Christina Rodenbeck gathers prayers and images that reveal Mary as a symbol of infinite love and compassion, wisdom, and the feminine principle most potent.
In out frantic times we all need a place of calm, somwhere for the spirit to rest easy. Buddha in my Pocket is that place. Even in the most crowded day this book is a source of tanquility, like a cool swim on a hot day. In this book the Buddha's own words bring you moments of peace, contemplation and wholness unlike any others.
Turquoise inspires creativity; a hand-held clear crystal calms anxiety; a rose quartz meditation generates loving vibrations. This little ready reference guide shows how to use crystals to de-stress, re-charge, and put balance back into anyone's busy day. Carry it along to shop for stones, and use it to cleanse and tune them and assemble a personal crystal toolkit. Consult the illustrated directory of colorful and mysterious stones, from Aquamarine to Zircon, to understand and maximize their healing properties. There's even an instant crystal cure to alleviate stress, boost self-confidence, and aid concentration. Put a crystal in your pocket to use any time, any place; it will transform your life!
This is a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly growing subject and provides key resources for thinking about key aspects of television studies. It begins with a critical evaluation of approaches that can be used to study television and introduces institutional, textual, cultural, economic, production and audience centred ways of researching and analysing television.
ABOUT THE BOOK I’d stumbled upon Randy Pausch, a youngish professor from Carnegie Mellon University, quite by accident in 2011. I’d been looking for a good PowerPoint presentation about time management, and the one he gave was deemed to be really interesting, according to the Google searches I’d done. As I read the mini-bio attached to the file, it occurred to me that I’d heard the name before, so I did some further searching and realized he had written “The Last Lecture”, which I’d heard so much about a few years ago. I immediately headed out and picked up a copy. As I read, I was stunned by the powerful simplicity of his writing. I had already watched “The Last Lecture” on YouTube, as millions had during the time in which the presentation had gone viral, but I was surprised at the profound effect the book had on me. This was a man who, by all accounts, had everything going for him: a great job that he loved, three very young children and a beautiful wife whom he adored. MEET THE AUTHOR Christina St-Jean an Ontario English teacher with a great passion for American literature in particular and the written word in general. Her two daughters, aged 3 and 7, also seem to have a love of books, as her 7 year old just started reading Tom Sawyer herself. Christina follows global events as closely as she can but also enjoys entertainment news. Currently, she is working towards a black belt in karate. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK If anything, The Last Lecture showed to the world just how pervasive media attention is today; after the lecture itself became a YouTube sensation, Pausch made appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Prime Time Live with Diane Sawyer, in addition to appearing on Time’s Top 100 list of the world’s most influential people for 2008. He drew the attention of Katie Couric, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Zaslow, director J.J. Abrams, and none other than Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner. He testified before Congress to encourage more funding to be directed to pancreatic cancer research and received a letter from the original President Bush. Buy a copy to keep reading!
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