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Rick Steves knows Europe inside and out, and has made a career of inspiring people to explore, connect, and step outside their comfort zones. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, this book features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career.

In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative practice over time. The 40 essays collected here in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written in the artists' own voices and take the form of narratives, statements and interviews.

"This book is a concise, witty, and intelligible way to understand Buddhism." —bell hooks, author of All About Love

From Andrea Miller — an editor and staff writer at Lion's Roar, the leading Buddhist magazine in the English-speaking world — comes a diverse and timeless collection of essays, articles, and interviews. Miller, whose writing is by turns earnest and irreverent, unadorned and lyrical, talks to Buddhist teachers, thinkers, writers, and celebrities about the things that matter most and she frames their wisdom with her own lived experience.

Depuis le milieu des années 1990, l'Amérique semble condamnée à aller de crise en crise et d'un effondrement à l'autre, chaque réponse trouvée ne faisant qu'engendrer de nouveaux déséquilibres, à la faveur d'une spectaculaire fuite en avant. Et pourtant, ceux qui misent sur la fin prochaine de l'empire américain se trompent. Ce n'est pas à une chute que nous assistons, ni même à un déclin, mais à une métamorphose. L'empire américain change de nature sous nos yeux, comme un corps secoué de convulsions grotesques qui le font passer d'un état à un autre.

Dans moins d'une génération, l'ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique mondial sera manifestement différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces dynamiques à l'oeuvre étant le résultat de la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et des « nouvelles routes de la soie ». Amorcé en 2013, le mégaprojet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), avec pour objectif le déploiement à partir de la Chine d'un ensemble multiforme d'initiatives économiques, commerciales, géopolitiques, diplomatiques et normatives, suscite spéculations et inquiétudes.

La mort d'un animal de compagnie est un véritable deuil que l'on a souvent tendance à le minimiser. Cet essai vise avant tout à accompagner ceux qui traversent ou ont traversé ces moments souvent difficiles. Stéphanie Bérubé se penche sur la question à partir de son expérience personnelle et de celles de gens qui, tout comme elle, ont vécu la perte de leurs compagnons et qui ont accepté de raconter leur histoire.La participation du vétérinaire Joël Bergeron contribue à faire aussi de cet ouvrage un guide pratique.

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the essential foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, former presidential candidate and bestselling author of Shortest Way Home.

This program is read by the author, and includes a bonus conversation. An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man." "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. "There is a fix," Acho says.

A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads.

New York Times bestseller. In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.” —Larry David. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Cosmopolitan. If there’s one trait that makes someone well-suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—metaphorically and, occasionally, physically.