Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Paris:City walks and tours: Six detailed tours and walks showcase Paris's essential sights, including the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Eiffel Tower, a stroll along the Left Bank, and moreRick's strategic advice on what experiences are worth your time and moneyWha...

An audiovisual journey into the visionary heart of New Age musicToday, with Spotify "Relaxation" playlists and 24-hour YouTube ambient streams, New Age music feels ubiquitous and familiar. But its roots are stranger than is commonly known, tracing back to the spiritual exploration of the 1970s, when a cohort of musicians created cosmic soundscapes sparkling with the afterglow of ecstatic spiritual revelations, psychedelic experiences, near-death encounters, and med...

How Western nutrition science defined difference as disease in modern China.For more than a century, Western observers have treated Chinese foodways as evidence of deficiency, danger, or backwardness. In Nutritional Imperialism, Hilary A. Smith shows how these assumptions entered the heart of modern nutrition science and reshaped understandings of health, diet, and difference. Nutrition scientists, physicians, and policymakers presented Western dietary pat...

Luke is handsome and charismatic enough to make any woman swoon-and he knows it. But he's not the man you take home to mom, because he'll sleep with her too. An unexpected knock on the door early one morning, with news he blames on everyone else, forces Luke to face mistakes that caused him to lose his relationship with his brother and the woman he loved. Luke has some tough choices to make. With the help of his mom, a few good friends, and his therapist John, he has to either better his l...

Eden and her fellow survivors look to the future in this powerful story of justice, autonomy, and healing told in multiple points of view—the powerful conclusion to the Way I Used to Be trilogy from internationally bestselling author Amber Smith.Eden struggled to find her voice for years after her brother’s friend Kevin raped her. It wasn’t until Kevin’s ex-girlfriend Gen and his sister, Amanda, came forward, that Eden knew she wasn’t alone. Determined to do everyt...

Draw Your Favorite Animals in 5 Simple StepsDrawing realistic animals has never been easier! Professional artist and instructor Mark Liam Smith guides you through his foolproof five-step method for building complicated creatures out of simple shapes. He walks you through each step—from establishing primary shapes to crafting intricate textures—to create realistic drawings you’re proud of. Learn to sketch 60 of the most iconic animals, from Labrador retrievers and C...

Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might end up with you and your grandfather floating through the sky.You're lonely as the new kid in school but discover you have a magical gift—you can talk to animal...

Begin a journey to living a deep, confident faith in a world of unrealistic, impossible standards.There's no question it's easier to live in shallow water, where we can touch the ground without risking anything. We're all just trying to keep it together, hoping to find some sense of safety in our chaotic world. But as a result, we aren't really living. We're stuck in survival mode, saying we want relief but filling the silence with noise, hungering for connection b...

The perfect story for families dealing with tricky tummy troubles and poo problems, using playful storytelling to help children build healthy habits with food and keep things moving happily along.Can the Belly Bugs shift the biggest poo in picture-book history?Billie Pickle has a secret world inside her tummy, where a gang of Belly Bugs work to keep her healthy and happy. But trouble is brewing in Rumbledom...When a monster poo refuses to budge, Bas...

META WORLD REDEMPTIONA year and a half ago, Dr. Omari Lewis dreamed of healing the world-literally. Gifted with the power to enhance and de-enhance, he rose from a humble medic to one of the nation's most celebrated Meta-human healers. Now, with his fiery fiancée, Abigail-better known as the reformed criminal Red Banshee-Omari wants nothing more than peace.But when a single speech about giving ex-cons a second chance catches the government's ear, Omari finds himself leading...

THAT WAS THE WAY I USED TO BEYOU'VE SEEN THE WAY I AM NOWTHIS IS THE WAY WE BECOMEYou’ve seen Eden, Gen and Amanda stand up to Kevin. Now, in the wake of the jury’s decision, the girls are expected to move on while still grappling with the aftermath of a trial that turned their lives upside down.Amanda is attempting to finish high school, Eden is still learning what it means to be in a healthy relationship, and college dropout...

Almost from humanity's very beginning, beloved small dogs have been trotting devotedly by our sides. Yap! follows in the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, from the small dogs touchingly memorialised in Ancient Rome through to Paris Hilton's chihuahua and the pet influencers of 21st-century, via the pug who colonised Napoleon's marital bed, King Charles II's spaniels and celebrity terriers in Victorian pubs.Drawing on her own experience as a pug-own...