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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide. Collected here are some of the best, beginning with the play that launched Williams' career: The Glass Menagerie.

William James was one of the most influential figures in 19th-century American philosophy and psychology. His Pragmatism is a set of lectures that he gave in 1906-07 in answer to the enduring debate between empiricism and rationalism. Shifting between them, he proposed pragmatism as a method, the idea being that the value of any truth is dependent upon its utility–upon its practical and experiential consequences.

Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighbourhood wrongs through acts of violence.

No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No. But as we all know, the wrong No can also destroy what we most value by alienating and angering people. That’s why saying No the right way...

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.

Anthony William, the Medical Medium, offers us practical, how-to meditation instructions, and inspires us with teachings on prayer and the power of compassion, for ourselves and for others. These unique recordings were first aired on Hay House Radio. Track Listings: 1. Introduction 2. Five...

*Mystical Christianity” by William Walker Atkinson is a work that explores the esoteric and occult teachings within the Christian tradition. Atkinson, under his pen name Yogi Ramacharaka, approaches Christianity from a mystical perspective, fusing elements of Eastern philosophies with traditional Christian thought. The book invites listeners to discover a deeper, more spiritual interpretation of the Gospels, focusing on Christ consciousness as a state of enlightenment and direct connection with the divine.

Spanning 1940 to 1965, this volume picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister - when Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill described here is a man of courage, intellect, and an irresistible will to action.

What would you do with a second chance at your first time? Following a bad breakup, Willow Lewis tackles a re-do list with the help of her brother’s best friend in this sweet and sexy new romance from USA Today bestselling author Denise Williams. Willow experienced all her big firsts with her...

El Universo está gobernado por una ley. Conocemos algunas de sus manifestaciones, pero lo ignoramos todo acerca de otras. Hablamos de la Ley de la Gravitación Universal, pero ignoramos que también ésta es una manifestación de la ley de la atracción. Estamos familiarizados con esa manifestación de la Ley que atrae y mantiene unidos los átomos; pero cerramos los ojos a la potente ley que atrae hacia nosotros las cosas que deseamos o tememos, las que crean o arruinan nuestras vidas.

Want to learn how to make people laugh out loud? How to Make People Laugh is a book that targets regular comedians, such as you and me. It does not try to transform you into a professional comedian. Instead, it puts comedy in the spotlight of everyday life. With this book, you will learn techniques that you can easily incorporate at parties or even in regular banter with friends and colleagues.

Does hands-on healing work and can it be taught? Like many scientists, Dr. William Bengston would once have dismissed this phenomenon as an example of power of suggestion. But after 35 years of extraordinary research, Dr. Bengston has demonstrated time and again that hands-on healing works-even on some conditions that have no conventional treatment.

Since its rise to the highest ranks of power in Renaissance Europe, the Borgia family has developed a scandalous reputation. While they were indeed ostentatious, calculating, worldly, cruel - and even, occasionally, murderous - you may be surprised to find that the Borgias were not terribly different from other powerful and ambitious families of their day. So why has history set them apart as one of the most corrupt and reviled families in history?

To think outside the box is to explore ideas that are not limited or controlled by rules or tradition; and so unfold the discussions in THE RELEVANCE OF NOW with William Linville and host Michael Connell. Explore the many facets of Yourself, Your Heart, Your Thoughts, Your Emotions, Your Beliefs Systems and Your True Identity, while looking at what is with clarity and expanding beyond thought and experience into the unique divine presence you bring forth within The Relevance Of Now.

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in chapters 2 and 3) on a few essentials, the rules of usage, and principles of composition most commonly violated. In accordance with this plan it lays down three rules for the use of the comma, instead of a score or more, and one for the use of the semicolon, in the belief that these four rules provide for all the internal punctuation that is required by 19 sentences out of 20.

Intégrale en 19 tableaux. Mise en scène de Jean Vilar. Musique de Maurice Jarre.

Filled with practical advice and lessons, and backed by extensive research by Gentry and others, this book lays out the art, science, and practice behind learning and leading as a first time manager. Through first-hand accounts, stories, and other examples drawn from the experiences of first-time managers - including Gentry's own story of recently become a first-time manager himself - the book's practical, actionable content helps readers flip the old script, and write and live their new script.

Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, is among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes fatally enmeshed in a web of treachery and deceit.

Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser—renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well—gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing, and often surprising moments in his long and varied life as a writer, editor, teacher, and traveler. Along the way, Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote about his life.

¿Por qué estoy aquí? ¿Por qué existo? ¿Por qué mi vida está llena de miedo, ansiedad y desesperanza? ¿Por qué no puedo conseguir nunca las cosas que deseo? ¿Vale la pena vivir mi vida? Si alguna vez te has hecho alguna de estas preguntas, y has hecho la última búsqueda yendo de un lugar a otro, hablando con gurús, especialistas o líderes espirituales para obtener las respuestas que tan desesperadamente necesitas, es hora de empezar a mirar hacia dentro de ti. Este audiolibro Estoicismo te lleva en un viaje dentro de ti mismo y te entrega al futuro que deseas.