"A beautiful collection of poetic works of wisdom to inspire and reflect upon." --- Magenta Pixie. The River of Living Light was "downloaded" very quickly while Nadja was on a solo retreat on Mt. Shasta. The catchy verse of this book quickly transports you into the fast moving River of LIfe where you will not drown but learn how to swim like the true champion that you are. The book presents a blueprint to help you get your life on track so you can develop to your full potential. Embedded i...

Nadja spent many years as a seeker of Truth. This search led her on a journey discovering many paths. It wasn't until she started a consistent meditation practice that she was able to actually experience her heart opening into Joy and Ecstasy. It was from this viewpoint that these poems flowed daily from her pen. They were messages coming through for her and to share with the world. This poetry collection is transcendental, lyrical, and nourishes the Soul. It is reminiscent of mystical poe...

Why do diets fail? Is it because of genetic disposition? A sluggish metabolism? An underactive thyroid?A behavioural psychologist reveals the truth about dieting, including how she lost over 100lb in one year.After years of failed diets Dr Nadja Hermann weighed over 23 stone at the age of 30. All her life, she had heard and read about hundreds of reasons why diets wouldn't work for her. But when her weight started to seriously affect her he...

A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.More than Nadja Spiegelman’s famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers—French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly—exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja’s body changed and ‘began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand’, their relationship grew tense. ...

"The book mixes appealing cartooning with informational 'Wikki's Fun Facts' about animals."—Publishers Weekly"The cartoon-panel artwork makes clever use of photos with factual captions that appear on Wikki’s screen to help inform both the heroes and the book’s beginning readers."—Kirkus ReviewsZig and Wikki land on a planet full of strange creatures like flies, frogs, and raccoons, just when it seems to be lunchtime! Young...

First Aid Seamstress tells the story of two single mothers. After they become best friends,their love for each other blooms but then seems to wither with neglect. Felicity appears assertive yetcraves approval. Clarissa shows fragility, but cannot accept deceit, in any form. As we exploreFelicity's past, her future also starts to unravel, with intricate parallels of ideas of life, death, andchoices.Nadja Fernandes attempts to depict and contrast the a...

Multilingual Communications Surveillance In Criminal Law highlights the vital yet overlooked roles of Intercept Interpreters and Translators (IITs) in criminal justice operations. Nadja Capus, Cornelia Griebel and Ivana Havelka conduct an interdisciplinary investigation, exploring IITs navigation of complex legal, linguistic and translational challenges. They advocate for improved practices to ensure quality, fairness and integrity in investigations within criminal proceedings whe...

In How to Become a Fashion Designer, award-winning designer and St. Martins College graduate shares a compelling and practical roadmap to success in the world of high fashion. With collections featured in Vogue and Elle, and a client list that includes some of the world's most prestigious department stores, the author brings unparalleled expertise to every page.From choosing the right fashion school to creating a portfolio that captures the attention of top brands, this sophisticat...

Alright, let's get into it. This isn't your typical self-help book, with a bunch of "shoulds" and impossible goals. It's a collection of honest conversations and thoughts I wish I knew earlier. Twenty chapters of words that all start with the letter "S," but have a bigger connection to real life than we realise. Inside, you'll find stories, ideas, and thoughts I wrote while figuring out my own mess, my own growth. Sometimes confusing, sometimes weird, but always real. Maybe one chapter pok...

In 1974, while the watchmaking world was trying to read its future in a quartz crystal, the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds was unveiling a cite dedicated to watchmaking history: the Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH). The building, designed by architects Pierre Zoelly and Georges-Jacques Haefeli, was immediately hailed as an event. A superb example of brutalist architecture and almost entirely buried in the ground, the museum is undeniably as discreet as its collections are rich. Its vast r...

This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic, social and cultural circumstances that led the state to feed some of its subjects, but not others. Durbach follows food policies from their co...

Intimate Histories focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990. By tracing topics that include anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilization, casual sexual encounters, marriage, and friendships, Intimate Histories broadens our understanding of African American–German relations during the so-called “century of extremes.”