popular variations and fascinating trivia. With sources ranging from ancient Medieval alchemists to modern stage magicians, necromancers, and wizards of legend to miracle workers throughout time, Magic Words is a must have for any scholar of magic, language, history, and culture.

Master puzzler Erwin Brecher teams up with top bridge problemist Julian Pottage to present as second collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles

In Elegy for a Poem Garden George Melnyk recreates in poems and images a garden of visual poetry, a temporary landscape of ideas and images given a record in these pages.