![]() ![]() These two Aira works are as different as night and day. The Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit (“Wannafuck?” is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. ![]() The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. ![]() Summary Two completely different stories by the inimitable César Aira But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof César Aira We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]()
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![]() 2) On how photos have altered our notion of what is beautiful Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it, and participating in a public event comes more and more to be equivalent to looking at it in photographed form. It would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing. But other, less liberating feelings are expressed as well. ![]() ![]() Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world - all these elements of erotic feeling are affirmed in the pleasure we take in photographs. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. 1) On the way photos have turned us into image junkies ![]() ![]() And as they settle into their new lives, they uncover secrets bigger than anything they’d imagined. They still have doubts about the shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. ![]() And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the conspiracy stretches, proving that her most dangerous enemy might be closer than she realizes. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. ![]() Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers – before they come after her again. She’s settled into her home at Haven field, surrounded by friends, and using her unique telepathic abilities to train Silveny – the first female alicorn ever seen in the Lost Cities. ![]() Her life finally seems to be coming together. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a magical world. ![]() She discovers there's somewhere she does belong, and staying where she is will put her in grave danger. She is a Telepath, and has the power to hear the thoughts of everyone around her – something that she's never spoken about, even to her own family.īut everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who also reads minds. Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. ![]() ![]() This is Jenny's adventure into the world of BDSM and pony play. The trouble is, how do you escape when you're tied up, gagged and constantly sexually aroused? Which Master or Mistress do you turn to for rescue? And what do you do if you suspect you might actually be enjoying yourself? An intensive training course at the Albrecht Stables is not what it appears to be and training to become a human pony was not on Jenny's to-do list. She's also just been signed up for the BDSM ride of her life - without her consent. Hetty's fingers found their final rhythm and with a measured pressure, they would send the pony girl off to 'O' land in a few seconds. Indeed she looked quite tortured in the throes of passion and any Master would be extremely pleased with that particular look during training. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Hetty turned her attention back to her subject's face and was quite surprised to see a meek little submissive, almost ashamed of the orgasm she was about to have, panting and heaving for breath whilst nearly foaming at the mouth. ![]() ![]() Which means upping her newly acquired princess game. At the threat of everything falling apart, Izumi vows to do whatever it takes to help win over the council. And on top of it all, her bodyguard turned boyfriend makes a shocking decision about their relationship. ![]() The Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage citing concerns about Izumi and her mother’s lack of pedigree. ![]() A royal wedding is on the horizon! Izumi’s life is a Tokyo dream come true. Her parents have even rekindled their college romance and are engaged. Her stinky dog, Tamagotchi, is living with her in Tokyo. She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend. Now, she’s overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Tokyo Dreaming, by Emiko Jean - the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Tokyo Ever After Ser. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.Īmong Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever obesity is at epidemic proportions nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. ![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, prospective customers from the EU are requested to email us before making an order so that we can discuss how best we might get the books they want to them. Please note that new EU regulations make it impractical for us to post books to the EU. ![]() For overseas customers, we have set a standard Abe postal rate, but will communicate direct with customers and charge the actual cost of postage and packing by tracked and insured delivery methods requiring signature. 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UK 1st edition /1st printing (Orion, 2004). ![]() ![]() To put it simply, the United States does well when it comes to providing medical care, but has a rotten system for financing that care. ![]() Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers – corporations that pick and choose the people they want to cover and the claims they want to pay – will not be sustainable. Any proposal for “reform” that continues to rely on our fragmented structure of overlapping and often conflicting payment systems for different subsets of the population will not reduce the cost or complexity of American health care. So it’s clear that we can’t fix the basic problems by tinkering at the margins of our existing system. ![]() My global quest demonstrated that America’s approach to health care is unique in the world for a good reason: No other country would dream of doing things the way we do. ![]() Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Healing of AmericaĪ Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, her village nemesis, the stuck-up mayor’s son Nol, was captured with her, and they are made servants in the same household beneath the sea.ĭesperate to be free, Aemi plots her escape, even going so far as to work with Nol. ![]() When a ship emerges from the ocean and men burn her village, Aemi is captured, and enslaved below the waves in Itlantis, a world filled with ancient cities of glass and metal, floating gardens, and wondrous devices that seem to work magic. But she never dreamed those stories were true. She’s heard the stories about the fabled People of the Sea, a people who possess unimaginable technology who live below the waves in the dark, secret places of the ocean. All her life, clever Aemi has been a slave in the Village of the Rocks, a place where the sea and sky meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() But unbeknownst to anyone, Mosely is hiding a dark secret of her own. Shanola Hampton stars as Gabi Mosely, a former missing person herself, who now specializes in PR and leads a crisis management team that seeks out these missing people. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people of color, too easily neglected by the system. The premise of Found is chilling, shining a spotlight on the harrowing statistic that in any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Here's everything to know about the new NBC series Found, which Law & Order: Special Victims Unitfans should take note of. "We can’t wait to share these terrific new series with our audience.”įound boasts a captivating premise and a dynamite cast, with many true-crime aficionados perched to learn more details as the premiere approaches. “ Found, from Greg Berlanti and Nkechi Okoro Carroll, is a stellar addition to our drama lineup," Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, Susan Rovner, said in a statement. A new missing-persons drama, Found, is coming to NBC. ![]() |