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Japanese Farm Food
Japanese Farm Food offers a unique look into life on a Japanese farm through 165 simple, clear-flavored recipes along with personal stories and over 350 stunning photographs. It is a book about love, community, and life in rural Japan. Nancy Singleton Hachisu's second book, Preserving the Japanese Way, nominated for the 2016 James Beard Award in the International Cookbook category, takes a deeper look into the techniques, recipes, and local producers associated with Japanese preserving.
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012: USA Winner, Best Japanese Cuisine Book
"Our life centers on the farm and the field. We eat what we grow." --Nancy Singleton Hachisu,
Japanese Farm Food offers a unique window into life on a Japanese farm through the simple, clear-flavored recipes cooked from family crops and other local, organic products. The multitude of vibrant images by Kenji Miura of green fields, a traditional farmhouse, antique baskets, and ceramic bowls filled with beautiful, simple dishes are interwoven with Japanese indigo fabrics to convey an intimate, authentic portrait of life and food on a Japanese farm. With a focus on fresh and thoughtfully sourced ingredients, the recipes in Japanese Farm Food are perfect for fans of farmers' markets, and for home cooks looking for accessible Japanese dishes. Personal stories about family and farm life complete this incredible volume.
American born and raised, Nancy Singleton Hachisu lives with her husband and teenage sons on a rural Japanese farm, where they prepare these 165 bright, seasonal dishes. The recipes are organized logically with the intention of reassuring you how easy it is to cook Japanese food. Not just a book about Japanese food, Japanese Farm Food is a book about love, life on the farm, and community. Covering everything from pickles and soups to noodles, rice, and dipping sauces, with a special emphasis on vegetables, Hachisu demystifies the rural Japanese kitchen, laying bare the essential ingredients, equipment, and techniques needed for Japanese home cooking.
"Nancy Hachisu is...intrepid. Outrageously creative. Intensely passionate. Committed. True and real. I urge you to cook from this book with abandon, but first read it like a memoir, chapter by chapter, and you will share in the story of a modern-day family, a totally unique and extraordinary one." --Patricia Wells
"This book is both an intimate portrait of Nancy's life on the farm, and an important work that shows the universality of an authentic food culture." --Alice Waters
"The modest title Japanese Farm Food turns out to be large, embracing and perhaps surprising. Unlike the farm-to-table life as we know it here, where precious farm foods are cooked with recipes, often with some elaboration, real farm food means eating the same thing day after day when it’s plentiful, putting it up for when it's not, and cooking it very, very simply because the farm demands so much more time in the field than in the kitchen. This beautiful, touching, and ultimately common sense book is about a life that's balanced between the idea that a life chooses you and that you in turn choose it and then live it wholeheartedly and largely. Thank you, Nancy, for sharing your rich, intentional and truly inspiring life." --Deborah Madison
"Nancy Hachisu’s amazing depth of knowledge of Japanese food and culture shines through in every part of this book. You will feel as if you live next door to her...savoring and learning her down-to-earth approach to cooking and to loving food." --Hiroko Shimbo
"Taking a peek into Nancy Hachisu's stunning Japanese Farm Food is like entering a magical world. It's a Japan that used to be, not the modern Japan defined by the busyness of Tokyo, but a more timeless place, a place whose rhythms are set by seasons and traditions and the work of the farm. Japanese Farm Food is so much more than a cookbook. This book has soul. Every vegetable, every tool has a story. Who grew this eggplant? Who made this soy sauce? Nancy doesn't have to ask, "Where does my food come from?" She knows. Here's a woman who grows and harvests her own rice, grain by grain. Not that she asks or expects us to do the same at all. What she does offer is a glimpse into her life in rural Japan, with its shoji screens and filtered light, and recipes from her farm kitchen that you can't wait to try." --Elise Bauer, SimplyRecipes.com
"Japanese Farm Food is a lovely book about the culture, landscape, and food of Japan, a true insider's view of the Japanese kitchen, from farm to table, by a passionate and talented writer." --Michael Ruhlman
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The Illusion of Life : Disney Animation
The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art from, which no other move studio has ever been able to equal.
The authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, worked with Walt Disney himself as well as other leading figures in a half-century of Disney films. They personally animated leading characters in most of the famous films and have decades of close association with the others who helped perfect this extremely difficult and time-consuming art form. Not to be mistaken for just a how-to-do-it, this voluminously illustrated volume (like the classic Disney films themselves) is intended for everyone to enjoy.
Besides relating the painstaking trial-and-error development of Disney's character animation technology, this book irresistibly charms us with almost an overabundance of the original historic drawings used in creating some of the best-loved characters in American culture: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Snow White and Bambi (among many, many others) as well as early sketches used in developing memorable sequences from classic features such as Fantasia and Pinocchio.
With the full cooperation of Walt Disney Productions and free access to the studio's priceless archives, the authors took unparalleled advantage of their intimate long-term experience with animated films to choose the precise drawings to illustrate their points from among hundreds of thousands of pieces of artwork carefully stored away.
The book answers everybody's question about how the amazingly lifelike effects of Disney character animation were achieved, including charming stories of the ways that many favorite animated figures got their unique personalities. From the perspective of two men who had an important role in shaping the art of animation, and within the context of the history of animation and the growth of the Disney studio, this is the definitive volume on the work and achievement of one of America's best-known and most widely loved cultural institutions. Nostalgia and film buffs, students of popular culture, and that very broad audience who warmly responds to the Disney illusion of life will find this book compelling reading (and looking!).
Secondhand Time
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Financial Times - Kirkus Reviews When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions--a history of the soul." Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres--but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world. A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. "Through the voices of those who confided in her," The Nation writes, "Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil--in a word, about ourselves." Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and Secondhand Time "The nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich's oral history Secondhand Time."--David Remnick, The New Yorker "Like the greatest works of fiction, Secondhand Time is a comprehensive and unflinching exploration of the human condition. . . . In its scope and wisdom, Secondhand Time is comparable to War and Peace."--The Wall Street Journal "Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, Secondhand Time is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis."--The New York Times "This is the kind of history, otherwise almost unacknowledged by today's dictatorships, that matters."--The Christian Science Monitor "In this spellbinding book, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates a rich symphony of Russian voices telling their stories of love and death, joy and sorrow, as they try to make sense of the twentieth century."--J. M. Coetzee
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Serrano, America
Andres Serrano considers America his greatest achievement. Three years of work produced over one hundred 50-by-60-inch photographic portraits representing the cultural diversity of this immigrant country, as filtered through the critical lens of Serrano. There are celebrities: Arthur Miller, Snoop Dogg, Anna Nicole Smith, B.B. King, Vanessa del Rio&894 and ordinary citizens: a pimp, a boy scout, a doctor, a Russian Orthodox Bishop. America is intimate, honest, and demanding of response, like all Serrano's work. The second half of this big volume, Other Work, is a retrospective of Serrano's previous photographic series. Together these two impressive halves create the whole of Andres Serrano's artistic oeuvre.
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Rolling Stone
In a large, beautifully-designed book Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie describe how music affected and changed their lives and those of at least two generations, and how their own lives - and lifestyles - have in turn helped, or hindered, their music-making. The text, largely in the form of first-person narrative, is, in turn, insightful, funny, sardonic, surprising, but above all very personal and intimate. A reference section including discography, gigography and chronology is shot through with the band's eye view of their history and punctuated by pithy comments and views on album and single releases, on memorable or famed performances and other newsworthy events.
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Salt To the Sea
New York Times Bestseller! "Masterly crafted"—The Wall Street Journal For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, bestselling author Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating—yet unknown—tragedies. World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer to safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people—adults and children alike—aboard must fight for the same thing: survival. Told in alternating points of view and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, Erik Larson's Dead Wake, and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff—the greatest maritime disaster in history. As she did in Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys unearths a shockingly little-known casualty of a gruesome war, and proves that humanity and love can prevail, even in the darkest of hours. Praise for Salt to the Sea: Featured on NPR's Morning Edition ¦ “Superlative…masterfully crafted…[a] powerful work of historical fiction.”—The Wall Street Journal ¦ “[Sepetys is] a master of YA fiction…she once again anchors a panoramic view of epic tragedy in perspectives that feel deeply textured and immediate.”—Entertainment Weekly ¦ "Riveting...powerful...haunting."—The Washington Post ¦ “Compelling for both adult and teenage readers.”—New York Times Book Review ¦ “Intimate, extraordinary, artfully crafted…brilliant.”—Shelf Awareness ¦ "Historical fiction at its very, very best."—The Globe and Mail ¦ “[H]aunting, heartbreaking, hopeful and altogether gorgeous…one of the best young-adult novels to appear in a very long time.”—Salt Lake Tribune ¦ *"This haunting gem of a novel begs to be remembered."—Booklist ¦ *"Artfully told and sensitively crafted...will leave readers weeping."—School Library Journal Praise for Between Shades of Gray: A New York Times Notable Book ¦ A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book ¦ A Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus Best Book ¦ iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel ¦ A Carnegie Medal and William C. Morris Finalist ¦ A New York Times and International Bestseller ¦ “Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both.”—The Washington Post ¦ *"[A]n important book that deserves the widest possible readership.”—Booklist From the Hardcover edition.
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Sayn-Wittgenstein Collection
In this stunning volume, the well-known photographer Princess Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, whose work has appeared in many respected publications, gives us a glimpse of her own personal photo album. The result: an extremely intimate overview of her life and times. Her work is a personal chronicle of the beau monde of the past 60 years, of people and places she knew well. The photographs are distinguished by their artistic touch and keen insight. Her subjects were close friends, who, comfortable in her presence, revealed their true selves. The resulting images include many original glances of famous personalities, such as the photograph of Aristotle Onassis trying to repair his beach car!
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Darkness Visible
In the summer of 1985 William Styron was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise - the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink of suicide. Darkness Visible takes us on an unprecedented journey into the realm of madness. It is an intimate portrait of the agony of Styron's ordeal, as well as a probing look at an illness that affects millions but is still widely misunderstood. Through his remarkable candour and powers of description comes a true understanding of the anguish of a desperate mind. Darkness Visible is a bold and an ultimately uplifting exploration of depression's dark reality.
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Utak egymástól
Ki ne vágyna rá, hogy szeressék, elfogadják és megbecsüljék? Ki ne tenne meg bármit ezekért az értékekért? Belső Nóra új könyve Utak egymáshoz című előző munkájának folytatása, egy teljesen új nézőpontból: a könyv a "szerető" fogalmáról, lelki és párkapcsolati jelentőségéről szól.
A könyv egyik állítása, hogy ha megismerjük és elfogadjuk a szeretői viszonyrendszer működését, talán még élni is tudunk benne. Hiszen vagy úgy, hogy már nincsen út egymáshoz, hogy eltévedtünk, vagy már nem is keressük azt az utat, csak egy másikat, hogy összetört életünk, lelkivilágunk mozaikjait újból egybeilleszthessük... Intimitás, érzelmek, lelki közelség: a hosszú távú kapcsolatokban gyakran nem éppen ezek halnak el? Pedig nélkülük szinte biztos az unalom, a megszokottság monotóniája és a boldogtalan hétköznapok. Ilyenkor léphet be "az a bizonyos harmadik".
A szerző anélkül beszél a szeretőről, hogy pálcát törne fölötte, és inkább azt igyekszik feltárni, párkapcsolataink mely szakaszában bukkanhat fel, és milyen típusú hiányokra lehet gyógyír. Azt sem mellékes tudni, mikor szinte szükségszerű a megjelenése, milyen jelekből következtethetünk egy harmadik jelenlétére, mikor rombol, és mely esetekben lehet akár építő a szeretősdi.
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A lélektelen test
A regény borítóján Egon Schiele képe látható, melyen egy fiatal nő vetkőzik, alig észrevétlenül érinti meg mellét, mint aki most fedezi fel a testét.
Valami ilyesmi történik a regény hősnőjével, Mélanie-val is: naplót ír a maga választotta félhomályban - vetkőzik. Csak úgy hullanak le róla a húsba vágó, soha kimondani nem akart, arcpirító, néha obszcén, néha áttetszően finom, hol el-, hol leleplező szavak.
A regényben tehát egy nő vetkőzik - több színen és több értelemben is: a regény minden prüdériától mentes, extatikus szex-jeleneteiben ugyanúgy, mint azokban a sorokban, ahol maga a lélek bújik elő a rá préselődött maszkok, a meztelen hazugságok alól.
A Lélektelen test fiktív nőalakja hús-vér, eleven lény, portréja azonban lényegileg emblematikus. Az írói metamorfózis szándéka nem a stílusjáték, a női elbeszélés imitációja, hanem sokkal inkább a "Mélanie-jelenség" feltárása.
A regény nőalakja korunk "betegségének", az odaadás hiányának és egyúttal az arra való mélységes vágynak a szimbóluma. Modern mítosz a közelségről és a távolságról, az intimitás határairól.
Thierry Loisel író, műfordító, filmrendező 1955-ben született a Le Havre melletti Montivilliers-ben. Szépirodalmi és filozófiai művek fordítója; angol és olasz szerzők (Peter Brown, Massimo Ferrari, Eduardo Rebulla, Scipio Slataper) mellett magyar írók (Kosztolányi Dezső, Csáth Géza) műveit is átültette franciára. 1998-ban filmet forgatott Giulietta ou l'Identification (Giulietta avagy az azonosítás) címmel. 2007 óta Budapesten él.
Thirteen Ways of Looking
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. “As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.” In the exuberant title novella, a retired judge reflects on his life’s work, unaware as he goes about his daily routines that this particular morning will be his last. In “Sh’khol,” a mother spending Christmas alone with her son confronts the unthinkable when he disappears while swimming off the coast near their home in Ireland. In “Treaty,” an elderly nun catches a snippet of a news report in which it is revealed that the man who once kidnapped and brutalized her is alive, masquerading as an agent of peace. And in “What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?” a writer constructs a story about a Marine in Afghanistan calling home on New Year’s Eve. Deeply personal, subtly subversive, at times harrowing, and indeed funny, yet also full of comfort, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a striking achievement. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Colum McCann forges from their stories a profound tribute to our search for meaning and grace. The collection is a rumination on the power of storytelling in a world where language and memory can sometimes falter, but in the end do not fail us, and a contemplation of the healing power of literature. Praise for Thirteen Ways of Looking “Extraordinary . . . incandescent.”—Chicago Tribune “The irreducible mystery of human experience ties this small collection together, and in each of these stories McCann explores that theme in some strikingly effective ways. . . . [The first story] is as fascinating as it is poignant. . . . [The second] captures the mundane and mysterious aspects of shaping characters from the gray clay of words, placing them in realistic settings and breathing life into their lungs. . . . That he makes the story so emotionally compelling is a sign of his genius. . . . The most remarkable [piece] is Sh’khol. . . . Caught in the rushing currents of this drama, you know you’re reading a little masterpiece.”—The Washington Post “McCann is a writer of power and subtlety and beauty. . . . The powerful title story loiters in the mind long after you’ve read it.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times “[McCann] unspools complex and unforgettable stories in this, his first collection in more than a decade.”—The Boston Globe “McCann is a passionate writer whose impulse is always toward a generous understanding of his diverse characters.”—The Wall Street Journal “Powerful, profound, and deeply empathetic, McCann’s beautifully wrought writing in Thirteen Ways of Looking glides off the page.”—BuzzFeed “McCann weaves the magic that made Let the Great World Spin so acclaimed.”—The Huffington Post From the Hardcover edition.
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The Girls
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong—this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. Emma Cline’s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction. Praise for The Girls “Spellbinding . . . A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry . . . [Emma] Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a Summer of Longing and Loss.”—The New York Times Book Review “[The Girls reimagines] the American novel . . . Like Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica or Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, The Girls captures a defining friendship in its full humanity with a touch of rock-memoir, tell-it-like-it-really-was attitude.”—Vogue “Debut novels like this are rare, indeed. . . . The most remarkable quality of this novel is Cline’s ability to articulate the anxieties of adolescence in language that’s gorgeously poetic without mangling the authenticity of a teenager’s consciousness. The adult’s melancholy reflection and the girl’s swelling impetuousness are flawlessly braided together. . . . For a story that traffics in the lurid notoriety of the Manson murders, The Girls is an extraordinary act of restraint. With the maturity of a writer twice her age, Cline has written a wise novel that’s never showy: a quiet, seething confession of yearning and terror.”—The Washington Post “Emma Cline has an unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood, turning the stuff of myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind so many of our culture’s fables exists a girl: unseen, unheard, angry. This book will break your heart and blow your mind.”—Lena Dunham “Emma Cline’s first novel positively hums with fresh, startling, luminous prose. The Girls announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American fiction.”—Jennifer Egan “I don’t know which is more amazing, Emma Cline’s understanding of human beings or her mastery of language.”—Mark Haddon, New York Times bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time From the Hardcover edition.
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Nagyszerű szex
A tantra a szerelem egy ösvénye - mégpedig egy radikális ösvénye. Radikális, azaz alapvető, a gyökerekig lehatoló.
A nagyszerű szex gyökerét vagy alapját nem az jelenti, hogyan nézünk ki az ágyban, vagy hány nyakatekert pozíciót ismerünk. A nagyszerű szex titka - és ez valóban ... Folytatás ›› radikális dolognak tekinthető korunk szexuálisan túlfűtött kultúrájában - az, hogy mennyire vagyunk képesek jelen lenni és figyelmünket összpontosítani minden egyes erotikus pillanatban.
A tantrikus tanácsok az intimitás elmélyítéséhez és az örömök fokozásához vezetnek, így gazdagabbá és izgalmasabbá válnak együttléteink. Nem csupán a test, hanem a lélek is egyesül a technikák használatával.
"Mint a nagy titkokkal kapcsolatban oly gyakran lenni szokott, valójában szó sincs nagy titokról. A tantrikus szex jobbára inkább a hozzáállásunkon, magatartásunkon múlik, mint bármi máson, ezért csupán a gondolkodásunk megváltoztatására van szükségünk. Ha képesek vagyunk feladni (vagy legalább csökkenteni) a célok elérésére való törekvésünket, és figyelmünket az éppen aktuális élményre összpontosítani, a többi már jön magától."
A könyv elolvasása után garantáltan új látásmóddal közelítünk társunk felé, felderítve az eddig ismeretlen gyönyörforrásokat. Mindenki számára érthető és a gyakorlatban is könnyen kivitelezhető segítséget nyújt, hogy felpezsdítsük szexuális életünket.
A(z) Nagyszerű szex (Könyv) szerzője Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson.
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Daily Life In Art
"The comforts of home" may be a cliché, but how has its meaning evolved over centuries? Béatrice Fontanel seeks answers to that question through the prism of visual art. Her close reading of nearly 100 European and American paintings, reproduced vividly in large format, illuminates the technical innovations and practical improvements brought about from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. How did fireplaces become the preferred source of warmth? When did people stop sleeping in the nude? From the bedchamber to the chamber pot, art has borne witness to our most intimate domestic activities. Just as How to Read a Painting helped readers to appreciate the art itself, Daily Life in Art helps them understand the painting not only as object, but also as cultural artifact.
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Café & Restaurant Design
Modern society’s most intense and vibrant interaction takes place over tables and bars. Architects all over the world have enhanced and orchestrated this experience. Ranging over nine countries and four continents, this book presents an international selection of distinctive cafés and restaurants built in recent years by the world’s hippest architects and designers. Filled with dramatic effects, innovative lighting, and infinite solutions to the challenges of space and material, these hot spots, meeting places, and intimate venues are designed to suit the ever-changing moods of a selective and fickle clientele. This compact yet lavishly illustrated book, aimed at professionals and anyone who enjoys the latest and best in restaurant design, includes over 400 photographs of remarkable spaces and also offers a comprehensive study of contemporary interior architecture.
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Hausfrau
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.”—People Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning—“a modern-day Anna Karenina tale.”* Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it’s difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau “Elegant, erotic . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum’s intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.”—Chicago Tribune “For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring.”—NPR’s Weekend Edition “We’re in literary territory as familiar as Anna’s name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Essbaum’s poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.”—Us Weekly “A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary and a poet’s fascination with language.”—The Huffington Post “Imagine Tom Perrotta’s American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy.”—New York “Brain-surgically constructed to fascinate you, entertain you, and then make you question what a life lived with meaning looks like—all with a sense of poetic discipline and introspection.”—Los Angeles Magazine “[Hausfrau] is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey.”—Sunday Express (U.K.) *Glamour (U.K.) From the Hardcover edition
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16,10 €
16,95 €
Szextörténetek - A szvingerező, a hű feleség, a szexuálterapeuta és még tizenkilencen a szexről
,,A tanításom lényege, hogy a tabuból öröm legyen. A szülők feladata, hogy ne vegyék el a lehetőséget a gyereküktől, hogy a saját szükségleteire figyeljen. Akinek megtanítják, hogy joga van a szükségleteihez, az később nem fog olyanra igent mondani, ami nem belőle jövő igény, hanem a másiké."
Kriston Andrea, a Kriston intim torna kifejlesztője, pedagógus
,,Úgy alakult az életem, hogy a férjem mellett, majd a gyerekeit egyedül nevelő anyaként is férfi módra kellett helytállnom. Ezt az élet kényszerítette rám, ellenben a szeretkezések során magam döntök arról, hogy megajándékozom a férfit. Örömmel bevállalok akár egy rabszolgalánystátuszt."
Ráhel, 59 éves
,,A tudatos szexualitás nagyon időszerű. Sok mindenben, így az étkezésben, mozgásban, életvitelben egyre tudatosabbak vagyunk, ideje az intimitásnak, szexualitásnak is felzárkóznia ehhez."
Szentesi Szilvi intimitásművész, a Bliss Intimitás Központ alapítója
Lehet-e valami tabu akkor, amikor látszólag minden körülötte forog, amikor ömlik mindenhonnan, a reklámoktól kezdve a filmekig és a közbeszédig? Igen, ilyen a szex. Még akkor is, ha éppen beszélünk róla, elfedjük a valóságot. Fogalmunk sincs, az egyes emberek hogyan élik meg a szexualitásukat, milyen hatással van az életükre. A szex lépten-nyomon jelen van a világban, miközben egyéni szinten tétova útkeresés, szégyen, zavarodottság, tanácstalanság jellemzi. A legtöbb embernek hosszú utat kell bejárnia, mire rátalál általa nyújtott örömre, szenvedélyre, eksztázisra, de olyan is van, akinek ez soha nem sikerül.
Singer Magdolna könyvében nők, férfiak, idősek és fiatalok vallanak a szexuális életükről, emellett közismert szexuálterapeuta, jónimasszőr, intimitásművész, bába, tantraoktató, filozófus, blogíró is megosztja tapasztalatait. Szó esik a szexről mint életenergiáról, a szex által megélt misztikus élményekről, univerzális kitágulásokról, multiorgazmusról, a szvingerezés örömeiről, a tantráról mint a létezés eksztázisáról, több évtizedes vágycsend után újra dübörgő szexről, az adás öröméről, hűségről és hűtlenségről, botladozásokról, tanulásokról, valamint arról, hogyan őrizhető meg a tűz évtizedeken keresztül.
,,Mások életébe bepillantást nyerni zavarba ejtő élmény. Egyszerre ébreszt kíváncsiságot és piszkálja fel a kérdést: mi közöm van ehhez? Hányféleképpen tudok és akarok idegen emberek magánéletéhez viszonyulni? Tud még nekem bárki újat mondani? Vagy mégis keresek valamit? Olyan megnyugtató olvasni, hogy nem vagyok egyedül a kérdéseimmel! Normális vagyok! Hiszen másnak is vannak éppolyan szürreális, izgalmas vagy épp titkos vágyai, élményei, mint nekem. Más is éppolyan sebezhető, érzékeny, más is keresztülmegy nehézségeken, tanuláson.
Egyébként is, nincs olyan ember, akiben ne mozdulna meg a voyeur, ha egy vetkőzést következmények nélkül figyelhet az ablakon át. Aztán kiderül, hogy mások története is csak éppolyan emberi, mint az enyém. Tudom ezt nem kárörömmel, vagy épp lemondással, keserűséggel konstatálni? Tudok a nagyon is emberi történetekből erőt, reményt, vágyat, inspirációt meríteni?"
Mester Dóra Djamila
coach, tréner, író, szexuális nevelő
Singer Magdolna író, újságíró, gyásztanácsadó, mentálhigiénés szakember, a Napfogyatkozás Egyesület elnöke, a gyász hazai szakértője. Gyászcsoportvezetőket képez, válást feldolgozó csoportokat vezet, valamint egyénileg segít azoknak, akiket veszteség ért. Eddigi 18 könyve az emberi élet során bekövetkező elkerülhetetlen veszteségeket járja körül. Legutóbbi kötetei a HVG Könyveknél jelentek meg Asszonyok álmában síró babák - Történetek a gyászról; Ki vigasztalja meg a gyerekeket? - Válás és gyász a családban és Érző férfiak - 18 személyes történet veszteségekről és feldolgozásról címmel.
Vypredané
10,73 €
11,29 €
Káma-szútra szuperszex (DVD-melléklettel) Fedezd f
"Akarod, hogy a szex a lehető legteljesebb élvezetet nyújtsa számodra? Szeretnél meghittebb és intenzívebb kielégülést nyújtó szeretkezéseket átélni? A Káma-szútra mindehhez nagyszerű inspirációs forrást nyújt."
A "Káma-szútra Szuperszex" egyesíti magában az ősi bölcsességeket és a szexszel kapcsolatos jelenkori tudásunkat. Érzéki felfedező körút, amely során a művészi képek és a részletes útmutatások segítségével megismerheted és elsajátíthatod a klasszikus keleti erotikus művekben leírt 52 legizgalmasabb szeretkezési pozíciót.
Az egyes fejezetek tartalmából:
- Kéjvágyó érzékiség - itt azokat a testhelyzeteket mutatjuk be, amelyek érzéki kapcsolatot nyújtanak;
- az Erotikus érzések című rész a maximális szexuális érzeteket adó pozíciókat taglalja;
- a Tömény öröm címűben azon egyesülési módoké a főszerep, amelyek erőteljes erotikus élvezetet keltenek;
- az Ínyenc vágygerjesztők című fejezet pedig az egyesülés kalandosabb, különlegesebb módjait tárja fel.
A tantrikus szex gyakorlatai által mélyről jövő boldogság és beteljesülés érhető el, olyan intimitás megélése közben, amely spirituális és testi kielégüléshez vezet. Merülj el az érzékiségben, erotikában és a gondtalan önfeledtségben úgy, ahogyan még sosem élhetted át!
"A Káma-szútra szerzője, Vátszjájana Mallanaga, a szeretkezést művészetnek tekintette, és nézete szerint az érzékiség éppen olyan fontos a testi jóllét szempontjából, mint az étel."
A könyvhöz tartozó ajándék DVD művészi kivitelben mutatja be a Káma-szútra ismert pozícióit.
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14,39 €
15,15 €
Girl At War
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "BOOKPAGE, ""BOOKLIST, "AND" ELECTRIC LITERATURE" ALEX AWARD WINNER For readers of "The Tiger s Wife "and "All the Light We Cannot See" comes a powerful debut novel about a girl s coming of age and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she s tried to move on from her past, she can t escape her memories of war secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, "Girl at War "is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and its legacy on all of us. It s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today. Praise for "Girl at War" Outstanding . . . "Girl at War" performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth. "The New York Times Book Review "(Editor s Choice) [An] old-fashioned page-turner that will demand all of the reader s attention, happily given. A debut novel that astonishes. "Vanity Fair" "" Shattering . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literature s more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence. "USA Today" Gripping . . . Novi, in tender and eloquent prose, explores the challenge of how to live even after one has survived. "O: The Oprah Magazine " Powerful and vividly wrought . . . Novi writes about horrors with an elegant understatement. In cool, accomplished sentences, we are met with the gravity, brutality and even the mundaneness of war and loss as well as the enduring capacity to live. "San Francisco Chronicle" Intimate and immense . . . a writer whose own gravity and talent anchor this novel. "The New York Times" An important and profoundly moving reading experience. " The National" Remarkable. Julia Glass, "The Boston Globe " [A] powerful, gorgeous debut novel. Adam Johnson, "The Week" An unforgettable portrait of how war forever changes the life of the individual. . . a writer working with deep reserves of talent, heart, and mind. Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story" "From the Hardcover edition.""
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10,93 €
11,50 €