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The story of the famous oysters of Brittany and the people who cultivate them.

This practical, accessible book teaches readers how to practice healthy body image habits and let go of an emphasis on body image through research, activities, and personal stories. Body neutrality is a body image approach focused on finding acceptance and liberation from the body-focused culture in which we live. Body neutrality is a shift toward seeing our bodies as a vessel of who we are rather than as who we are. This guide is organized into thirteen chapters, each outlining a different concept of body neutrality ranging from comparison and identity to mindfulness and gratitude, inviting participation from the reader through end-of-chapter activities. For anyone aiming to release the enslaving emphasis placed on appearance in a world where body obsession has become inappropriately “normal,” this book will provide insight and practical guidance toward freedom. Body Neutrality is for anyone struggling with self-esteem and body image issues who aims for acceptance and liberation.

When Rachel Ann feels overwhelmed by schoolwork, sports, and other activities, her grandmother, Eleanor Jo, helps to put things in perspective by relating her experiences about the difficult times growing up on a farm during World War II.

"This collection ranges from Eleanor Clark's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella, "Dr. Heart." "But it is all one voice," she has said, "mine-and I don't disown it." That voice, which varies in tone and intent, belongs to a superb and perceptive writer and a fine storyteller. With a combination of compassion and irony, Eleanor Clark explores the oddities by which human beings reveal themselves. Little Miss Hinckley of "Call Me Comrade," for instance, arrested, for the first time, at an anti-Fascist demonstration: her hair "made a bun no bigger than a quarter but she patted it constantly, bringing her fingers up from below as if it were heavy and too big for the palm of her hand." Or Tom Bestwick, in "Dr. Heart," the lonely American student abroad, who envies the local dogs their society and finds a survival pose in the indifference of the nouveau roman and a model in Monsieur Billybou, the ultimate French petty bureaucrat. A grandmother who keeps throwing her doll out the window, an exterminator who expertly imitates birdcalls and neatly strangles birds, a village cleaning woman who posts weekly letters to a dead lover, a woman crying in the supermarket, another stealing at an academic dinner party - they people the world we share with Eleanor Clark." --

Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Christmas Classics collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White…

"Expanding the canon of photographic history, Capturing Japan in Nineteenth Century New England Photography Collections focuses on six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting influenced the flowering of Japonism in late nineteenth-century Boston. The book also explores the history of Japanese photography and its main themes. The first history of its kind, this study illuminates the ways photographs, seeming conveyors of fact, imprint mental images and suppositions on their viewers"--

Selma Lagerlöf's 'The Big Book of Classics for the Long Winter' is an anthology that showcases a tapestry of yuletide stories and heartwarming tales. With its diverse collection ranging from the poignant 'The Gift of the Magi' by O. Henry to the transformative journey in Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' this volume is masterfully curated to highlight the essence of Christmas and the winter season. The narrative styles span a plethora of genres, prose forms, and historical periods, providing a rich context for these seasonal masterpieces. Lagerlöf's own 'The Holy Night' echoes the anthology's prevailing theme of reflection, redemption, and celebration imbued in each story, ensuring literary resonance with readers well-versed in Christmas lore and tradition. Selma Lagerlöf, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings her profound sensibility and narrative prowess to this anthology. Her personal journey and Swedish heritage may have influenced the inclusion of classic European Christmas stories alongside those by American literary giants. Immersed in the spirit of giving and the communal contemplation of the divine, Lagerlöf's own works resonate with the timeless human search for meaning, which permeates through the curation of this collection. The 'Big Book of Classics for the Long Winter' is a must-have for literature aficionados and those seeking the comfort of classic storytelling during the holiday season. The collection stands as a testament to the enduring power of Christmas narratives, offering solace, joy, and profundity during the darkest nights of the year. It invites readers to wrap themselves in a literary quilt of tradition, joy, and introspection that only the finest Christmas tales can bestow.