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Since childhood, Ethnobotanist Hannah Heronstone has had a passion for healing plants and their use through the centuries. Orphaned at birth, she's unaware of her connection to an ancient lineage of cunning women, healers, and yes, even witches. But they have not forgotten about her.

Vladimir Poutine, au pouvoir depuis plus de vingt ans, incarne une trajectoire politique quasi monarchique. Issu des services de renseignement, il a su se hisser au sommet du Kremlin et façonner son propre mythe. Personnage complexe, stratège redoutable, chef de guerre qualifié tour à tour de tsar ou de tyran ou de Hitler moderne, il est l’une des figures politiques les plus représentées et caricaturées au monde. Ses choix stratégiques controversés sont présentés comme autant de réponses à l’hégémonie occidentale.

Cette nouvelle édition comporte 16 nouvelles techniques qui nous éclairent sur les apports scientifiques les plus récents. Madame O. (le personnage principal de l'ouvrage), femme de caractère, vit des aventures qui sont aussi les nôtres en cette première moitié de XXIe siècle. L'audio-lecteur découvre ainsi, au fil du temps, une trentaine de techniques de manipulation ayant fait l'objet de recherches scientifiques et dont l'efficacité est expérimentalement prouvée.

Le passé est imprévisible... Huit jeunes étudiants activistes se partagent une maison au 18 Barnfield Hill, à Exeter. Ils y prônent le pacifisme, le féminisme, le socialisme. Jusqu'au jour où deux d'entre eux, Alisson et Peter, disparaissent dans des conditions étranges. Travaillant pour un détective privé tokyoïte, Umiko Wada débarque en Angleterre pour enquêter sur le suicide d'un homme dans une chambre d'hôtel londonienne en 1977. Un mystérieux informateur s'est manifesté. Bien vite, son enquête s'oriente vers les ex-locataires du 18 Barnfield Hill.

Spring Fever & Other Lesbian Encounters is a collection of stories about women-loving women getting acquainted, falling in love, losing their illusions, and regaining hope for the future.

The state of medicine today has its challenges. If you're suffering from ill health, and you're feeling lost and overwhelmed, there is a path for you to become wholly aligned if you're willing to take responsibility for your healing. In this insightful book, nutritionist and yoga teacher Ciara Jean Roberts shows us the path to happiness and healing through her personal journey of dealing with a lifelong kidney condition charting from childhood to teenage dialysis to transplantation and beyond. She shows us:

Depuis sa première édition, le Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens est devenu plus qu'un ouvrage de référence. Avec beaucoup d'humour, Olivier Prémel et Marcha Van Boven donne vie à ce best‑seller en psychologie sociale, en management et en sciences humaines. Sans doute vous arrive‑t‑il fréquemment de vouloir obtenir quelque chose d'autrui.

Synthesizing his work in personal mythmaking, soul-making, and storytelling, award-winning author Robert Atkinson draws from mythology, mysticism, rites of passage, and psychology to identify a pattern within our unconscious that guides our evolving consciousness, transforms our lives, keeps our focus on the wholeness of all things, and keeps humanity on its evolutionary trajectory.

It's 412 AD, and the Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. In Albion, Lalia gathers with fellow supplicants to call on the Goddess Cybele to aid Londinium. When a rival mob attacks, a golden orb is lost, trapping the goddess in her statue. Before she turns to stone, Cybele lays a curse on Lalia's head; she is bound in a cycle of reincarnation and death. Only the return of the orb will set her free.

An invitation arrives; Abbey Coote, professor of American studies, has won an extended stay in a historic bed and breakfast: Pine Tree House. The timing is perfect. Abbey is recovering from an accident which left her abusive boyfriend dead, and her with little memory of the event.

A freak accident, a mysterious portrait and an imaginary friendship take Magda O’Toole on a journey of self-discovery. Her search for answers leads her to Toluca, Mexico, where she meets a handsome Professor, Miguel Villatoro, and encounters the ghostly apparition of a woman long dead. Her desire to reconnect with a childhood friend pulls Magda into the past—it’s 1836 and the Texas Revolution gathers momentum. Trapped and unable to return home, she travels with the Mexican Army deep into enemy territory, witnessing the events of the war.

It's three months after Dee has given birth to a beautiful baby and she's looking for something to brighten up her maternity leave. Yet when she gets the idea to include her own milk in husband Brian's morning coffee, she doesn't realise that she has just opened to door to a fascinating new fetish that both of them can enjoy. The fun starts as just a trickle, but before long their experiments are a full-blown cascade! This intriguing erotic short story is written by Jean Roberta and read by Angel Korin.

What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best presidents of his day, if not in all of American history? What drove Bobby Kennedy into the scrum of electoral politics? Find the surprising and revelatory answers to these questions and more in this collection of new essays by great historians.

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us...

Imagine an upper-class English girl kidnapped by pirates when she was eleven, and eventually returned to her family. If this sounds familiar, you've probably either read the classic book A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, or seen the movie. Whatever you may imagine, Jean Roberta has taken the grown-up Emily far beyond your - or the younger Emily's - wildest speculations.

When we look at the incredible feats of engineering that our ancestors were able to achieve, it leaves us in awe. Not just because these structures are beautiful and shrouded in mystery, but because they were constructed on a scale we can't comprehend, thousands of years ago.

A collection of five erotic stories with mixed and varied themes. Included is 'Purposeful Liaison' by Shermaine Williams: When work calls her husband back from their romantic island holiday, Charlotte is left to enjoy what's left on her own, rather that reigniting the lost passion of her marriage. Her sudden abandonment soon registers on the radar of Matthew, a well-toned holiday-maker looking for company during his stay.

This is the haunting tale of Hugh and Mary Parsons of Springfield, Massachusetts. Using actual testimony recorded in their depositions and trials, the book recreates the story of this ill fated couple.

The decision to write this book was driven by a dual compulsion that compelled me in two directions. The process of the work I worked through to create an environment in which women were being held to ransom made me realize that I needed to examine what was wrong with women in our society and what we were doing wrong to create what everyone was doing right.

In 1753, Catherine Wasson and her extended family depart placid New Hampshire to settle in the raucous Mohawk Valley of New York, in search of fertile land and a better life. It doesn’t come easy. Catherine must adapt to a multicultural frontier society of wealthy Dutch settlers, hardscrabble Germans, Scots-Irish, African slaves and the original inhabitants; the fiercely independent Iroquois confederation. Within months of their arrival, conflict with their age-old enemy, the French, erupts into a war that threatens their homes and lives.