Red Queen meets Shadow and Bone in this #1 New York Times bestselling debut about a girl forced to use her gift for sensing—and absorbing—other people’s feelings to protect the empire from assassins. Steeped in intrigue and betrayal, Burning Glass captivates with heartrending romance, dangerous magic, and one girl’s quest for redemption. In Riaznin, it’s considered an honor for Auraseers like Sonya—girls with a rare form of synesthesia—to serve as the emperor’s personal protector, constantly scanning for feelings of malice and bloodlust in the court. But Sonya would rather be free. After the queen’s murder and a tragic accident, Sonya is hauled off to the palace to guard a charming yet volatile new ruler. But Sonya’s power is reckless and hard to control. She’s often carried away by the intense passion of others. And when a growing rebellion forces Sonya to side with either the emperor who trusts her or his mysterious brother, the crown prince, Sonya realizes she may be the key to saving the empire—or its greatest threat.

Alasdair and Jean are making a deliberate effort to put together a relationship. Leaving Edinburgh to the crowds attending the annual Festival, they move into the caretaker's cottage of an old and spooky castle near Rosslyn Chapel. Rosslyn has been made so famous by The Da Vinci Code that only tour groups are admitted. It's a medieval church where the Holy Grail or the treasure of the Knights Templar is rumored to be hidden. Ferniebank Castle includes a small chapel that's very similar and obviously related to Rosslyn, but is off the beaten path. Or so they think. Even before Jean meets Alasdair at Ferniebank, she hears that trouble is brewing there and in the nearby village of Stanelaw: a local councillor has disappeared, a precious artifact has been stolen, and the castle's former caretaker has died under circumstances that make Alasdair's police-whiskers twitch. It's a bad time for this sort of thing to be happening, since the owner of a popular New Age travel company has just bought the chapel and its healing well, intending to build a spa there, something that will revive the village economy. As though Jean and Alasdair's plans aren't thrown enough of a curve when the New Age guru turns out to be his ex-wife, other crimes and then another death occur right on their doorstep. And everything seems to track back to the former Mrs. Cameron. Even though Alasdair is no longer a formal member of other police force, he and Jean must roll up their sleeves and wade in to yet another mystery. "Authentic dialect...detailed descriptions of the castle and environs, and vivid characters recreate an area rich in history and legend. The tightly woven plot is certain to delight history fans with its dramatic collision of past and present." -- Publishers Weekly "A little romance, a dash of mystery and a soupcon of history make a hearty...dish." -- Kirkus Reviews

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

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True Story of Ophthalmologist William H. Bates 'Battle with the Optical industry, Eye Surgeons, Doctors to Teach and Preserve Natural Eyesight Improvement.' Bates Method History. (Black & White Version.) Includes natural treatments for clear vision without use of eyeglasses, surgery, drugs and 54 Monthly Issues, 4½ years of Dr. Bates Better Eyesight Magazine Illustrated with 500 pictures, a variety of treatments for every eye condition & 14 Free E-Books consisting of an entire Natural Eyesight Improvement Training Course, download from Internet. E-books include the book 'Do It Yourself - Natural Eyesight Improvement-Original and Modern Bates Method & the entire 132 Issues, 11 years of Ophthalmologist Bates Better Eyesight Magazines in Original Antique Print & a modern text version with 500 pictures, The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses.., all the authors Paperback & Kindle books. Eyecharts, Audio & Video lessons in the book chapters.William H. Bates discovered Natural Eyesight Improvement, 'The Bates Method'. He discovered the natural principles, normal function of the eyes (visual system) and applied natural methods, relaxation to return the eyes, eye muscles, nerves, mind/brain, body (entire visual system) to normal function with healthy eyes and clear vision. He cured; unclear close and distant vision, astigmatism, crossed, wandering eyes, cataracts, glaucoma, and other conditions. Natural Eyesight Improvement was practiced years before Dr. Bates discovered it. It is the normal, natural function of the eyes. Hidden from the public by eye surgeons, Optometrists, Optical businesses for over 100 years because this method works, is easy, anyone can learn, teach it, including children. It produces healthy eyes, clear vision and frees the patient from the need to purchase eyeglasses, drugs, unnecessary eye surgery. Yes, it can and has reversed cataracts! Dr. Bates worked his entire life treating people successfully with Natural Eyesight Improvement. When he cured the eyes, vision of many patients, medical students and other doctors in the hospital where he worked with natural treatments, without use of eyeglasses, surgery, drugs and proved his method is fact, that some of the old theories of eye function are incorrect; the eye surgeons that preferred to sell eyeglasses, surgery, drugs became angry and expelled him. (See: `Reason and Authority' & `Dr. Bates Lecture' in Better Eyesight Magazine: November, 1919, April, 1923 & Articles in his book.) Dr. Bates then opened his own office, a Clinic in Harlem, New York City. He treated thousands of people by natural methods, including many of the poor people that had little money. He kept his price for medical treatment low and also provided no charge office visits `Free Clinic Days' for people that could not afford to pay for a visit to an Ophthalmologist. His treatments were successful. He cured the young and old, people of all ages, nationalities, cured a variety of eye conditions. The Bates Method is so simple and effective that many of his cured patients, `often children' then went on to cure their friends, family, parents, teachers and other children of defective vision including crossed, wandering eyes. Read the `true story of the two little girls that restored a blind mans eyesight' in the Oct. 1925 Magazine Issue. Dr. Bates recorded 11 years of work in his clinic, his patients and their varied treatments in his Better Eyesight Magazines, Books and Medical Articles. Dr. Bates Better Eyesight Magazines contain many Natural Treatments, a variety of Activities, Directions, Articles describing how Dr. Bates, Emily Lierman Bates, (his Clinic assistant, wife) and other eye Doctors, School Teachers, Bates Method Students, Bates Teachers, Children and Parents used Natural Treatments to remove, correct, prevent many different eye problems. Dr. Bates Amazon.com Authors page; http://www.amazon.com/William-H.-Bates/e/B004H9DOBC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South itself, ultimately happen. Employing theoretical approaches to the body developed by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Colette Guillaumin, Elaine Scarry, and Friedrich Kittler, Watson also draws on histories of bodily representation to mine a century of southern fiction for its insights into problems that have preoccupied the region and nation alike: slavery, Jim Crow, and white supremacy; the marginalization of women; the impact of modernization; the issue of cultural authority and leadership; and the legacy of the Vietnam War. He focuses on the specific bodily attributes of hand, voice, and blood and the deeply embodied experiences of pain, illness, pregnancy, and war to offer new readings of a distinguished group of literary artists who turned their attention to the South: Mark Twain, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Katherine Anne Porter, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walker Percy. In producing an intensely embodied U.S. literature these writers, Watson argues, were by turns extending and interrogating a centuries-old tradition in U.S. print culture, in which the recalcitrant materiality of the body serves as a trope for the regional alterity of the South. Reading for the Body makes a powerful case for the body as an important methodological resource for a new southern studies.

十九世紀末的「旅行」（travel）指的是具有拓荒、遠征、測量等明確目的之行動（expedition），蓋爾頓（Francis Galton）這本《旅行的藝術》所談論的「旅行」，正是就此而言。這樣的旅行對年輕人來說，是名利雙收的機會，老練的旅行者也可以接受各種調查委託而靠旅行維生，或是蒐集各地的物資，例如在非洲獵取象牙，也足以支持生活。當時，旅行經驗有助升遷，文筆不錯的話還可出書牟利。 本書誕生自相當切實的需求，原來，蓋爾頓1850～1851年探索非洲西南部時，苦尋不著參考資料，於是他決定自己蒐集旅人的零碎經驗，加以架構，整理原則，推敲出來的東西當可稱為「旅行的藝術」。 寫作背景既如此務實，蓋爾頓所謂的「藝術」也是條理分明而穩健。行前建設心理，評估自己適不適合旅行，這包括物質和心理條件。接著要組織探險隊——若你獨自上路，蓋爾頓給的建議很簡短：「嗜睡和聾聵之人不適合單獨旅行」，「時時保持清醒與警戒，團隊時時受惠，無庸贅言。」探險隊的成員，僕役、女人、通譯等，蓋爾頓一一提點其功能與挑選的原則，甚至附上跟僕役的合約範本。值得注意的是，此節蓋爾頓筆下的女人，簡直與馱獸無異；他對僕役的看法，今人怕也不大能接受。這些地方都能看出本書的時代侷限，卻也是了解十九世紀末英國帝國的材料。 蓋爾頓如此鉅細靡遺的探討了衣著、槍械、牲口、寢具、釣魚、尋路、繩結、木工等。這些項目，今人在「旅行」途中可能用不上，但蓋爾頓豐富的學識和實務見解，以及偶然拾得的洞見，仍然值得今人參考。 作者簡介 法蘭西斯．蓋爾頓 Francis Galton (1822-1911) 英國維多利亞時期的全才，懂心理學、人類學、優生學，堪稱熱帶冒險家、地理學家、發明家、彗星學家、統計學家等。蓋爾頓是提出演化論的查理斯．達爾文的遠房表弟，優生學的先鋒，由於研究優生學的緣故，也對統計學上的相關係數與迴歸有所貢獻。發表過關於指紋的論文與書籍。