This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin.Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the fo...

Montréal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and artists flock from all over to be a part of Montréal’s hip fashion community. Montréal**Chic is the first book to document this scene and how it connects with the city’s design, film, musi...

Umut felt happy because he didn`t hear what he expected. Yet a person could only trick itself in those times. To postpone to face the truths didn`t mean that it ended. Though the one cheats were the one who tricks. She felt the joy of what she hides carelessly. The best thing to do is to face worth the truths the wrong one was to swipe them under the carpet. She swiped her lies under the carpet so many times that the carpet was in dirt. Every time she left the carpet another lie added to t...

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators, peddlers and spies, it is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip. Moving beyond descriptions of Berlin's fashion industry and its ready-to-wear clothing, Berliner Chic charts the turbulent stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to e...

Copenhagen has long been celebrated for its unique fashion, design, innovation, and sustainability practices, and yet there has never been a comprehensive history of Copenhagen fashion and its current innovation and sustainability drive.This book fills that gap, assembling a multidisciplinary roster of contributors to examine all aspects of Copenhagen fashion and culture. Grounded in a broad context of Danish culture, industry, media, technology, sustainability, and innovation prac...

Are you ready for more joy in your life?Writer Flora Bowley believes that everyone can learn how to create a joy-filled life by practicing what she calls The Art of Aliveness.Aliveness, in this context, goes well beyond the acts of sleeping, eating, working, etc., inviting us instead to look into the depths of our own experience, embrace what we find there, and commit to bringing our truest self into the world.The Art of Aliven...

Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams manage their businesses and savor personal connections the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk. But as Glad No Matter What shows she journeyed through the spirals and layers of grief and loss and emerged stronger and more whole. In this inspiring book she shares the insights she found along the way practical strategies we can all use to cultivate profound po...

Are you ready for more joy in your life?Writer Flora Bowley believes that everyone can learn how to create a joy-filled life by practicing what she calls The Art of Aliveness.Aliveness, in this context, goes well beyond the acts of sleeping, eating, working, etc., inviting us instead to look into the depths of our own experience, embrace what we find there, and commit to bringing our truest self into the world.The Art of Aliveness ...

E-Squared is the sensational word-of-mouth SMASH that has gone on to become an international phenomenon, published in 26 languages and featured in the New York Times bestseller list!E-Squared could best be described as a lab manual with simple experiments that prove reality is malleable, consciousness trumps matter, and you shape your life with your mind. Yes, you read that right. It says prove.The nine experiments, each ...

What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews

Description:Simplify is a celebration of living more by owning less. Written by Joshua Becker, who inspires hundreds of thousands of people on his personal blog, this is a book that calls for the end of living lives seeking and accumulating more and more possessions by highlighting the enjoyment of living with less. Three years ago, his typical, suburban family of four made the decision to minimize their possessions, declutter their home, and simplify their...

Join Don and Rosie in their next chapter together with the joyously weird and wonderful romantic comedy you'll never forget . . .THE INTERNATIONAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING SERIES'A wholly absorbing, vivid read that leaves you pining to be reunited with its characters every time you put it down - if you're able to' INDEPENDENT'Offers plenty more laugh-out-loud moments' GUARDIAN...