Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"What really makes people glad to be alive? What are the inner experiences that make life worthwhile? For more than two decades Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied those states in which people report feelings of concentration and deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely sati...

Kurt Cobain: Journals

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. More that twenty of these notebooks survived his many moves and travels, and have been locked in a...

Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces

Grant Reid

This reference is the architect's guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. It covers graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, and section elevations....

COLLECTED STORIES

BOWEN ELIZABETH

Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affir...

Submarine

Joe Dunthorne

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - " Dunthorne's] precocious talent and cheerful fondness for the teenage male are showcased in Submarine. . . . Oliver's voice is funny and dead-on."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)   At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world...

Parkers' Astrology: The Definitive Guide to Using Astrology in Every Aspect of Your Life

Derek & Julia Parker

Curious to calculate and interpret your or others' birth charts? The new edition of this highly praised reference to astrology from world-renowned astrologers Julia and Derek Parker is here to guide you.Explore the world of astrology and learn how to draw and interpret your own charts with this authorit...

The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE*'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMANThe year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industr...