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"Words: matter, element, spirit, intelligence, / Light, glory, agency, male, female, God, man. / And behind the words? / For that there is no word." In First Light, First Water, a collection of poems and prose poems by Colin B. Douglas, words definitely matter, and working in and through the words is a delicate but profound sensibility of the elusive but irreducible reality beyond words. The first section, "A Certain Tree," explores the relation of man and woman, of God and man, of time and eternity. The second, "Last Night's Equations," portrays people and places found only in dreams, at once delightful and disturbing. With poetic influences from the Bible to Rimbaud, from Breton to Rexroth, this stunning collection will leave readers moved and wondering, dreaming dreams of their own.

Described by Dostoevsky as "flawless" and by Faulkner as the best novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of infidelity and vengeance. Set against the backdrop of high society in in 19th-century Moscow and Saint Petersburg, it portrays the doomed love affair between sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing Count Vronsky. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism, creating a masterpiece that bares the Russian soul. As Matthew Arnold wrote, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." Anna Karenina is a big book, and most publishers try to pack it into small newsprint pages with tiny, nearly unreadable type. This edition, on the other hand, has been newly designed and printed on large-format, high-quality paper with easy-to-read type, making it a deluxe volume at a still-reasonable price.

The Ladies' Paradise is a captivating novel of love and ambition set in the opulence of a magnificent department store in 1860s Paris. The owner, business genius Octave Mouret, transforms a modest draper's shop into a hugely successful retail enterprise, masterfully exploiting the desires of his female customers and ruining his competition along the way. Through the eyes of the clever and beautiful salesgirl Denise, we see the store's inner workings along with the relationships and intrigues among the staff. And always in the background is the hushed secret behind her employer's relentless ambition. Now adapted as "The Paradise," a Masterpiece Classic for BBC Television, Zola's novel is a fascinating portrayal of life in the Paris of the nineteenth-century.

Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation freed more than four million slaves, was a keen politician, an accomplished statesman, a shrewd diplomat, and a profoundly wise and funny storyteller. In this collection of Lincoln's yarns and stories, Alexander McClure, who knew Lincoln well, has compiled the witty moral tales that made Lincoln famous before he ever became president. This book is printed on archival-quality paper using a new, "green" publishing method called print-on-demand, which greatly reduces the time, cost, and waste of traditional publishing. The book is produced and distributed after it is ordered--one book at a time. That means there are no wasted books--no "remainders" to be sold at a discount, no unsalable books to be shredded, no wasted trees. This is a book you can feel good about buying.

Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," this powerful novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the early 1830s. With its multiple plots and large cast of characters, it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Middlemarch has retained its popularity and status as one of the masterpieces of English fiction. Virginia Woolf gave the book unstinting praise, describing it as "the magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Martin Amis and Julian Barnes have cited it as probably the greatest novel in the English language. It was George Eliot's ambition to portray an entire community-tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies shape--and are shaped by--the community. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.

Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" The authors answer, "How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars--graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see them? Practice, practice, PRACTICE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking. But how shall you be able to criticize yourself? Simply by finding out three things: What are the qualities that make an effective speaker; how at least some of these qualities be acquired; and what wrong habits of speech work against acquiring and using the qualities you find to be good." This thorough, helpful, encouraging book will enable the aspiring speaker to do all three. Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and personality development, gained fame by teaching others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 10 million copies. Joseph Esenwein wrote The Art of Story-Writing, Writing the Photoplay, and Children's Stories and How to Tell Them.

Author Leo Babauta writes, "Traveling light has become one of the joys of my life, shedding the extra weight in return for freedom, lightness, and energy." In Ultralight, he reveals his powerful recommendations for: Breezing through airportsCutting back on clothingMinimizing electronics, toiletries, and moreFinding restaurants, apartments, and places to goThings not to packDeveloping a flexible mindsetFavorite travel appsUltralight backpackingAnd much moreHe also explains how to apply these ideas to simplify the rest of your life, in a "living light" section of the book: Living without too much stuffCutting back on clothing, books, papers, and everything elseFinding digital simplicityDealing with the urge to buyIn summary, the author says, "I've found that living simply and traveling light are wonderful ways to live, and I hope you'll find use out of this book as I've tried to give as much useful information as I can."