Historical fantasist Kay (Ysabel) delivers an exquisitely detailed vision of Kitan, a land much like Tang Dynasty China. Shen Tai's father died leading troops in battle, so he spends his mourning year burying the bones of soldiers on both sides, laying their ghosts to rest. He attracts the attention of Cheng-wan, a princess of his people sent to wed one of the enemy. As her gifts make Shen Tai wealthy, an assassin kills his best friend. Shen Tai hires a bodyguard, Wei Song, to keep him alive while he figures out what to do with his riches and who wants him dead.
"In my experience, the two things humans want most are to find happiness and to find meaning," Izzo writes. In this ready-made spiritual quest, the business consultant and ordained Presbyterian minister interviewed more than 200 people from ages 60 to 106. The answers they received led him and his team to the belief that there are five secrets to happiness. Izzo's interviewees were selected after relatives and friends submitted their names as wise people with something to teach. The list was narrowed from 1,000 names to a diverse group that includes men and women, Muslims and Christians, doctors, barbers, priests, and aboriginal people.
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Penguin Quick Guides: Making Friends in English
If you are travelling to a country where people speak English, or if you want to make friends anywhere in the world, this is the book for you! It will help you to: meet people for the first time; make conversation; say what you feel; fall in love, and much more!
The Phobia Self-Help Book is a phobia self help system involving books, videos and the like to provide information, guides and step by step methods to individuals suffering from fears. It is basically a do-it-yourself treatment of different kinds of phobias that help one in their struggle to free themselves of those embarrassing fears. It also educates people about the nature of phobia and what it is all about, where it all comes from and all the necessary details that elucidates the condition to people suffering from it.
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
If you want to design intuitive and engaging web sites, apps, print materials or products, then you need to know the psychology that underlies people's behavior. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People explores both the foundational and the latest research in the psychology of the conscious mind and applies it to design. What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen? What is more important, peripheral vision or central vision? How much information is too much at one time? How do you motivate people to continue on to the next step? What line length should you use if you want people to read text on or offline? What about color? Imagery? Does font type really matter?
